This is going to be every EU election now. Yanks rolling into town, throwing money at their favourite local nazis

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I came up with a theory on the hoof about why today’s fascism doesn’t have any aesthetic/artistic ambitions and I think it might make sense

Give them three times that much. I’m serious. They’re going to end up needing it anyway, and that way we might get urgently necessary stuff done without the dispiriting “overrunning the stated budget” headlines.

What I think Starmer & Pals are up to

Further evidence for the theory that all politics now is just flavours of “make it 2018 again”

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Irish people discussing the Superbowl everywhere I go, the efforts to export the most bizarre of American sports are apparently going better than I’d ever have expected

What has two thumbs, is working from home, and just realised it left its laptop charger in the office

Congrats to the editors at the Irish Times for their timing in publishing two news pieces this morning: Shannon Airport has been used for ICE deportation flight refuelling; an Irish man with no criminal record and a valid work permit has been held at an ICE centre in Texas ***since September 2025***

The woman behind them is all of us.

Ultimately “left” and “right” are useless concepts that obfuscate more than they clarify

The nose is the only way of telling you’re looking at his face the right way up

‘As new stories started to appear about Epstein's treatment of girls, Chomsky wrote to him in February 2019 to dismiss "the hysteria that has developed about the abuse of women" and advised him "not to react unless directly questioned".’ From @financialtimes.com

Historians will have to figure out whether the self-weakening of the US was intentional or the result of incompetence

[sickos yes meme] Irish Times letter to the editor titled “Creeping Americanisms”

Any bifocals users following me? Starting to think I might need to switch

Why didn’t they try “tax breaks to help parents with childcare costs” rather than “higher taxes to punish the childless”?

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

it's funny to be named George Herbert Walker Bush and name your kid George Walker Bush. keepin a lil slice of name for yourself

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

When I were a lad if you were asked who your hero was you were supposed to say Nelson Mandela or Gandhi. Maybe a bit of residual Mother-Teresa-regarding. I’m not sure who you’re supposed to say now.

I watched Sinners. I think that might be the coolest, albeit in a pretty funnily backhanded way, depiction of Irish people/culture in an American movie.

I don't think AI art democratizes in any sense, because it's harder to make good art with AI than without it. It actually requires weird, rare skill that nobody on any side of the debate has any interest acknowledging.

Friends performances ranked. Criteria is just quality of acting performance, including subtelty, timing, charm etc Rachel Chandler Joey Monika Ross Phoebe

Omg

This keeps happening

Obama still the only president born after 1946

My 2026 resolution is to be Man of the Year

"Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism" is a hell of a quote.

this, to me, is reddit-ism: putting a ton of work to gather data to several significant figures about a fundamentally arbritary line (i.e. "al dente") www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

I had an explosive argument with friends about politics recently (we sobered up and we’re still friends) during which I was saying things like “listen the US and Europe are decoupling and we can’t rely on America any more, after all NATO is basically finished”, and they stared at me like I was mad

“Shorelines is a perfectly formed pearl of a book … I feel fortunate to have read it.” A STUNNING review of Shorelines by @megcathwrites.bsky.social!

Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for covering our SOLO shortlisting double-whammy news! “[G]etting onto on to the same major shortlists as publishers that measure their turnover in the hundreds of millions is what gets us out of bed on a cold wet morning!” www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Morgan McSweeney’s first cousin is Clare Mungovan, who is chief political adviser to Fine Gael leader Simon Harris.

P E T E R M A N D E L S O N Lose? Damn. Repent!

New polling on Ireland's housing crisis: - 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections" - 64% disagree government is making progress on housing - 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing - 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis

Not that I have a dog in this fight, but this is a pro- spending whatever to have a spiffy new house of parliament with a swish visitor’s centre account

One reason the government should spend lots of money on projects is it normalises spending lots of money. It should of course be paid for by a mix of borrowing (if appropriate) and increased taxes.

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

This is wild www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty

A bit of math…

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The hardest thing to budget for is everything turning into a bloody disaster. You live day to day with the reality of the world being an inhospitable environment for best-laid plans and everything constantly blowing up, but when you plan next month you don’t price in “things will simply go wrong”

Trying to assess what's actually going on is never the wrong thing to do.