Okay I know we are all sick of hearing about the Burkes but you have to admit going on the run, realising nobody cares, then turning up to a prison to get arrested on purpose, all so you can get some more attention, is a very funny bit

An incredible bit blue sky have unintentionally done is cultivate a userbase that seems to genuinely despise the product and everyone who operates it, yet are unable to leave because they're too addicted to being online

The decision to start doing illustrations for a certain limited aspect of my D&D campaign clashing heavily with the fact that I can't fuckin draw hahaha

I'll be getting a post up next week for the end of the quarter to talk about the polling more, but this is an odd angle! SF are up since the GE, the government parties are down. If we had an election in a week, the movement would be insufficient, sure, but it's several years away....

Latest @redcresearch.bsky.social for the @businesspost.bsky.social results see no St Patrick’s day bounce for government parties, as cost of living concerns increase.

not sure what's possessed that lad (or lads?) to start publishing fake polls again but here we are so

Sir, a second character whose entire personality is just doing sex crimes has just hit Bravely Default

Something else very fucked up about the whole Grok story in retrospect, as relates to Ireland at least, is that the government's approach was to stick their fingers in their ears and hope people would stop caring and... it kind of worked?

This is a great resource and I'm glad to see it back in action!

I have an alternative proposal to reduce the number of representatives in the Oireachtas, but I don't think the Senators are gonna like it very much

If you share the Guinness Price slop dashboard with me I will hit you with a rolled up newspaper HOW is this being presented as some charming little diddly-eye sure dont we all love a pint, as opposed to what it really is - a warning as to how powerful AI tech can be in enabling nuisance/scams?

If it's any consolation to Chainsaw Man readers, the vast majority of mangas I've read have rubbish endings I think I can count the ones I consider to have had well-executed endings on my fingers

I have an alternative proposal to reduce the number of representatives in the Oireachtas, but I don't think the Senators are gonna like it very much

this dude morbed all over everyone before it was cool

Depressingly not surprised to see certain minor US polling/survey companies using LLM generated responses to increase their "sample" Am actually quite shocked at the non-financially-invested randos trying to justify or rationalise it. Transcendental brain rot

folks, they're calling this one of the greatest runbacks of all time

I don't even know what to say about modern antisemitism anymore shits bad man, and it is apparent to me that many people are desperate to find a target that will allow them to be racist in a way that won't make their cool friends upset

Reminded of one of my most hated JRPG tropes: important character whose entire personality is sex pest. Why. Why do you do this. This old man has been talking about tits for this entire cutscene. What does this add to your game.

This is what 90% of social media, regardless of location or political affiliation, sounds like to me during every war

Generally I think AI is a negative but there is something additionally insulting about a public representative using it. Absolutely insulting to the people who elected you. Too lazy or too wilfully incompetent to even represent them yourself, why are you even there except to ride the gravy train?

lads i know lol funny meme guy from 20 years ago but reality is he was a turbo-racist homophobe

Me before reading this article: this is a complex situation, like obviously the couple did wrong but I'm not sure knocking the house solves much Me after reading this article: fuck this pair of dumb entitled criminal shitheads. They're lucky the council don't knock the house down with them in it

oh god shes not making this easy

I think the government views data centres rather like it views aircraft leasing except it hasn't quite clocked that data centres don't contribute to nominal GDP and aircraft leasing actually employs people

finishing that nuzlocke has really hammered home that i genuinely enjoy having the most horrendous pokemon playstyle in existence and if the computer had feelings it would be very very upset with me

Pokémon Black 2 Challenge mode, also my first time finishing a Nuzlocke. It was fun but it was hard! I love the Gen 5 aesthetics, the sprite work is absolutely beautiful. Story and stuff a major step down from Black & White. Some truly obnoxious route design too unfortunately. 8/10

Genuinely WILD difference between how people from Ireland versus people not from Ireland are reacting to Martin's interaction with Trump. Actually headspinning to process

Actually I think it's extremely normal for the mayor of New York City to not want to publicly express views on Irish unification

DLSS-5 shows Nvidia's deep contempt for "gamers". Unfortunately "gamers" have spent decades inviting nothing but deep contempt

Pat Leahy: "The Irish people do not want the Taoiseach to criticise Trump to his face and never will vote for anyone who will" Meanwhile, in the real world:

Journalist reports on the sicko fringe of Irish politics and quite rightly spends the whole article doing her job and pointing out that they are lying Incredible that so many of Coyne's colleagues seem incapable of this

People's ability to wishcast themselves into being genuinely stupid never ceases to amaze me

Anyone who uses the phrase "Epstein class" is highly suspect imho. It was never really analytically useful, but has set a land speed record in going to utterly meaningless and then on to extremely obvious dog whistle

Taoiseach brutally decencymogged by ÁaU state leader

Obv this is fucked up but worth noting the market for this existing is directly downstream of a system that is making it increasingly difficult for people to choose to have and raise children

If you see a news story about an attack on a synagogue and your first reaction is to start ranting about Israel then there is really nothing anybody can do to help you

téimid ar ais

> charming visuals! > silly little guys everywhere! > funny enemies! > insanely hard endboss who will beat even the builds you beat Simon with into the ground without mercy > goofy outfits! the expedition 33 dlc is certainly something alright

got to respect the expedition 33 devs for jamming as many fuckass gestral minigames into the "thank you" DLC as humanly possible

"Okay we've tried to prove Gerry Adams was in the IRA dozens of times and we just can't quite nail him down" "Have you considered pointing out that he was wearing a beret" What is happening

Delays in residence permit renewals put lives of non-EU immigrants on hold – again. After a while, they can’t work and can’t travel abroad and return. More here www.dublininquirer.com/delays-in-re...

On the one hand I'm officially old, on the other hand this is probably the best purchase I'll have ever made in my life

Independents4Change, the party previously founded by TDs and MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, has asked to be removed from the register of political parties. Swords councillor Dean Mulligan is its only serving office holder in the country. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

welp

If the noises being made about Iran by the Americans are true, it seems we're heading for status quo ante bellum What an utterly nonsensical, criminal waste of lives this has been

Government sources anonymously briefing that "Any criticism of the American government's actions makes the Taoiseach's job harder" kind of gives the game away doesn't it

Eating soup while drunk is fascinating because it either means you are at the absolute lowest point in your existence, or at a wedding

Describing things as an "88% issue" instead of 80%, yeah man whoever is running Trump's social media ain't slick

My computer crashed in such a way it corrupted all my TotK save files beyond repair. 212 hours down the toilet. I absolutely love the game but the mental toll of running so much work back from zero is awful

Shatter is a prick but he's got a point here unfortunately. As I've said before some soul-searching needed as to why people were so desperate for him to be in the Epstein files (he isn't) Also in general people online have got WAY too comfortable calling people they don't like pedos imo