Spectacular!

English voters have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Boaty McBoatface was just a prelude - Count Binface MP must be.

ChatGPT must not be getting the usage they need. Regular emails from them implore me to use this magic service for the most mundane tasks that are already well catered for by other apps. Have they heard of Google Maps?

The Meta smart glasses should have an alarm sound blaring every time they go into record mode

The current Dáil has passed comparatively less legislation than any since the 1922 Dáil. Many of the laws they did pass were “guillotined”- ie, parliamentary debate was just stopped and the Govt members voted them through. The engine of Government has been left just ticking over, as policy.

I think my favourite part of today’s Oireachtas Justice committee hearing was when Jim O’Callaghan suggested that criminal cases would just be thrown out, on the defence’s application, if the State sought an adjournment

Once again caused to wonder what the hell is going on next door?

Because, as everyone knows, protest works best when it's approved by the government. The entire judgement is based on a series of fairytales: about democracy, the benign nature of the state, the efficacy of polite, obedient and invisible protest and the harmonious course of English history.

If the Suffragettes were active today, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Keir Starmer's government would have banned them as a terrorist group, and insisted there are plenty of other ways in which women can register their dissent. Why don't they write letters to their MPs?

Oh, I have an idea for something that I want to do in MS Office, let's check with Copilot if it can automate or help, like it says in the ads. Answer: no. Every time.

no one else in the AI industry will admit all the cloying glazing is about getting people addicted to their products. say what you will about apple but their financial incentives are different since they sell actual products people want so they can afford to be honest about it

Irelands is planning to do this silly thing too. Turning off algorithmic feed would stop huge amounts of harm AND also help the brain boiled GenX and boomers who are more impacted by social media

I’m old enough to remember how Ceaucescu’s govt was presented as deeply inhumane for having CCTV on every street corner. Coming soon: facial recognition at a protest? Frozen bank accounts, travel bans..The tech Lords giveth and the tech lords taketh away.

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Tempted to wonder what’s going on with the Brits but then log on to Facebook. Your average Irish person is there, pushing out the same extremism, in between pictures of a beer they had on holidays and a soccer match.

Triple Lock: I see the Govt are set in trying to move Ireland away from its commitment to the UN again. Who is forcing this? Not the people of Ireland. Reminder from last year on what this means.

Says the country with “Lord Lebedev of Siberia” awarded a life peerage by the PM who went against the advice of security services when appointing him 😆

It’s like a damn has burst. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

They’re so going to blow up Cuba this weekend.

I actually found this hard to believe. So I checked Hansard. Bloody hell. Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson James MacCleary. "Europe is stronger when Britain leads." Some arrogance. #Exceptionalism 1 H/t F Jackson

Meta loses in High Court. www2.courts.ie/viewer/pdf/d...

The last MEP election was framed like that. All the debates, all the media focused on the EU migration pact and literally nobody brought it up. Maybe 10 out of about 10k houses canvassed mentioned migration at all

Businesses that really like email newsletters are wild. I don’t need to hear about pizza delivery boxes on a daily basis guys.

It's worse, the policy is that rents must rise to make them fall

A heartening tale of a scummy litigant and their equally scummy AI grifting lawyers getting their comeuppance.

Well first off, we gotta start actually talking about it Conversations around AI on the left immediately devolve into calling it lying slop and dismissing it And I get why But there's a difference between a corporation using AI to replace artists and a scientist using it to cure cancer 2/

Bad, but also note the predictable line of questioning by the woman involved: foreigners -> transgender -> hate speech laws. The internet has rotted people’s brains. Or just empowered them to feel part of a tribe when they used to keep their views hidden.

Cracking set for The House Must Win at the Everyman (pic doesn't do it justice)

the very thin pretext that today's anti-sulky protest in Clonmel had anything to do with animal welfare evaporated the second it was addressed by Mattie McGrath, the biggest supporter of hare coursing in national politics fair embarrassed for the Party for Animal Welfare holding a banner behind him

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People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

There is no room for debate. The Far Right propaganda has consumed people.

“No one owns rural Ireland.” Bonus points for weaving Freakscene into this.

Am I alone in thinking that the Tralee bike rack is not a big deal, and is certainly less of a deal than the Dáil sweet shop, the Dáil car park, the Dáil printer, the Dáil leaflet costs … before even getting to the Children’s Hospital?

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-investigation-atlantic-reporter-kash-patel-drinking

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Last time he thought this we had quite a remarkable referendum. Luckily the PDs are long gone.

Was next to a Nazi couple on my local tram this morning, must have been in their early seventies. The guy was wearing a Thor Steinar jacket (Google it, if you have time) with a huge logo on the collar. The signs of these things are always there, long in advance. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

The Taoiseach wants consideration of nuclear. I made a programme that did that. Long story short: an Irish nuclear power plant wouldn’t generate any electricity until 2066 at the very earliest. Link at end of thread.

Back when Twitter had normal people on it, it was "an echo chamber" and "not the real world" . Now that it's only politicians, journalists and far right bots it's apparently the voice of the people and must be heeded

Listen, if you’re engaging with rage bait because it’s enraged you, you are paying for the creation of more of your rage in the future with your own wellbeing.

Pretty sure the advice they got wasn’t from their solicitors who did the conveyancing. Residents of Dublin estate told to remove EV chargers www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

British media said wee earlier this week they Chaz was meeting Mamdani. This brings to mind Robert Smith’s thoughts on the English monarchy - they need the people they call on more than anyone needs them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Get asked a question by the Guardian, use solicitors to buy time, before time expires give an interview to the Telegraph with the answer. There’s a word for this kind of carry on. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...