I'm calling on Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan to scrap plans that would force people to use a state-run Digital ID card to access social media. Will you sign too? #Ireland #SpéirGhorm @uplift.ie

Help Amanda's Family after Arson Attack In Finglas Fire chuffed.org/project/help...

How the fuck do we have a Minister of Communication, who is utterly unaware of one of the most important areas of criminal law, for protecting children, which is part of his portfolio. And why the hell hasn't someone briefed him? Why do I know more than him & his staff? #spéirgorm

I cant fucking cope

This is 1) flat wrong on the facts 2) flat wrong on the law 3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

Adorbs....

what a freaking year this week has been

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

It's been clear since at least the private audience Lawless, Naughten and Ryan gave Zuckerberg - instead of grilling him in an Oireachtas committee - that we live in a captured state #speirgorm

Just when you thought the news couldn’t get more depressing #speirgorm #IEPOL

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Agnès Callamard: “The EU’s refusal to suspend its agreement with Israel is a cruel and unlawful betrayal – of the European project and vision, predicated on upholding international law and fighting authoritarian practices, of the European Union’s own rules and of the human rights of Palestinians.”

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Wahaaaay today is my one year anniversary off twitter-X and feb I'll be a year off insta. Its worth celebrating that 🙏 prob 3 years off Spotify. Weaning oneself off toxic technologies is possible 😎

Good reminder. Going to whack on a few eps of Northern Exposure amd self sooth.

Ice now executing citizens in broad daylight 💔

We’ve seen this in Chicago. Now we’re seeing it across the country. ICE is a lawless secret police force and must be abolished. This is fucking horrific.

NEW: "One analyst who has tracked explicit deepfakes for years, and asked not to be named for privacy reasons, says that Grok has likely become one of the largest platforms hosting harmful deepfake images." @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social on Musk's latest disaster:

Tragic

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

Sounds about right. The results of the 2024 election basically killed off the hopes of young generations. Those responsible for the housing disaster got rewarded with another 5 years. Not to mention disappointing EU leadership, Gaza, Ukraine, etc. #spéirghorm

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

You have spoken to the henchmen of a ruler who, together with his cronies from industry, wants to destroy the EU. You do not condemn this flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the UN Charter. And you blame the victim (which has been kidnapped and publicly exposed). RESIGN!

Me monitoring a situation: I wonder how our government is responding to this? Our government: We're monitoring the situation #spéirgorm

Norway: Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says "International law is universal and binding for all states. The American intervention in Venezuela is not in accordance with international law." Ireland:

A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way. Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now. This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?

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Ok, so Canada can indict Trump for bribery, bomb Washington DC, and send the Mounties to round him up. It's that how this works? This is effectively might makes right by Vance. The US does not have sovereign authority over foreign leaders.

Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?

Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

Always remember that these figures do not include those couch surfing, inappropriately in hospitals or nursing home, living in overcrowding, in refuges, and the thousands and thousands on housing waiting lists. New record high of almost 17,000 homeless, including 5,321 children

Crabs Grindr Travel 😎

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Once again, concentration camps.

45 years after they allowed 10 Irish hunger strikers to starve to death, the British government are taking the same policy against Palestinian protestors. Back then it was Margaret Thatcher, today Kier Starmer. I hope he will be remembered with the same disdain as she is.

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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

For anyone who still thinks there is a 'peace plan' for Gaza, or that the Israeli regime would agree to a two-state solution...

Ken is on. Yay #speirgorm

Too much money to be made from the misery of people of all ages homeless and those who voted for them should be ashamed #housingcrisis #homelessness #derelictireland #speirgorm what are we gonna do.. it can't go on. It has been "normalised"

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.

the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems

There have always been strong anti-democratic impulses among EU elites, with the explanation usually being that progress on European unity was too urgent and complex to be dealt with through traditional electoral politics. But what European unity now looks to mean is the normalization of genocide.

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

The study 'also found that AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand.'

Also horrifying....😭