Larger families will never ever happen again. Immigration is the only game in town and the political eejits giving out about it need to sort out infrastructure and housing and stop stirring hate

I am here for this and the other Butlerian jihad when it arrives

Never met anyone who has cut ties with their parents without a bloody good reason. Toxic people going to continue to be toxic people it seems

Happy to prove my unique humanity to Sam Altman by giving him a kick up the arse.

"Look for me in the trees. I will be there in the trees." A letter worth reading? ✅️🤍 (Sent into The Irish Times)

This is a @fesshole.bsky.social for the ages

We have wintered through it once more... You can feel it. #TheGrandStretchIsBack

So. We're very very very nearly there. Let's see if we can hammer the world with #TheGrandStretchIsBack at 16:05:45 Dublin time.

Not the shortest day…. but evenings start to get longer tomorrow!!!! Love @theauldsthretch.bsky.social

Hi all. Are ye ready? 2 important notes: - Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset. - Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)

It only took ten years for a dedicated bunch of well-connected weirdoes to get the entire UK elite to unite against a tiny minority of the population that they previously barely noticed. The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.

You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc #SpeirGorm

So much to unpack in this challenging piece from Colin Sheridan. ‘there is something incredibly naive about our insistence that because our ancestors suffered, we cannot reproduce harm in the arena of race …’ @irishexaminer.bsky.social

I feel like the media have a responsibility to ignore the Burkes at this stage. I don't mean to stop reporting on them, but to stop giving them a platform to share their nonsense after every disturbance they initiate. #spéirgorm

Marking the last #DalkeyOpen of 2025 this Thursday night The Club Dalkey at 8pm.... Backup is The Coliemore if theres an event on. All welcome.. @derekhardiman.com @peadarmd.bsky.social @petraxia.bsky.social @clearpreso.bsky.social @eolai.bsky.social @hughsheehy.com @topgold.bsky.social

I wrote a thing a few months ago on why this over diagnosis idea is BS www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e...

Marking the last #DalkeyOpen of 2025 this Thursday night The Club Dalkey at 8pm.... Backup is The Coliemore if theres an event on. All welcome.. @derekhardiman.com @peadarmd.bsky.social @petraxia.bsky.social @clearpreso.bsky.social @eolai.bsky.social @hughsheehy.com @topgold.bsky.social

#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

There’s a piece to connect the Burkes to the cruelty of the past. Diarmaid misses it when he focuses on their zealotry over the fact ultimately this hatred was directed at a vulnerable teenager. Polite cruelty would be no more welcome than Burkes rabid version www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

All Christmas sandwiches that feature turkey and ham would be improved by the removal of the ham.

100% If you're into books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Into comics/graphic novels @littledeercomics.bsky.social Into tea Clement & Pekoe clementandpekoe.com

No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?

Down Cemetery Road is Ok. No Slow Horses. But grand. More importantly Emma Thompson is clearly auditioning to be the next Dr Who

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I’ll be grand

#speirgorm is like trumpeting on a hill or lighting the fire for me😂 It's a way of saying, "Irish people, over here! I seek you help"/ "Only Irish people can sympathise with me right now" Was it meant to be a Gaeilge thing?!

Important to remember that Enoch Burke is in trouble for failure to obey court orders. But when he refers to his cherished beliefs this is where those beliefs lead. So yes he and his beliefs can all get in the sea.

The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.

@ravenbooks.bsky.social am I right in thinking Vol 3 of On the Calculation of Volume has just been released?

@tupped.bsky.social not sure if you've seen this. We have a Minister with personal experience of failings in health system and a determination to fix it www.independent.ie/irish-news/m... will be interesting to see the impact

Morning.

The important thing here is to note that even Enoch Burke has a limit

The EU was considered a world-leader in regulation. They stood their ground on rights-led rule-making in the face of intensive lobbying opposition and in doing so created a "Brussels effect" that drove others to follow. To walk that back in order to simp for US money is, frankly, disgusting.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Public Service Announcement: "Transgenderism" is Burke's term designed to cause offence. Please don't do his work by propagating it. Meeja folk, take note . End.

Blue Monday Black Friday really feels like the other days of the week could do with their own colour. Best suggestions on the back of a skeet

This is the best single description of Black Friday I've come across

Today’s systems remove that friction. They amplify the fastest, loudest emotional cues in real time. That acceleration reshapes what politicians think the public wants, and drags policy toward whatever produces engagement rather than grounded priorities.

What has changed is the structure that those emotions move through. We once had institutions and time-lags that slowed reactions, filtered claims, and created space for verification and deliberation. Imperfect, yes, but they created friction.

I’m not arguing there was a golden age where people were rational saints. Human beings have always been emotional, reactive, tribal. That part hasn’t changed.

And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.

In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas. Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.

This is very good

My Xmas Appeal for 2025 is at €2,500 in 3 days. A nice start 🙂 To make a donation to the NSPCA, My Lovely Horse Rescue and @childrensbooksireland.ie, any donation at all, head here: www.idonate.ie/rick

Sigh, there are good arguments to be made for Irish neutrality but this piece of nonsense is not one of them. It also ignores the existence of Northern Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

”Art opens up what is possible“ listen, of all the unforgivable crimes of the techbros finding myself nodding furiously in agreement with the pope is one of the most disturbing

The nugget in this is the increase in journey times of 20 -30 minutes over the past year. All our roads are at or close to carrying capacity and the slightest issue leads to major disruption

This by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is vital reading. In one of those coincidences, coming just as I was writing something on this topic from another angle

After we got the results of our Computer Science finals one of our lecturers quipped “now you’re numerate, go and get an arts degree and become literate”