🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

Leftists retained control of France's three largest cities while the far right failed to take any major urban centres in Sunday's municipal elections, closely watched for an indication of next year's presidential race. jrnl.ie/6992037

Holy shit. Thank you to @lioneltrolling.bsky.social for drawing my attention to one of the most exquisite expressions of Murc's Law I've ever encountered. Ladies & gentlemen, I give you Sohrab Ahmari: unherd.com/2026/03/trum...

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Did we not fight like, several wars about this. Why the fuck does the duke of anything own shit in this country?

Good for Cuba. The gall of the Embassy.

The next feature from Tomm Moore/Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, WolfWalkers) is called Kindred Spirits. Inspired by the below facts, it tells the New York-based story of the friendship between a Choctaw boy & an Irish emigrant child whose family have fled the ravages of the famine

#rugby #sixnations

When you think, if we hadn't voted yes to marriage equality, we would have been celebrating Mother's Day today. Thinking of you today, Fidelma.

Respond to this with an image from a movie that always cheers you up, but don't name the movie, just share an image.

One thing about Mastodon is that people forget to delete their accounts when they get in trouble. This is John Solly, accused of stealing private info from DOGE. Nothing terribly exciting in it (it's very Masto) but he was surprisingly one of the Twitter exodus in 2022. mapstodon.space/@jsolly

Wales are top of the Six Nations going into the final round. The only thing stopping anyone thinking otherwise is the application of the results in the tournament to date.

For anyone watching the #LouisTheroux #Manosphere documentary on #Netflix, it's worth checking out Hbomberguy's vid on the same subject. It shows how pathetic these men are at their core, if that wasnt immediately obvious), once you strip away the good hair, muscles & money. youtu.be/_pEfhgG3Ocw?...

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

Kids Are Dying! Meh.. It could cost us votes! SHUT IT DOWN NOW!

People forget that we had the Silver Stag as our primary unit of currency for 12 years #GameOfThrones

Quote of the day

De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, recently published an interview with a woman promoting €1,600 seats on private evacuation flights from Dubai. Bellingcat found that her image was likely AI-generated, and flight data suggests no such plane took off. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

In 1926, as a member of the Irish Senate, W.B. Yeats enthusiastically took charge of the committee designing new coinage for the Irish Free State. Yeats decided the different denominations should be symbolised by different animals (was he consciously thinking of this as the “tails” side?) 1/2

Modern warfare. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Freak gasoline fight accident #zoolander #farage

For anyone who needs more #rugby after one of the great #SixNations weekends, the men's Rugby Europe Championship semis are on today. #GEOvROM is on right now. With a #PORvSPA Iberian derby on the other side of the draw at 3 UTC. Free stream over on Rugby Europe. www.rugbyeurope.eu/rugby-europe...

Closer than we expected but thats how these matches are meant to go. Great fight by Wales but we seemed to find the scores when we needed them most. Conan def PotM but Balacoune, JGP among other standouts. Loads to bring forward to 3x👑shot next week, but things to work on too. #IREvWAL

"but there are still questions hanging..." <turns TV off> Great game! Great competition! #rugby #irevwal

Revised and abridged Kalam Cosmological Argument 1. All things that exist must have a cause. 2. God does not have a cause. Therefore god does not exist. #atheism

Meanwhile on Mastodon.

‘They’re toast and they know it’: the Trump team’s hyper-aggressive war rhetoric

He's just angry that she didn't kick up to him.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I clicked on a #W6N calendar sync link on the official site, and now it needs permissions to share or delete any and all of my calendars?? #rugby #feckinbullshit

A great article. #Spéirghorm

Fuck this year - Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell reveals he has cancer: ‘Fear not, I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch’ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Full Farage

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

The problem with MPs spending all their time on X is they start thinking people care more about who gets to use what bathroom than cost of living, housing, and public services

Great to see #BBCBreakfast starting its program with this clip of Hannah Spencer "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry & I don't think its extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life"

Well that's the Darwin Award top ten for the year.

Robert Baloucoune has had one of the unluckiest injury records in world rugby. Really hoping he gets a decent run for a change. This was his first try for Ireland (yeah, against the USA, but still). youtube.com/clip/Ugkxy83...

Anyone want NIST branded peanut butter?

Song on the radio: Ain’t you tired of sittin’ down? Me: I am not. I never will be.

I wonder how long it takes for the mess Trump created with his illegal tariffs to become the fault of the SCOTUS.

My piece in The Guardian this morning: Europe’s path to technological independence from the U.S. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can no more be 'betrayed' by AI than you can be 'gaslit' by a spreadsheet or 'stabbed in the back' by a spellchecker. This language humanises AI and it needs to stop. It's a (bad in all sorts of ways) LLM. Nothing more. Also, don't write screenplays with AI. Thanks www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...

Britain bringing out the big anti-Trump guns now.

Lynn Ruane: America’s return to a punishment-first drug policy risks dragging Ireland backwards... jrnl.ie/6952723