Jack Chambers wants you to believe that the Climate Act of 2021 is the reason for decades of poor infrastructure delivery and not the decisions of decades of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments
Breandán 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
@brendannadnerb.bsky.social
Irish. 30-something. Actuary. Mostly interested in music, books, cute animals. Occasionally political and opinionated.
FF-FG blaming the climate act introduced 5 years for their 4 decades of failure has really boiled my piss #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm
Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 11h ago
How come Mitch McConnell is still getting paid to be a senator, but Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy are not?
The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?
The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
Saying thank you to the AI bot who did nothing to help my query, because I still feel guilty being rude to a non-sentient, water-guzzling LLM-fuelled interface. 😣
Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
Rod Liddle? I'll tell you about Rod Liddle He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one and also he's Dead
Teen Dream - Bloom - Depression Cherry (Beach House)
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Some journalist better fucking ask him what "woke" means and get him to spell it out *exactly*
Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d agoNoel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Get Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael out, and keep them out for 100 years.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d agoArsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater
Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children
Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 6d agoElon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid
I have donated to @amnesty.org in the past, but I won't be doing so again after @amnestyuk.bsky.social's pathetic apology to Rowling. In future I'll give my money to organisations that retain a spine
So people get that bringing private investors in to something that belongs to everyone, for a small cash injection - but to milk it dry long term for shareholders is stupid right? Right.. now kick them out of rail, water, energy, telecoms, healthcare etc.
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Gianni Infantino has said Fifa has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash
theguardian.com
Shocking given how long this problem has been going on, the lack of progress in addressing it, and the number of derelict buildings all over county Cork, the Taoiseach's backyard. What a useless government we have! #SpéirGhorm #Homelessness #Cork #DerelictIreland
Hannah O'Sullivan@sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 6d ago#SpéirGorm #Cork #Homelessness Homelessness reaches new record in Cork as national total rises to 17,482 share.google/4wcJMltYgRbM...
Once again: AI is the reverse printing press that makes asynchronous communication impossible
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...