the steam machine will no longer look like a crazy proposition to mainstream audiences between this dumbass move & sony axing physical games

Xbox Series X price hiked by £170 due to rising memory chip costs

Xbox consoles now cost significantly more in the UK, with one model increasing in price by 43%.

bbc.com

last week, i was getting out of my sister's car & i noticed a woman unconscious on the ground across the street, outside a pub. i went over to check if she was alright, because nobody in the pub had noticed her and when i was kneeling down beside her calling 999, a v drunk woman came out of the pub

Found this in the comments of the video the Irish independent posted on tiktok

does anyone have the full list of restaurants that this crowd own

Inspectors find 34 beds crammed into south Dublin bungalow rented for staff of Chinese restaurants

Company claimed the most the house accommodated is 26, but space available for 34

independent.ie

i almost choked to death on a cherry tomato this afternoon, that would have been probably the stupidest way to go out based on my lore

i had a nightmare earlier this week that i had to use the bathroom in lucky's but i was barefoot, it was horrific

The great Neko Case having to deal with Hansard back in the day. Horrendous.

socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

bonos funeral performance actually feels like ragebait

I've finally said my piece about the Boojumification of spicebags

Kelly Earley: I like spice bags as much as the next person, but we need to draw the line

What was once the perfect post-pub meal from the local Chinese has somehow ended up on pizza, in pubs and even in 1950s-style diners, and it’s a bit much.

thejournal.ie

it emerged earlier this week that andrew haire was a member of the lgbtq+ community, and that two years ago, his partner donal scanlon had died in horrible circumstances by drowning in the grand canal back in 2024. it's a ridiculously sad story with a tragic ending for andrew & donal

Needs to be pointed out, because ya know: fash idiots imploding. 1️⃣ Txt via 'Occupy London'; "Ceuta is not in Europe. Ceuta is not Europe. So-called “autonomous” Ceuta is literally a spanish colony in North Africa. None of the people arriving in Ceuta have made it to Spain. Latest reports

This fascist fortress Europe stuff ends in only one way. Machine gunning boats of migrants in the Mediterranean

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5d ago

The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

i will not shove being lgbtq down anyone’s throat but i will shove my love of cities skylines and medieval settlement games down their throat instead

the security guards in holland and barrett watch u more closely than airport security

found some rté archive footage of kids wearing very questionable hats at mosney

some good news ☺️

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 6d ago

if CNBC is right it sure sounds like they lost $45 billion IN A MONTH ahhhhhhhhhhh www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/l...

spotted on google maps

Dystopian Sci-Fi Writers: "what if the future is awful?" Tech companies: "why wait"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago

“The drones wouldn’t break up a schoolyard fight…But if one of the students pulled a knife, they could.”

Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

theguardian.com

Why would any business in their right mind be paying a big four consultant for anything right now? You can save hundreds of thousands of $$ and just prompt Claude yourself. www.ft.com/content/7e14...

jane schoenbrun fans: GCN has 20 tix to give away for this premiere

Pretty sure this will wind up costing the State significantly more than just paying proper legal aid fees would have done

just read about a gay priest who died in the boilerhouse in 1994... he was administered last rites on the scene as there were two other priests there when it happened

the increasingly robust smell of piss in dame lane beside the gates of dublin castle is really the icing on the cake of our EU Presidency

i told my dad how i felt about glen’s death and he said:

Apparently, the fatal incident happened just outside a local dog groomer’s Google “Glen Hansard groomer” to find out more!

Nialler9 | Niall Byrne@nialler9.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died after single-vehicle collision in Dublin nialler9.com/glen-hansard...

Interesting timeline split between people who know and people who don’t

i keep seeing news outlets relay messages of sympathy from german & polish ministers for the victims of the berlin pride attack, which were statements these officials made on X. kind of disgusting to see sympathies extended via a platform that cultivates & facilitates fascism & extremism

Collison had given $7M to a campaign to stop a one off wealth tax on billionaires. He's still miles behind Sergey Brin ($82M), but what a massive and continued disappointment these guys are. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax

Building a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assets

irishtimes.com