I am reading a PDF. "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI assistant." Seriously, they want us to be fucking stupid. Again: the least curious and laziest employees and students are most likely to be taken in by this stuff.

Left: Keir Starmer criticising Zack Polanski for wondering why the police kicked a tasered criminal, on the floor, five times in the head Right: Footage of the police kicking a tasered criminal, on the floor, five times in the head

Happy Lá Bealtaine - the swallows have arrived and summer's on the way 🔥 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Oh my God! Yes.

It is a bizarre feature of the Irish media that in the supposed interests of "diversity of opinion," columnists who're extremely right of centre are wildly over-represented. There is not one columnist in a similar position on the left.

In Ireland, we don’t say “I love you”, we say “Mo ghrá go deo” which means “I will love you for as long as it takes them to finish building the Children’s Hospital” and i think that’s beautiful

Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

this is the government of Ireland's "AI literacy" courses the entire thing is a government sponsored corporate pr

Snark. Love it.

Happy Mussolini Upside-down Day ! On this day, 28 April 1945, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans in the village of Giulino de Mezzegra, northern Italy.

oh the irony

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social! Your Science Journalism labels are back! And now you can use @stemlabels.xyz to report science misinformation and content scrapper accounts.

This has proven depressingly prescient

oh my god this is incredible

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Irish media and politics have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING when it comes to the far right, and they are making exactly the same mistakes as every other country because they are too proud and/or stupid to admit it.

Post something orange from your gallery.

Jesus Christ, this is fucking APPALLING. Sinn Fein have made their decision on the far right apparently, and it’s that they’re a great bunch of “lads”.

I saw a 1989 Toyota recently and shouted OMG that car is as old as my driving license. Then it hit me.

Guys I had a look at that government website pushing AI (aiready dot ie) and holy shit it's bad Not just in an "AI bad" sense but it's corporate internal training propaganda style stuff encouraging terrible use cases and behaviours. Whoever put this together is clueless

Exclamation mark with legs. Oh, plus a white horse cos LOLs.

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

Sligo has annexed Mayo in see. #speirgorm

"Won't someone think of the 'stability'?" Hate hearing that word as it's rarely, if ever, challenged.

A picture from the Bristol balloon festival. I am unable to name the photographer. Your sort of thing @swansonian.bsky.social ?

“The @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social is calling for greater safeguards to ensure that commercially aligned messaging is not presented to children as environmental education.” I found this👇surprising when I read it this morning. Surely messaging to children is regulated? iwt.ie/sitka_spruce/

It’s not a housing crisis. It’s a government choice. It’s not market dysfunction. It’s profit extraction. Homelessness is not a bug. It’s a policy feature.

Isabelle (@isareksopuro on the other place) made a map to monitor data centers all around the world It tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!) and it’s bloody great. trackpolicy.org

Yesterday I spoke on RTÉ Liveline about the book and video promoting Sitka sent to every primary school in Ireland. One thing I didn't get to mention is that the tree is also highly invasive. Coincidentally, I later found one in my own place. We may as well be planting rhododendron everywhere.

Woke Ulster Bank! Deadly. #speirgorm

This isn't Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael trying to address the housing crisis. It's FFG addressing the "running out of landlords who will vote for us" crisis. Can't afford a second property? Not to worry, FFG will let you start your landlord career from a shed... but only if you vote for them #spéirgorm

Bull f*cking shit Only thing Ireland is full of is empty homes We have over 160,000 vacant homes & around 20,000 derelict homes State sponsored vandalism & violence #DerelictIreland

🎶 Proddy shark, do-do do-do-do

A nation of slumlords.

More offices and you can only get the bus if you wear a gps tracker and provide a blood sample.

Any idea why the Gardaí are subject to "overzealous oversight"? Anyone? www.dublininquirer.com/19-years-ago...

Drove all along Sheepshead Peninsula and much of Beara last week. The hills are dead. Eaten to barrenness to feed the export market. #SpéirGhorm

The review bombing has begun. If you enjoyed HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, please leave a review on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

Every time I think this guy can't possibly be a bigger moron he dives under that low bar again and again.

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.

“Please remember I literally do not know anything.”

Just open a window and blast the Shahed drone with a shotgun. Amazing.

In advance of tomorrow's release here is a short piece on the historical Irish censuses based on my past and ongoing research #spéirgorm theconversation.com/80-million-p...

Assholes going after Eileen Flynn. She's the best of us.

So it looks like the Irish Independent is running a TV ad that used AI for some images. In the scene where chap in the foreground is waving an Irish flag there's clearly a Côte d'Ivoire flag being waved. #speirgorm