Tom Baker is 92 today

If the Irish government won't do anything about this then we may as well just disband the dail and allow ourselves be governed directly by the US chamber of commerce

Our entire regulatory framework has proved to be no more than a painted balsa wood front. The AG here confirms it is illegal to generate CSAM. We also gave CnaM the power to act on any material which was not illegal, but was offensive. Turns out they don’t wanna. www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

"antisemitismus gegen polizisten" gabs glaub ich schon?

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

In the UK soldiers lifted people of the street and raided houses, busting the door and dragging kids from their beds. I know this because I was one of those children held shaking with cold and barefoot at gun point while other armed men emptied the contents of my mother’s hot press onto the floor.

One more, I am begging English commentators and journalists to remember what the UK did in Northern Ireland. Of course what's occurring in the US could happen in the UK! It already fecking did.

Anniversary of Patrice Lumumba's brutal assassination - supported by Belgium, UK and the US - was this Saturday. His final letter to Pauline Lumumba is so clear-sighted and beautiful. blackpast.org/global-afric...

Ireland: Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell said the remark that justice was open to all like the Ritz Hotel endures because “it captures a fundamental and persistent challenge”, that “justice may be formally open, but practically inaccessible”. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I agree, and I suspect this runs into the same problem e.g. investigations into war crimes and police and other official malfeasance do: the firm can be misguided, it can be dumb and cruel, but it can never, ever just be a criminal enterprise. That makes *everyone* look bad and hurts the business.

A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say? Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.

Renee Good (then Renee Ganger) in Ireland www.bbc.com/news/article...

this particular anecdote from Boorman's Adventures of a Suburban Boy about Lee Marvin getting belligerently drunk at Jack's on the Beach never fails to make me laugh

That's only a UN Commission, UN Special Rapporteurs, OHCHR, B'Tselem, the international association of genocide scholars, Oxfam, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, MSF, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and dozens of countries vs Gavin Newsom and his pod pal

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

This has been completely normalized. Once upon a time when it happened, there was days of press coverage and vigils.

I’m telling you, this is a line we should not allow to be blurred. Assert that what has been done is illegal. Have it investigated as illegality. Bring prosecutions of company officials on illegality. Describe the basis of each step clearly and without obfuscation or imprecision.

First Irish statement on Greenland latest from Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee. Trump threat “is completely unacceptable and deeply regrettable… “There can be no lasting peace and security in a world where these principles [the UN Charter] are ignored and undermined.”

I'm old enough to remember when the strategic vulnerability on Europe's western flank was Ireland. It was two months ago.

Not an original observation here (other gave made it), but fascism is a vibe, not an internally-consistent and well-thought-out philosophy

Europe has to choose between freedom (including democracy and human rights) and prosperity. The trouble is, our politicians have spent decades undermining the constitutional order and pretending that prosperity (and consumer choice) IS freedom.

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

Hold onto your hardware for as long as possible unless you don’t care and want everything done on the cloud through fuck ass subscription models I guess

(some exceptions may apply)

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

“Your trust in me,” the bot added, “has unlocked this reality.” Yet another story of a tech worker this time, tricked by Meta glasses' AI into believing that he was having some kind of divine revelation, isolating him from his family and friends. These are technologies of abuse and control.

I cannot wait for these two tweets posted within an hour of each other by a European leader. First tweet condemning US military action in Greenland that kills European soldiers. Second tweet celebrating their nation's military support to US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

You know people are unpopular when corporate brands come along to personally disavow any connection.

As someone who has always thought international law should be upheld in Palestine as everywhere else, seeing European leaders suddenly acquire a taste for international law is fuck those people.

Australian news is covering what British outlets won't. Houses set alight with families trapped in them and ongoing pogroms displacing thousands. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Our national broadcaster @rteradio1.bsky.social still uses the Israeli propaganda term "Hamas-run health Ministry"

the irish: great lads, friendiest place on earth even if you're their mortal enemy the irish who move to america: some of the most truly cursed bootlickers you'll ever find

To be clear the European Union is being threatened by America and the Baltics/vdL line is that this is mainly bad because it somehow benefits China and Russia? How is the self destructive Atlantacism of the @vonderleyen Commission not a major story in Europe?

I was so glad to see Sean Binder acquitted in Greece on Thursday. There was almost nothing in the papers here about him though. Maybe at the weekend, I thought. But no. All we got was profiles about Ryan Tubridy

It's helpful to understand the creation of a Gaza Board of Peace as an attempt to replace key security and peacekeeping functions managed by the UN. It's also helpful to understand the pattern here: given prior attempts to replace UNRWA with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

Bollocks.

In Dusseldorf and I accidentally got caught up in this "Iranian Monarchist" rally and the vibes, my god the vibes are rancid.

This should be a much bigger news story, a much bigger area of interest, esp since to this day we do not know where/who the non intervention orders came from. How do we commit to accountability and transparency when families are terrified to call the police and feel their only option is to leave

Bluesky will verify ICE but Palestinians in Gaza have to create three accounts a day just to be able to post their fundraisers

tl;dr I know we were elected on a pledge to do this but we are not going to do this. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

i can probably guess tho

I'd also love to see the debate shifted to *why* housing should be delivered at scale, decommoditised, and affordable/accessible to all. Not caught up in the weeds about *what*, because that allows govt parties to spoof and obfuscate. I want my parents' generation (for example) outraged and engaged

Donald Trump has not assembled a “Board of Peace” for Gaza. He has assembled a Board of Occupation. The future of Gaza is not up to Trump, Blair or Netanyahu. That is up to the Palestinian people.

As someone said the other day, one of the biggest problems with AI is not that you're expected to be more productive; it's that it triples the output of the biggest idiot you work with

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I'll never get over Americans praising their wonderful political system and their President can basically just free anyone from prison for money.