Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

Even with government grant support, first-time buyers need a combined salary of between €84,000 and €129,000 to be in with a chance of purchasing an apartment. www.thejournal.ie/apartment-co...

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I was literally about to post about how warm it is for a stormy December day...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

We are going to see a lot more of this in the Irish courts if the government’s proposals to drive actual lawyers out of the business go through #speirghorm

Reminder that nationality may exist whether or not you’ve applied for or renewed a passport. A passport is merely evidence of nationality, it does not confer it. There are millions of dual citizens in the UK, many of whom will never have held a passport for their other nationality/ies.

American tech billionaires hate the European Union because Brussels is willing to impose regulation or fine their companies. The European far-right hates it because of migration. Moscow hates it because dealing with one European bloc is more difficult than bullying dozens of small countries

The EU discourse is perfect because there's something in it for everyone. First of all, the European Union genuinely does have a lot of problems. But more importantly, a lot of people hate it for largely unrelated and often contradictory reasons. It's a great enemy

Keep in mind that his family moved to South Africa *because* they liked apartheid

I don't know what this "FIFA Peace Prize" stuff is about and I don't care to find out 🤷‍♂️

This is why Elon Musk’s X platform was fined by the EU. Elon refused to follow the regulations that every other platform has to adhere to in the EU. This is not a “free speech” issue.

reposted with shadow because what is this amateur hour cmon me

"Name something good about your country" 69 Boob Fagg0t flag

I don't even understand *how* you could spend $77 billion "inventing" a VR Chat room, a thing that already existed prior to Marks brain fart, nevermind why you would...

Currently playing noted Christmas game "Still Wakes The Deep" #StillWakesTheDeep #PS5Share 🎮

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

Lads, did you know Spar do 3 packs of prosecco? Game changer

Pointless speculation to get into, running drugs is not a crime deserving of death, and even if it was, America does not get to be the arbiter of that outside its own borders. It's a belligerent attack by a rogue state. Imagine the international reaction to NK destroying a suspect Japanese vessel.

RIP Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa

& here’s fact check thread on government claims that people are “weaponising” the courts, when they are not bsky.app/profile/orla...

ICYMI Government claim that Judicial Reviews will be up 30% this year & will “drown the courts” is false, they’ll be down about 15% in 2025 #Planning #Speirgorm

The bar in Germany is subterranean. The heightened police surveillance and violent crack down in different German cities feels a lot like 1960s and the Nazi period.

Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

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What we see in Palestine, for example, gives the lie to this EU boast.

"Eurovision competition shouldn't be used as a political theater" So expelling Russia was for artistic reasons? For creative differences? Shut up you bellend.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

European court rules Poland violated rights of woman who traveled abroad for abortion It is the second time that the court has issued a judgment against Poland relating to its near-total abortion ban. 📰 notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/13/e...

Even if you don’t care about sex workers losing one of the few voices in public life that spoke for instead of over them, you should 100% care that they were refused funding for not toeing the line of the parties in government. Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses. The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family. And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.

It’s one of those lie after lie after lie situations: in order to protect the big lie that their brand of austerity politics is good for the economy and people, these lib freaks need to buy into the lie that people are faking mental health conditions caused by it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ireland will not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after it was confirmed that Israel would be allowed to participate in the competition. Spain and the Netherlands have also confirmed that they have withdrawn from the contest. jrnl.ie/6893728

Evil Dead from the perspective of the Book

Sinn Féin have literally taken more seats than Fine Gael at both of the last elections.

We are living in evil times. share.google/jxyG4nhyIXYQ...

Normal country full of normal dumbasses who need a search engine to figure out how to spoil a vote 🙈

People need to understand that there is NO scientific way to determine whether someone around the age of 18 is actually over or under it. We are not trees, you cannot just count our rings. 1/

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

I don't stream music that much anymore, and almost exclusively when I'm running, so wanting a good beat to run to has influenced this a lot #TIDAL2025Rewind

Data centres. That’s all this is for. Not housing or anything else.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

People need to understand that the neoreactionary movement is one thing with different faces it presents to the public, as demonstrated in the recent BBC shenanigans: the gender crackpots, domestic fascists and genocide enthusiasts are all on the same page with the international fascists.

Love it when people say out loud what they mean by Arab sovereignty. The only country that occupies Lebanese territory and bombs Lebanese cities is Israel, but a strong Lebanese state is not one that defends itself from this but instead cuts itself off from its sister Syria and helps bomb Iran.

As part of its genocide in Gaza, Israel created the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history. But the purple is pretty.

RTÉ staff unions have called on the broadcaster to maintain its position on boycotting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is permitted to compete. A vote on Israel's inclusion in next year's competition is expected to take place tomorrow. jrnl.ie/6892474