Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The biggest threat to social cohesion is the lack of affordable housing NOT immigration. Immigrants are not paying 1M€ plus for a mediocre end of terrace 3 bed in Rathfarnham. They’re not buying fancy apartments around Dublin. We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.

An MEP presiding over a lobbying organisation for SMEs while leading European Parliament work on corporate sustainability and due diligence sounds like a conflict of interest to us. That's why we've submitted another complaint on an MEP side job. Read the full press release below: buff.ly/nZY9Vtb

4 jobs in Melbourne around work disability prevention & social insurance - looks like an amazing project, deadline 1 February 2026 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks

i'd love to see the government acknowledge how many adults are stuck in homes with emotionally/physically abusive parents bc of the housing crisis. when we talk about adults living in box rooms there's very little recognition that these aren't all box rooms in homes with perfect family dynamics

This is so disgusting.

Judicial reviews are not the enemy of progress; they are a vital safeguard - @fplogue.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Research opportunity with the Disability Benefits Consortium www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69141

On Monday. www.irishlegal.com/articles/pro...

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To think this man gets paid to write this drivel www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

People need to understand that there is NO scientific way to determine whether someone around the age of 18 is actually over or under it. We are not trees, you cannot just count our rings. 1/

As someone once said, if the only punishment is a fine, it's only illegal for poor people.

Under the guise of 'speeding the delivery of essential infrastructure', the government is going to basically remove the option of taking judicial reviews. Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed. share.google/0844XAjcdexK...

Those Afghan teenagers who were attacked in Brittas because of the kind of crap he's saying here, live in Kilbride Co Wicklow and therefore they are Harris' constituents. Not that he gives a shit

Horrible story, and I hope those assholes are caught and dealt with And while I certainly blame far right agitators, Facebook etc, and sleeveens like McGuirk/Gript for fomenting this kind of awful stuff, Simon Harris and others in government need to take a hard look at themselves and their rhetoric

There’s a place in Hell for this man www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

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Jim O'Callaghan insists that every country can set it's own immigration policy, but wants to ensure that Ireland follows the UK in every awful decision it makes. An obsession with pull factors does not make for sensible policy, and the CTA is being used as a fig leaf: share.google/ftaHgIt8kO5U...

Why come up with a functional housing policy when you can falsely accuse immigrants and asylum seekers of being the problem

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A very productive few days at the second consortium meeting of SWINS @sustwellbeing.bsky.social in Barcelona this week

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The fuck is unfunded hobbyist research? My hobbies are millions of miles removed from the academy and if my research was of no interest to others, this would show in every aspect of my career. We have the REF for this, no? So what other than right wing talking points being echoed is this adding?

"My imaginary Attlee would never have done the thing that the real Attlee demonstrably, actually, did" is a very concise summary of the feckless, vacuous, delusional, reactionary shite that pours out of this idiot's gob.

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Nationalisation of public services is incredibly popular with Reform voters with support as high as 90%. Labour could “appeal to Reform voters” by proposing such a policy, instead they turn up the dial marked RACISM, which is a choice as Labour is a racist party.

This makes you angry, cos it's a reannouncement of a load of stupid ideas cooked up by the Home Office, a dept so hard of thinking it can barely keep its doors open. But it's also richly (if darkly) comic, because it will increase gaming, degrade stats and achieve exactly the opposite of its intent.

Interesting to see these arise in the space of a few days

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

See, this answer seems catastrophically bad and cack-handed if you’re a disillusioned Labour voter or (god forbid) further left. But if you’re an executive at, say, Serco, G4S or Mitie, and want to know the status quo will hold and your contracts will be renewed with minimal hassle, it’s beautiful.

"LGBT" is not unsafe or inappropriate for minors. It is what a minority of them will be. Censoring it for anyone who can't pass an age verification check suggests that queer people are dangerous predators. It also stops queer kids from being able to find community. This is an online s28. End it.

A deeply embarrassing party.

I looked more into this episode, and the majority of these participants are influencers. They are openly & brazenly racist, antisemitic etc. They are using this to gain a mainstream audience by being boosted by both Jubilee and Zeteo. This is how the left often helps mainstream the far right.

This ain’t good.

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*cries in homosexual* @kylieminogue.music-social.com

Thanks @lbc.co.uk for publishing my article on the Universal Credit & PIP Bill: - Why it still poses an unacceptable threat to disabled people in the future - MPs still being asked to vote without clear information about the full impact of planned changes. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

Cried with laughter @junobirch.bsky.social

This is the one and only good thing that George W Bush did as president. It has saved millions of lives at very little cost. Why pause it—for a period long enough to cause major damage and death? Because you want (those) people to die.

If I speak - www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

If the Court follows this highly significant AG Opinion, then we need to consider what the consequences of a Member State having “significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional democracy” means in practical and procedural terms. /1

I get that there is an audience for this argument but I'm really not sure "we're the only party in favour of more child poverty" is going to help Badenoch out of the hole she's in.

Periodic pictures together

🚨🚨 The Secretary General of @coe.int, Alain Berset on Saturday pushed back against a call by nine EU Member States to make it easier to expel #migrants who commit crime warning that courts must not be “weaponized” for political gain. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/coun...

A reminder that this closes on May 30th so just a few days left to apply