in the interest of free speech, Shane Coleman should have me on The Tonight Show to explain why it's not a threat to free speech that people don't want an elite private networking event sponsored and organised by Vampire Hitler to be held in Ireland

Ken O'Flynn's gen AI proclamations of moral indignation about lack of data based on his gen AI PQs are getting real weird "You cannot protect children you refuse to measure."

I finally finished Opus by Gareth Gore. the last bit was an especially tough read: Gore correctly predicting Opus Dei would try to run down the clock on Pope Francis dying before they were forced to institute reforms we can only hope Pope Leo giving Gore an audience signals his feelings on Opus Dei

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

> Poll an issue > Overwhelming majority oppose > Print this headline anyway This is the sort of presentation the Sunday Business Post should be ashamed of and a clear case of representing poll results in a certain way to pursue an agenda

polymarket creating a fake website called poiymarket for influencers to record themselves making and winning fake bets for promotional videos naturally raises the question of whether kalshi has ever used a fake website called kaishi for the same purpose

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

Donald Trump appointed Linda McMahon from WWE as Secretary for Education so she could oversee the dismantling of the Department, something that Verhoeven would have cut for being a bit top goofy

Every second US news story sounds like a background chyron gag in a Robocop movie.

The date is November 19th 2026, I have just bought Grand Theft Auto VI. It takes 8 days to download, I pee in a Gatorade bottle. It will be the greatest art humanity has ever created. I start the game. I see a fake electronics store called ‘Circuit Titty’. “They’ve done it” I think. I begin to weep.

Four-year-old just told his toddler sister “it’s time for the hunt” and they both left the room. Not my business

"Sinn Féin *are* a left wing party!" I scream as they support a local coal supplier who wants to block the building of a bike path that would help kids get to school safely. Where the fuck do you even start here?

anyone looking for more Kate O'Flynn in their life after Widow's Bay should check out Everyone Else Burns. the second season is in significant part about whether she or Sian Clifford can be the bigger freak

The average male reader goes from reading the Wimpy Kid series to "Diary of a CEO: 33 Laws of Business and Life" and that's why I've never been too fussed about the performative Lit Bro who reads Infinite Jest. He's an endangered species!

I'm a 5'10" fatso with a long lumpy torso, short legs and noodle arms. I only have three incisors on my top jaw so my smile is crooked. I sweat like a pig, fart like a cow and snore like an elephant. I've been flirted with and hit on plenty, and in a committed relationship for more than half my life

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that's right

do people seriously believe we've moved beyond this. this is just what lolcows are

David has outdone himself here, I think. not sure how he'd ever top this as the most catastrophically stupid thing he's ever said

the constant instant availability of gambling in our time makes the age of over-the-counter heroin and meth look like prohibition

Everybody wants to talk about how “addictive” porn is while Kalshi, Polymarket and Draftkings are sponsoring & advertising at every major media event, targeting primarily men, and bankruptcy rates have risen 30% since online betting was legalized

The Irish criminal justice system has been essentially shut down for a week, and the Minister hasn't said a word about it. The only time he's come out of hiding is to say that he thinks we shouldn't decriminalise drugs. He's a strange man.

Tell me again how we need to regulate children's use of social media -- most of these comments would be counted as illegal today without any law change but commenters on Facebook pages like this one get away with it all the time.

this stuff is constant, I've seen EPA inspectors get doxxed by these bastarding pages

the Balloon Boy incident was not a hoax, his parents really thought he was in the balloon and the sheriff framed them because otherwise he would have to admit he jumped the gun and didn't have his deputies search the house properly

I'm not sure how likely we are to achieve better enforcement of existing rules when enforcement is done by county registrars in their capacity as returning officers county registrars are political appointess and frequently members of the ruling party

fellow Cahir man Dan Long fighting the good fight on land ownership www.independent.ie/farming/the-...

ostensible Christian profoundly disturbed by the suggestion that the forgiveness of sins is good for society

"Ignore any simpleton who tries to reduce his ideology to right-wing or incel. His main ideological belief is opposing 'hypergamy'..." Lol ok!

Dan O'Brien advocates breaking international law, but Niamh Ní Bhriain is an extremist for being antiwar, sure (she also has significantly more expertise on security issues than Dan O'Brien, but Dan O'Brien is too illiterate on security issues to know that)

it needs must be remarked that one of the reasons the quality of public discourse in Ireland is so low is that so much of it is entrusted to politicians. there should be more TV panels with zero politicans on them, for example

comparing opposition to an elite private networking event being held in Ireland to state-mandated censorship of the media is insane

Jesus Christ we can't even protest a fucking conference now without it being framed as a threat to FDI

someone left a pipe bomb in the driveway of a developer with IPAS contracts last week. feels like that hasn't generated as much chatter as it should have

I was in Kiss Me, Kate in secondary school so this comes into my head every time the temperature tips above 25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrJc...

once again thinking about Remy Nadeau, the fictional Quebecois hockey commentator from Shoresy who just says his own name over and over like a Pokémon

And on that note I've just received word that Unite the Union in Ireland has passed a motion supporting sex worker decriminalisation ✊ #speirghorm

I feel like a lot of pro-generative AI sentiment comes from the assumption that art and writing is like implementing standard and well-understood code; you have the idea, the rest is just typing. But art and writing are a gradual, continuous process of figuring out.

in fairness, I also wouldn't model when homelessness might fall if I were doubling down on the policies that caused homelessness to rise in the first place

For no reason at all today, I am thinking about how horrendously Laura Lee was treated by members of the DUP for trying to keep sex workers safe

Throwing every gender critical person's insulin out because I don't support them being on "a lifetime on medication."

Dan O'Brien opining that he would not have thought Jeffrey Donaldson capable of child sex crimes as he is "outwardly conventional". This would be quite the thing to say, even if in Ireland sex abuse wasn't historically linked to the clergy.

Huxley was a utopian anarchist and antifascist who advocated communal childrearing so kids wouldn't be too attached to their parents and population control via widespread free contraception, but sure, Laoise, you and your race science buddies are "his children, his lineage" lmao

The lives, happiness, and dignity of real human beings matters more than whatever philosophical point you are trying to make is basically the entire basis of my ideology now.

I wonder if David Lynch knew he had the same birthday as Jeffrey Epstein

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.

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a member of the Bar of Ireland sharing an article that claims all public statements released by the family of the youngest victim of the Parnell Street stabbing were written by MI6 and calling its author "the best investigative journalist in Ireland"