The great power behind the lies from government and assorted racists is imo that they appeal to our great national sense of begrudgery - someone out there is getting something for free and you aren't

Waiting with interest for the day this guy tries this “prank” on a woman who immediately decks him. Doubt he’ll be so eager to have *that* go viral. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/01/16/dublin-bushman-defends-street-prank-amid-criticism-of-online-video-business/

"during the speeches, the guests played a good-natured drinking game where they'd knock back a shot every time a Tubridy mentioned JFK. After four minutes, a stomach pump was sent for".

Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile! #Spéirgorm

I think a very significant part of the headless chickening on what is the world’s most straightforward question (“CSAM factory- is it allowed?”) has been the crippling cognitive dissonance of journalists justifying their continued use of X to themselves. They needed it to be a Q for debate.

The comments sections will once again fill up with bad actors, but the fact is this dude is (allegedly) trespassing on a school, contempting court orders, evading fines - throwing young and queer people under the bus to distract from (alleged) actions and their consequences. #spéirghorm #ireland

And the Gardai managed to arrest a man who had a fecking sword in D15, but not George, who only had a knife. #BLM #Spéirgorm

From 6 months ago. These uniformed thugs graduated from beatings and shootings to randomly burning buildings in response to armed resistance. Innocents were punished because the thugs couldn’t find their real targets. The term ’Black and Tan’ still causes the grinding of teeth in Ireland today.

David Quinn loves to defend child abuse in fairness

“Today, it was made clear, as it should always have been, that providing life-saving humanitarian assistance is an obligation, not a crime,” Binder said.

The hard-right former minister who sponsored a blood-and-soil citizenship amendment writes... www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I mean look I think you can learn WAY WAYYYYY more from bad movies than from good movies but you don't tend to learn from bad movies with a guy yelling "A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?!?!?!" at you

I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.

Hot take: free speech "absolutism" is a crock of shite Everyone draws a line somewhere-and I mean everyone And that's good! For the most part anyway. You shouldn't WANT people to have the "freedom" to create illicit imagery of children!

Please God no I don't want to be scolded by Democrats for not voting for their dogshit candidate. That shite is annoying enough to watch from afar.

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

RIP Scott

The cruelty is the point, and there is no-one more cruel, spineless or heartless than Ireland's current Taoiseach.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765

The Deputy leader of this government is telling an outright lie in order to stir up racial hatred and build support for more oppressive laws This is a dangerous dangerous path we are going down. #speirghorm

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

I'll add that mockery only really works (but then works *exquisitely* well) when a small deep gnawing part of the person being mocked knows - or at least suspects - that it's true and they deserve it. You can't effectively mock someone who's truly confident in who they are and what they're doing.

A 19yo Christian man lit Congregation Beth Israel on fire in Jackson, Mississippi. He called it the "synagogue of Satan." This same synagogue was one of 8 targeted in the Civil Rights Mvmt. The erasure of American antisemitism continues to harm us. open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

Take note: What the Irish lack in military power, they more than make up for with their ability to deliver a slaggin’.

'Doctors, scientists, and public health experts have urged the World Health Organization, @who.int, to recommend that healthcare workers wear respirators in every encounter in all healthcare settings.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Irish Government should immediately provide all methods of contraception free of charge to all in need, without an upper age limit. Women over 35 have unwanted pregnancies too and suffer with the cost of living crisis.

Equal access to abortion—everywhere in Ireland—is essential.

Hot take: We don’t need another season of BLACK MIRROR.

Do not forget that the pseudo-intellectualism expounded by Erich von Däniken was based in racism and cultural elitism. Just because a Swiss hotel worker couldn’t figure out how to build a pyramid without alien help doesn’t mean that Black people couldn’t. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...

Respectfully, I think this assessment is incorrect. CSAM’s definition in the 1998 Act is intent of the image, not merely its content Images taking dressed images of children and turning them into bikini-wearing children has an intent, focused on sexualisation. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

It's legitimately irritating that the vast majority of online radicalisation narratives and people's moves to combat them are almost exclusively focused on young people I genuinely think middle age or the elderly are more likely to be radicalised online

My main point was that U.S. police officers are, one to one, much more violent than U.S. soldiers, and much likelier to commit murder at close range out of anger.

soldiers are mostly young people who want to do something else with most of their life. They generally don't want to live the rest of their lives with the knowledge that they executed an unarmed mom cops want to spend thirty years with the nickname "killer"

When the far-right was re-grouping in the 1990s, it pivoted from talking about race and skin colour to "culture" and compatibility. This has now seemingly become a guiding principle for the BBC's political output.

Legit tho ‘I think that you know as well as I do that five years from now, things are going to be five years worse, unless action is taken at both a civil society and legislative level to constrain the wanton behaviour of those with money and power and vast technological resources.’

Ivor Cummins killed people with his lies about COVID, including an Antrim councillor. This weekend, he was on the same stage as Sharon Keogan and Ken O'Flynn at Eddie Hobbs' conspiracist jamboree m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...

A "citizen journalist" entered my wife's civil service office, where she is the only non-white, and she helped him with a fake query. He then later on tweeted the place had been taken over by immigrants.

Have we seen any evidence at all that there's a point where these people will have enough and will stop trying to further enrich themselves at the expense of others? They will always want more. We can choose between compliantly giving them everything slowly, or drawing a line in the sand now.

100%. We'll have a tough few years at first, but it will be better than being a vassal state for U.S imperialism.

Cluny the Scourge:

Tom the cat:

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

It's unbelievably hard, nigh on impossible, to influence a zealot in a few tweets. Engaging with the worst trolls in good faith doesn't produce results, it just amplifies them and fuels their hate. They don't want to be influenced by your alternative viewpoint.

Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot

Oh hey, Discord is taking a survey on whether users want generative ai slop machines crowbared into every crevice. They obviously want to but this is an opportunity to hurt a shareholders feelings and that's rare enough these days. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

FF and FG's allergy to accountability is actually just tiresome at this point, man. It's just so wearing to have decades of governed by the most childish, irresponsible people imaginable

I think it's rather representative of the current government that the Minister tried to chuck a youth charity under the bus in order to avoid receiving a mild-to-moderate amount of criticism