Gareth Sheridan is renting out a two-bedroom US investment property he advertised this year for $2,700 a month – well above its area’s average rent – despite his claims that addressing the housing crisis is a “top, top priority”. www.ontheditch.com/sheridan-sou...

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

youtube.com/shorts/giAzB... Would you get arrested for what you believe in?

youtu.be/BTlUyS-T-_4 The pursuit of wealth and the inequality that comes from it,is the reason for the majority of crisis in the world today. Tax wealth, not work.

'I know that some members of the public would be pretty pissed off about it, but that's irrelevant to me'

A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

Who says that Elections for MEPs don’t matter?

youtu.be/_TCmkV7rKvg The same thing is coming to Ireland. The public Service card, which has been illegally rolled out in Ireland has, after a second review, been fined for improperly storing biometric data. We've also recently purchased facial recognition vans those mentioned here #Ireland

Who did they compare it to, because there's accusations of price gouging going on in many countries. If you compare something bad to something that's also bad, it doesn't make the result good. It just means they're all greedy shites. #Ireland

Technocratic language again being used to hide the central bank's complicity in genocide. Don't forget the central bank is not there for you or me, it's there to protect the interests of the wealthy elites that rule this country and others. #SpeirGorm #Ireland

"it will not accept submissions from whistleblowers..... ...be conducted behind closed doors. It will not have the power to compel witnesses to attend. The transcripts of any interviews will not be made available, and no blame will be apportioned." So what's the point? #SpeirGorm #Ireland

I was groomed, sexually abused and violently raped as a child in St John’s Ambulance Ireland. The man who did it was never charged. We need a full public inquiry no more silence. Thank you @ivanabacik.bsky.social for standing with survivors. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

youtu.be/NjmXzFQl4xI #ireland @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social The world is rough right now and there's something therapeutic about listening to someone else talk about that. Blindboy does that in such a great way.

youtu.be/cFP5bp3JvaU With all this talk of privacy, I can't recommend this one enough. I've been using since release and there's very little I miss from my SwiftKey days. #privacy

Hey look, the UK’s Online Safety Act is resulting in the targeting of queer content. Well, who (barring everyone) could have foreseen that? Reminder that Ireland’s Online Safety Code seeks to ban anything it (unpredictably) finds to be likely to detrimentally damage the moral development of kids.

If you're in the #UK or #ireland, you really should consider helping these people. "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide, is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." youtu.be/tXsWbqfQqSk

This is an important clip on the ongoing manmade famine in Gaza from journalist, Ahmed Al-Najjar. The full podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/3LNN...

This is a green party I could get behind. So many of our own "left" wing parties are unwilling to call out the reality of the inequality that is driving all these crisis and stoking so much hate. We need more leaders like Zack all over the world, if we are to stand any chance of change. #Ireland

@tonygroves.bsky.social have you been seeing the stuff @tupped.bsky.social is doing on the new age verification and facial recognition? This has to warrant a look and hopefully a chat with Simon.

It appears the Minister is eager to deliver the full shopping-list of surveillance powers to the police. Here he is promising *two* new laws to let them run facial recognition on video streams the general public, both recorded and live. Experts previously responded: www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

The UK is just about to shuffle its feet and decide that the treaty with the US is more important than encryption back doors, not sure what ledge that leaves Ireland on

I guess that's me done with social media completely then.

So if I'm understanding this right; as we're proposing to hand our photo ID data over to private companies, we're ending the right to encrypted messaging and possibly allowing the wholesale harvesting of facial recognition data on social media? How could this go wrong?

As the Online Safety Code is coming into force today (and I was just, I think, on the news) here is my recent Gist on why it is a bad idea, badly drafted and looks like it will also be Badly Implemented.

A statement they want people believe to be true is made. There is a quote to be reported. Then, immediately afterwards a an oblique, unclear qualifying statement is added.

BBC Editors and Journalists, try to use bullying tactics in an attempt to deny their ridiculous claims that the BBC is not biased against Scottish Independence. Well done @RichardJMurphy for standing up to them. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Independence🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

During the parliamentary debate on Wednesday 2 July 2025, I said: “We are all Palestine Action”. Yet this was not included in Hansard’s official record. This was censorship. Today, I challenged that omission and corrected the record. We will not be silenced.

#ZioRats #ZioNazis #GazaGenocide #JewsAsGenociders

www.thejournal.ie/bankers-pay-... #SpeirGorm #Ireland #corruption

Putting up the rent forever is just one of the many attractive aspects of the Government’s housing plan.

From September 2021: www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Just in case you didn't already know, Cork thinks you're sound. Don't be so hard on yourself, that's other people's job. #SpeirGorm #Ireland #Cork

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

right because none of you would be protesting the ongoing genocide, the war with iran or the mass deportations as long as they were being done by your team and the president wasn't saying mean things online about them.

"We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us." ❤️❤️

As the regime escalates, non-violent protest and resistance is the key Nonviolent resistance movements are twice as likely to succeed, and lead to better outcomes when they do 3.5% of the population consistently nonviolently resisting (10.7M of us) is what we need now www.bbc.com/future/artic...

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

'Actually it's just some guys' strikes again. www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

youtu.be/6ovuMoW2EGk Great interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book and AI.