@conormcnamara.bsky.social
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
"Some people have extremely incorrectly offered the take that Mayo ‘broke the curse’ when they won last weekend. That is the absolute opposite of what happened, and the worst lesson we could possibly take from Mayo’s win. The curse was not broken; it was fulfilled." Surrealing:
Can we be very clear? The curse wasn’t broken, it was fulfilled. The curse was... real
How can we use curses to our advantage going forward?
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Just saw The Odyssey. Casting Matt Damon as Leopold Bloom was brave, but it really worked. Tom Holland good as Stephen Dedalus too. Anne Hathaway brilliant as Molly, but wish they had not cut her soliloquy. Wasn’t familiar with which bits of Dublin they used, but that didn‘t seem to matter.
And a great excuse to bring back a lockdown classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKh...
Every American Romcom Set in Ireland feat. Sean Burke and Michael Fry
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The solution to this kind of thing in Ireland is always "the companies have promised us they'll be good this time"
Conor Gallagher@conorgallagher.bsky.social · last wk.Aughinish Alumina will, under a new oversight arrangement, be expected to provide the Government with regular evidence its products are not supplying the Russian military. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
While we're talking about The Odyssey, can we take a second to appreciate one of the greatest exchanges of dialogue in the history of superhero fiction?
These reports make out like it's the lawyers fault for being misheard, rather than the journalist who misheard it, and media for running with the most salacious story, without any factchecking
The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.A mishearing in a courtroom led to reports a bomb suspect had spent years in "Syria". She actually had been in Saoradh, a political group named after the Irish word for liberation. jrnl.ie/7114590
It's kindof nice ti not have your eyes gouged out by an AI slop poster for a local event
Noone told me that they replaced the MGM lions roar with the bleating of sheep in The Sheep Detectives
Telemachus: I heard you also had to take care of your mother in your father's absence? Oedipus: You could say that.
"I just want to see them cry!", my French niece re Argentinian fans
If the goal of LC&C was to make Limerick look shit at every turn, I don't know what they'd do different
"In our last six games against New Zealand (x3), France (x2) and South Africa, we’ve lost by an average of 15 points. Those teams are the benchmark at the moment, and we’re two scores worse than them since the turn of the 2024/25 season." @threeredkings.bsky.social
In 2021, Meta’s data centre complex in Clonee, Co. Meath, used more water from the mains than Irish Water said was being used by all Irish data centres combined. “Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?”, by @lokapila.bsky.social www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...
![According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year – which is about 0.13 percent of overall national supply.
But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee in Meath. Planning documents say that it was to rely on water from the mains.
That’s more than Irish Water said was consumed overall in the country that year.
A spokesperson for Irish Water said on 19 June [2026] that it couldn’t lay out its methodology behind the 810 megalitres figure – or give more up-to-date figures on water use by data centres, since the AI boom.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sjznb6msdsbogkbwdorupxz3/bafkreia6pcrfbgpds4s7waaniamogy73earjmu3xzts4mlbj6cet57i4pa)
It is government policy that every household in Ireland is subsidising the electricity and water usage of data centres. Meanwhile, UI is holding up new housing schemes across the country because they say there's no capacity (excapt for data centres)
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3w agoUisce Éireann defends hotline for people to report ‘non-essential’ use of water
So Iran is tolling the strait to pay for the massive damage the US and Isreal inflicted in their war of choice, and now Trump wants people to pay him a toll to stop the Iranians collecting their toll, which they're only collecting because of his war?
Anything on data centre usage or leakage rates of up to 50% in Dublin?
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 4w agoUisce Éireann is urging households to take showers rather than baths and not use garden hoses during hot weather as high temperatures are due to continue into next week, with heat wave conditions expected. jrnl.ie/7094706
“You’re right Michael— a turbo boost would have been perfect back there. I’ll use this experience to streamline your workload going forward. Would you like me to turbo boost now?”
Have to admire Irelands commitment to defending with 14 and never improving the lineout