For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

"Mr Troy had to resign as a junior minister in 2022 over errors he made in declaring 11 properties he either owned or part owned."

Yes it would be good for democracy if every Presidential election campaign involved 300 of Ireland's most tiresome cranks.

Mathews hasn't worked with him in almost 20 years, the whole premise of the show is alien to Ireland of 2025, the terrestrial TV comedy sitcom model is broken, but yeah sure "woke".

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

This whole "Ireland needs a right wing presidential candidate" and "I'm being prevented from running" thing is funny because you only need 20 Oireachtas backers. You couldn't get 20 people to like you. Sounds like a skill issue tbh. #aras25

You might think the bizarre spectacle of this very clearly unwell man behaving like a deeply weird obsessive oddball, babbling about “sissy porn” on the witness stand, might have made him untouchable for media culture war bullshit purposes. You would be wrong.

Very plainly, he “could not make Father Ted today” because he can’t be trusted to sit alone in a room without messily shitting himself, and any other reason is light years distant from that.

Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda

Hold on, his slogan is the same as the first slot Nathan Fielder had on TV? Might have to revaluate my feelings on this loser now

After quoting Hitler twice last week while saying "words aren't violence" - "Author JK Rowling has criticised police for not prosecuting a Kent mum who made a video about the murder of Charlie Kirk." www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/jk...

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

To jog people's memories, this person, talking about European "natives" & very anti-immigrant on X, claimed to be from Thailand & said it was running for election in 2016, but dropped out last minute, never accepted interviews, no one knows what was going on.

The 90s Irish childhood cannon

'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters' you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.

"Dan Shipper, CEO called out McCabe for a “pretty gross take tbh" McCabe replied “When was your last testosterone test?” Shipper: "Didn’t realize supporting public executions as spiritual goal was a side effect of TRT. I thought it was just losing all your hair!” McCabe is bald in online photos."

"Berkeley-based AI CEO calls for ‘rapid, public executions’ after refugee is slain on train In an X post, Intercom chief Eoghan McCabe also attacked commenters over their alleged low testosterone test scores.'" sfstandard.com/2025/09/09/b...

Move to MAGALAND‼️ CEO of AI firm Intercom called for public execution of suspect in killing of person on NC train. Eoghan McCabe posted “I think that rapid public executions for crimes like this are a spiritual goal that we should point ourselves towards.” He lives in Berkeley and works in SF⁉️

These guys would rather cause even more division and hate between people than attempt to actually build anything.

This is a tactic you see at play across the board. Do the bare minimum and then tell anybody asking for more they expect too much.

"The US president teasing an answer to autism during a Nazi-coded pyrotechnical funeral to a white nationalist" is a thing that just happened.

Erika Kirk (crying) enters to pyrotechnics at her husband's memorial service.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

Anyone saying this isn't a straightforward Nazi rally - "beautiful lineages of white warriors vs degenerate unhumans" - is lying to your face. Miller has been waiting his whole life to make this speech beneath banners of red and black.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

If 680,000 Palestinians are confirmed as killed in Gaza, 380,000 of these are infants under five. #FrancescaAlbanese #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Having to take the N2 bus all this week so expecting to be gone postal by some time on Thursday.

anyone still using Meta-products: you may want to reconsider (and read Wynn-Williams amazing book!)

No one could’ve seen this coming

Dua Lipa fires manager after his attempt to stop pro-Palestinian rappers Kneecap from Glastonbury. telegrafi.com/en/Dua-Lipa-...

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

I'll note lots of people said having Gardai escort drivelling lunatics into libraries in order to perform book inspections to make sure they weren't too gay would not placate them but radicalize them even more. And here we are.

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

at the 2022 an post book awards John Boyne won an award and gave a speech in which he immediately complained about how many years it took for them to give him the award and then he spent 10 minutes reading bad internet reviews of his work. my reaction was captured.

I interviewed the brilliant Brenda Fricker about her harrowing new memoir. Very glad to have met her www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

@opiniumresearch.bsky.social on behalf of @theobserveruk.bsky.social Over half the public (53%) now want Keir Starmer to resign as PM. This is higher than the 45% who wanted Rishi Sunak to quit in April 2024.

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

And it has only taken nearly two years of daily RAF surveillance flights over Gaza for reasons never publicly admitted to by the British government. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

trevor phillips gleefully interviewing violent anti trans activist and harasser of children graham linehan in sky news. like i keep saying: british media is far right propaganda.

To put Brenda's remark in context: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both running candidates and the Terenure Pharma Bro won't be spotted reading Slavoj Žižek or Naomi Klein anytime soon. What she is asking for is a *far* right candidate.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Ilan Volkov, the Israeli conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, who recently made a powerful statement against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has been arrested. youtube.com/shorts/C6rn3...

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

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