Colm
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Home: One wife, two dogs, three kids, four sextillion IP addresses. Work: Retired (used to be at Google) Nazis and TERFs can fuck off. [My profile picture is of me with […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.ie/@dotcolm, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
From "The Sack" (1950) by William Morrison. “The process of coming at the truth is as precious as the final truth itself. I cheat you of that. I give your people the truth, but not all of it, for they do not know how to attain it of themselves. It would be better if they learned that, at the […]
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#Dachau is a small town in Germany. It's twenty kilometres from Munich. The Duke of Bavaria -- one of the seven Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire -- had a palace there; but until 1933, that was the only thing that was particularly notable about the place. Bear with me, this thread has a […]
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@chongliss/117087000980391212 This resonated really strongly (I also traveled to Spain to see it). The reaction I didn't expect at totality: bursting into tears.
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Every time I go to the local supermarket now, I find myself singing "I've got a Lidl list…" to myself.
I enjoyed "Odyssey" today (went to see it with my youngest child; 16). The set-pieces are absolutely spectacular and the big picture theme, although slightly unexpected, didn't jar as much as (for example) the end of "Interstellar". Everyone was fab.
A lot of people acting like Trump is a uniquely American problem because of some integral flaw in the character of Americans. Folks sure aren't looking too close to their own right wings, which is how America got where it is now. There is a general rise in stupid awful fascism around the world […]
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[Apologies for a slightly premature post a few weeks back; I needed to clarify a few things with HR.] I am delighted to share that, as of the end of May, I have retired from Google. It's been a mighty ride, and I remain very proud of what I and my various teams accomplished over the past 22½ […]
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Soccer is a much, much less interesting game to watch on TV than rugby. There, I said it.
Anthropeum.com · Jun 24 2026 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟥🟦🟥 52,204 · top 67% of players today! Ugh, I had *no* idea on most of these.
RE: https://kafeneio.social/@felixthehat/116792863262707070 There's a dark, musty room in the basement of #10, where Lecterns Of PMs Past are kept. It can only be opened by one old guy who is charged with keeping the key about his person at all times. Occasionally, when the door is opened, the […]
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Huh. Apropos of nothing at all, I just noticed that I am 20,000 days old today. That feels a little more significant than a random birthday in my mid-50s…
And we open in the Azteca with _Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika_ which never fails to raise goosebumps.
John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-start-of-democratic-collapse/
This is absolute fire! > Our societies have, even as women fought for and gained rights, stubbornly rooted men’s identities around women’s dependence (providing), vulnerability (protecting), and submission (presiding). These identities depend on and are supposed to garner, for men, priority and […]
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Ah, the masterpiece that is modern adtech. The laser-targeting of viable leads! The hyper-analysis possibilities of Big Data and personal information brokering! My teenage daughter is currently having her Subway Surfers game interrupted by a spiel on employee onboarding workflow automation […]
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In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.
Here we see Khaleesi in her natural state, which is On The Wrong Side Of A Door.
I normally like Carl's take, but in this one, he calls the blockadees "farmers." No farmer has four days to spend in O'Connell Street in April! The guys with tractors are agricultural contractors &/or their employees, not farmers!
Carl Kinsella@carlkinsella.bsky.social · 5mo ago“The government’s approach, for a very long time, has been to project powerlessness in the face of every inconvenience, to blame ‘global megatrends’ as Varadkar did in his goodbye speech. To make the public feel insane for even suggesting that the government can solve problems.” This week’s column!
I cannot recommend this video enough: https://youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo
Starting to think the real risk is not AI replacing junior staff, but senior staff quitting because they just can’t take this AI bullshit any longer and just opt for early retirement.
This is long, but WELL worth your time. The first part (1h) is honestly the best explanation of the whole thing I've ever seen, including some points which I had genuinely never thought of before, and the second part (30m) is just 🔥🔥🔥. https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory
