One benefit of being laid up with the flu - I finally got to read this. It's a hugely important book and I cant recommend it enough. It takes a lot of complex and overwhelming ideas and makes them easy to access and digest. Despite the subject matter it gave me a lot of hope. #spéirgorm

It just wouldn't occur to me to complain to Met Eireann if it rained when they said it wouldn't, like it's the weather - a moveable, changeable beast that can never really be fully predicted ahead of time.

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

Cass had the data and government resources to investigate whether this moral panic was true but instead of looking at it critically she just reinforced the panic.

It’s almost verbatim Nazi propaganda at this point.

Canary Worf.

Weirdly, people r gleefully pointing to Seamus Culleton's mistakes as a young man in Ireland as 'proof' that ICE should be locking him up and deporting him. This guy had to go to the States in 2009. After the banking crisis torpedoed the sector in Ireland. Soon forgotten or never mattered to some

There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who will never see a football match again and our spineless coward of a Tánaiste @simonharrisireland.bsky.social thinks it would be too big of a burden on our lads to miss a single tournament

Idea: a third type of Olympics, neither sunny nor snowy but rainy.

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Can’t believe we are still doing this

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

Living in Ireland is like a monkey paw wish, you get to live in one of the most scenic parts of the world with rich culture and sound people, but you're stuck with the same FF and FG governments over and over who won't lift a finger for those who need it, you can't afford a home, and coddle exists.

Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce. #FeckOffIona

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

Reading this hit for me as I'd just learned a friend's DJ gig was cancelled cus one of the other acts was put on a dox list for a Charlie Kirk joke and the venue got so many threats they had to shut the whole thing down (yes this happened in Ireland)

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Maria Steen‘s failure to make any headway in mainstream politics is not just down to her extreme reactionary views. She doesn’t do the work. She’s a far-right talking head who can’t be bothered campaigning properly and has no interest in public service. She should be treated as such. #SpeirGorm

Just tapping the sign again ...

The amount of people trying to pass off AI generated images as "work" they "designed" to deliberately dupe customers is truly nuts. Anything that ANYONE makes themselves will always be more valuable and interesting than result of a prompt churned out by a machine off the back of the work of artists.

This is truly terrifying, like the Nazis we are simply erasing people from existence, and it is happening without anyone questioning it.

even in the case of sexual abuse by strangers, making child sexual abuse a capital offense creates a strong incentive for abusers to murder their victims

Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles ( #SUV ‘s) are killing and maiming many more people in accidents than less high-fronted ones. Phase them out, tax the off the roads, stop this lunacy now. They are not needed status symbols causing death and damage. More investment in #public #transport needed!

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Maria Streen is on RTÉ Radio 1 to lay out how she was blocked from getting the nominations needed to run, given the softest soap interview and then allowed to waffle on about that bloody handbag. She plays the media here like a dopey fiddle

An accurate description of much of what's playing out. But humans are not mindless automatons, programmed to relentlessly kill off life on Earth, and most of the destruction is down to power structures that value only profit. We HAVE the capacity to put the gear into reverse. Rewilding is how.

Alt text won't kill you. It gives context. In this time of rampant misinformation, lies, fake content and a growing population that lacks critical thinking and research initiative, posting images with no ALT and no context is lazy and unhelpful. Be part of the solution online. It is that serious.

Incredibly powerful front page from the Sunday Post ‘These are the faces of the close to 200 women killed by men in Scotland over the last 16 years. Many were murdered in the one place they should feel completely safe - their own home. Today, we ask for your help in ending misogynistic violence’

Sweet, sweet irony.

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

🎥 Virgin Media News anchor Colette Fitzpatrick reacts as her likeness is used in yet another deepfake spreading false news. When AI can make anyone say anything, truth and trust in journalism are at stake. Stay alert and verify before you share.  #TruthMatters

Wild trees. What does the word 'wild' mean in this context? Trees that self-seeded, from a population that was never domesticated by man. Trees that are themselves wildlife.

Our economy needs immigration. The government's negative commentary and scapegoating is feeding any societal division. share.google/gmAJI26WW5l7...

Whereever there's an earth quake, war, epidemic or other humanitarian disaster, it's where you will find Angus Lambkin and other UN workers trying to help find people who are missing or help in other ways. jrnl.ie/6952672t

It’s genuinely difficult to conceive of a more erroneous and tone deaf headline than this.

This makes excellent reading. The Epstein files are the patriarchy in its very essence. Functioning as intended. Holding power and money and influence away from women and abusing women. The only person in jail? A woman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This Sunday, don't forget to #BeKind

I wrote this almost 10 years ago. I haven't stopped, not even for one day, and I just keep reaping the dividends. Small things can add up.

Interesting that there's no name attributed to this piece which speaks uncritically about the Cass review, a biased & unscientific piece of propaganda that resulted in the death of dozens of children. What's the play here RTE? Stoke up a bit of transphobia in Ireland?

Don't think people shouldn't have opinions on other countries On Here but do think before replying you should have to take a brief questionnaire to determine that you understand which country is being discussed and have a basic understanding of the politics/language/social norms/infrastructure of it

First proper #SpeirGorm day in a while

Always wear high vis pyjamas.

As it's now impacting Dublin more, hopefully this will make politicians take notice and act. Nobody is escaping this.

Inspect Russian oil tankers at sea ✅ Inspect American rendition flights at Shannon ❌

I was at a party and few years ago when this discussion came up. The only opponents of UBI in the room were the people who said they themselves would "abuse" it. They assumed the rest of us are as lazy as they are so they'd prefer that nobody has it. It's nonsense.

“I sleep in a big bed with my knife”

I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it. This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.

Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

The FBI posted about being careful about online scams and being catfished for Valentine’s Day and the replies with photos of Kash Patel with his country singer girlfriend were getting so much traction the FBI deleted the tweet.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur