Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

I want this posted in every hallway of every university and then ask your students, why have a library when we can have slop?

Gillian Anderson at her most heartbreaking! Blue Lights faces among cast! But Lola Petticrew steals the show! Here's my review of new drama #Trespasses, which airs from Sunday to Wednesday on Channel 4 www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...

🚨 One in every 22 homes in Ireland is either vacant or derelict. GeoDirectory Residential Buildings Report Q2 2025: 🏚️80,328* VACANT homes 🏚️19,821* DERELICT dwellings #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Dublin City.

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains. That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

On Simon Harris and the immigration debate.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

It is always about the money

the look of a man who is constantly annoyed that dying people are interrupting his party

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

I was just wondering the same thing!

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

I mean I’m not surprised this is how it went down but still…

Every single US citizen is taxed on their income and each of us is mandated to file a tax return (even if you don’t owe money) and to file your return you must pay a commercial service. It’s bananas and benefits only the corporation providing said service. This was supposed to fix that.

Tánaiste Simon Harris can we have "open and honest debate" about investors buying half the houses in the country, is the number of vulture funds coming to this country "too high"?? Jesus f#cking Christ *screaming into the night sky* #spéirgorm

Tear it down. Any party who stands over this statement doesn't deserve to govern.

New awareness campaign

Oh hi @harm365.bsky.social :-) I think we should add this idea to the ideas basket.... ;-)

Urban wastewater treatment is the 4th greatest pressure on Irish water quality. Some of that could be fixed by infrastructure, but almost half of the pollution is due to poor operational management. The solution is not less environmental scrutiny. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Unfinished apartment complex in East Meath where rentals are impossible to find. Vacant buildings all over Drogheda. And “in Ireland, nearly half of all units delivered since 2017 were purchased by investment funds”. This is government policy causing housing crisis.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda. Read this. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

All of this. There is no good reason for any civic actors to be using X.

This man’s social media platform… which he uses to pump this garbage into our society… continues to be used by the Irish Government, its agencies, media organisations and journalists, universities, politicians and business/union leaders. Leave X now.

Elon Musk is on Joe Rogan stirring up racist attacks specifically in Ireland and Citywest. There are people often very sneery about those they regard as less progressive still on Twitter and de facto helping Musk amplify his message.

Ged absolutely HAS to be saying this because it needs saying.

Has Simon Harris said anything yet publicly? I’m playing catch-up but I’m not the Tanaiste.

We're at the point where literally the only things that dont completely fucking suck are made by individuals or small teams. Like, across the board, in every industry. Physical or digital.

The "there wouldn't be an issue if people weren't allowed to be anonymous online" argument can be dispelled by just checking out Facebook comments.

For the yanks in the audience, IPAS stands for International Protection Accommodation Service. It's an asylum center. Even in Ireland, asylum-seekers are being targeted. Horrific stuff, but I *wish* it were surprising or unusual. Compassion is the first thing to go. www.archyde.com/drogheda-ipa...

A message to Irish politicians: Leadership is not always about doing what people want; sometimes it's about doing what is right, and bringing the people with you, even when you think it's not popular. This is one of those times. #SpeirGorm

Another one from the "protect women and children" folks

Since the far right race riot where immigrant families were threatened, Garda were attacked, and a Garda van was set on fire, have you heard our senior politicians talk more about the rioters, or immigration?

It's very enlightening to move to Ireland from the U.S. because it's such a small country with very socially conscious & kind people and it's mind blowing to see this type of incitement and manipulation from outside agitators work here as well (not as well as everywhere else, but they're not immune)

This here is Massive Loser Talk and indicates Harris has no idea how to speak to Catherine Connolly’s landslide of voters. So he has retreated to talking to an imagined majority of racists we’ve just seen doesn’t exist in the Irish electorate.

This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves. www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

900,000 votes to be had but all of these parties are more interested in courting a handful of bigots with crayons

The Overlooked Gap

crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability

If you’ve ever appreciated my updates, here or on Bird Site, I have a favour to ask: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 is up for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and part of the decision is by public vote! It’s category 11 here: irishbookawards.ie/vote

I wanted to talk about something that came up in yesterday's podcast with @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social and @tonygroves.bsky.social. And, because everyone needs a bank holiday Monday project, I decided to try to work out how to do a TikTok. www.tiktok.com/@tupp_ed/vid...

We live in an episode of Veep

Sum up #Aras25 media coverage in one pic.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Amen.