Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

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A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices' the sums involved are incomprehensible

Farewell to Eric Dane. 🙏🏻

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

I have never seen a sunset as beautiful as Twitter when everyone found out David Cameron fucked a pig

Am I supposed to work? On the day a Prince gets arrested? For being a Nonce???

lots of people have far more elevated and rational thoughts about this but mine are basically "am i positively entertained? no? fuck off then"

If I know one thing about Andrew Mountbatten, he is a fucking rat. He will roll on EVERYONE. He’s probably spilling his guts as we speak.

In the *most shameless plug* you'll see today, in celebration of a member of the British royal family being arrested for his connections to a paedophile network, you should buy this book about Irish rebels fighting to get free of the British Empire and toffs like this. #PrinceAndrew #SpeirGorm

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"i just want to have a calm discussion" ok, do you want to calmly discuss the misinformation or the suicides or the environmental impact or the hardware shortages or the way it's destroying jobs it can't even do or the financial house of cards it's built on or the CSAM or the "NOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT"

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

This the one.

Is there a dating app to meet these women because malfunctioning civilization destroyers is kind of my type.

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

I dont know how the Hoxton hotel saw this playing out but I'm guessing that the fact that it is now being called The Poxton is sub optimal for them. If you are in Dublin with an 'ox' sound in your name, poxification should be on your Risk List in every meeting.

A map been shared online that purports to show the second-most-spoken language in each of Ireland's county council areas — with Irish being replaced by languages such as Polish. The map, however, is false. jrnl.ie/6960317

Currently trying to programme a BBC Microbit to measure wind movement for a school's weather station project next week. So next time there's any floods, we know who to blame for the lack of warning. That's right, the children.

Yes. I took this approach with my boardhost message board back in the early 2000s, with people who wanted to argue about LGBTQ+ people’s right to exist. To argue is to accept an unacceptable frame. You wouldn’t waste time discussing if the number two represents three apples or if red is really blue.

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“It is what it is” isn’t a good indicator of when people are really struggling. The most reliable signifier of distress is when someone says they’re “living the dream”.

Yeah, important to note: LLMs produce the most statistically likely result, so even leaving aside stuff like "The public are wrong about almost everything" which makes the statistically likely result to most questions wrong, even if it got the 'correct' answer it will still never innovate.

every year on her observance of the beloved British holiday Pancake Day I like to roast @starinthetitle.bsky.social about the time she said to me, in all seriousness, “wait Lent starts tomorrow for you? that’s so funny that it’s RIGHT after Pancake Day, I feel like that’s happened before”

Special Ed minister Michael Moynihan tells RTÉ Prime Time that *all* reviews or changes to SNA deployment are paused, because the government doesn’t wish to cause panic. This pause also affects the hundreds of schools who’d been told their SNA numbers would go up, who’ve just heard about it on TV

What GLP1s should teach people is that it was never about willpower and it isn't a moral issue. But people don't want to have that conversation.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

I support this poster's question 100% and am, at the same time, disturbed it needs to be asked. Everyone kept dying, all the time, of everything at an astonishing rate. Surgery? Probably gonna die. Chest infection? May not make it to the weekend. TB? Off with you now to write some wistful poems

Anti abortion and anti trans movements are two sides of the same coin. reject both in their entirety. reject the framing. reject the concept, because it is based in perpetuating patriarchal inequality.

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

historian here! Yes

Kids who are born, here & live here, should at the age of 17 be offered Irish Citizenship for free! #spéirgorm

“I love to know who she hates and to hate them as well. I love that she is good at making plans, and I am good at staying calm when plans get all fucked up on account of weather or mechanical failure.” This is so romantic what the hell

RIP Robert Duvall, damn www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

TIL: January is now eight weeks long

Pandas don't enter even a little bit of torpor because they have to eat bamboo every second of every day because they're so ridiculous that they stopped eating meat even though they are carnivores. That is so much chewing! They are amazing at chewing tbh.

i can’t stop laughing

I genuinely meant at the start for the harpies to be more unsettling. But no, only snuggles.

I can see why so many entrenched politicians were terrified of him. Clearly loves his job, his city, & the people he serves. Imagine if people in other cities start to expect this kinda thing from the folks who are asking for their vote?

we asked ourselves, "what if a prominent politician liked his job"

Violets are blue Roses are red Someday it will happen And he will be

Any news outlet that is still publishing stuff like this is declaring that it should no longer be taken seriously as a source of information.

This disappointment here is palpable, which is funny because you would think the Political Editor of the Irish Times would have at least had some familiarity with how Catherine Connolly operates!

"yeah I'm gonna punch you in the face"