the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Local newspaper is having a vote on if flag shagging is good or not. Come on kids, you know what to do. www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/2549221...

Barack Obama spread hope of ‘brighter days ahead’ as he became a freeman of Dublin

Shhh let them cook

We're so fucked.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

Can’t believe I FINALLY have an occasion to wear my velocirapture T-shirt tomorrow

Capitalists will always side with fascism.

@adamcsharp.bsky.social In your collections, do you have equivalents in other languages for "a different kettle of fish" (BE). My copy of your hamster book has been lent!

Jean Landini, dernier FTP-MOI, est mort hier. Lui et ses camarades immigrés ont libéré la France les armes à la main, et aujourd’hui les nazis recommencent à parader plus vivants que jamais. En parlant de virer les immigrés. Y'a une logique. Désespérante, mais une logique.

Irish Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s silver tea service up for sale www.irishtimes.com/life-style/f...

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companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

It occurs to me that the only way the US would ever be able to legislate gun control would be to mandate at a federal level that anyone who owned a gun carried liability insurance of a certain level for anything that happened with the gun and then let capitalism take its course

@adamcsharp.bsky.social Do you know are Britain and Ireland the only English-language areas using "the chemist" to refer to a pharmacy?

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

From stone skimming to conkers: cheating scandals that rocked the world of niche sports

Je pense que mon lectorat est déjà partant pour qu'on fasse une secte qui vénère le saint toast au fromage 😅🤭

Thanks Rachel Lysaght and the Echo for reporting my comments on this week's citizenship ceremony. For those receiving their citizenship, it's an emotional moment of welcome and connection. The tricolour, representing a republic of diversity, equality and inclusion, never more relevant. 👏👏

The hot topic on the ECB's agenda is the digital euro — a proposed electronic version of the physical euro that has banks and right-leaning politicians fuming. The debate is heating up as EU member countries try to reach a final agreement on how the digital euro should work by the end of this year.

Exactly this

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage." We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.

Am I the A**hole?, at Dublin Fringe, is a courtroom spoof more interested in judgment than justice

A fine example of the worm-raddled brain of professional idiots like Mace is that Tyler Robinson *had already found* Jesus Christ — that was precisely the problem. You want a solution to the problems in the USA? Get rid of the evangelical so-called "christians" from your politics.

Excellent decision by RTÉ, now let's see more countries say the same thing. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Prince Andrew Invites Peter Mandelson To Commiseration Lunch At Pizza Express https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/09/11/prince-andrew-invites-peter-mandelson-to-commiseration-lunch-at-pizza-express/

If you think they’re not coming for the very right to vote, think again.

Yep, stops it dead.

FFS. This is on a medical appointment letter for an elderly patient from the UK's NHS. Utter dereliction of duty of care because the service has been stripped of funding in preparation for its sell-off to Big Med and Big Pharma, and is being run by misguided administrators.

When academia decided to operate as a business, it was only a matter of time until they started using the McKinsey model: overpay CEOs, degrade and cut labor.

Among the many useful things I will dictate when I become Pan-Galactic Dictator of the Multiverse is banning the phrase "hen's egg" on menus. Hens are the default, my catering dudes, so you don't need to qualify eggs unless you're using something different, like duck, goose, quail, or whatever.

This is what we outside the USA call a normal rail network.

Thank you. Two books and a slew of articles. But I'm not a US citizen, and I don't live in the USA.

Of course my books were also in there. Probably boosted the C++ code quality churned out somewhat.

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

To be anti-vaccine is to see your children as property. As a resource that you own and can harm at will. If that is not rooted in the foundation of enslavement, I don't know what is.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

It doesn't say WHEN it takes place. Do @irishtimes.com subeditors get no training these days?

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

Remember this banger?

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.