"Nothing matters and there's no point in even trying because it won't work" may as well be the Taoiseach's personal motto at this point.

Holy shit, they won.

Ahahaha oh my god two two-run homers in one inning and we’re within one run. Beautiful.

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How stealable is 24 karat gold leaf? I don’t know of many gold-plated public statues and I’m assuming that’s for good reason (apart from entirely valid reasons of taste, which Trump is allergic to)

lol Bertie Ahern was at Croke Park for Eid? Doing an “I’m actually not a racist” publicity tour, is it?

Fed up with work today so CCed someone’s manager on an email thread where they were ignoring me just to feel something

yikes :(

Rewatching The Good Wife because Aanya’s never seen it. I’m sorry Josh Charles but you are not hot enough for all these women to be throwing themselves at you

Lad on the luas in a full black suit in this heat, woof. Thoughts and prayers.

Taoiseach admitted today that Ireland is not sovereign. Our foreign policy is made by U.S. multinationals, not Irish citizens.

New SFULTRA. I talk about the latest Antoine Volodine translation The Monroe Girls and discuss whether the many things that make him great may also make him a hard sell, even to uh...'brodernists'(???). Free to all on this link or in all the usual pod places soon. www.patreon.com/posts/159229...

Simon Harris saying FG will “do more and deliver more” in the form of… tax breaks. Yep can’t think of anything else you’d want to be spending money on, country is operating like a well-oiled machine 👍

Never been to the giant IMAX in London wonder what’s on while we’re over there… right, the new star war, obviously. Never mind.

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

Saw someone getting mocked for asking “would a pitcher who gives up a homer at the top of each inning but is completely unhittable after that be successful?”. I think Dylan Cease is testing the theory

Restrictive planning rules around one off rural housing are one of the most uncomplicated good sensible laws we have in this country so of course the government wants to get rid of them

There’s been a rake of people recently putting up stuff on Vinted with AI “enhanced” photos “here is an illustration of what it might look like on you”. Oh you’d better believe I’m reporting every single one of those ads

Ugh, Bluesky’s user base is easily impressed by text format generators. There’s a new one every week and they’re not funny or clev- *someone makes a Star Trek one* Ok, but this is different you see

This is terrible, of course, but if you allow the government to revoke citizenship of naturalised citizens then you basically have this but are less honest about it. Ireland, the UK, the US all have procedures for this (only to be used “in the most serious of cases” yadda yadda etc)

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Just got charged €16.20 for a longneck of Heineken 0.0 and a pint of Orchard Thieves. Guillotines on college green in the morning folks

More importantly, she called out Bertie's racism in her acceptance speech, called him a c**t and said fuck Farage and Reform, but for some reason that's not included in RTE's report.

Not to be a loser and fact check an onion article but: is 2003 “early internet”? That doesn’t feel right. Am I just old?

Is this more or less embarrassing than awarding an AI-generated story in the first place? It’s more, right?

As this horrific incident happened on Henry st in the middle of the Dublin Central constituency I expect all the by election candidates (well the non racist ones) to issue statements condemning the actions of the security men & demanding a full investigation. I’ll decide on my vote accordingly.

Ooof that’s gotta hurt

Katina Boutis, Everlane’s former head of sustainability, also confirmed to Sourcing Journal that she was no longer working for the brand.

lol rip. I haven’t bought anything from them since the union busting controversy of 2020 and I’m certainly not going to after this www.forbes.com/sites/claral...

I really wish the press would stop leading with the alleged shoplifting. it's not just ugly framing, it's also eliding the facts. he died after he was detained and restrained by security guards. not allegedly detained and restrained, definitely detained and restrained

Bought the new American Football record and it’s great, of course, but they’re doing the thing of pressing an album on 12” 45s which like… why? Ok it’s ~better quality~ or whatever but I’m sure I won’t hear the difference on my system and now I’m just getting up to turn the record over more often

Love the idea of a team of Ógra FF lads on patrol for Bertie, ready to hit him with a tranquilliser dart if they see him knocking on doors. Like park rangers for Dublin Central.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

This is a dark day for the environmental movement. In one of most regressive moves I've seen by this Government, they are effectively shutting down the majority of environmental public interest litigation. Over 1400 people told them not to do this. Did they listen? Of course not.

I fucking hope it does

The government wanted the landlords to get one more good summer before they have to start following the law. The law that was originally introduced in 2019. Lovely.

God almighty he’s such a cunt

There are no words for the contempt I feel for this despicable, sneering clown. A careerist arse-kisser, capable of nothing more than parish pump politics and punching down. No vision, no empathy, and no principles but the Party. The worst Taoiseach Ireland ever had, and that's saying something.

I do think a lot of the pointed publicity on Microsoft's dealings in Israel came from BDS specifically, so this is legitimately a huge victory for the movement

The guy catching Ernie’s home run ball, punching the air in celebration and then immediately turning around to find a child to gift the ball to… very wholesome

It's very, very hard to read something like this and not conclude that the Department of Justice are deliberately mismanaging this in order to make the process as miserable and disruptive for everyone

Crazy dominant performance. Love to see it.

Feels bad to be at the age where you’re watching sports like “this guy’s old, right? Near retirement ish?” *look up Wikipedia, he’s a year younger than me* “Yep pretty old”

It’s full of English people

Move over Hemingway

I’m not usually one to praise the IT, but the photo editor did great work here

Incredible that you can change someone’s life because of bad driving and you’ll only lose your licence for 2 years

LOL, Michael McDowell who will go down in history as the brains behind the most populist and racist referendum in Irish history, says we need to be more populist and racist to beat the populist racists. Would you ever go away and shite Michael? #Spéirgorm