SF are fucking crazy if they think there's a percentage in opposing the SocDem bill today. a ludicrous stance

Btw this isn't even the far right manipulating anything, this is just another symptom of the complete failure of any kind of T&S wrt major AIs, and the complete insulation from consequences these companies, devs and execs feel entitled to

I think we underestimate how much people who aren't very online or plugged in casually ask AI for information, either directly or by having the summary on for searches etc. So yeah this kind of thing being spat out should cause alarm

Extremely important to note that a vector for the (completely false) "hanta is Hebrew for scam" conspiracy spreading has been AI. Grok and Google and so on are taking nazi's FB/Twitter posts as truth and regurgitating them when asked about "hanta". This is really, *really* bad!

I was on Tipp FM today talking disability rights with my Tipp DPO co-chair Cillian Dunne m.soundcloud.com/tippfmradio/...

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

This is very welcome news today that the Oireachtas Media Committee has recommended that recommender algorithms be disabled for children and turned off by default for adults. ICCL has long highlighted the dangers of algorithms and campaigned for them to be switched off.

if you specifically say "people from the congo" shouldn't be allowed into ireland than roger casement's ghost gets to make your life a living hell. think that's in the bylaws

an excellent essay I've been waiting for a long time. left and right each have their caricatures of Ayn Rand, reading her through the lens of her influence and not grappling with the woman or her work for the left, a handy witch to burn in effigy. for the right, a kind of Mother Mary for greed

a fun pod by all accounts, albeit not one where i swear is discussed at much length

when his govt were deciding what to do when refugees first started arriving in Ireland in significant numbers, Bertie Ahern's preference was Australian-style immigration detention centres, and his own ministers had to come out and say that wasn't on the table

Bertie Ahern? A racist? The man who as Taoiseach introduced the 27th Amendment? Has troglodytic views on Africans????? SHOCKED

Imagine this man thought he should be president #speirghorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

absurd and disgusting. the guards should be ashamed.

there could be an interesting study in surveying No voters about why they don't vote for Aontú. no one I know who voted No would touch them with a barge pole, mostly due to their anti-immigration stance.

Ray McAdam told constituents at a hustings organised by Save Our SNAs that he doesn't sign election pledges, no matter how much he agrees with their aims, information which would presumably come as quite a shock to himself, running for election two years ago www.wheel.ie/elections/co...

my nephew and I were playing dinosaurs, taking turns chasing each other and roaring. sometimes when he "got" me, I would flop onto the ground and play dead except it turns out he had no idea what I was doing because after a while he just started flopping onto the ground mid-run for no reason

honestly mad it took anyone this long to report this. Seán Kyne got up in the Seanad and slandered the head of Inland Fisheries under privilege. he should be censured.

lots of people responding to this by explaining why they hate cities. do you know what inexplicable means

Klippenstein is a great journalist and I generally respect his work very highly, but claiming Susan Collins is the one throwing disabled people under the bus here is just absurd.

I also firmly believe that you can be pro age limits for serious political positions and not ableist at the same time, but some people have problems with that.

Someone (who I blocked) replied to me saying politicians' should have stamina. That takes out a lot of people with chronic illnesses, including people like me, so not going to entertain that (no, not going into politics lol)

How we talk about older politicians' disabilities IMO plays a role in it making it harder for younger, visibly disabled people to even get into politics. Because it's framed in a mockery way.

This is a more thorough deep dive. justinebarron.substack.com/p/ken-klippe...

I have a hard time taking this seriously from someone whose initial posts about politicians' disability very much seems to be "look what we see here!" which very much stigmatizes disability, irregardless of the person in question.

oh no it's another surprise that can be invoked as an excuse for the government's failure to address housing supply, and just in time for two bye-elections

FG candidate uses mayoral car to drop by community-organised hustings just long enough to give a speech, refuse to sign a pledge and then leave to have a few scoops with the party leader

Aontú formed as the only pro-life party in the Dáil after a referendum in which a third of the electorate voted to maintain a constitutional ban on abortion more than seven years later, they celebrated when they finally went over 6% in a poll for the first time and I just think that's interesting

Every odd Ben Kingsley decision can be explained with this: they gave him a big bag of money

Dublin City Council and probably all councils here, seem to operate under a structure that no public or civil service body would be able to.

In today's Irish Times, @emptywheel.bsky.social and I talk about Pizzagate, Jack Posobiec, and the Irish Fuel Protests. And why the increased attention paid to Ireland by American far-right social media influencers is more sinister than you probably realise.

A couple were charged close to €14,000 in added-on service charges by their landlord during one year of renting in Galway city. Such charges have been criticised as a grey area with little legal definition. www.thejournal.ie/renting-7012...

Turkey and Azerbaijan have had Armenia under an illegal blockade for over thirty years, but Turkey is in NATO and Azerbaijan has tons of crude, so other countries just let them

Turkey got away with murder then, it gets away with murder now www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

the Association of Irish Local Government is running courses for councillors on how to integrate Copilot into their work

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

"Writer, hypnotist and paedophile: The Irish fake journalist who ‘duped’ two abuse survivors. Edward White wrote books with two women while claiming to be a journalist. He was later convicted of assaulting a nine-year-old girl."

We're here to fight against the political establishment. We want to end the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael duopoly. We will to put an end to corruption and waste. We represent a clean break from the dirty past of Irish politics. Anyway here's our newest supporter, Bertie Ahern

It's very, very hard to read something like this and not conclude that the Department of Justice are deliberately mismanaging this in order to make the process as miserable and disruptive for everyone

There is no such thing as a frictionless existence, just an existence where friction is offloaded to others - and it's only right to debate the amount and the kind that we offload, and the proper restitution to whom we do

the collision was not during a sulky race, but who needs to do basic fact checking when you can just defame a traumatised teenage boy who has had the worst mistake of his young life turned into a political and media circus and used to justify attacks on his community 👍

the very thin pretext that today's anti-sulky protest in Clonmel had anything to do with animal welfare evaporated the second it was addressed by Mattie McGrath, the biggest supporter of hare coursing in national politics fair embarrassed for the Party for Animal Welfare holding a banner behind him

I wish Maria well, especially since she's about to endure months, if not years, of reactionaries being absolute fucking freaks about this

less than two years ago, Nick Del was citing his familial connections to Irish republican and nationalist figures for clout on X, now he's posting in support of a far right British unionist party lmao

It’s an absolutely open and admitted policy of the Department of Justice that non-EU/UK citizens without either a Stamp 4 or an employment permit should NOT be facilitated to integrate. The fewer roots they put down the fewer rights they have under Article 8 ECHR and the easier they are to deport.

Irish government: migrants and refugees need to integrate into local communities *migrants and refugees integrate, build families and community, get educated, get jobs* Irish government: not like that!

A completely ordinary recording session which starts on the rails and over which I maintain tight control for the duration of the runtime.

New episode of The 250, with @ciaramoloney.bsky.social and @deanbuckley.bsky.social joining us to talk about Kirk Jones' "I Swear." And "Michael." And "The Boss Baby." And what "The Long Good Friday" has in common with "Spiceworld." soundcloud.com/the250/446-i...

The Department acting as if the dispersed nature of direct provision centres is an unfortunate reality they have to work around rather than how the system was designed, from the start, is ridiculous. the policy is literally called dispersal

[guy who learned about vietnam from movies] the vietnam war is mostly about stuff that happened to the estevez family