Right wing hiatory larpers are getting away with pretending TROY was a good movie because we didn't beat their assess hard enough for pretending KINGDOM OF HEAVEN was a good movie

Lads, Omega Ruby is the best Pokémon game I've played in years, how did I pass this over for so long?!

Very brief summary of the Dublin Central poll: Good for Soc Dems, Hutch, Fine Gael and the Greens Fine for Labour Disappointing for SF and Steenson Really bad for Fianna Fáil, People Before Profit and Aontú

Social Democrats win on these numbers

"How can UK Labour poll hit single digits polling figures?"

What's crazy is that everyone knew this would happen and warned this would happen, and yet if you dared point it out to any members of the government they'd react like a cat whose paw you accidentally stepped on

live look at sinn féin

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond Went in expecting little given how much hate the game got but I forgot that fandoms are all insane. And while unambitious, it's perfectly fine! Focuses too hard on being a "faithful remake", missed opportunity to do more for sure, but core game is still solid. 6/10

I pushed my awful, no good, degenerate Pokémon playstyle too far, if you know enough about the game you can figure out the enormous problem that has developed here (see alt text if you don't)

Extremely important to note that a vector for the (completely false) "hanta is Hebrew for scam" conspiracy spreading has been AI. Grok and Google and so on are taking nazi's FB/Twitter posts as truth and regurgitating them when asked about "hanta". This is really, *really* bad!

Bertie Ahern? A racist? The man who as Taoiseach introduced the 27th Amendment? Has troglodytic views on Africans????? SHOCKED

Brilliant Diamond is a weird game for a Nuzlocke challenge because you have to plan your entire run around coming up with a degenerate strategy for beating one Pokémon and kind of just work everything backwards from there

This is bleak reading

It remains astounding to me that after Darragh O'Brien's dismal failure as Minister for Housing, the government have managed to dredge up someone even less competent and thoughtful for the role

I see online discourse is back here again, fantastic, great job, no doubt the empire will fall any day soon

We're here to fight against the political establishment. We want to end the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael duopoly. We will to put an end to corruption and waste. We represent a clean break from the dirty past of Irish politics. Anyway here's our newest supporter, Bertie Ahern

It's very, very hard to read something like this and not conclude that the Department of Justice are deliberately mismanaging this in order to make the process as miserable and disruptive for everyone

"i want a website where i can freely harass people without being harassed in response" is social media in a nutshell at this point

I actually have a lot of sympathy for RTÉ on debate invites because there is no solution that doesn't piss people off (and half the time results in them having to defend against pointless legal action) But given the poll that's just been published they clearly should add Ogbu to this debate

Initial analysis on the Galway West by-election poll is that it unfortunately clarifies nothing we didn't already know There are three blocs (gov right, non-gov right, and left), if FPV is this dispersed, any of them have a viable path. I know that's not very insightful, but it's the case

Okay we need legislation to ban AI slop election posters. Not joking in the slightest. That Hutch one is a monstrosity, on the heels of whatever the fuck the Galway fash have been putting up

i am in transfer analysis hell rn, fuck u mike cubbard

This is uhhhhhh QUITE SOMETHING

Polanski stuff is bleak because it's a perfect storm of so many forms of, and things related to, antisemitism and yet so many people refuse to recognize (indeed, aggressively deny) the parts of what's going on that are uncomfortable for them, personally

What in God's name is the Department of Housing playing at, this is ludicrous

"You can't say anything about migrants anymore" I write in my national newspaper column where I say all kinds of horrible things about migrants

I genuinely don't think Pat Leahy should be allowed to write about polls anymore. He consistently frames them to push a narrative - and it's almost always in one direction. Can't continue to attribute that to accident

me: sexy watto may have made opening bluesky a nightmare, but at least its over and my feed is no longer filled with bizarre alien porn the humble @ianfay.bsky.social:

Oh so City get Fergie Time now, is it?

While this is obviously horrible (and he has no idea what he's talking about), how mad do you reckon Malachy got on seeing this? Hutch keeps eating his lunch over and over and over again. He must be absolutely spitting. Punching holes in the drywall.

This is exactly correct. Regardless of one's prima facie views on nuclear, it is a ridiculous suggestion for Ireland. Decades before it generates power, decades more before it justifies the cost, and a massive opportunity cost versus investing in rapidly improving renewable generation and storage.

Remember when Sinn Féin had an unexpected wave election in 2020 and a bunch of gigantic weirdos ended up accidentally elected to the Dáil? Between Reform & Greens, the next UK election is gonna be that on steroids. 200 types of guy previously unknown to god or man suddenly sitting in parliament lol

Second poll pointing to Independent Ireland being the main beneficiaries. It's not a huge shift in absolute terms but if they can sustain these numbers, look out...

Others have made the obvious points about cruelty so I won't rehash but let me take another angle - even in a fictional best case scenario all this does is shuffle strain from one form of emergency accommodation to another. But that's the Irish state, baby. Just make it not my department's problem

The problem with Bus Connects has always been the awkward transition period, which is now apparently indefinite. This is beyond a joke

Back at it again

Using increasingly deranged nickname themes in my nuzlockes

While there is a loud and growing problem with the far-right it is very important to remember that the majority of the country does not agree with them. Interesting stuff in here, full report: hopeandcourage.ie/ireland-in-f...

Poor aul Mannix Flynn trying to carpetbag into a by-election already stuffed to the gills with higher profile cranks than he

Distressing amount of you still struggling with this one huh

Just seen a photo online of the poster one of the fash groups are using for the Galway by-election and my God these people are completely internet poisoned. Terminally Yank brained. Not seen a blade of grass in years.

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

I actually think it's kind of telling that despite his many, many failings, Micheál Martin just isn't willing to engage in bad faith fear mongering over trans kids. Because, I suspect like the majority of people, he simply does not see it as any kind of real problem

Smart electricity meters are such a mess, man. Ever since I was switched over it's been nothing but issues, multiple fucked up bills, delayed billing etc. Genuinely so much worse than manually reading the meter istg

One poll, one with some very unusual breakdowns, but worth noting that Independent Ireland seem to be soaking up a lot of the disgruntled vibes. Seats to be won for them on these numbers, though we are obviously very far from an election

This has proven depressingly prescient

This leaflet is the increasingly desperate output of a man who knows he is getting absolutely antiestablishmentmogged by Gerry Hutch lmao

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom What a fucking game. I lost 212 hours of gameplay with the game nearly complete due to a catastrophic crash, ran it back and put in another 110 hours to 100% it. I can't think of a stronger recommendation than that 10/10

apalled at the shoddy standard of modern assassins. hasan-i sabbah rolling in his grave.

At wetherspoons and what is up with English people queuing perpendicular to the bar. Causing absolute chaos