You might think the bizarre spectacle of this very clearly unwell man behaving like a deeply weird obsessive oddball, babbling about “sissy porn” on the witness stand, might have made him untouchable for media culture war bullshit purposes. You would be wrong.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

To jog people's memories, this person, talking about European "natives" & very anti-immigrant on X, claimed to be from Thailand & said it was running for election in 2016, but dropped out last minute, never accepted interviews, no one knows what was going on.

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General

It was so over for that guy

Yep, and this is why politicians who think they can safely placate racists by stressing their own opposition to only “illegal” immigration are really just helping the far right move the Overton window

While I absolutely agree that threats to politicians need to be stopped. But so do threats to librarians, migrants, teenage girls, any woman who does well and speaks up, I could go on. Online threats need to stop.

Current "debate" culture, grown men who do it as a career and train for months to prepare versus random unprepared teenagers

Tomorrow being Monday

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it

To put Brenda's remark in context: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both running candidates and the Terenure Pharma Bro won't be spotted reading Slavoj Žižek or Naomi Klein anytime soon. What she is asking for is a *far* right candidate.

“Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

Good news. Namaste is rat-free and reopened!

Told a random tour guide on Culture Night I was from Dublin, and he hesitated and stared at me for a few seconds, the way I knew he meant, "What's your deal, race-wise"? 😔

Really funny that a man who set up a little blog with a fake name (which led to misidentification of a poor Indian man who lived in Dublin and had that name) is calling Dublin Inquirer fringe. lmao

NWL this morning after @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social’s piece ruined his shtick of illegally posting the names of asylum seekers online

Whenever I hear "Your Party"

Lord knows I'm not one to defend Tusla, but it is amazing to see them criticised over the Daniel Aruebose (RIP) case by the same people who opposed the Children's Referendum on the grounds it allowed the State too much interference into the family

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

All the US stuff on here is making me insane. 😔

for the last week he's done daily posts calling the child "Timmy", with this image from the Simpsons episode where Bart pretends to be a boy trapped in a well. so sick of people enabling this heartless scumbag

that sick fuck NWL spent the last three weeks spreading disgusting rumours about that poor child in Donabate, including that he didn't exist and was made up for a welfare scam. the fact there are still people in politics and the press protecting his identity is abhorrent

The Courts Service lost before the DPC and took a Circuit Court appeal where they lost and then appealed to the High Court before eventually giving up on the basis that the GDPR had come into force

As far as I can see there is still no real procedure internally in the Courts Service to protect the identities of applicants including minors and abuse survivors.

Against law, the Courts Service website published names of some people seeking asylum by “error”. A spokesperson says it has revised its processes to make sure it won’t happen again. But on Tuesday, some applicants’ names remained on its website.

Against law, the Courts Service website published names of some people seeking asylum by “error”. That had made it possible for applicants to be unlawfully also named on X. A spokesperson says it has revised its processes to make sure it won’t happen again. www.dublininquirer.com/against-law-...

Against law, the Courts Service website published names of some people seeking asylum by “error”. That had made it possible for applicants to be unlawfully also named on X. A spokesperson says it has revised its processes to make sure it won’t happen again. www.dublininquirer.com/against-law-...

creating a database of internet users that do not celebrate the life of robert redford in a way that only i have vaguely defined as correct

Wish : (

😵😵😵

Men aren’t hot like Robert Redford anymore

Serenity now-ing my way tru life, tbh.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

‘Antifa’ has only ever existed in the fevered minds of Boomers who’s brains have been cooked by Fox News who are angry that their children no longer talk to them anymore

Lovely to see some very long-term clients of mine (who were long-term undocumented when they first came to me!) at the citizenship ceremony today 🇮🇪

DCC Cllrs voted for a resolution not to endorse any of the candidates for presidential election in a 50 to 9 vote.

????

Sarah Louise Mulligan just said, "I stand with Elon Musk" while making a presidential nomination pitch to DCC.

I think it is misleading that that this being presented as Conor McGregor withdrawing from the Presidential race. He was never actually in it.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

So he's not going to make the effort to even try to get nominated, but I'm sure he'll play the victim and say They stopped him, and if he'd got it he could have won, despite polling at 2%.

Just saw McGregor's actual post on X. Besides making it nazi, in terms of usability, Musk really effed up that platform by turning it into Facebook and allowing paid users and celebrities to write long incoherent blocks of text

Monday morning : (

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

NYT recipe comments are poetry.

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Those of us who knew Terry McMahon was a gigantic raving arsehole years ago have been proven right yet again

Wish : (

Some wonderful photographs on display over at the RHA. First up (left pic), a thoughtful work by my friend @conorhorgan.bsky.social offers a glimpse into the lives of homeless men seeking asylum without showing their faces. Second, a beautiful project on Traveller kids by Clodagh O'Leary. Go see!