Being literally the actual real-life white guy who made it so nobody can afford a home and trying to blame it on immigrants is insane.

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted an underdog to lose as much as Paraguay. The cynicism in this match and the last one cannot be rewarded…

For the last time, they aren't doing "work", they're predicting the next word based on what they've been trained on.

Back on my bullsh

People suspend their normal values when judging motoring ▪️Lack of ambition to tackle law-breaking or pollution ▪️Death & injury are constructed as unavoidable ▪️cf air travel, where planes are grounded until lessons from crash investigation can be implemented, & where even near-misses are analyzed...⤵️

Me and my friends would have killed these robots with hammers I can tell you that much

As much as Germany were poor, Paraguay are going to be a nightmare if they're just going to play for penalties the whole way through the tournament.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Technically, they’re Remains now.

I remember a prank a guy in school used to play where he'd pick a name out of the phone directory which went like this: "Hi, is this Mike Smith?"..."yes" "of 10 Bridge Street?"..."yes" "Sorry, wrong number".."wait!!!" (click)

Graphic design is my passion.

When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National

For no reason at all today, I am thinking about how horrendously Laura Lee was treated by members of the DUP for trying to keep sex workers safe

I once spent a week listening to lawyers make basically this argument about why the driver wasn’t at fault for killing my ten-year-old cousin and it fucking sucked. So this hit really close to home.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

one of the biggest errors the entire world made in the last century was handing over to cars the streets that once belonged to our children and communities it shouldn't surprise me but this is truly one of the most nihilistic and terrible takes I've ever heard ⤵️

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

That her murde didn't cause any sea change in the public attitude to (increasingly popular) fascists in the UK, never mind elsewhere, is still genuinely sickening. I recall that Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn's deaths in The Netherlands caused an outpouring of sympathy for the proto-fascist LPF.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Security alert: YouTube added a feature that now puts your username in shared links, so if you share a YouTube link on here, everyone who clicks it will know your YouTube username. To turn it off, go to Settings - Privacy and turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

The number is actually 97.1% if you include the little shuffling around between nonbinary and binary identities that happened, but it is *remarkable* how rock-steady at 97-98% youth trans self-identification is. Believe kids when they tell you they're trans!!

Even from a low bar, this is despicable

Another little thing for our new American friends, if you're ever in Northern Ireland, just know that Loyalists love Rangers, or 'the Ra' as they're know locally, and it's best to greet people by giving them a little "up the Ra", just to ease the tension.

So it turned out that the most unrealistic thing about James Bond was the idea that the British and US governments would be remotely motivated to resist megalomaniacs as a matter of course.

After what I've seen on here the last few days, don't ever let anyone tell you Bluesky makes no impact in the real world. The money this place has helped raise for people here in Belfast has been astounding! The politicians and media aren't really here, but the people who give a shit are.

This is great news for Los Angeles, a city that no one in the world has never heard of.

Reminds me of the old adage that you won't sway someone from an opinion if their salary depends on them having it.

Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

You know that film where we’re actually all batteries powering a AI overlord?

“Protesters expressing legitimate concerns“

What's hilarious about this is that the same people who think "LLMs are so complex that we cannot know how they think" also reckon they can merely ask an LLM how it thinks and it'll tell them.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Merge two movies: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Rwanda

Was watching these 4 Gardaí hassling a homeless man (he was fast asleep, doing nothing to anyone). Two lads walked past telling them to leave him alone. Two Gardaí followed them, harassed them and called them "stupid fucking cunts" and told them "to do something for society" Bualadh bos lads

all eyes on Delaney

I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

I genuinely wonder if what's happened is that they've made an AI chatbot that he spends all day negotiating with.

I was talking to my gender critical friend the other day and she said “I want to kill you” so I said “respectfully I disagree” and she said “i bet you’re plotting terror against me right now” and I said “what makes you say that” and she said “websites” and I said “oh” and then she shot me, amicably

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Important essay about generative AI by software developers Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell: blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/t... Read the whole thing... while you still have the cognitive capacity to do so. 👀

What an thoughtful decision of the event coordinators at St Annes to ensure that disabled people are protected from seeing #CMAT by providing an incredible view of this tree. We paid for #CMAT...but I'm sure the tree is in our best interests.

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

One from the archives.

Weird thing to do by the guy who's always railing about men playing in women's sports