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

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

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

Israel is purposely trying to mass murder babies. www.threads.com/@mohotgazi/p...

Looking forward to hosting this excellent conference

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Lisa Nandy used to be chair of Labour Friends of Palestine

obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

Solidarity with colleagues and friends in Newcastle, some of the best academics I know

Only because of all the novels it stole.

Ireland's anti-trans movement is insane even by the standards of anti-trans movements because genuinely nobody gives a fuck outside of a few literal nazis and also newspaper opinion writers, and the latter are very upset that the nazis are the only other people who care and constantly whine about it

IRGS director, Prof. Debbie Ging, speaking on a panel with Prof. @gavant.bsky.social and Prof. Alan Finlayson at yesterday's international symposium on Reaction(ary) Media at @ucddublin.bsky.social, discussing Future Directions for the Study of Reactionary Media. #DCUResearch

Looks like even Simon Harris as Minister for Foreign Affairs is now using the term genocide. Well past time now for those who dismissed and, in some cases, denigrated those who raised the alarm to acknowledge this reality.

The wrong flag, the wrong emoji, the wrong word, the wrong sign, the wrong chant, the wrong meme, the wrong place, the wrong association, the wrong gesture, the wrong speech. The ‘Snowflakes’ Guide to Genocide Distraction.

ICYMI: Holly Lewis's takedown of John Rees's Marx's Ontology is still live on our website. You can also see Shanice McBean's excellent reply to Rees on their substack. Link in the thread 👇🏽

If anyone is around @maynoothuniversity.ie next Wednesday 7th, I am hosting this seminar with Houria Bouteldja and Alana Lentin among others.

Lors des rassemblements en mémoire du jeune musulman sauvagement tué dans une mosquée du Gard, les manifestants ont dénoncé un sentiment de « deux poids deux mesures » entretenu par le gouvernement et certains médias, accusés d’attiser un climat de haine envers les musulmans. Par Yann Philippin

New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

And they were copying Australia

I crewed the Luas from Abbey Street to Smithfield earlier

It's not disruption that's being prosecuted in this country. It's dissent. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This line of thought, in addition to having zero merit on the substance, objectively advances Putin's agenda of turning European people against the European Union.

My bullshit-ometer went off immediately, and guess what... the article itself contradicts the headline. In fact, most migrants speak English as their first language. But 8.6% - equal to 794,332 people -"can not speak English well" And 1.4% - equal to 137,876 - can not speak it at all.

Happy to have signed this, but we will need far more mobilisation to prevent the anti-democratic and cynically frenzied drive to militarism in Ireland.

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

Among all the elements of the militarist moment, it’s worth underlining that Von Der Leyen, Kallas, Rutte etc are profoundly dangerous actors with no democratic mandate for launching an arms race funded through deepened austerity.

Two more books out these weeks about how ‘identity politics’ has killed ‘the left’, as if this is the analysis that’s needed, and as if this is the form that analysis should take.

Folks in Dublin, if you get a chance to Milk at The Abbey, go!

PowerPoint Designer > Habermas

Yesterday in Irish Times opinion: anger and revulsion in Israel at President Michael D. Higgins. Today in Irish Times opinion: incredulity and disbelief in the U.K. about President Michael D. Higgins. Always telling when these ‘what do they think of us’ pieces start to appear.

They're just really concerned about women's sports you guys

Il n’est pire aveugles que ceux qui ne veulent pas voir, Le bras tendu de Musk à l’investiture de Trump a été dépeint comme un geste ambigu, ignorant la manière dont le patron de X s’est fait le relais de messages antisémites et complotistes. Inventaire @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

1/2 Of course it was a fascist salute. Signs come freighted with meaning, none more so than this. In one way that’s enough. But ensnaring us in constant rituals of debate about resemblance & intention & historical continuity & definition is also a highly productive dimension of this politics.

lol those bastions of political correctness, South Yorkshire Police, the force you may know from such incidents as Hillsborough, the miner’s strike and letting Peter Sutcliffe go.

Found these photos from the infamous #GAMA dispute in Dublin from the around 2002-3. They were horribly exploited Turkish construction workers whose families back home were being threatened. Incudes an image of photographers Derek Speirs & Tony O’Shea.

Dix ans après l’attentat de «Charlie Hebdo», le camp laïciste étend ses attaques à toute la gauche Par Mathieu Dejean

Had a look at Twitter. No one is asking for this level of coverage for Burke, except maybe people who lie about why he was sent to jail. He has become mainstream outlets' engagement farming tool.