It is staggering how many club owners have no idea what they are doing. Utterly clueless rubes trying to run billion-euro businesses.

The automatic subtitles on a news report about a gazillion cops arriving at the blockade of the Whitegate refinery informed that the ‘Public Ardour Unit has been deployed’. This is both an impressively accurate transcription of the journalist’s accent, and the solution to so many of our problems.

A quick look at social media and live streams showing all the anti immigrant, anti IPAS, anti trans crew all over the blockades spinning rubbish re climate crisis etc.

For many of us in Ireland, it's probably still The Burning of Bridget Cleary, by Angela Bourke. A remarkable book.

Where the former paper of record allows a columnist to slander the Irish left as antisem*tic without any evidence whatsoever. It’s really odd to witness newspapers worry about fake news, disinformation, enshittification, and so on, while turning them into editorial values.

‘Since the late 1960s, Axel Springer staff have had to sign a pledge to support the principles of its corporate constitution including support for Israel’s right to exist, a free-market economy and the alliance between Germany and the US’ WTAF www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Importing the fabricated anti-trans hysteria of the UK's intentionally divisive fabricated culture wars to Ireland. Culture wars that were planned expressly to advance modern fascism. If he's not a fellow traveler, Bakhurst is either thick or only interested in clicks. Either way not fit for the job

In the context of the Triple Lock, notice how the Govnt and prominent commentators in the media sound like Trump when talking about the UN. 'Dysfunctional', 'no longer fit for purpose', and even, 'no longer relevant'. Dangerous and irresponsible words.

The 1st of my 3-part series on digital politics is out in the Guardian. Read, comment, tell me I'm wrong, attack me. As I argue: 'The real battleground is over emotion and attention, which is what determines whether information – good or bad – finds an audience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Check it out. An Clogán website is now live.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

I need to get a professional headshot done for a book and I really hate being photographed like that, so I was googling how best to go about it and Google informed me that ‘real snipers tend to avoid them.’ That AI thing is working out really well.

Please spare me the Davos straight talkers, posturing as revivalist internationalists while the genocide they supported and trashed their democracies for continues to kill people they can’t even pretend to see as fully human.

A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.

It would not be difficult, practically speaking, for someone from within the journalist/commentary clique whom Suzanne considers peers, to drop her an email and ask her what the 'killing off' of 'trans ideology' would look like, in real terms, including and especially for those immediately affected.

As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.

Palestinian reporters have paid a terrible price in another horrific year for journalist killings | Jane Martinson

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable www.wired.com/story/poems-...

‘For the Gilets Noirs, an anti-racist collective of undocumented migrants, detention and asylum are their own kind of prison: “In Africa we get killed directly. Here it’s death over a low heat. You wake up in the morning and someone has gone mad in the night.”’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Ten blog posts emerging from a discussion group I’ve been part of on the ‘cultural locations of fascism’ with a great bunch of writers, organised as part of the relaunch of the States of Cultural Analysis blog of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄 This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.

My first academic job was in DKIT, and I had a great time working there - this seems like a really exciting move for them.

We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all. And this ghoul thinks it is too generous. I'm gonna lose it. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Give me a chance, it’s only Thursday. I’ll ruin it eventually I’m sure.

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

It's almost like... like maybe the fascism *never* actually arose from working class "economic anxiety"... like maybe the working class *weren't* actually the ones radicalised by bourgeois resentment of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"... like maybe the working class have... more pragmatic priorities

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

also our political anthem is literally called the Internationale! it’s far more reasonable for us to care about NYC than it is for right-wingers to care about Trump

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

Irish media, international news: OMG Farage! Musk! 😭 “Populism” everywhere 😤 Irish media domestic news: let’s get Declan Ganley on again to say our democracy is corrupt and country overrun by immigrants. Oh and John Collison to tell us how to run the state as a techbro enterprise.

Politicians defending these despicable "legitimate concerns" protests have carried the ball up the pitch for the riots at citywest. Thank God Eimer is there cause none of these people, TDs included, seem to give a shit when it's a white Irish man brutalizing, abusing, or murdering women or children

Would love the moratorium to return … #Rtept

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Clever by Norway to distract Trump from invading them in a fit of pique by giving it to a ‘peace activist’ who really wants him to invade Venezuela instead.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

This, by @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social, is very good if very upsetting tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/tyne...

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Look What You Leftists Made Us Do: A Never-Ending Series.

Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly

Dear fucking god. BBC 6pm news: Story one: over 100k Tommy Robinson demonstrators Story two: the govt promises deportations of boat migrants to France will begin next week

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

Every time a reactionary ‘taboo-breaker’ becomes a free speech icon/martyr, sacralisation demands that their critics are fired, silenced,threatened, purged.This gets called hypocrisy, but that would require free speech be a coherent idea, rather than the technology of power it’s always been.

“Such violence is antithetical to America” according to the Editorial Board of the NYT. They picked a fine day to muscle in on The Onion.

Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill