In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

We probably don't need fresh updates on Elon Musk saying something dumb and racist.

Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie

There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who will never see a football match again and our spineless coward of a Tánaiste @simonharrisireland.bsky.social thinks it would be too big of a burden on our lads to miss a single tournament

I finished up this totally legitimate Knight today. I wanted to get a certain look for him, noble but mysterious, adding the bit of blue to the pallette Also first time I've been happy with the snow base too! #warhammerCommunity #warhammer40k #darkangels #paintingwarhammer

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Time to reshare my "Don Draper pitches Jared Leto" memes.

Maria Steen was on RTÉ Radio 1, the country’s most listened to radio station, this morning lamenting the lack of conservative voices in our national media. She then read from an article by Brenda Power, published in the most widely read national newspaper. Make it make sense!

Roses are red Violets are blue You said we weren’t doing Valentines this year You told me, last week, not to get you anything

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Funny how there's a pretty consistent editorial campaign aimed at getting Ireland to "pull our weight" in Europe's defence, but there isn't one asking us to pull our weight in addressing our fair share of climate emissions #spéirgorm

“[The FAI] could show a real bit of balls and refuse to play Israel. They should stand up in my view for the Palestinian state, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian football organisation.” - Brian Kerr, former Republic of Ireland manager

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Just going to leave this here

A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.

Honestly, if you cannot stop looking at your phone in traffic, you need to keep it out of reach. People have been injured and killed because drivers were "just" quickly looking. It doesn't matter if you're stopped, it's illegal as that distraction could mean that you're not aware of a child...

By lifting the Dublin Airport passenger cap, delaying funding for public transport that has planning permission and opening the door to commercial LNG, Minister @darraghobrientd.bsky.social's message to his constituents seems to be: prepare for much more climate chaos. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

My stuffiest political-legal opinion is that the American style of giving laws acronymic names like the CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America) Act is undignified. Laws should have boring ass names like the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Act 2022

jim ratcliffe: [seeing man utd experiencing hope and optimism for the first time in 13 years] well.. better tell everyone i'm racist

Places like achill and Killarney that are impossible to find a place to live in create their own political consensus. cause the people who can't find anywhere to live there leave and the people who can are often landlords like MHR himself

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.

👋 I'm Ming & I am a... Former narrative event organiser thinking about doing something this year. Former mid-table mediocre player that's been out of the scene & probably relegated to bottom-tables now. But at least I win hobby & sports awards! 😂

Starting a thread of Age of Sigmar Players and Tournament organisers and trying to build a community vibe here on bluesky. Tag yourself if you want people to follow your AOS journey

I know the new books are getting people really excited about the game but pour one out for one we lost 🥲

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

We must not be afraid to reach a self-serving conclusion before we begin to understand the reality of the situation | the Irish Times view on the mean things people are saying about some people who were always lovely to us

Still plenty left to do on this fella, but I do love the point where the last bit of primer disappears under a base coat #nerdlings #warhammer #ageofsigmar

This govt is just sickeningly dishonest and manipulative

The American financial system is very much like an infant that screams if you don't let it play with a toaster in the bathtub

genx parting gift

The unspeakable horror this poor guy had to witness? I painted a Cadian who wasn't white. G a s p. What do these guys think is going to happen in response to this bitch-ass whining? I'm going to take the video down? Implausible as it might seem - and I swear this is true - Black people exist.

Listen, this headline is a better endorsement of the Digital Services Act than any 1000 words I could come up with.

People use that as reliable factual background material on country conditions or events in asylum cases Good grief that is terrible and baffling

We all agree that billionaires' wealth needs to be confiscated [crowd cheers] It should be given to me instead [crowd murmurs] To build a 1:1 scale model of the Enterprise D [crowd cheers, multiple whoops]

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

A truly hideous right wing smear campaign against these six activists for exercising their free speech rights to protest - and confronted with the evidence all six have been acquitted.

No exaggeration to say this is Government policy across the board these days

For sure man: Larry Summers, Peter Thiel, Ehud Barak, Peter Mandelson, Bill Gates, and basically every other oligarch, power broker and political bigwig in the western power structure were all taken in by a devious Russian plot to enact the precise policy suite they’ve espoused their entire careers.

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

The most chaotic man I know once collared an acquaintance in a pub and insisted on buying him a drink. He ordered 2 Fat Frogs, then announced he had no money. The already shellshocked acquaintance handed him a 50 which he passed to the barman saying "keep the change"

I know there's a massive amount going on but the government amending the arbitration act to sign us up to CETA needs serious coverage and the risks of corporate courts need to be spelled out.