“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering. The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so. www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Granny: Well it's no harm, the guy had the personality of a dial tone Me: GRANNY

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

I feckin told yis lads

Have Leinster just given up on the lovely yellow shorts then?

Landlord Jim Gavin never refunded 6 months' rent to a former tenant who accidentally kept paying rent after he moved out. The tenancy was not registered with the RTB. Gavin really is the perfect Fianna Fáil candidate. Archive link: archive.is/4ts0L #spéirgorm #presidentialelection

Can attest, missus’ll be some shocked 😉

I have never seen anything before that sounded both so brilliant and so awful as a Britney Spears metal tribute band

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

Governments around the world are not taking responsibility – that’s why we’re doing this: Irish doctor on Gaza flotilla 'The Irish government knows how dear this is to Irish people. So they appease us. But they're not actually doing anything.' www.ontheditch.com/governments-...

As a spoken language, Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.

#rugby #connacht

the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here) deadline end of october!

'For many of the victims of this miserable episode, the culprit is clear: the current Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally. While she may claim to have purged the diocese of its murkier elements, she was ultimately in charge during the disastrous denouement of Sargeant’s career. '

There is a real story here Niall if you'd care to write about it, someone is leaking Garda vetting information for political gain. Breaching confidentiality and GDPR requirements. Every underage coach, every volunteers data is not secure. Confidence in vetting undermined. That's the story. #Aras25

Re upping this for the moment that’s in it. It’s really not that hard to take a principled stance. Whether it’s stroke conferences in Abu Dhabi or “comedy” festivals in Riyadh, this is the correct FU, not y’know, show me the money www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#Sumud Thomas McCune: “I'm an Irish citizen, and if you're watching this video, I have been illegally abducted by Israeli occupation forces and taken against my will. “Please contact Simon Harris and the Department of Foreign Affairs to demand my immediate release.

@bansheepress.bsky.social open for book submissions from 1-15 Oct 👇 (Pl read the sub guidelines.) bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Sinn Féin has lost contact with senator Chris Andrews, who was aboard the Spectre as part of the Sumud Flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, some of vessels of which have seemingly been boarded by Israel tonight. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

A number of #GlobalSumudFlotilla boats now appear to have been boarded by the Israeli armed forces. #AllEyesOnSumudFlotilla #AllEyesOnGaza

In honour of #InternationalTranslationDay, a few of my recent favourites #booksky

The golden rule is never trust Tony Blair. He has enough blood on his hands. He is a ghoul, a bad actor and has done enough damage to the Middle East.

The fact that The Moronic ManBaby In Mango Makeup is too f*cking stupid to know that the "Are You Watching..." chant is an insult is just absolutely delicious...

One of the stars from my new book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes' is Jess Fishlock. A superstar in women's football, Fishlock helped Wales make their 1st major tournament: EURO 2025. At 38, she also become the oldest scorer in tournament history! Preorder it now! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 ⚽ @ylolfa.bsky.social #Wales

OMG 😆 (but seriously, who is that second AI generated monstrosity? I just can’t see it)

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine

I 💙 this 🇪🇺

"Nobody would ever question a man about the price of his car or of his suit or if he's wearing an expensive watch - but a woman carries an expensive handbag, and that's all the news," she says. Girl, this isn't a parallel universe where nobody remembers the brand of shirt Charlie Haughey liked.

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.

Vibes & Scribes shops donate gross profits from tomorrow Saturday's sales to @msf.ca

Tomorrow! Join the Palestine Bloc for the Carnival Against Racism.1pm Saturday 27th, Garden of Remembrance. No to racism, no to fascism! No pasarán! ✊🏼 #IrelandForAll #FreePalestine

We had a beautiful red squirrel to look at anytime we went to perfidious Dublin. Then all that perfidy happened. €10m, the State has paid, for more egg chase, with more Yanks and more rules. Meanwhile, the GAA continues to neglect our lesser games and ignore our martial arts. #spéirghorm #ireland

Why is the location/tickets for Leinster vs Harlequins still tbc?

Creepy history fact: Juan Peron's wives (his first and his second the famed Eva) both died of cervical cancer and some scientists think he was a carrier.

Join us on 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁, 𝟳𝗽𝗺 to hear a live report from the Global Sumud Flotilla and discuss how we can help break the siege of Gaza, end the famine, and stop the genocide. www.eventbrite.ie/e/gaza-break...

As Dolly Parton as my witness (peace be upon her name) I will go to my grave throwing well deserved shit at the loons of the Iona “Institute”

IT'S HERE. I am legit overjoyed to be unleashing this shit on the world: Origin Story Season 7 has arrived. For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story. This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall linktr.ee/originstoryp...

A quick tally of who was responsible for killing each failed Irish presidential campaign: Nick Delehanty ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Joanna Donnelly ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Conor McGregor ❌ Nikita Hand Peter Casey ❌ too much Jameson Gareth Sheridan ❌ his own hubris Maria Steen ❌ Gerard Craughwell Bertie Ahern ❌ CMAT

Tickets for A Night for Palestine with Amble & Special Guests in the INEC Killarney are on sale now (and almost gone already) - all proceeds go directly to ACLAÍ Palestine and food parcel distribution for displaced families in Gaza. Get the last few here: www.ticketmaster.ie/a-night-for-...

The #GlobalSumudFlotilla was attacked by Israel in international waters. Multiple boats reported attacks by drones. Contact the Irish government. Demand they send an observer to the flotilla. While the flotilla continues, Israel continues to bomb Gaza around the clock. We must #BreakTheSiege

Let me just put on the record that I am extremely concerned that some or all of the peaceful activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla will be injured or killed by Israel in the coming hours or days, and the world will do nothing either before or after to protect them.

WTF is this piece of shit headline from RTÉ? "Activists said"?! There are videos. We all can say we heard and saw the explosions, even you RTÉ. Would it kill ye to say "Footage shows..." What happens if someone is murdered, activists say their lives were lost? Cowards