It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

GHOST IN THE MACHINE 📽️ about the influence of white supremacy on artificial intelligence is an unusually disturbing documentary, in content and in form movieswetextedabout.com/ghost-in-the...

Here is Ezra Klein sitting down with the New York Times resident segregationist. Cadwell quite literally thinks the Civil Rights Movement created a second constitution, damaging white men's right to free association (by which he means excluding Black people from public life).

You don't run them for a profit you run them because people who live places need to be able to get places 😭 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... how do people in #waterford get to #DublinAirport now? #speirghorm

I don't wanna be reductive here, because it's more often than not a more complicated thing than simply pointing towards one common cause. However. Either by component shortages caused by AI or executives using AI caused component shortages as justification for hiking prices... AI did this.

Actually the reason the movie works is because they took his plot and avoided pretty much all the excruciating dialogue. (I got thru the book but with a struggle because of that.)

Cue McWilliams-esque pseudo-sociology...'we knew we'd lost the run of ourselves when Lobster Spice Bag Man materialized in Dublin 7'....

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

I thought there was something fucking annoying about Andy Weir and there it is

fascinating to watch even the rest of the nasty right realise Goodwin is a hateful prick and turn on him isn't it

Andrew Garfield recently watched Harry Potter for the first time and had this to say about it: "we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.”

"I'm not happy at all... President Trump ran on 'no new wars.'" "I think [the Iran war] is necessary.... and he's the only president with the backbone to take it on." Different takes on the Iran war at this week's CPAC.

Have you noticed that none of our esteemed columnists in the Third Estate are musing about the cost of this in the way they would about state benefits for a third child.

Ok. Who wore it better? (It's a rhetorical question cos we all know the answer)

Hogwarts Academy has been destroyed by Godzilla, specifically the version from Shin Godzilla w the googly eyes that crawls around on its belly. Reports from the scene indicate that the agonizing deaths of the entire faculty & student body were "weirdly amusing" yet "deeply upsetting to look at"

Current mood: pretending I'm not getting teary-eyed to Roman Holiday (again).

President Donald Trump spent five minutes of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies. The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened.

the olde-time conservatives are freaking out about the fascists too -- but this is their fault, they got in line with Trump 1

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

DPD have screwed the pooch and delivered something to me in Dublin that was for someone else in Galway for a wedding on Sunday. :/

You know which athletes immediately get caught in this gender testing bullshit? Black women. Racist stereotypes denying Black women their womanhood go way back. Scratch transphobia in sports the tiniest bit and you uncover racism immediately.

Maybe it's one reason the far right are so against the 15 minute city. It makes no sense unless you want to atomise people, keeping them controlled online environment where you can set the algorithm.

"We are seeing similar trends across borders and local contexts: third places have been progressively lost and the far right has sprouted up in their absence, capitalising on atomisation, disaffection and a sense of being left behind." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It seems "If you do your job well with AI, then we can lay you off" is not the winning slogan companies think it is.

lol

I feel like I have seen, over the last month or two, people in nearly every career talk about how they feel like their industry is collapsing and need to find an out. Like games, yes. But also film, animation, journalism, academia and teaching, sciences, tech. even restaurants and retail.

This is the guy who set up the company whose motto was ‘Don’t be evil’, and then the company dropped that motto – presumably because, I mean, who can live up to that kind of standard? nypost.com/2026/03/25/u...

“The end of Sora does not mean there is no demand for AI video generators, but it does mean that the overwhelming use case for AI video generators continues to be what it has always been: people making porn, nonconsensual sexual imagery, disinformation, & low-effort slop at scale.”

“[Trump] is getting a little bored with Iran. Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.”

Haha wouldn't it be funny if we made them feel this way everywhere.

Today I found out that in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, in real life Lionel Jefferies, who played grandad, was younger than Dick Van Dyke, who played his son!

Ireland: Court of Appeal criticises citation of fake cases by party in defamation case. Gemma O'Doherty appeal fails. AI hallucinations identified. www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Occasionally in our school we were sent on retreats to the Jesuits at Milltown Park. Which god love him, meant some young priest getting the full force of pisstaking from a class of inner city boys. This is very reminiscent of that.

From that Gaby Hinsliff column: it is great to just say right out, loud and proud, that the people now in government spent so much of the last 10+ years determinedly wrecking their own party and hounding their colleagues and members, that they forgot they needed to think up some ideas for governing.

TLDR: it is Palantir. Of course it is./

Culture war losers simply don’t know how to play along. If a kid says he’s Spider-Man it’s your job to pretend to be The Green Goblin instead of like…thinking they’re insane?

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

Think of how Musk has destroyed or tried to destroy countless lives, including an expert he tried to brand a paedophile simply because he said his dumb submarine idea wouldn't save some kids. These teens are really being brave.

Micheal Martin, Selwyn Gummer style, asking the youngest member of cabinet to drink some brown-tinged Irish river waer for the cameras.

We were blown away by the incredible talent displayed at the Space Crafts Model Competition. Choosing the winners was a task worthy of International Rescue themselves! Watch till the end! A massive thank you to everyone who entered, F.A.B. 🚀

The EU not for the first time trying to save us from ourselves. Damn their woke scoldery. What are ruined rivers and dead fish next to an Irishman's sacred freedom to pollute where he likes. Hands off our nitrogen Wolfgang.

"Nearly 1 in 5 people, that is 18% of the population, have been displaced" Israel is a terrorist state.

As I told the Oireachtas Justice Committee yesterday evening, Ireland is a tax haven and a digital haven. When forced to act against Meta by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the DPC sued the EDPB instead. It's a Wild West here. There is no sheriff. And no shame.

3 US teens showing up the Irish govt. Still shocked that absolutely nothing has been done. Best of luck to those teens, hope they destroy him.

Very funny joke to call your podcast Beyond the Bubble and make your first guest a former Tory minister and editor of The Spectator

"Starmer was too busy purging his party of the left to be actually bothered with government" is something Gaby has written sincerely as an excuse for him.

This is the government’s latest anti-extremism adviser. Do you notice how his definition of “extremism” does not include fascists but it does absolutely include feminists, transgender people and Scottish nationalists? Does that seem normal and reasonable, to you.

Trump is now adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president's signature will go on paper currency. Historically, paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary and the treasurer.