“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

Trump is ‘power-crazy’ and Board of Peace a delusion of power, Mary Robinson says Mary Robinson has the integrity, nerves of steel, backbone, intellect and politician nous we should wish for in our Taoiseach #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Maybe get back to buses that turn up (and buy back the route you sold), instead of asking what you should do with user data. Just a thought! (As an aside, if all these new bus routes haven't been created by AI I'll eat my entire wardrobe, never mind my shorts.)

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

The people squealing about "NGOs" are dead-set on destroying the social fabric. They don't want the state minding people, or charities, or the wider third sector. The market won't ever do such a thing. The far-right wants people it hates isolated, disabled, disempowered, dead. #spéirghorm #ireland

‘Multiple apps encouraging Irish users to swap women's faces onto pornographic images & videos’ I just have had it with this deeply, & it seems, irredeemably misogynistic world. Anyone who creates, likes, shares or does not protest this non consensual ‘nudification’ is guilty jrnl.ie/6932674

I think the #twitter CSAM fiasco is the first time the government has so visibly ceded an area of law to big business. Of course it's been happening quietly for years but this marks a turning point of something so obviously illegal just being ignored by lawmakers in case it upsets the US. #speirgorm

Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape. Please share to all Irish crafts people. #Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland

Not going to point out that government wise it's a woman who understands the seriousness of the issue and not the putting them in a bikini would be so beyond niche fetish men they can't even conceive of themselves being victims of this. Because it's obvious.

As they have done before and they will again. The sacrifice of woman and children to the powerful seems unending. The fact that Irish people still go to mass, have X accounts and vote FFG, saddens and, sickens me. The carpet they are sweeping these abuses under now looks like a mountain.

It didn't take me long to realise data centres were on the same electric grid as me. Regular cut offs of supply last year made it pretty apparent. When you have disabled neighbours who need electrical aid to get in and out of bed you can't help but get angry. And now they want to build more to [1/2]

I wish the Irish govt was as eager with the housing crisis...or the health crisis, or the wealth gap, cost of living, public transport etc etc as they are with building collosal energy sapping machines.

Digital Rights Ireland has queried the Department of Education's use of social media site X and its decision to post images of children on the platform. @tjmcintyre.com www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

There’ll be nowt left at the end of this #FFFG Govt. 😡 ❌ Financialisation of housing, 16k+ homeless ❌ Laws changed to prevent democratic action ❌Health & care systems banjaxed by privatization ❌Environmental nihilism ❌Datacentres for the tech bros ❌Extortionate bills for us #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Dublin councillors have passed a motion pushing back against Tánaiste Simon Harris's claim that many in emergency accommodation do not have a right to housing. Councillors called this a “blatant" effort by Harris to "demonise” migrants. www.thejournal.ie/migrants-hom...

Govt ministers acting like X is 'just' hosting child sex abuse material and not creating it also

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

Letting me know I'm not the only one who thinks they are loosing it only a week into 2026. Surrealing in the Years once again making me feel more sane in the face of it all.

This headline should read "Musk is monetizing his child abuse imagery generator."

Grok was one of the most downloaded apps in Ireland this week. Here's my explainer on the generative AI tool that is now creating illegal images of women and children Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

My word. The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.

This is *still* going on by the way and it is incredible how little attention it's getting from media, politicians and others who are usually falling over themselves to talk about AI, women's rights and/or child protection

People keep claiming it's a "better window to the world" but actively posting and engaging on a platform where interactions and content are now effectively interchangable with 4Chan and whose own AI puts images of children in tiny bikinis on demand is a choice. There are far less harmful windows.

'The Brits are at it again': Kneecap says appeal against dismissal of terror charge against Mo Chara begins later this month jrnl.ie/6915625

Greystones gets new trains. You get ghost-buses.

📃 NEW PUBLICATION 📃 I’m very happy to see this article published in the latest issue of @meejatheory.bsky.social. The article conceptualises the generative role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics and is available to read open access here: lnkd.in/ew5jr-Yh 🧵

My manifesto:

"The bill is deliberately drafted in such a way to ensure the government will never have to hold a referendum on investor courts ever again." We all know why the government doesn't want to bring this to the people. They know people are against it, which is why they want to quietly push it through.

LOTR The Return of the King 3pm, Rathmines (Dublin), back when the cinema floor was so sticky you were afraid you might leave without your shoes. 4 people there; me, a fellow loner and a Dad with his tiny baby, in a pram. Tbf the baby slept through it all and I got to enjoy every second in peace :)

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

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Carl using his "particular set of skills" to show the Department of Housing's lack of them. Oh yeah, and Liam Neeson's idiocy thrown in for good measure. 💯

A lot of people are getting calls from 0044 numbers these days. I can't advise strongly enough, DO NOT ANSWER CALLS FROM THESE NUMBERS: those are UK numbers. You are at a very real risk of talking to an English person

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

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Scandalously at 1am, the government has just pushed through a law with far reaching ramifications. It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.

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Even a blind cat will know what you are trying to work on. The ultimate saboteurs!

Like the Coca-Cola ad it's just a collection of random scenes with different random characters spliced together cos they can't get it to do anything else. They can't get it to do a narrative with central identifiable characters, settings, costumes etc. It's all just random crap shoved together

Been asking this same question since Musk went to the Dark Side. It's amazing the number of Irish government institutions, TV and radio stations, and businesses that are still clinging on to this rancid platform. You are the company you keep. #Speirgorm

Mark my words. They will not stop with trans people. ADHD and autism are already openly on the list of targets of these fascists. You can be guaran-fuckin'-teed the women and gay folk throwing trans/nb people under the bus wouldn't be spared the same treatment, either. #spéirghorm #ireland

Truly one of the most stunning buildings I have ever had the privilege to visit. Hours pass like minutes there. RIP Frank O. Gehry, thanks for creating such beauty.

Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.

The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space. Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

Reuters reported that more than 1,000 people shocked with a Taser by police died through the end of 2018 with 153 of those deaths being attributed to or related to the use of Tasers...District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in 2020 that "under Georgia law, a taser is considered as a deadly weapon"[1]

Keep your town in business by keeping your business in town #Christmasshopping #speirgorm

Ugh 🤦🏽‍♀️ 19th century attitudes, low expectations & no urgency, means we're about 50+ years behind when it comes to socio-economic independence of disabled people in Ireland. And the biggest disability gap & low rates of employment for disabled people in the EU. #spéirghorm nda.ie/uploads/publ...

It’s hard to explain what it means to be able to show a trans kid this and for them to feel seen & valued by their president @president.ie #transrightsarehumanrights

At the same time as he's playing the hard man over immigration. A hypocrite and an absolute pox on Irish politics.