these solipsism memes are becoming increasingly incoherent and threatening, but I guess I have no one to blame but myself

Fair play to Wired Magazine Its pretty obvious From Facebook day one Zuck's belief has been simply that their is no privacy..again and again and again ...they get away with any fucking thing they can Until caught www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

This is so dumb! I’m so sick of people allowing mendacious ghouls to mark out the terms of the debate on this. *the only people whose opinions on healthcare decisions matter are the patient and their doctor, and sometimes their guardian.* That is the line. That is the only line.

The dynamic I see is that the people who are -opposed- to a change are the ones most likely to show up and speak against it. People can rarely be troubled to schlep up to city hall (or join an online meeting, or click through a survey on a website, or whatever) if they agree with a proposal.

From 1st to 22nd - in just a decade, the UK has fallen from 1st to 22nd on LGBTQIA+ rights rankings amid a barrage of anti-Trans+ rhetoric

The council is investigating chemical "attacks" on beach grass in Balbriggan. “It is not harmless behaviour – it is the premeditated, attempted destruction of a key environmental asset.”

❝ One cannot resign oneself to descriptions of the killing of the baby Sam as a "regrettable event," or as another isolated "incident," which will get lost in some internal investigation held in the best IDF tradition.❞ Haaretz Editorial archive.is/lXHsw

Israel killed a Lebanese brigadier general who was travelling in a car with two other soldiers. This is apparently not newsworthy in the view of Western outlets. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

maybe it’s just the office environments i’ve worked in but ime it is trivially easy to *not* get hauled into hr. like, how do you have experience with the hr lady, let alone enough to form an opinion of her?

it is genuinely insane that a couple weeks ago in his trans piece toby wrote "they may come for the sikhs next," people told him he was being hysterial, and then immediately after they started coming for the sikhs

Let’s be clear, because I see a lot of people glossing over this. These allegations are of domestic abuse and physical violence. You could get an order of protection based on these allegations. Domestic abuse isn’t about “hitting,” it’s about using violence and coercion to control your partner.

it says a lot about the health of a society when hatred of less than 1% of its population is enough to send it spiraling into fascism

I don't think we can recover from this. The damage and pain is too great. No immigrant or immigrant's family will trust the government. People will stop coming, legally or not, and we are all going to suffer the consequences of that. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Evolution of Trump AGs: Sessions: Fired because he wouldn't help Trump cover up crimes Barr: Was willing to do coverups, resigned for being unwilling to commit crimes Bondi: Willing to coverup and commit crimes, fired for being too slow in each category;

Idk why people are jumping through hoops & coming up with conspiracies that politicians are being bribed etc about the plant & not the obvious answer that it’s 2k jobs & the largest employer in west Limerick & 1 of the largest in a county that hasn’t recovered since Dell left nearly 2 decades ago

Blackstone caps withdrawals from flagship private credit fund ft.trib.al/HL2P4FM

what did i say

A couple of weeks ago JP Morgan was predicting the Strait would be open by today:

so if I'm going to be constructive I think some of these responses to the JP Morgan stuff are great encapsulations of a big problem that forecasters are having. Which is that this has transcended economics and become a political risk issue

Idk why everyone is freaking out just cuz we can't grow shit to eat in the US and what we can grow (sugar, chatbots that tell u to kill yourself) is siphoning off so much water that even the wettest place in the US is on fire

congrats to jared polis once again

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

oh god I've completely lost it at this

The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?

My most consistent unpopular opinion - an argument I've lost many times in the past 35 years - is that Pride is for the community & the community does not benefit from the parasitic involvement of corporate fair weather friends.

It has been clear since day one of this genocide that apartheid Israel's plan is to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians it hasn't murdered from Gaza, shame on the so-called international community including Ireland for participating in these crimes. #GazaGenocide www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

17,548 people in emergency accommodation at the end of April 2026 - another overall record, including 5604 children. The number is up 31 in that month and 1968 in a year. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Forced transfer of populations is a crime against humanity. Manufacturing conditions in which they can't subsist – starving, killing, terrorising, denying medical care and shelter, letting disease flourish – then telling them it can end if they leave isn't voluntary migration, it's ethnic cleansing.

Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"Climate change...is a present and growing danger to the hearts of every American, and it is coming for the most vulnerable among us first. The choices made today about greenhouse gas emissions, urban planning and healthcare policy will determine whether tens of thousands of Americans live or die."

Yeah, this is very bad. This is another round of DOGE-level destruction that will be even harder to come back from.

This is the Irish state operating at the level of a cunning 12 year old. 'Well actually we've invented our own definition so none of the stuff we don't like applies to what we're doing.' Sadly this is not an infrequent occurence when the state encounters any restrictions on its behaviour.

Listen, I’m so very very weary this evening, but I just wanted you to know that the Irish Government has introduced a Bill to justify biometric police surveillance that doesn’t follow EU Law and their idea is based it on having a definition of biometric processing different from in the AI Act.

The Minister has repeatedly said - and said again tonight in Seanad - that “biometric analysis” is not “biometric identification” but we at ICCL would argue you can still do bio identification on an individual whose name you do not know, i.e. tracking a suspect across CCTV, as this bill provides.

A quarter of those arrested for the racist disorder in Belfast in August 2024 have since been reported to the police for domestic abuse. “The myth that violence against women and girls is increasing because of immigration is completely unfounded and does not reflect the experience of Women’s Aid"

Chris Van Hollen says that Biden & other Democrats have enabled Israeli apartheid while pretending to support two states, so he calls for •Recognizing State of Palestine •End all taxpayer funded assistance to Israel •Impose sanctions •Blacklist complicit US officials •Endorse Arab Peace Initiative

Ghouls truly is the only appropriate word.

Taoiseach claims that including services in the bill could potentially damage Ireland "in terms of potential impacts on US multinationals based here back in America." They call the shots as far as he is concerned. Govt. told the ICJ in 2004 *no* trade was legal. FFG was re-elected on that basis.

I used to be fueled by spite. Now I have to drink water and go to therapy. This is outrageous

remarkably idiotic to think that fuel prices don't cause lives lost and ruined because you're so parochially focused on being bitter about the United States that you don't consider the Asian energy crisis meaning, for instance, Pakistanis can't heat their houses or cook.

This is the difference between Production for Use versus Production for Profit.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It doesn’t matter who Democrats run. The right will smear them and the mainstream media will run with it. The question is: how will democrats fight? Or to be more honest, will they even fight at all?

Two days of hot weather and Kildare residents are already being put on notice to use less water. And yet, Kildare CoCo has approved a €3 billion data centre for Naas, which at full build out will use between 4-9 million litres of water a day. www.kfmradio.com/news/localne...

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

This absolutely shook me to my core as a Dad. What is wrong with people? Why can you just leave trans people alone? That’s all they want.

The department was made at a time when the leadership decided anyone deemed an enemy combatant (by a secret court, unknown process) could be stripped of all rights, and that torture was merely "enhanced interrogation". This institution was designed for harm, signed in under an unread Patriot Act.

The Irish Times, like much mainstream media is now a hodgepodge of nonsense, neoliberal bunkum & hate group platforming. Fun fact: if you join a union in a US tech company in Ireland, they fire you*. Some 6% of Irish jobs are in tech, so you’d think someone would tell Una?