Tell Enoch that he must legally STAY away from X offices and there's a start. Then start taking pictures of staff and use their AI tool on THEM...

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

I grew up in Navan, and didn’t know, until my 20’s, that people in Kells considered themselves to be in a long-standing rivalry with Navan. None of us in Navan were aware of it, which (delightfully) made them even madder

When it comes to town rivalries, Athlone vs Mullingar is merciless. Especially today as Athlone has been named Ireland's dirtiest town.

Women are expected to be like ninjas in making it safely home www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated

I’ll sign it!

So, shouldn't the Gardaí be busting X's offices in Dublin at this point? Or does someone need to file a complaint?

Feck, I'd forgotten about Pak Bean. Tremendous content.

this headline was so avoidable too

absolutely insane to publish this in the week that AI is generating child sex abuse images but go ahead irish times

One thing about growing older is that you may have heard of certain currently active popstars, but you do not realise how long they've been active for. A few of those "these albums are now ten years old" lists gave me a bit of a shock!

I bought a laptop at Costco last week that was half the price of the “AI” models. The salesperson seemed genuinely surprised that anybody wouldn’t want those features.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

Anyone still using X/Grok....you are enabling this.

A touching tribute to Mike F

Dear Darach, While I appreciate your posts, I am often left needing to look up basic information (such as national flags) because I have an American education. Rather than own my ignorance, I shall get upset and give a one ⭐️ yelp review.

I had to marry a man who was "tall enough"--when he hugs me, his chin rests on top of my head. Mission accomplished!

The best hugs are the ones where there is enough height distance between the huggers where the smol one can rest their head between big bear's shoulder and collarbone. People who are the same height hug each other like a pair of magnets.

Sausage rolls are English croissants.

Bonus points if the 🇫🇷/🇨🇦 banter is multilingual or *entirely* in French, because that quickly amps up the nonsense 😆 (Selfishly, though, I'd request subtitles for the latter; LatAm Spanish + Classical Latin means I can get by in understanding spoken Canadian French, but European French eludes me.)

Has just occurred to me that if another globe-spanning mega-conflict does kick off, there'll be an entire cycle of discourse, even as the bombs are flying, bickering over whether or not it's appropriate to call it World War III.

Now, a strong caveat here: when it comes to rugby, Ireland-Scotland is straight-out war. I mean, *proper*, stab-to-the-hilt stuff. There's messing with the Welsh, it's personal with the Scots.

🇩🇿 vs 🇪🇬 has got to be one of the most inexplicably brutal. Saw a doctor who had a surgery near Mountjoy Sq a good few years ago and he was telling me how his Algerian and Egyptian patients would be glaring at each other in the waiting room.

I'm disappointed that we've been a test country for years now and haven't developed any bizarre rivalries

Both fraudulent claimants to Mr. Bean, who we all know is a proud Albanian

Hilariously there’s also a huge degree of mutual disrespect between anglo Canada and franco Canada, and when the French Canadians are (rightfully) disrespecting the rest of us, they’re very proud of their connection to France.

Beef with France is a wonderful delicacy but it requires you to actually understand the French, with the brits and the americans do not. The Belgians, Quebecois, and all their former colonies are true connoisseurs.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

hahaha, they're homosexuals & being homosexual is bad.

How is it so excruciatingly painful for these people to leave, when I, a man with a crippling Twitter addiction, somehow managed to do so without any sort of psychic wounds

Allow me to add some context on the Zimbabwe Pakistan rivalry. Fake Mr Bean Caused A Social Media War Between Zimbabwe-Pakistan In T20 World Cup share.google/saGjidRHp84I...

Decades ago when I was a naive young Yank travelling across the pond for the first time, I was very bemused by the Irish and Aussies in my hostel having a mutual go at each other in the communal area

When an American teases the Brits online, it's usually something very mild like "OMG what's the deal with you guys spelling color with a u?" and then some Brits promptly reply with something like "at least we don't have school shootings".

Between that and the skeletal ghost pirates, I wonder if they were interested in historical accuracy at all.

this article had more air in it than a balloon. puff piece literally. no questions were answered. "in conclusion, the lord of the rings is a land of contradictions"

Because they dream of running around outside with the lads like they did when they were too young to know what right wing meant. Also:

A lot of the "now is not the right time" arguments against 🇬🇱 declaring independence also applied when 🇮🇸 cut loose in the 1940s. She has a point; 🇩🇰 are going to do what's right for 🇩🇰.

It is often discussed as to which spicy chip would straight-up kill a Victorian child, but I'm pretty sure this headline would straight-up kill like half the people in the 1990s because this is a NONSENSE SENTENCE

Absinthe-related burn on my left arm.

Was knocked over by a mobility scooter into a spinner rack of bras in Matalan.

Delighted that my next novel Richard Heart Julianne will be coming out on the mighty @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social next year. Hope you enjoy it. I loved writing it.

Dr Clíona Saidléar: 'Anyone generating and sharing a non-consensual image is committing a crime. Anyone who has been affected by online deepfake abuse can report it to the Gardaí or hotline.ie and can reach out to receive support from their local rape crisis centre.'

This is the last week for it, I think. It gets weird from next Monday on.

In other songs about Ireland, half the work of being Irish in France is explaining to French people that no one in Ireland knows this song: youtu.be/eWPJfFL38eI?...

I remember this idea being mooted back when I was doing my masters - the economies and cultures of cities and their physical hinterlands are not as intimately connected as the economies and cultures of big cities thousands of miles from each other.

My phone autocorrected "I" to "AI", so they really are trying to replace us.

"Ooo, I can't wait for a scene of Robin Hood not in England fighting a religious war that everyone thought was a bad idea back then" said nobody ever. For this they cut archery tournaments and Sherwood Forest antics. Which reminds me... Antics. I want antics. I demand antics.

Black Books, Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Seriously impressive list all co-made by one of the biggest ignorant pricks in the world.