A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

Can someone ask the Irish fash what their views are on this? Gonna be some craic when all the Irish emigrants start going back to where they came from…

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

i don't know what's actually happening here but for a second I thought he'd strapped a bomb to his chest and felt joy for the first time in six months

THREAD. In Jan 2018 I was living in a remote spot in the Peak District & writing a collection of spooky stories. In viciously cold weather I went walking on high moorland & stumbled across these two inosculated Sycamores. "That looks like a man with branch hands, raging at an unfair sky," I thought.

Since Tony Blair’s messianic complex has reared its ugly head again, I’m re-upping this excellent piece by Carole Cadwalladr - well worth your time: www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Here is the apotheosis of the insanity: we must burn through our remaining fossil fuels in order to "take advantage of #AI". AI can give us NOTHING that will make worsening & accelerating climate crisis worth it. This 'last gasp tech-as-saviour' attitude is cult-like.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

For a nation so skilled in shooting people we’re noticeably lacking in competent assassins

“young people are being destroyed by smartphones” ok if you were a government that believed that you would probably make your services available without access to smartphones and you would make the manufacture and sale of smartphones less attractive/profitable

Doubling taxes on America’s wealthiest 1% for just one year would raise enough to fund SNAP for 17 years. Or fund Head Start preschool + childcare for roughly 140 years at current funding levels. Or repair every road in the country twice over. And the rich would still be rich.

Every year, public schools serve 4.9 billion lunches at the cost of about $21,000,000 per year. Bezos said doubling taxes for billionaires like him wouldn't help. One year of doubled taxes would give kids free school lunches for 82 YEARS.

More evidence of how badly Trump has lost the war in Iran. Iran has destroyed over two dozen US MQ-9 Reaper drones since the war began - nearly $1 billion in losses and about 20% of the Pentagon’s prewar fleet, Bloomberg reports.

Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

This sudden strength of feeling from Martin is fascinating. Martin calls for EU ban on Israeli settlement products after ‘shocking treatment’ of activists www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Gerry Hutch and Bertie Ahern performed ‘Lanigan’s Ball racism’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

It’s surreal to listen to the Irish government’s AI promotional campaign on local radio, describing it as an ‘everyday tool’, when the infrastructure is developed, owned, and run by some of the most greedy and unethical people on the planet.

Only trust your money with banks run by humans you can speak to. Only travel in untethered vehicles with a human driving. Only consume art created by humans. Only vote for decent humans who understand the importance of this.

How are algorithms going to rule the world when Netflix can’t even stop recommending things I’ve already watched

It's one banana, Michael, what could it cost? $10? "Yes." -2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Hot moms in your area are already asleep

The bill has been defeated, by 85 votes to 30. Only three government TDs voted in favour, despite having a free vote, with Sinn Féin abstaining.

Genius!! www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

there is no greater joy than helping to make a friend’s dream come true

graffiti at Sandycove, Dublin. 'Your phone makes the real world less satisfactory. It's designed to do that.'

me: I’m gonna go. I can see the writing on the wall boss: you wrote “it’s time for Mike to go”

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

We've written about how social media companies and other technology firms manipulate the scientific record in their favor. In our revisions, we will need to address how they have captured the state department to literally prevent researchers who criticize them FROM EVEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY.

It appears to be doctored. Video shows him nodding off, but not nearly this dramatically. This is as sleepy as he gets in the video:

i don’t k ow why i felt it necessary to do this

My experience is that for men who see women as equals, treat them openly with respect and dignity, there is no male loneliness epidemic.

Surround yourself with people who get it, who get you, who have goals, mind their own business, who wanna see you win as much as you wanna see them win, who make you laugh, who make you think, who will help you clean up the occasional crime scene or whatever.

honesty vs deceit is an interesting dichotomy because we talk a lot about caring about honesty but what we really care about is not being deceived, most ppl will not care a bit about you being dishonest if you aren't trying to fool them

The dullest micro scandal in history, being covered like it’s the OJ trial.

The letter that accompanied the Sitka Spruce book sent to all primary schools last week:

⚡️ It is total nuts that data-centres use over 30% of the electricity in Ireland. Even more nuts that it’s forecasted to grow substantially. Even more 🥜 again is they pay 1/2 what everyone else does. Can we please stop listening to tech CEOs. They have one allegiance 💸 #spéirghorm #speirgorm

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

"The parents of dead children are a problem. They stand opposed to our most basic and necessary illusions." An absolutely haunting story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social that resist all such illusions. A story of Camp Mystic, and the 27 girls who died there unnecessarily, that I never knew.