Sublime shithousery from the @financialtimes.com 🤌🏽 Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter: shorturl.at/QkJ5A

greetings from hell

Anyway, as Dry January is already looking more challenging than ever in 2026, here's an amusing song about being "off the drink" by Dublin band, The Scratch. The song relates a humorous story associated with Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners. open.spotify.com/track/7CH1cI...

This IS insane. But what is he talking about? Has the US taken control of Venezuela's key government institutions and military? Has the Venezuelan State, military, or party of government surrendered? Were they instructed to? The government appears to be intact minus Maduro and his wife.

Great powers have always, to some extent, written the rules for themselves. But this should be a reminder that for all we might lament the “rules based order”, it’s largely gone, if it ever existed. Hard power is the only thing which matters now. Europe needs to wake up to the new realities.

this is just insane. I don’t have any other words for it

Any word from FIFA HQ? Has Gianni Infantino congratulated Trump yet?

Easy for Bardella to say. He doesn't have to do the important work of closely monitoring the situation.

So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight? Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?

I wouldn't worry about Greenland. UvdL is monitoring the situation very closely, so that takes care of Greenland.

Is this account run by an LLM? Following very closely right now, thoughts and prayers later, maybe.

Russia has an opinion... www.ft.com/content/46ee... via @FT

What will Zelenskyy say? What he needs to say in Ukraine's interest, I'm sure.

No surprises here though.

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If you find yourself against MSF you need to rethink things.

Felix Mendelssohn knew how to compose beautiful melodies. Here is one of my favourites. open.spotify.com/track/3FXEMM...

I don't surf and can't surf. But I always enjoy watching the surfers near where I live. It looks like a lot of fun and I can totally see how people get addicted to it. But this is something else altogether. Amazing talent. youtu.be/PppDCOpPreQ?...

This guy...

It's the so-called free political discourse that's part of the problem...

Because of external factors, this weekend’s Gist came out on Tuesday. So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful. It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...

The EU should take note

Here's an interesting one. Iniesta and his company have bought a World Tour cycling team and are expected to compete in all the biggest races... www.bbc.com/sport/cyclin...

Wellbeing is a word frequently used in education, but rarely does it apply to teacher wellbeing.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel…

Whenever a footballer raises their head up and uses their profile to raise awareness about an issue, they're shouted down for politicising the game and told to stick to football. Could this flaccid excuse of a man be any more political and any less interested in actual football?

What does the research into drummers say?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Post a movie where you are from

Trump went out of his way to repeatedly and explicitly warn every American voter what he was going to do if he got back into power - and they voted for him anyway. It would be hard not to feel a certain sense of schadenfreude if it weren't for the fallout beyond American borders.

This is one of the most challenging articles I've read in a while. The darkness and exploitation detailed here is quite distressing.

Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪

A hilarious line from Murph on @secondcaptains.bsky.social, paraphrase - never mind McIlroy at the Masters, Troy Parrott has had the greatest Thursday to Sunday run in the history of Irish sport. #COYBIG #speirgorm

Heimir Hallgrímsson "They wasted their own time. It was kind of funny." #COYBIG #speirgorm

Can't believe that match. What an ending. #COYBIG #speirgorm

Didi, go back to bed. #COYBIG #speirgorm

"The American people desperately deserve what they voted for." Indeed.

A famous night in Dublin. Let's follow it up in Budapest. #COYBIG #speirgorm

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month - on.ft.com/3LoXd40 via @FT What an embarrassing man.

Spreading disinformation about immigrants is the last refuge of someone all out of ideas.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

Give it a rest...

I watched A House of Dynamite last night. That will stay with me for a while.

And this despite Connolly still taking 55% of all ballots when you include the spoilt votes and the protest votes for Gavin. If a deeper reading is to be made into this election, the only reasonable one is for the government to better speak to and represent Connolly's voters!

Someone had a little fun framing this photo... Also, what a ridiculous clown this ridiculous clown is...

"The Humphrey's campaign demonstrated time and again that it didn't recognise the legitimacy of any non-FG values." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...

Yes, this will work 🙃 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The mudslinging towards Catherine Connolly has backfired so completely, it gives me a sense of comfort that the Irish electorate are not the fools the government parties take them for. Swallowing a large dose of medicine will serve the government, and the way politics is conducted here, well.