If Jim Gavin gets 12.5% or more, Fianna Fáil gets €250,000 in expenses refunded. Bear that in mind if you're voting for Jim Gavin as a joke.

FAO Irish pundits: In this clip from the US National Archive, Michael Beschloss explains why Eisenhower - GOP US President & Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WW2 - warned of the threat posed to peace and democracy by what he named the "Military Industrial Complex" m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-j...

What do you call a ‘ceasefire agreement’ that permits an occupying settler colonial state to murder seven children and four other civilians in cold blood? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president. She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Norway absolutely humiliating the Zionist entity, with two own goals to boot. Love to see it #euroqualifiers

Hind Rajab should have won the Nobel Peace Prize. A 5 year old trapped in a car and shot 355 times by Israel while they murdered the Paramedics who tried to help her. This sacrifice should have ended Israel and the war.

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years" The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

Titanic, any of the Star Wars (apart from the Phantom Menace), the Matrix

I thought he was supposed to be an aviation expert?

This is a good stand by @paulmurphy.pbp.ie here. The seeming unwillingness of these reporters to recognise the insufficient balance between describing a bad-faith edited video and the only refutation being a "claims" quote from the accused is very frustrating. www.reddit.com/r/irishpolit...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

“Israeli forces fired upon a clearly identified MSF water truck while it was distributing drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities.  This attack was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians.”

Here's a plot of fertiliser imports into #Ireland over recent years. By far the greatest tonnage is for N-compounds, with a marked up tick in 2023-'24. Intensive ruminant production sucks nitrogen & our rivers/lakes show it, but let's hold onto the #NitratesDerogation & sacred cows. [Data CSO]

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

And there it is.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

The Onion has made maybe the funniest thing we've ever done and I can't talk about it yet and it is killing me.

Berlin, Germany - broken arm, broken nose, broken State.

He looks like a fucking Neo-Nazi too..

The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions

As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.

These people are so lost

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Led By Donkeys are in court in Janyuary, after hanging a banner on scaffolding across the road from Labour HQ Free speech is being silenced in the UK

They don't?

The Irish Govt survey on a Basic Income for Artists is open until Sep 5. This world-leading scheme has been piloted & shown through ongoing research to have delivered transformative results for those receiving it. Short survey. Very quick to fill in. Have your say here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

When they fired checkout staff, supermarket prices didn't go down When they fired meter readers, energy prices didn't go down When they cut benefits/pensions your Public Services don't get more money They only cut things to feed the profits and cut the taxes of the richest

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

When you hear the 'Hamas supporter' label used against critics of Israel, remember that Israeli officials use it even against Israeli mass protests who often include hostage families. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

€30k was a wage many people would've killed for in 2008. He got it for *not* doing a job. #spéirgorm

Respectfully, for everyone worried about the US sliding *into* fascism - you're already there and always have been. The nation was founded on genocide and slavery, and upheld through imperialism. There were degrees of fascism that felt more "comfortable" for a lot of people but it was never absent

In an article about authors opting out of a literary prize, you have included a statement from only one of those authors. On the other hand, you have chosen to include the words of two other major gender critical voices, neither of whom were in any way affiliated with the prize. 2/

I can understand why a company that gets commission from selling airport taxis, airport parking, airport coach tickets and car rentals may not want to compete with a metro. But MetroLink is about much more than Ryanair's business strategy or even the airport itself.

Sickening. On recognition of Palestine state by other countries, the Israeli Finance Minister clearly identifies Israel’s aim that, “There will be nothing to recognise No one to recognise” Now say it’s not about ethnic cleansing, genocide, in breach of international law www.bbc.com/news/article...

🧵I often pose this rhetorical: If it's ok for Israel to bomb civilian areas because Hamas bases are there, is it ok for Hamas to bomb Israeli military HQ despite it being in the heart of Tel Aviv? This is that. EVEN IF HE WAS ONCE HAMAS—he wasn't yesterday + ~85% of Israeli Jews 22+ were once IDF.

Depraved.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

The O'Connor brothers who own Suits Distributors. They owned many historic buildings in the city that they let go derelict and collapse in the city. The council has finally CPO'd some of them but not this one. #DerelictIreland #Sp

"Cleaning up" is a trope. It's like calling people rats or octopuses. Absolutely no place for it in public life; this MP should be losing the whip.