This thread is Charles Boyle, in social media form.

More facts of nature: All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Bambi’s mother had been shot.

Forget the fact that they are politicians for a moment. How can they as people, as mothers and fathers and sons and daughters, use a platform for communication that is hellbent on monetising CSAM? On what planet is that morally OK? This goes for everyone btw.

Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images. Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world. This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.

No new pictures where you at mentally?

Kevin Keegan, former England and Newcastle manager, diagnosed with cancer

Settings / Content & Media / Autoplay video and GIFs

I don’t have the X app anymore, but I can still report it through the Apple App Store for CSAM If you are an Apple user, report, report, report!!! Same if you are an Android user. #SpeirGorm

Imagine caring more about your twitter follower number than about supporting the generation of CSAM and abusive images of women. Mortifying.

This is important to watch: it's the moment we see if there's a limit, any limit, to how much Ireland has sold out to the Broligarchy.

Hmmm. Fun evening here tomorrow 😬

My Mam would have been 75 today. 20 years gone, this year. And I still think it is bitterly unfair that she's not still here with us. Sleep well, Mam.

Quite the opinion piece headline in the Irish Times this morning, suggesting that those worried about global warming are just massive cocaine junkies.

Sausage rolls are English croissants.

When I moved to Ireland, a colleague joked - I thought then - that Irish legislation took whatever had passed in Westminster, did find-replace "Queen" with "the State", and stuck a harp on the front. Sorry for doubting you, Fachtna.

Mass creation of sexualised images of children, as a paid-for feature is not quite enough for Simon Harris to decide to leave X.

Agh! Boyfriend has left his suitcase on the train as he arrived at Paddington station half an hour ago! Had his passport and everything and he's meant to fly tomorrow - anyone know if there's anything we can do right now? Is it worth going back to the station tonight??

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

I know that bluesky will be reflexively anti-AI on this one, but think of the number of times you've been playing a game you paid full price for and thought, "I wish someone could have my fun for me so I could get back to work"

It's official. Hel has frozen over.

Autocorrect prompts me to wish Happy Nollag na mBanana.

This is greatly amusing www.instagram.com/reel/DTIFxl_...

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

"Gosh, the Princess of Wales in a bikini!"

The varying brightness of red supergiant Betelgeuse could be explained by Hubble’s latest reveal: The bright star in Orion’s shoulder has an elusive companion star orbiting it in its extended atmosphere, leaving a “wake” of dense gas: https://news.stsci.edu/4sunaQH #AAS247 🔭

When big civilisations/nations fell abruptly, there was always a Stephen Miller equivalent in a position of influence to hasten its demise.

Never forget that for the 2010s up to pre-COVID Microsoft had almost complete market dominance in video conferencing with Skype, and then just completely pissed it away

The same Minister, who says in the quoted article that “There is no other right that trumps the right of a child to be protected”, also still has an active X account

This was my One Big Takeaway from the 'using social media at conferences' talk I gave at #AAS247 yesterday. Be intentional. The billionaires want your eyeballs and your engagement. They've engineered everything to keep you in their ecosystem. Set your guardrails and goals. Be. Intentional.

birds do it bees do it even educated fleas do it let's do it let's fly into a window

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Hegelly Blonde

just seen some callow youth describe Robert Smith as having "Edward Scissorhands hair," and no, child--

If you can leave some food out for the birds especially if you feed them now and then as they’ll be checking everywhere for food this morning to keep them going. My crows and starlings are starving!

I saw Iraqis make off with the shells. I even saw one of the Surface to Air Missiles being dragged along the road behind a tractor. Of course I can’t know for certain that they were used in the ensuing insurgency that killed and maimed so many, but it seems highly likely.

Can you occupy a country for a negative number of days?

As Irish schools return from the Christmas break, a thought for principals: if your school is still on X and you are posting pictures of students there, there is a non-zero probability of dickheads there using Grok to create CSAM images from your school photos. #HellSite #SchoolHeadaches

That whistling sound you hear is all of the things I said I'd circle back to in January getting ready to crush me like Wile E Coyote.

After three (mostly lovely, aside from work generated fury at the start) weeks off, having gigantic Glenroe vibes this evening.

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

40 years to the day since Ireland's greatest-ever rock'n roll star left us for the great gig in the sky. He set our musical world alight in the previous decades, putting Ireland on the musical map like no other. No-one will ever be as cool as Phillo again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXOr...

I watched the Boro memorial matchday video to see if I knew anyone, and there was, a lad I went to school with. As I continued watching, I saw this picture. And I thought “that’s the best picture you could find to pay tribute to your loved one?”.

RTE are government stenographers in this reporting, pure regurgitation, no addressing the privacy concerns at all. *Zero mention of O'Donovan being lobbied by Meta* on this very issue days before he started spouting off about it.

Sad to see Burrell going off feeling his hamstring but he's done all we could ask for already - hopefully it's not a bad injury but knowing our record... Chance for Kolli to show what he can do now

This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.

Line Riders by DoodleChaos. These are wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3heY...

Ah, this is wonderful