Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

I met weird al one time and he was exactly as nice as you would expect him to be, just an incredible human being who also happens to write a lot of songs about food

Anyone who wants to encourage the folk at Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaeilge to keep their feet firmly on the inclusive path, there's this www.change.org/p/support-tr...

It leads to incidents like the one in Cavan recently where parents on a losing GAA team took to social media to accuse an opposition player of being trans just because she had short hair and was the best player on the field. Not a word of truth in it but they got to put it out there.

Modern factories do not lucratively employ half the men in the town straight out of high school to work an assembly line on union contracts. That was a weird blip in the 1950's when automation hadn't taken off yet and the US was the only country in the world whose factories weren't blown to shit.

What has this got to do with him raping and sexually assaulting female children? [I know what it's about]

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

There were conservative Slate readers who promised me, during Trump's first presidency when I was beginning to see where things were going and just starting to raise the alarm, that if trans people ever became a target they'd fight by my side. Now they're all anti-trans cranks.

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Terror acts orchestrated and carried out by the proscribed UDA & UVF. No COBRA meeting and a whitewashing of terror involvement because the North of Ireland isn’t seen as somewhere deserving safety, never mind human & civil rights. Paramilitary groups are still celebrating their pogrom operation.

AI slop is insidious.

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

> Poll an issue > Overwhelming majority oppose > Print this headline anyway This is the sort of presentation the Sunday Business Post should be ashamed of and a clear case of representing poll results in a certain way to pursue an agenda

"I think if you're a billionaire, you kind of live the AI future anyway." - @doctorow.pluralistic.net on this week's episode of Fighting Fascism

I can't with these videos of Russians standing in fuel lines whining, "But why are they bombing us? What did we doooooo?" ​You invaded a sovereign state. You destroyed the peaceful lives of 40 million people. You leveled our towns and cities.

Read this!

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Yeah he’s not wrong about the choice And I choose climate goals.

"How dare you plagiarise my plagiarism machine" is the new "No fighting in the war room"

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

Private Eye reports over 50 peers have signed a "furious missive to the National Portrait Gallery," angry about its decision to exhibit 'Persistence'. The film is critical of Cromwell's mass killings in Ireland. Tory peer Toby Young signed it. Yep, founder/director of the Free Speech Union...

Palantir is one of a growing number of tech companies that makes products whose purpose is not to be useful to its customers, but to accumulate and centralise power through the use and abuse of data.

THIS. THIS IS WHAT IM SO MAD ABOUT

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

Writer pals: If you (rightfully) oppose the use of GenAI for writing books, please try not to use GenAI to create covers and posters. I'm seeing a lot of AI Generated covers and its pretty insulting to artists out there.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Well that’s not good.

Anti-semitism is absolutely a real thing and as a Jew I am deeply nervous about the worst faith people in public life working relentlessly to rob the concept of all gravity by making it synonymous with "anyone not fully supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu and everything he does."

Climate change is real. Climate change denial makes rich people richer. There's one of your many problems.

Surely apocalyptically high summer temperatures for the rest of our heat shortened lives are a small price to pay for Owning The Libs. Coming in a weekend newspaper column near you.

new anti-AI lobbying strategy just dropped

Rooting for you, Iran.

it's probably fine that there is a man of unprecedented wealth and meaningful political power who is in a constant state of crashing out in a way that would be embarrassing for an elderly relative

Any word from Elon Musk? Tommy Robinson? Where is the outrage from the vigilante defenders of women and children now this white Protestant Ulster man has been found guilty of the rape and sexual assault of children? Is the media on the streets demanding Orange men apologise for their community?

"If we don't adopt AI, we'll get left behind! China is adopting AI on a wide scale, we can't afford to lose out." New research done on Chinese students using AI found that in the short term, scores go up, then long term, students do on average 20% worse on exams.

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

Beautiful day for a bike race and (biased here!) the best result. We got the lucky #1 car draw which meant we could watch an attack-filled, super-fast race up close. Onwards and upwards! www.stickybottle.com/races-result...

Israeli army salting the earth in Lebanon with glyphosate. Russian drone attacks on orchard workers in Ukraine. Leaving fields unplanted because of rising fertiliser costs as people die of starvation around you. Warzone farming on #RTECountrywide today. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I remember reading about an Italian who was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Italy and the last for decades? Why? Because before her it hadn’t occurred to anyone that women might try, and so the ban was only introduced after she had done it.

Super new initiative from children's authors and illustrators, opposed to the theft of creative work by the AI sector, which then competes against them with their own stolen work. www.wearebetterthanthis.co.uk