Aghast at the reaction to Rod Liddle's death. You can't be saying all these things, lads. I mean, Simon Heffer is still out there. Quentin Letts. You gotta keep some of your powder dry for when those other cunts bite it

oh god, they've become self aware

The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · last mo.

Fire Emblem as a series truly captures the essence of ancient Greek warfare: you play a charismatic leader claiming some form of divine mandate leading an army exclusively composed of twinks and child soldiers

Liberation/Promenade/Casanova

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What'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)

The cool thing about hills is you're not actually obliged to die on them

So there's been some reaction to this and I feel it would be remiss not to state: government formation preferences in the abstract versus when presented with the actual realistic prospect of government formation are *very different*

Paul Culloty@paulculloty.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some juicy coalition preference data for @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social!

Some juicy coalition preference data for @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social!

These days, you can't even conquer Saxon England without the locals resisting. Because of Wake

Persona 5 Royal A stylish, confident game that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with purpose. Extremely polished and enjoyable gameplay and storytelling (with a significant caveat on the writing). One of the most theologically interesting games I've ever played. 9/10

The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bravely Default: As the Fairy Flies On the positive, completely indistinguishable from an old-school Final Fantasy game. On the negative, completely indistinguishable from an old-school Final Fantasy game. Frustratingly good gameplay undermined at every turn by awful storytelling choices. 6/10

"He was only at the Nazi rally in a personal capacity" would you not be embarrassed

Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 4d ago

Noel 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 want to hear any of these tech companies talking about their ethics again. This has zero use cases outside of generating disinformation, and they pushed it out there anyway

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New 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...

I'm sorry but the "UEFA vote against FIFA's plan means that Ireland should be allowed to not play Israel" takes are just incredibly tortured logic that ultimately comes down to having no substance beyond "because I want it to be the case"

Among the milieu of modern games praised for their writing because it's all about Doing Therapy (BG3, E33, Disco etc) Persona 5 stands out because it's ethos is basically "youre sad? shut up whining and sort out your own problems, by which I mean go and throw hands with god, you pussy"

Eternally funny to me that previously everyone just sort of agreed to behave themselves and not take the piss, but Ken O'Flynn is constitutionally incapable of acting like an adult, so, here we are

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 7d ago

A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.

Okay so I'm trying to stay out of this stuff as (1) the man is dead and had loved ones and (2) what I know I only know second hand but I will say this - if I were a political party I don't know if I'd be rushing to post gushing tributes online tbh. Id be concerned that might not age too well.

I can't believe FIFA are making me side with UEFA

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers

A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone

irishexaminer.com

Phoenix Law having an absolute field day my goodness

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · last wk.

Graham Linehan: I apologise. Coming soon to a screen near you.

Whatever your views on the situation are, there cannot be a single person alive who genuinely believes this "solution" will work. Everyone involved is lying to themselves and the public

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...

Trying not to pay attention to local American political discourse but then you see honest-to-god "are Arabs white?" arguments between the nominal centre-left and left in 2026 and it's like a car crash man. You can't look away

Looked at the menu of a sushi restaurant in Dublin and every item was illustrated with slop AI interpretation Like why do you think I would I want to get food from somewhere that uses gen AI illustrations rather than show you what the food actually looks like??? I'm losing my fucking mind

If you think this is anything other than Google publicly lobbying for Jack Chambers to declare their data centres "critical infrastructure", then I don't know what to tell you

Lisa O’Carroll@lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vanessa Hartley, head of Google Ireland a VP of EMEA tells MacGill summer school that "75% of code" in Google now written by AI. Also reveals Google no longer investing in data centres in Ireland. "Ireland is now known for infrastructure bottlenecks," she says referring to planning perm app lengths

I understand Ray McAdam - byelection candidate in Dublin Central, and former Lord Mayor of Dublin - is to be the coalition’s candidate for the Seanad by-election to fill the seat of Sean Kyne. He is virtually guaranteed election as only Oireachtas members have a vote, of which Govt controls majority

I see the "olympic skeet shooting was made gender segregated in response to a woman winning" story, an eternal myth that will not die, is doing the rounds again. This pisses me off disproportionately because it gives people completely the wrong impression on how institutional misogyny functions

Something very shitty about a local community festival using (about a dozen different!) AI slop posters to promote events. Surely you could find at least 1 (one) artist or designer in the whole of South Dock?

"Moron Label" is genuinely incredible work, I am in awe

The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

A small positive from the world cup is how amusing it has been to see so many people discover the concept of the Argentina Men's National Football Team (derogatory) in real time

Everyone is rightly giving out about the complete nonsense Gerard Howlin wrote about remote work, but buried in the article he claims that the public sector unions are only asking for more money because they saw the fuel protesters succeed what

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2w ago

Gerard Howlin: Scaling back remote working should be on the agenda as payback for public sector pay rises

Christ the way these losers online are losing their minds about interpretative adaptation in the Odyssey film, they might actually die if they read Ulysses

Oh so all the stuff about housing delivery was the total bullshit everyone said it was huh, funny that Also government ministers current obsession with the hard-man act is so funny. What consultant got paid to advise them all to act like this

Daithi@daithig.bsky.social · 2w ago

I see. A ring road will be the first thing designated as "critical infrastructure" under this new scheme. www.independent.ie/irish-news/g...

Theres a water shortage, the cost of electricity is out of control, and the criminal justice system is about to collapse so of course it's time for our annual bout of national e-scooter madness