It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism

as an apologist for Zack Snyder's use of "Zombie" by The Cranberries in Army of the Dead, I am curious to see and hear this terrible Supergirl needle drop I've heard so much about

I lose it a bit when I try figure out what the Gardaí are telling us with their Bank Holiday operation stats. Yes, we know people are driving recklessly, instead of patting yourselves on the back for a few days enforcement, you've just broadcast how little is being done the rest of the time

Mike McKillen@mikemckillen.bsky.social · 14h ago

Does this level of law breaking by drivers not suggest that we need Garda operations such as this one on a 24/7 basis & not just at bank holidays? "Between the period of Thursday 30 July – Tuesday 4 August 2026, a total of 169 people were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant,

if you've ever wondered why sites like TipperaryLive, GalwayLive, etc. are so plastered with ads, it's because those sites and the papers they collate news from are owned by a British advertising kingpin who scoops up distressed papers so he can corner the advertising market

The Ditch@wereontheditch.bsky.social · 13h ago

Competition undertakings to separate the British owner of Ireland’s largest regional media group from the advertising sales house his rivals depend on have “proven ineffective”, according to Celtic Media Group. ‘This is not healthy for media plurality.’ www.ontheditch.com/competition-...

Competition undertakings to separate the British owner of Ireland’s largest regional media group from the advertising sales house his rivals depend on have “proven ineffective”, according to Celtic Media Group. ‘This is not healthy for media plurality.’ www.ontheditch.com/competition-...

Competition undertakings ‘ineffective’ in regional media

The British media executive has been hoovering up Irish titles

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I've been told all journalists are using at least some AI these days, and I just want to say: not me! not a word I've written has gone near an AI, ever. I don't use it to write and I don't use it to research. in fact, I go out of my way to avoid AI (e.g. adding "-ai" to Google searches). hater 5ever

love this by @ciaramoloney.bsky.social, even high speed car heists don't get done without a few pointless meetings crookedmarquee.com/an-ode-the-b...

An Ode the Boring Meetings of Gone in 60 Seconds — Crooked Marquee

Before it turns into an epic car chase, HB Halicki's 1974 action extravaganza captures ordinary working life in painstaking detail.

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a co-founder of the Federal Society is attacking Mamdani for the "suspiciously green bananas" that Mamdani brought to a press conference about his public groceries idea

It's not a mathematical equation, it's an allegorical metaphor.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 17h ago

Since people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.

This guy has over 1.1 million followers on Instagram alone

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school

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 · yesterday

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-...

it's not as bad as when they retitled Tham Luang Cave: Mission of Hope as Thai Cave Rescue in English, but Netflix translating Thanai Pisat as "The Evil Lawyer" instead of "Devil Lawyer" is so weak

Naoise Ó Cearúil defended himself on his local radio when I first broke this story, saying his experience in the tech sector made him much more knowledgable on the issue than other TDs on the committee, but he essentially worked in sales

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · yesterday

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-...

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-...

AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company

It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.

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Happened to hear the Lord Mayor of Dublin talking about e-scooters on Radio 1. He said that people in social housing should be banned from using one! WTF? He wasn't put off when told that this was discrimination. He just doubled down muttering about anti social behaviour! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

as @feljin.ie rightly points out, this raises serious questions about illusory numbers in social housing delivery reports

Irish Independent@independent.ie · 2d ago

Department of Housing pulls funding for 140 social homes as units move to private market at rents up to €4,500 www.independent.ie/county/dubli...

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

prepare to be discredited forever: "I guess I'm a cybercitizen" – dean buckley

thanks to the good folks at crooked marquee for their enablement

Crooked Marquee@crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The meetings in ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ have a kind of attentive, even transcendent eye for mundanity that you get in some Italian neorealist cinema, or the religious dramas of Robert Bresson,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes.

incidentally, Murphy's colleague FG councillor John Fitzgerald was giving out about security costs at the library and motor tax office in Clonmel not too long ago. not sure why they're so eager to add the half pence to the pence over basic personal safety, but there you go

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 2d ago

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

It's so infuriating that the same media who constantly & incessantly lie about my community, who say we are a threat to other women & children, try ban us from toilets, sports & healthcare, will simultaneously & shamelessly eulogise a bunch of dead nonces & misogynists while silencing their victims.

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 · 2d ago

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

Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Great Inflammation panic

The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.

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The podcast hosts know slightly less about the subject than me >:(

It's no surprise I disagreed with his opinions, but he was actually that bad at writing that it was painfully clear that anyone who liked his work simply agreed with those opinions - or hated the people they'd annoy - and thus found it perfectly delicious someone had finally typed them up.

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.

I'm a conscientious objector from the celebration of human death, but if you are lionised in your life for your willingness to "shock" and "offend", it is pathetic for anyone to give out that people are making crass remarks about your passing

Note that this is the same position as blaming pre-existing conditions for kids dying in Gaza. Cause it’s the same people.

The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?

Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school