1. People chose to live places where public transport is expensive to provide. 2. Public transport availability massively in rural areas. 3. I wonder how many who say they must drive have ever actually tried public transport?

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

Blah, blah, blah Talk is cheap in the EU, and actions speak louder than words. The EU rolled over for trump when it came to tariffs, and he expects justifiably that Europe will roll over again and again.

Has @dublincityuni.bsky.social deleted its account on the deep-fake porn site formerly known as Twitter yet?

Global consequences of Trump’s might-makes-right foreign policy (for Ukraine specifically): “Let’s put it bluntly,” Russia’s Dmitri Medvedev told the Tass news agency, referring to the United States, “now they have no grounds, even formally, to reproach our country.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

Not sure why they don't just summon the US ambassador and hive him a dressing down.

Please @ucddublin.bsky.social @orlafeely.bsky.social let us depart this foul platform. We’re demeaned by our participation and it represents the very antithesis of our values.

All he is there for is to see what money can be extracted. The essence of parasite capitalism.

How about not paying because of insider trading?

This is bullshit! Why can a minister not say that they are not staying on a deep fake porn platform?

No surprise there. russia talks big but acts small.

This is a very important story! Some leaders like Merz still want to pretend that the US is a partner when it is clearly an adversary. The special relationship is over!

"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter." In an age of cowards, it's great to see the FT simply bodying these clowns.

So what is the Minister in charge of meeting the targets going to do about it. Shrug his shoulders?? He missed a lot of targets when he was Minister for Housing too. Without actions we will keep missing targets and actions have been missing. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Stephen Miller thinks we live in a ‘real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.’ (NYT, article by Katie Rogers, 6 Jan 2026) He has a point. But he misunderstand the nature of power and America’s place in the world. 🧵1/6

The Russian navy will be so busy escorting rust bucket tankers, that they won't have much time for anything else. That's a good result too.

trump like putin has repeatedly told us what he wants to do. Leaders who didn't take them seriously are clearly incompetent

Let's hope he gets on a plane asap

Definitely no ally. NATO is dead

Americans voted him in and it is them who have to get rid of him and the immoral MAGA movement.

This is spot-on. The problem with Trump is not this or that policy of his (though they’re almost all abominable). It’s his fundamental indecency, and the fact that millions voted him into office AGAIN despite (or because) of it. (Free Article) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is very motivating for voters. Just not in the way he thinks it is...

this is how every outlet should refer to X

English speaking newspapers don’t seem to have picked up on Trump administration threats of sanctions against judges in current appeals case involving Marine LePen’s indictment regarding European Parliament fund embezzling which could cost her the right to run for president next year.

It's pointless to talk about this as the opposition have for decades made sure that Ireland can't do anything about any incursion.

So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA

I have said this for years!

What Vladimir Putin cannot achieve on the battlefield and in Russian factories due to incompetence and corruption, he is trying to achieve instead by offering American companies and politicians fat contracts and huge profits, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

But that is all they will ever do. Zero actions. How about calling in a the russian ambassador for a dressing down? How about shrinking the staff in the embassy to a bare minimum?....

Venezuela's economy is a miniature version of Russia. A corrupt and kleptocratic government that only stays in power thanks to oil exports. The US has complete and total control over this, as it does over Russia's oil exports. Time to embargo both places... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/tracking-o...

I think it was @unioflimerick.bsky.social - very disappointing to see others still there including DCU (both institutional & staff accounts)

Did they wipe all traces of this from their social media accounts?

From 2019: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

This is a wild thing for him to repost, considering 32 million of them voted for him in 2024.

Well they are making it very clear that Europe should buy as little as possible from the US. Not so sure thats going to help the defense industrial base.

The leftist group “Vulkangruppe” which claims to have sabotaged Berlin’s power supply is oddly bad at proper German. One detail suggests it was translated from Russian with AI or some such. www.berlinstory.de/news/stromau...

trump just like putin keeps pushing the boundaries only much faster. Europe at best manages some rhetoric and the UN is now just a pointless circus! Who is really going to stop them??

Why are any serious persons organisations, companies, governments, politicians and journalists still on X??

More astonishing public comments from Danish PM on Greenland: “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO..."

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

They're terrified of upsetting Musk. He's actually used X to call for their overthrow and they still indulge him. It's pitiful.

LLMs work with a system prompt under the hood before a user ever interacts. Constraints are a part of this and can be changed at any time. They are actively allowing it to continue. Everyone involved should be in prison.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he will demote retired naval officer and sitting Senator Mark Kelly for 'reckless misconduct' after the senator and other Democratic lawmakers urged troops to refuse any illegal orders reut.rs/49Fd5c0

There are no excuses now for not knowing that X is a toxic cesspit. If you are still on X, these are your values.

The fact that there are lots of resignations and continued personnel changes in key positions in Ukraine is not a good sign!

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

No shit!?

Just in case I have any booksellers and book Shops in the UK and or Ireland following me, please tell me about your shop.