I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech. archive.ph/AOVHC

Good evening from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Still standing tall. Still stubborn. Still not russia.

Similarly, historians will retch at Zelensky’s treatment in the Oval Office & beyond. We all moved on to the next abomination without even stopping for sandwiches…

It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

Israeli former general Ya'akov Or: "Jewish violence, terrorism, and pogroms are a brutality that taints every Israeli, left and right. These are metastases that will spread until the disease is terminal, and it is critical to stop them while possible."

Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population. Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/r...

I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years. I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Micheál Martin... can count himself fortunate that neither his party, nor the country at large, feels as though they have anyone or anything else to rally behind. "

"It’s actually tremendously easy not to be a Fianna Fáil TD. Not as easy as it used to be to not be a Fianna Fáil TD, like in 2011 or whatever, but one imagines it might become easier again come 2029" 😂 #IrishPol

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This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

No matter your thoughts on #ThePitt S2 (I thought it was great), this was an incredible final scene

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Israeli far-right ministers wore pins with nooses as the government legalised executions of Palestinians — and the European Union is still giving Israel preferential trade. Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement action.eko.org/a/suspend-th...

Truth www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The thing about a life long civil servant - and one who has made their name in diplomacy - is that temperamentally they’re rule breakers. Mavericks. Not afraid to bend the law to get a result.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

As a former corporate lawyer who shoe horned my way into a big firm in Sydney by taking a job as a PA, asking to work on discovery, proving myself worthy of the firm paying for cross qualification to work there - AI has totally shut that route down. AI needs mitigating before embracing

A must-read article by Fintan O'Toole. "There’s a point in any social upheaval when it shifts from being against the government to being against the state."

Exceptional article by Jennifer Horgan, hitting many nails on the head. "You might ask where this new standard for angry men leaves women? Well, it leaves them exactly where they were, because let’s be clear, this new standard is not for women, or any other vulnerable group."

"The joy on the faces of far-right men, more angry, angry men, tells me everything I need to know about the blockades and this new standard of protest... We respond to the needs of angry, suffering men before the needs of everybody else." #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

This Government is not listening. Promises of change on housing, healthcare and the cost of living have not been delivered, and warnings continue to be ignored. Every week is getting more expensive for families, while the Government fails to act.

There can surely be no forgiveness for the monstrous and inhumane acts of the Israeli state.

A small Journey plane that departed from the ICE Transfer Facility at Mesa-Gateway Airport early this morning has just landed in Shannon, Ireland. This is likely a refueling stop before a deportation is carried out.

There is what I can only describe as a large number of maybe-Mass-at-Christmas-and-Easter sort-of-lapsed-ish Catholics who, when the chips are down and some yahoos are having a go at the Pope, are making their grannies quietly proud of them.

Absolutely- as someone with access to a very small allotment space - we neighbours developed it over the last decade from waste ground - I love the process of growing, especially cherry tomatoes which taste so much better than shop bought ones.

We need to find out what connection the Healy T'Raevelyans have with UK based Construction company Morgan Sindall. And why their unwanted copies of this tripe is being circulated in Irish schools. #Speirgorm #Ireland

Sweet suffering jaysis. I want to know the materials wasted and how many prints were sent out to schools? Is this part of a series? Part 2 'Landlords - they're really cool' This can't be appropriate, sitka spruce is a plantation tree that creates acidic deserts that has caused landslides.

‘And the children’s book industry shook their heads in dismay, but they were not surprised,’ Mother Nature said. ‘However, they were puzzled by the lack of an author’s or illustrator’s names, and the 1990’s Photoshop text effects.’ #SpeirGorm

Why do I get this foreboding feeling I'm going to actually miss MM years from now once we get a taste of his successor who tries to pull a Starmer trying to chase the II/Aontu/Ind vote. "Not malignant, just woefully insufficient" may not be a low bar we see surpassed by a leader of FF for a while.

As an atheiest ex-Catholic I am firmly on Team Pope.

What the absolute fuck? Next week, read about the fantastic adventures of Zippy the Zebra Mussel as he destroys nasty native habitats!

Nothing radicalises you faster than going to a Spruce plantation in Leitrim and realising that it’s a complete ecological deadzone. No birds. No mammals not even any ground plants. It’s a desert.

For fuck sake.

Credit where it's due, "If you're going to opine on matters of theology" is an extremely funny thing to say to the Actual Pope.

Periodic reminder that if you die while employed your manager will move on within days, and that’s only if you die directly in front of them or in an especially surprising way. Anything else and they’ll have forgotten you existence within hours. Same goes for most coworkers. Use that PTO!

Remember, two popes and numerous bishops have already reprimanded JD Vance for his falsification of Catholic doctrines and teachings. But Mr Hillbilly Elegy, who was raised attending Pentecostal churches, and who only a few years ago identified himself as an "atheist" is back at it again.

People who are saying the US and Israel are being surgical in their air strikes against Iran are missing one major fact. The US and Israel have killed many more Iranian civilians in airstrikes since Feb than Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian airstrikes in all of 2025.

It's enough to make grown men cry.

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

It’s this one, for me. Clannad were amazing.

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

BBCNews fails to mention Orban being "right wing" let alone authoritarian, once in this article. Apparently Orban just "ran out of steam". Nothing about him dismantling democracy, politicising the courts & universities, or banning independent media. No mention of Putin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Were Were those the only two options

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

Bad night for Nige