Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020. And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job

Sitting across the Oireachtas Children's Committee on online safety for children. Very much getting the impression that a lot of politicians are reaching for the Under-16 ban. Momentum behind that rather than a deeper understanding of platforms, algorithms and any alternative view.

As english politics leans even further to the right, with LAB now questioning the EHCR, alongside "Island of Strangers" & pro brexit rhetoric, here's a quick thread on how the Far Right utterly collapsed in Finland. TL;DR: "r/w voters: I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face". 🧵

Is "free" code for "British taxpayers money diverted to AI billionaires" by any chance?

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

This has always been the Stephen Miller show and if you haven't yet you should read @gregsargent.bsky.social's piece now.

Liam Ramos is still in a Texas prison. It's been 5 days

'More often than not, Green Bean said, when these volunteers draw attention, the agents will “leave rather than dig in.” She added, “They are huge pussies, I will be honest.”' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Better buy loads of shit you don't need, lads! And you'd better do it now!

two years old.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Not as many as you might think. But yes, America is a laughing stock.

More complex than the systemic dehumanisation, ethnic cleansing and violent annihilation of an entire people? Just say that you are too cowardly to do your job. At least be honest if you can’t be decent.

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I feel like I'm going crazy. Our leader just casually told us he can't stop illegal trade with another nation in case it impacts on the multinationals from another state that have set up residence here. He can't enact the will of the Irish people because it will upset foreign billionaires #Spéirgorm

New Gist: The Abuse Factory It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

So, is the Minister a liar, or merely incompetent? If he knew, then he lied. If he didn't know, then his special advisor and press secretary approved this without his knowledge (which also raises the question as to their competence!) www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/movi...

The end of the line for me as a news reporter was my pieces or my posts being used as launchpads in comments or Quote Tweets for misinformation. If you're a conspiracy theorist or racist - jump straight in to the top comment spot or use the reporting to gather new followers, spread your message

Ireland could easily do this - but as this week has shown, it doesn't have the will or backbone to do transformation. Ireland certainly doesn't do "the vision thing".

Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

Very useful thread from someone who studies cases of actual vehicle ramming attacks, and says the Minneapolis shooting does not fit bsky.app/profile/yvei...

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

Patrick O’Donovan’s statement here is farcically wrong, grimly idiotic and would be laughable if this were a situation which was capable of ever being a laughing matter. It should be quoted, cited or just played at him every time he opens his mouth on any matter, for the rest of his career.

The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

Every media figure and politician could do exactly this right now. @garygannon signs off from X, the deepfake child sexual abuse material generation app.

Artist: @explosm.bsky.social

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

One thing all Democrats running in 2026 and 2028 should be explicit about is a promise that regardless of pardons, the crimes committed by everyone in this administration will be investigated and published.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

Flouting international law is one thing, but to do it on a Saturday? I hope the war criminals are on time and a half at least #venezuela

You're heating your home sparingly this freezing weekend because all the expensive natural gas is being burned on-site by data centres to produce child sexual abuse materials

Well that's not right.

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Red flag, for me.

started / going

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

@footballcliches.bsky.social Have you done "among the assists"? Not for me, Clive.

Tommy Robinson gets embarrassed in Dubai. It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.

On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

often when i listen to the irish times politics podcast (masochism) i hear them frame the housing crisis as somehow linked to immigration, too the housing crisis is one of ff&fg for *decades* treating houses as investments for the rich to squeeze money from, not homes for people to comfortably live

I'm seeing a lot of "Luigi Mangione might be innocent" takes and I just want to remind you that legally, he IS innocent. Literally every person charged with a crime is legally innocent until and unless a judge or jury finds them guilty. It's not that they MIGHT be innocent. They simply are.

people who have been criminalised in the uk for their action for palestine are in hunger strike week number 5+ and at high risk for their health. The UK government is pretending not to know about them and refusing to talk to them. Please share to increase visibility and pressure.

There are two types of people in this debate 1. People who assume the Irish government can be trusted with this kind of information. 2. People who *know* the Irish government absolutely *cannot* be trusted with this information.