The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists. @adamzyglis.bsky.social

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

First shared by @greens-efa.eu almost four years ago, this message feels just as urgent today amid a deepening energy crisis. We can’t keep ignoring the root cause: our dependence on fossil fuels - driving conflict, damaging our environment, and pushing costs ever higher for ordinary people.

Love making gamers angry on Reddit with the "controversial" take that I don't think MMOs should rely on fansites or blogposts to explain their confusing systems. Something in-game should be telling me how Special Weekly Item Bonus works, not a graphic made by a fan posted to Reddit using MS Paint.

Got an email to say that the monthly rent for the virtual business address and post box in town I have to use is going up 25% :) Great that as income for self-employed freelance artists rapidly decreases and gets more precarious, the cost of everything else in life is going up, tremendous actually!

X is a critical component of the regime’s communications and information control system. Pro-democracy forces should boycott X because it’s not a neutral platform—it’s main purpose is spreading regime propaganda and discrediting pro-democracy actors.

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

Americans have not been at war with Iranians for nearly 50 years. Religious zealots in the US government have hated, feared and wanted to destroy the religious zealots in the Iranian government. And vice versa. Innocent people die when the religious go to war.

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions. He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

This week’s giveaway is a textured alter: Siesmic Sense! Just be following me and repost to enter, I will pick a winner Sunday the 19th!

Only a fallen society needs this sign

It's why the podcast is to DC what the Forum was to Rome

How often do we see Ru analysts or policy makers wondering what Ru did wrong to lose the West or its Eastern European neighbours? What it could've done differently to build trust and good will? Hard to think of any good, prominent examples, tbh, beyond Nemtsov.

The US always had a streak of conciliatory attitude to the USSR, seeking to understand where they're coming from and hoping to find middle ground. Meanwhile, when I was growing up in Bulgaria in the 80s, I learned Americans are militarists who want to kill us, while the USSR wants peace. Zero nuance

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes” Question: “And do you tell him that?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

Is it going to pay one of the organisers' tax arrears or fines for animal cruelty?

I've started to notice this in shops 😳

The Government's draft National Drug Strategy has been described by the Network of Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces as a backwards step

Carol Nolan now speaking under 'Other Members' Questions' - the contentious modern-day creation to give speaing time to TDs who are ostensibly government supporters. Nolan yesterday voted no confidence in the government.

Fuel protests were a display of mine-is-bigger-than-yours machismo www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I wish someone would insult me to the region of €½bn.

A proper follow-up essay is coming later this week, once the picture settles. 3 collapses to account for: a gov’t that couldn’t read its own country, an opposition that couldn’t lead its own base, & a republican-left tradition being reshaped from below by people who are neither. Hold the line. (4/4)

€505m came out the gov’t surplus. Tánaiste confirmed it’ll affect Budget ‘27. Every cent spent on haulier diesel this weekend is a cent that won’t be spent on disability allowance, homelessness, or carers in Oct. That is not a metaphor. That is the arithmetic Simon Harris just signed off on. (3/4)

An Ireland Thinks poll has 56% of the public backing the protestors. The internals are the story: 96% of Sinn Féin voters, 94% of Aontú, 99% of Independent Ireland. The question is no longer why McDonald&Doherty didn’t push back. It’s why their own base was already organised before they were. (2/4)

The €505m package has been rejected by a leading organiser as “an insult.” Motorways are still blocked this morning. Whatever the blockades were about, they were never really about fuel. “The Blockade Is the Message” already said so. This morning just confirmed it. (1/4) #FuelFascists

“The Pope is weak on crime” is going to rattle around in there for a good, long time

i cant imagine being anti-emulation, like soooooo so many games would have already been fully lost to the passage of time if we didnt have emulation and the people that preserve all of these games and systems for it!! 90% of my favorite games would be like fully unavailable to me lmao

Cracked a Perfect Order pack and pulled a Mega Starmie ⭐️! #Pokemon #POR

Saw a protest tractor drive by where someone was waving happily at it on one side and someone else was giving it the finger. Like living in a Norman Rockwell painting.

I see nearly all the weekenders have gone home, we get our freedom to travel restored, well untill the 1st rear-ender on the M50 tomorrow morn. In other news the fash got their arses handed to them in another part of our continent. traffic.tii.ie/@-9.50344,53...

When Spongebob Squarepants came out in 1999 I really did not expect almost 30 years later I'd still be hearing about it literally every single day.

BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

I made one! #Pokemon

Google's AI changed another one of our headlines from "Microsoft is rebranding Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible" to "Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again." This is particularly offensive as The Verge Does Not Capitalize Every Word in Headlines. www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Hah! This time last year the hauliers were calling for a total ban on tractors on motorways. Seemingly we're the only country in Europe that allows agricultural tractors on fast moving roads, well I never. #speirgorm

"Direct support for hauliers along the lines of what was in place during Covid-19 pandemic could be signed off by Cabinet this evening", RTÉ reports. Businesses have gotten far too used to handouts since COVID. www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

People who bring their baby to the movies should be fined twice whatever it costs to pay a sitter. When they said 'having a child involves making sacrifices' they meant *you* need to make sacrifices, not every hapless fuck that went out the same night you did.

Netanyahu and Israel got away with genocide in Gaza so now they’re doing it again in Lebanon. They’ve demolished entire villages, displaced 1 million people, and plan to build “settlements” on the land they stole. The peace talks today feel meaningless unless Israel is stopped.

The Gardaí should ask Dublin Bus to source them a Buspideál or two for future protests. #speirgorm

Irritable reaction of quite a few US based accounts to what should be quite an uncontroversial point in the post below that the world will not stand still even if the US does is IMV a sign of how Americans from all political backgrounds will struggle to adjust to consequences of relative US decline

The House of Bethlehem in Schwyz (the town the country got its name from seemingly), Switzerland; one of the oldest wooden houses in Europe, built in 1287. And yes, those are rocks on the roof used to keep the wooden roof tiles in place. www.whitemad.pl/en/it-is-the...

The nice thing about Amazon threatening to brick my 2012 Kindle is that I’m free now. They’re taking away my Kindle. I don’t have to get a new one. I can get another e-book reader for all my library loans. It’s very liberating.

Are you worried about how your mushroom is growing? Remember to use captured souls to strengthen its foundation and ensure it will grow into a healthy and strong tower!

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

America, we have a problem😳🤷‍♂️

Hungary is having an Orban regime change concert ahead of their election & I must say — “Still D.R.E.” is a banger in every language

I am begging creators to stop using the Wilhelm scream

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

Again, too many people are already discussing the impact of the war the US and Israeli war are waging with Iran as if it is certain that it is over