What sort of tent did this happen in? vm.tiktok.com/ZNRPSK7mh/

"This is relevant to my intere..... oh no oh dear god no"

Jim O'Callaghan scapegoating immigrants and acting tough on immigration as part of his bid for the leadership of Fianna Fáil is directly comparable to Leo Varadkar scapegoating welfare recipients as part of his bid for the leadership of Fine Gael. Neither of them concerned about the consequences.

It’s 1975 and we’ve just bought a magazine of crochet patterns.

As Spike Milligan once said, "A man can't have everything: I mean, where would he put it?"

U2 dropping a new surprise 6-song album explicitly addressing the hellscape of our nation. Wow. Stunning stuff. The world is with us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

Portal to Nazi Shit

The question is not the lobbying. The question is how many of these lines- like the banning access to social media to under 16s but not making it the duty of Meta to enforce- appear in the mouths of our Ministers over the next few months.

“On crypto and stablecoins, as on too many other things, the hard truth is this: we’re being completely left behind.” – George Osborne, member of Coinbase’s advisory council, www.ft.com/content/3ede...

Countries that do not embrace wacky waving inflatable tube men could be "left behind," says Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man Emporium's Al Harrington.

The government’s plan to restrict social media use for under 16s has been criticised by the Children’s Rights Alliance. Restricting social media “punishes children for the fixable faults created by the tech giants" who run the platforms, the group said. www.thejournal.ie/social-media...

Banning social media for children is not regulating big tech, it’s giving them exactly what they asked for. Force the platforms to moderate content instead!

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 'welfare cheats’ government campaign temporarily weakened belief in Ireland that social benefits help prevent poverty, according to the State’s think tank. jrnl.ie/6960170

Special Ed minister Michael Moynihan tells RTÉ Prime Time that *all* reviews or changes to SNA deployment are paused, because the government doesn’t wish to cause panic. This pause also affects the hundreds of schools who’d been told their SNA numbers would go up, who’ve just heard about it on TV

“And that’s how I found out I have a zoom with Gandalf and Mickey Mouse at noon”

Fashion! vm.tiktok.com/ZNRPLENES/

why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤

This brilliantly illustrates the timidity (or perhaps cowardice) of the Albanese Government.

When my dad was young he saved a guy from drowning off Howth. He heard that, not long after, the guy died from sepsis after scratching himself on a rose thorn while gardening. Humans are pretty fragile without antibiotics.

It’s 1975 and you’re about to crochet a dog and a toilet seat in the same magazine.

I support this poster's question 100% and am, at the same time, disturbed it needs to be asked. Everyone kept dying, all the time, of everything at an astonishing rate. Surgery? Probably gonna die. Chest infection? May not make it to the weekend. TB? Off with you now to write some wistful poems

Jas Fagan, a shop selling communion suits that I passed on Saturday on Thomas St. Like a different era.

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

Is there a ln equivalent word to chain smoking, but for meetings.

"We didn't just test for the brochure". Lads, ye didn't even test the effing brochure.

1,2,3,4,5,16,9,10,10 again, 12, 14, 13 for some reason, 24 why not at this stage, 26, 29, 27

On the DPC taking action by starting an investigation they’ve been pressed for for nearly a month.

Leaving aside the broader story very funny to see the government, which has been blaming judicial reviews for every ill in the country, suddenly decide JRs should be supported when they align with what they want

🇬🇧 UK targets all AI chatbots after Grok uproar. The pushback comes after the Muskrat's Grok was used to create sexualised deepfakes. #UKpoli🇬🇧 #Wrldpoli🌐 www.dw.com/en/uk-target...

Ireland: The Data Protection Commission, responsible for enforcing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, has opened a probe into the creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualised images by Grok containing or involving the processing of EU user data. www.ft.com/content/3c72...

Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress. - Ciarán Brennan www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Spain to probe X, Meta, TikTok over AI-generated child sexual abuse material reut.rs/4tXMf7p

"Found/Acquired" is nice and vague.

Irish watchdog opens EU data probe into Grok sexual AI imagery

We should ask for our gold and stuff back. I’d let them keep their large collection of RDS entrance tokens, though.

Wow.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

One of my fave short stories I've ever created, this one in tandem with the illustrious and masterful @dustinweaver.bsky.social. It's... The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair.

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has opened an inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC).

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

The hooded monks who usually walk up and down this stairs were off that day.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

"Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement. The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive" Sorry, what? www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...

Let me stress: banning over-60s from social media is a terrible idea. It's just not as terrible an idea as banning under-16s.

The government has discovered regulating social media is Hard (it's good at passing Tough Laws and then useless at enforcing them), so it's now going for the much easier job of just restricting the freedom of teenagers.

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

“I asked ChatGPT what to do in my litigation and it didn’t agree with you.”

“what’s the quick way to learn this thing?” “you can’t, it’s an entire field of study, people spend years on it” “right, so just point me to an entry-level primer that gets me 80% there?” “there isn’t one, most people go to school for this” “sure, but just give me the shortcut”