youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs?... #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

Elon Musk to end up in prison alongside Enoch Burke. Wouldn't that be fuckin hilarious. The episode of Porridge nobody asked for but we all deserve.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

We forget how trauma and guilt are linked. Like feeling you can't switch off, or others compelling you not to look away. Or penance - you consume awful things as you're not directly suffering. If you're feeling guilty about other people's pain it might be a clue to your own distress. Seek care.

Days and days ago, I laid out fabric and pattern and outlines the pieces for some more underwear - and today I cut them out!

Do not wait for feckless politicians to crack down on the criminal CSAM enterprise that is X. Delete your X account now, and pressure any org you're associated with to delete theirs. ESPECIALLY demand that your schools and other orgs associated with children delete their X accounts, IMMEDIATELY.

British woman left stranded in Hungary after the Home Office refuse to let her bring 13-year-old niece to the UK. The girl, who was abandoned by her parents, could now end up in state care, following the Home Office's decision bylinetimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

Holiday Inn turned away homeless men despite rooms being paid for

gonna be sitting with “there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself” for a long time

I agree with the conclusion here, but one thing I will gently add is that the parenthetical ‘England and Wales’ at the bottom of this graph is incredibly pointed, as is the 2005 starting range. The U.K. police have shot a lot of people in Northern Ireland.

Your honour, my client has simply gotten so good at stabbing people that murder laws do not apply.

I can't access my DMs on this milky mayonnaise-too-spicy website without verifying my age but because this government is so inconsistent with it's authoritarianism I can merrily head over to Twitter The Website Formerly Known As Twitter and look at child abuse images all day unfettered.

This sums it up pithily bsky.app/profile/dasd...

Ok, I need to get up, make the bed, make coffee, shower, and dress. And I think I'm getting a headcold. BUT first day of 50mg Elvanse. We shall see.

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

THERE ARE SNAKES IN THE TREES ON REGENT'S CANAL.

Data viz: The top 100 accounts on Bluesky, and how much they like each other! 😱 ... not really, just whether they follow each other. It's fun to click around: dr.eamer.dev/bluesky/network There's more info and filters at the link, but the image is, I would argue, also pretty. Click wisely.

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

1. This is a serious issue that isn't isolated to X, as Wired reported, both Google and ChatGPT's image generation tools have increasingly been allowing users to generate non-consensual intimate images. Both of these companies have their EU HQs in Ireland, and should be held accountable as well

I have rapidly graduated from this stance to "every soul working for the Twitter/X European HQ in Dublin after this week should be charged".

This is their final form.

So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it. www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...

NOTICE Due to current events it is forbidden to shoot archdukes until further notice. Thank you. (by Marnanel)

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

"You need to see how vile and deranged this is to want to stop it." No. No, I don't. Because I actually believe the people enduring it when they tell me. I see them as fellow human beings.

The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…

Started slowly eating the Christmas gingerbread house and realized I’d just recreated a famine‑era eviction.

*sigh* It would be cheaper to buy a new desk chair than replace the gas lift in my old one but that's kind of against my religion? So here we are...

I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.

This is important to watch: it's the moment we see if there's a limit, any limit, to how much Ireland has sold out to the Broligarchy.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social have you been to the vet lately.

schools banning cellphones but encouraging chatgpt are not schools that in fact care about children's mental health

Terry Pratchett fans, did you know that ‘The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All’ is a real song that predates the Discworld? Strap in, it’s funny. Like most bawdy songs its origins are vague and there are different versions floating about. 1/

I had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious

It is perfectly acceptable to go after quick small wins while trying to figure out larger problems. You know what happens to low hanging fruit if you don't pick it? It rots.

I don't know anything about D. H. Lawrence's writing, but his delivery company is a joke.

We have learned that Sex Matters - the anti trans group whose activities you are obliged to fund through your taxes - is being investigated by the Charity Commission. goodlaw.social/j4r1

I Carry A Torch For You*

My very favourite Christmas present (maybe my favourite thing ever), is this, from my son: a glass globe, containing a mini-colony of bioluminescent ocean plankton that light up after dark…

If you see CSAM online there is a place for you to make a report. Hotline.ie #spéirgorm CSAM stands for child sexual assault material.

I sure hope LLM vendors didn't get addicted to cheap compute

The dry weather has made my fingernails split along the quick. Why. Why.

Man in a shop: Any New Year’s resolutions? Woman: Yeah. Not ending every statement with, ‘If that makes sense?’

US population = 330m UK population = 67m US food deaths = 3000p/a UK food deaths = 180p/a adjusted for population that's: US food deaths = ~9 per million UK food deaths = ~3 per million you are 3x more likely to die of food poisoning in the united states than in the UK.

Every single person involved in the production of this technology should be prosecuted. Technology doesn't create itself, it requires human time and skill to build. It's morally and legally wrong to write software for fraud and a hundred times as wrong to write it to create sexual abuse imagery.

Oh litmus tree Oh litmus tree I know your precise acidity

HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES? Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun? YEAH THE MACHYNE

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

@venetiasb.bsky.social are you frozen? News says Norfolk got down to -12C