Counting the days until Discord announce a deal with Not Peter Corp, a company which buys data from Discord, and it's none of Doscord's business who they then sell that data on to, that's some other guy's problem. fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

I set mine to blare “There’s a fuckin loser in our midst!” in the Bruce McGill “Wipe that smirk off your face!” growl

Understand, Discord will still be collecting our bio-data and other information. They only cut ties with Peter Thiel's company cause it became public what they want to do with the data. They will still find a way to supply this to people like Thiel.

🚨 A Byline investigation suggests that Matt Goodwin advises Toby Young who has reportedly advocated what he described as “progressive eugenics”. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/reforms-matt-goodwin-advises-conservative-peer-linked-to-relaunched-nazi-race-science-platform/

"Jump!" "How high?"

This time 5 years ago, when I was finishing up my Journalism and International Relations degree in UL, we were told that Iceland joining the EU was never going to happen - how quick things change!

Reminder to journalists: American judicial orders stop at the US border.

What are they so afraid of?

Corporations Using New Technology Systems.

Anthropic, which grabbed one of my books (and many others) without permission, is whining that the Chinese are grabbing its data without permission. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

In the Liberties, the council is inching towards construction of a full-sized sports pitch. A recent public consultation found that, yes, loads of residents want a sports pitch, but also that many are sceptical it will ever happen.

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

Well now…

"Faced with this apparent misunderstanding of the basic expectations of the mission of an ambassador who has the honor of representing his country, the minister has requested that he no longer be able to directly access members of the French government"

So could you do us a favour and tell Orban and his goons to fuck off into the sea?

it … very much will work, and is not remotely wrong in principle; in fact, a *lot* of the problems we have now are because we go out of our way to not tax the rich citation: I'm a published research economist and I know what the fuck im talking about

Missed this earlier, could be a very interesting assignment. about.rte.ie/2026/02/16/r...

EvilCorp www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

in the 19th century some Brits thought they were the lost tribe of Israel and that the Hill of Tara contained the ark of the covenant. they tried to dig it up, but Maud Gonne, Yeats and them counter protested and lit a big bonfire and sang "A Nation Once Again"

I thought I'd started a thread a couple of months ago on Irish journalists writing for foreign titles, but I can't find it. So what familiar bylines have you seen in overseas outlets? There's Seamus O'Reilly in the Observer, Fintan O'Toole everywhere... Who else? (and not just columnists)

Every day, another dire UK news report confirms this observation.

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Where do Irish journalists hang out online nowadays? Still twitter, or have they found somewere that's actually enjoyable?

Lyra McKee Bursary 2025 for journalists tcij.org/initiative/l...

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

My submission to the consultation on drone operations in the city. The new "geozone" is an arbitrary imposition on commercial and community activities, with disproportionate negative impacts. As a regulator, the IAA needs to sit back and consider if this would even withstand a court challenge. 🧵

Do you even know how much food it takes to train a pope

Not all heroes wear capes

We're entering Cnut Ordering The Tide To Retreat territory..

HAL, show me the pinnacle of Irish cuisine...

btw what's funny about this is that he found out that people were making fun of his ridiculously performative ashblob because, as he explains in the article, he was straight onto social media to see the reaction the minute he got home

Remember this when the government starts going on about banning u16s from social media instead of forcing them to clean up their algorithms.

Bookmarking this because, you know... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Things you like to see The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Pwned.

Just get out of there. Zero upside to stay. www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

This article suggests that there is actually quite the opportunity for some EU player to coordinate all these european pieces and abstract the complexity away from the user.

whatever happened to the Bsky server he was trying to crowd source $$$s for?

Oh this is too funny, it’s from a book by Eoin O’Malley and is being touted as proof by David Quinn that we have a left wing government. Now before you read the next sentence swallow that tea and put down the cup. The zero on this chart is the centre ……… 😆 #speirgorm

If it can happen, it will happen.

Christ on a bike what a question. When you consider that multiple (if not most) democracies in the world have elected mayors with executive powers, the pertinent question on the Limerick situation isn't 'is it workable?'. It's 'why isn't it working?', or 'why isn't it being allowed work?'

The Enshittification of Cory Doctorow. Inevitable, really..

Random survey: how many articles have you seen in the last 7-14 days drawing a line from government policies (Dublin airport, server farms, dairy farms etc) to the weather..? One? Two? More? None?

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