"Russia must pay for destruction it has caused," warned European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen. Agree 100%. Now try saying this out loud: "Israel must pay for destruction it has caused," warned von der Leyen. Otherwise, this is absolutely rank hypocrisy. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

EU condemns Russian 'atrocities' as 17 killed in Kyiv

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen slammed "horrible atrocities" by Russia after a deadly attack on the Kyiv region killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens,

rte.ie

The world's gon woke and elf and safety is just insane nannying gone mad. Mad I tell you. What's wrong with hanging your kid out the window? Think of all the fresh air theyre getting.

Sundance@sundance.bikesky.social · 15h ago

Drive like your baby is hanging out the window.

Hey ChatGPT How can we make the driver even less aware of their surroundings? It’s hard as drivers are already extremely distracted but one way would be for auto manufacturers to sell ad space on their giant display screens.

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a conflict of interest is -- it's far broader than this. But this financial interest is clearly a conflict of interest:

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 22h ago

just a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

Some towns didn't get xmas light put up because it was too dangerous for staff to install them.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · yesterday

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Why indeed?

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

Would like some Actual Good News about the environment ?

Joy as Irish bird feared gone forever returns to Cork

Return of the corncrake gives hope for other native species

corkbeo.ie

I haven't used the Microsoft suite in a while but I can't believe they are getting away with this.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

That's me in the early 2010s when Musk was talking rubbish about traffic and tunnels, undermining high-speed rail with Gadgetbahns like the Hyperloop and local transit with The Boring Company's Loops (cars in tunnels with flashing lights). Nazi sulutes were not enough for others to abandon him.

Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · yesterday

me when somebody said they're surprised musk was so involved with trump given he's "a tech guy" and speaking as a tech guy no he is not

The world crossed a major solar milestone - three terawatt (TW) threshold of installed solar capacity. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

The cops are really going to poison the well on automated traffic enforcement - which perhaps is the point considering how many of them get dinged for speeding in school zones and running red lights. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

Mattie literally fed the Clonmel fash information – including information about security – so they could plan their actions. even after the assault and arson, he was giving speeches encouraging them to get more people involved. if Murphy is upset about security costs, recoup them from Mattie

Michael Murphy had every chance to help reduce these security costs by doing anything – anything at all – to bring down the temperature in Clonmel in 2024, but like most of the councillors, he tried to stay out of it, giving Mattie McGrath free rein to incite shit

Irish Independent@independent.ie · yesterday

The complex in Clonmel was the focus of repeated vandalism attacks, with security guards injured in late-night assaults

I've never been threatened with being murdered because of the simple fact I cycle a bike on here and called me a snow flake leftist if you want but I quite like that fact.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · yesterday

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Of course it’s ChatG-TD Ken O’Flynn who is up in arms about the cost overrun of a bike shed O’Flynn who has wasted god knows how many hours of civil servants work answering his endless AI generated PQs

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 2d ago

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…

I was given a Fitbit and recently enough Google went crazy on AI summaries. I think it used to better detect the difference between walking and cycling and it seems to be hallucinating about the length of activity.

"a ban would end her writing career." And yet she didn't learn a thing from getting 9 points.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months

The IFA must surely know there is no future in this policy which has already resulted in so much damage www.farmersjournal.ie/sheep/news/r...

Don’t make policy to appease reply guys because reply guys can never be appeased (and are also a small, extreme, self-selected and unrepresentative group)

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d ago

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

Great Scott! Lego now has a tandem.

Maybe an even bigger conspiracy is how State-owned tram systems were mothballed without GM or anybody else having to expose themselves like this:

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

We were always at war with Eastasia

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3d ago

In remarkable about-turn, US health secretary tells US families to vaccinate children

Only people in cars are normal humans:

Des@despod.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Should this not read "Car Driver and passenger" seeing as they call out the "Motorcyclist" ? #Speirgorm

The £325 (£500 after 14 days) is ridiculously high, but let's be clear: Dropping something beside a full bin, even into a bag already littered there is littering: I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin

Reader expresses consternation after enforcement officer issues penalty notice outside station in London

theguardian.com

It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.

I know a middle-aged nurse who caught COVID four times. Yet the predominant voice we hear now from that era is a middle-aged guy who went far-right because he couldn't have a pint.

researchdoom@bananaintherama.bsky.social · 3d ago

I remember my SIL nurse crying in rage on the phone when this was announced. Yes, she got COVID in her ward. She lost a baby. Fuck these people.