on the 1000th day of genoc!de, anything else that floats across your feed today is a distraction

20 something barista asked me what my plans were yesterday and I said I was heading to see Wet Leg later in Trinity. She looked confused for a second and then said “oh yeah, my dad really likes them.” I didn’t love that. Turns out everyone’s dad really likes them, there were very few there under 40.

Honestly I believe that Elon Musk may be clinically psychopathic, in which case even being exposed to incontrovertible first-hand evidence, in the flesh, would not change his mind. As such, he should have zero political power and zero public influence. One easy way to help with the latter!

A devastating result for the Japanese people. I hope they can take some solace from their efficient healthcare system, superior public transport infrastructure, and peerless away jersey.

Flicking through channels last night, I watched a few minutes of the latest Magic Mike film, but it was tedious compared to the 1st two. I then became transfixed, as it switched genre into a parody of a sitcom. It took a full minute to realise I’d sat on the remote and switched to Mrs Brown’s Boys.

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

Hivemind: Who is your current go-to on analysis of astroturfs, dark money campaigns, and spotting general fakery and disinfo? Asking in particular in Irish contexts.

When I try and type the words ‘add’ or ‘ADHD’ on WhatsApp it always autocompletes to ‘AfD’. I am neither German or a fascist and have never tried or wanted to type or talk about the AfD. Am convinced this is paid-for, or something more sinister. Perhaps not low stakes at all, come to think of it.

My low key conspiracy theory is that HD is basically what normal TV used to be, and normal TV has been deliberately downgraded.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Sky News dedicated a solid hour to live footage of the England team bus travelling from their hotel to the airport ahead of the 2006 World Cup. This is somehow even stupider.

The outcome of this, of course, is that fans from developing nations are largely priced out entirely. In a stadium in Miami that fits 65,000, it looks like there’s around a thousand Cabo Verde fans at most, largely in the cheap(er) seats behind the goals. The ones that cost about 3 grand.

England players staring reverentially into space with their hands behind their backs while they solemnly sing along to Wonderwall is…something

Can’t help wondering what the cumulative debt is in every World Cup crowd. Cost of tickets and hotels means every travelling fan is either abnormally wealthy (not the typical football fan), has made exceptional sacrifices, or has borrowed heavily.

Tell me your whole party has just violently had it brought home that its rightward tilt is costing it the only path to power, without using those words.

Nice thing to see on my way home.

The world’s first trillionaire is a mass murderer who spends his days trying to foment a race war. He has no friends and people won’t laugh at his jokes. Also nobody is ever going to live on Mars.

Wait until you all hear how much government money goes to the groups behind all those who were burning people out of their houses last night...

My beloved Biscuit went to the other side on Friday. I feel his absence on my chest, where he spent the best part of his seventeen years, and I am stretching the consolatory limits of photographs. A friend beyond measure.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

This is explicitly fascist. Which can’t be stopped by deleting your X account but if you still have one, delete it anyway. If anything just to save yourself the guilt of complicity.

In less than a month, an Irish man adjudicated to be a rapist by a jury of his peers will be allowed into America to compete at a UFC event in Las Vegas, Nevada.

We have strayed so far from God’s light

Peter McKenna of Croke Park on RTE's This Week. It's so unusual - and refreshing - for someone involved in a boxing promotion to say this. Fair play.

"As of this March, the Palestinian Football Association had confirmed the deaths of 565 football players" www.equator.org/articles/wor...

It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on

Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

c/o Alberto Romero at Algorithmic Bridge

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

I get laughed at when I say this, but we’re on a fast track to the standard university experience being entirely AI, with in-person education by a human as a luxury commodity only for the super-wealthy. Five to ten years, at most.

You can now add Maggots to Sewage

Great to have someone speak so eloquently but also so plainly about this on RTÉ. The games against Israel should very clearly not go ahead and frankly it’s a disgrace that we’re even having this conversation at this point

Anyone who writes emails with fucking ChatGPT should be hung drawn and quartered in the fucking public square and anyone who doesn't agree with that has either never been on the receiving end of fucking ChatGPT emails or is using fucking ChatGPT for emails and should be first on the fucking list

me [arriving at your barbeque]: aww mate is that a genuine cunto??

Congrats to him but this is advice I can get from my Mammy's hairdresser on Facebook, he's not special.

In a nutrition analogy, Bluesky is yesterday’s leftover Pringles and Xitter is candyfloss flecked with ebola

"just eat around the nazism and pedophilia"

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

I suppose FF and FG have arguably done even more damage to the north inner city than the heroin Gerry Hutch definitely never sold.

Can’t say I share in all the voting tastes of the good people of Dublin Central, but Fianna Fáil losing their deposit is something for us all to be proud of.

“Students don’t oppose AI from ignorance but EXPERIENCE. This was quite shocking to me: Gallup found that Gen Z high usage has not decreased despite anger having increased. They know what they’re protesting against BECAUSE they know what AI is doing to them.”

As an Arsenal fan since I was a kid, I’m delighted they won the league last night. But seeing how many people mostly celebrate it as ammunition in a meme war against people they’ve never met is quite alienating.

Morally, emotionally, and now intellectually bankrupt. A complete sham of a person.

In her final years, Sinéad O'Connor donated her old clothes and unused makeup to Irish trans teens as she wanted them to enjoy expressing their gender identities. Sinéad never punched down, stood firm in her beliefs, and will always be loved by the people of Ireland. Ms Terphy is nothing of the sort

Xitter is for psychopaths, Threads is for people who just shouldn’t be allowed type words

No Teju, no party www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting both went to Graham Linehan's defence after he was arrested for urging violence against trans people in public, so if you vote for Labour UK you are telling trans people that their safety and lives are the price they must pay for your vote.

RTÉ is to be queried by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over reports the broadcaster sent 41 staff and contractors to Czechia to cover the recent World Cup play-off semi-final. jrnl.ie/7040309