“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

I don't think I've seen any of these chatgpt caricature things, probably because the accounts I follow are all anti-AI icons. I just wanted to share the Sister Michael gif.

Reminder that Steve Buscemi, National Treasure, used to be a firefighter, and when 9-11 happened, he pulled 12 hour volunteer shifts with his old ladder. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... In case you want to know the first thing I remember about him. :)

So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty

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On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

Each of these thirty failures to take climate action reads like an episode description for each of the thirty programmes in the RTÉ Radio series Hot Mess. All available to download for free. Link in next post. #Climate #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Malcolm Tucker: ...I am not the story here! Jamie: You kind of are the story, Malcolm. They spelled your name right and everything.

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

I was a miserable teenager and meeting folks on MySpace and Twitter from gigs was honestly my saving grace. Social media sucks but isolating lonely teens isn't necessarily the solution without even trying to regulate these tech companies

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed. There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally. Please sign and share.

Kudos to the two drunk men on a bench outside City Hall telling every single person who walks past that they’re beautiful. Good to have your full armour on before you make it to Royal Ave where a street preacher with a megaphone will tell you how vile and depraved you are.

"Job listings rarely explain what the work actually involves. 'People are hired under ambiguous labels, but only after contracts are signed and training begins do they realise what the actual work is.'"

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.

These bans are short-sighted and inhumane and pushed by people who do not understand the complexity of social media

The main priority for this FF-FG government, as it was for all the previous ones, is staying in power. And the very deliberate dialing back of climate action effort is simply vandalising this country. They don't give two shits about our environment, or our future beyond the next election

Worth a listen, explains the weather in Ireland this week, and a lot of other recent phenomena.

Some thoughts from trawling the Epstein files. Epstein was a nobody. It’s mysterious where he got his money and billionaire lifestyle. It’s possible he collected compromising material for extortion. A major question is whether he worked with intelligence agencies www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home

NEW: Mandelson just sent a memo to UK newspapers via the press watchdog demanding they stop publishing his links to Epstein. He cited clauses in the Editors code, designed to protect grieving families. The memo was NOT to be published. The National just said ‘fuck that’ & published it in full 👏

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020. And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job

Piece on John Collison’s interview with Elon Musk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Obscene, the Irish government facilitating the US government and ICE in the illegal deportation of Palestinians. These men were held in shackles on a private plane owned by a friend of Trump through Shannon Airport. Our government must answer to this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

River Slaney high and rising as that rain from Wicklow Mountains flows down.

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.

An absolute *highlight* on the literary calendar every year (like The Grand National of old or The Oscars minus the shitarsey scuttlebutting) when this gorgeous beast gets released. There's a tiny submission window, well worth a go.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

If people laid off from The Post are wondering about maybe starting a Substack, last summer I wrote about why I wasn’t. www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...

Today, Paul Murphy said that the Government are afraid to stand up to big tech, and Micheál Martin replied "How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? That is a reprehensible assertion."

THAT'S MY PRESIDENT 🫡🫡🫡

Fianna Fáil TD Michael Cahill claimed he was driving at 190km/h because he was eager to facilitate a meeting with the parents of children with profound disabilities. Last week he voted against providing disabled people with an emergency winter payment of €400. #spéirgorm 1/3

It's funny that in history, as cars got faster and more easily available, infrastructure and laws changed to accommodate them. As bikes and scooters get faster and more available (still not as fast or abundant as cars, mind), there is no push to accommodate them.

a thread on the efficiencies of 3d-printed whistles believe it or not, it’s really good. you’d think it would be not as good as mass production but it’s actually better.

Micheál: "We can't do everything you know" The population "Ok well can you do one thing?"

An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender Analysis by Chiara Scissa: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...

Required to be open, a pedestrian route via a Cork Street co-living complex is frequently closed. Councillors say the council has opened a planning enforcement investigation.

Join me in honoring St Brigid today with a donation to the Brigid Alliance, one of my favorite American abortion funds. brigidalliance.org/about/

Big full moon and it's still sort of bright out at half five. Happy first day of spring!

The whole series is discounted *for today only* so pass it on, tell a friend, stock your kindle etc etc but before midnight…

I have watched this everytime it has come up on social media, which is at least 6 times since yesterday. It's a bitter sweet joy every time. She was wonderful in everything. My favourite episodes of The Studio are the ones that she's in. (She's in most of them, it's a great show)

well that’s not true, the maltese journalist daphne galizia was murdered with a car bomb

Unfortunately the main thing that did happen was Daphne Galizia, one of the people who investigated it, got car bombed.

skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats