Maria Steen on RTE radio and Hillary "Andrew Wakefield" Cass* on RTE website is a reminder that forces of hate and oppression need to be constantly defeated... *Cass report has been so massively shredded by actual science only the ignorant or the malevolent refer to it with any credence

Is that in case Mark Zuckerberg comes over for that fight that never happened ?

Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like. It is still a yellow weather alert. #SpeirGorm

The single minded dedication of elite amateur athlete should probably be in the DSM given the level of harm created.

Not sure if this is the old NDRC (older once Media Lab Europe) building but not sure it’s been used for anything since Covid and would be great to see it as an Arts centre

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If Starmer goes in the UK these’s a non zero chance of “chaos under Ed Milliband”* *2015 probably marks the last point before the UK succumbed to a national case of BSE….

For it was brief and blue. But I have seen the sky. #speirgorm

Post your favourite Lord Of The Rings character. Wrong answers only

Algorithmic feeds need to be banned at a european level across all platforms. @johnnyryan.bsky.social has written extensively on this. It is the absolute minimum that needs to be done and it would also be much more effectual for under-16s than a social media ban

"You're on mute"

The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

“Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.”

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen. Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

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Any organisation taking this money are agents of a foreign power and should be shut down.

We should assume the rain over the last few weeks is the absolute baseline as a country we need to be prepared for. And we need to plan for the 526.9mm Spain recorded in 24hrs the other day. That level of rain here is both unthinkable and inevitable.

Dart out of service Monkstown (photo via family)

Second #DalkeyOpen of 2026 tomorrow (Thursday) The Club Dalkey at 8pm.... Backup is The Coliemore All welcome.. @derekhardiman.com @peadarmd.bsky.social @petraxia.bsky.social @clearpreso.bsky.social @eolai.bsky.social @hughsheehy.com @topgold.ie @manahan.bsky.social

The real problem is that there is nowhere near enough censoring of american speech in europe

OK when everyone said Spring was 1st of February did no one think to check if it was ONLY the 1st of February

No one wants a magic wand. They want proper planning and preparation for common and forseeable events.

Fuck you Irish Times. Fuck your transphobic editorial policy. Fuck your lies. Fuck Breda O’Briens lies and her spreading of the transphobic version of the protocols of the elders of Zion that is the scientifically illiterate and totally discredited Cass report. Persecuting kids you vile evil shits.

Fuck you Irish Times. Fuck your transphobic editorial policy. Fuck your lies. Fuck Breda O’Briens lies and her spreading of the transphobic version of the protocols of the elders of Zion that is the scientifically illiterate and totally discredited Cass report. Persecuting kids you vile evil shits.

We have been in the squishy economy for over a year.

Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.

I don't call it #Spring today because I stick to a 4-2-4-2 season calendar which makes perfect sense and should be widely adopted. Winter: November, December, January, February. Spring: March, April. Summer: May, June, July, August. Autumn: September, October

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

#Spéirghorm / Ireland only info request: Does a service exist whereby a person recovering from MH crisis can hire someone (like a PA) to re-engage with daily tasks for a set period of time, specifically to support them 1-on-1 to re-establish routine, parenting duties, exercise and return to work?

Everyone has their Dublin character that they miss - like "Bang Bang" for example. For me it would be Pat Ingoldsby. Had some truely wild conversations with him years back. youtu.be/hAuIRGIXW4I

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Calculus & Linear Algebra Formal Semantics Principles of Artificial Intelligence Physics Logic

My initial reaction to a bank holiday in Feburary was “funny time of year” now it’s “genius idea”. After as someone said “the most January of January’s“ it is superb.

There was light in the sky last night at 5.15 on the M8 Dublin to Cork and it was great to see the @theauldsthretch.bsky.social really starting to stretch....

“Until he purges his contempt he should stay there. And if that means until the end of his days that would be his choice“ is a much more common refrain

I don’t think it matters how much hi-viz a person is wearing when an Amazon delivery van is reversing down the footpath at speed - just saw this on Griffith Ave in Dublin. The footpath’s wide enough to fit a van so sure enough some delivery driver will attempt to bomb down it backwards. #RoadSafety

After 364 days in January during which its rained for 679 of them ya kinda feel Noah is an bit of an amateur. Anyway darkest 10 weeks in the year over.

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This is a useful clarification on shameful IT piece during the week

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We could talk about the UKs colonial history, their invention of the concentration camp during the Boer wars, An Gortha Mór, but even right now the UK State is actively persecuting the Trans minority living there and we can still be OK with most British people generally. Similarly Americans. 1/2

And this is why it would be quick and painless to kill X at the state level…

I’m telling you, this is a line we should not allow to be blurred. Assert that what has been done is illegal. Have it investigated as illegality. Bring prosecutions of company officials on illegality. Describe the basis of each step clearly and without obfuscation or imprecision.

Tired: Can Europe defend itself without the United States Wired: Can Europe defend itself from the United States

If things continue to escalate all European nations should boycott the World Cup and Olympics.

Would there anything to be said for an ol’ Butlerian Jihad ?

One story I heard recently. Kid picked up a prepaid lunch card belonging to another kid in yard. Used it to buy lunch a few time before being caught. Parents reacted to punishment with “well no one told him he couldn’t do that”. Where do you even start with people like this.

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Perma-teenager is the problem of our age.

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

St Brendan the Navigator Enters the chat