I'm not saying that cognitive decline explains his fascism. I am saying [correctly] that he is a fascist in cognitive decline.
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I made KildareStreet.com, inter alia. [🇮🇪 Cork]
Restaurant owner says having your own stove is an inefficient use of limited cooking supplies, arguing it would be better if you paid him to eat at his restaurant
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having RAM in personal computers is an inefficient use of the world’s limited DRAM supply, arguing it would be better allocated to data centers, per Tom’s Hardware
Recently the UK Labour Party, incumbent with a gigantic majority, decided that *none* of its MPs was good enough to become PM. And I smirked at the very idea of an anglophone country having a parliament in 2026 that's not almost entirely populated by parties comprising only dimbulbs and halfwits
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d agoThe members of the current Government are, as has been shown time and again, not serious people.
I went to Twitter HQ in San Francisco years ago & they had this in a framed triptych on the wall. ❤️
Nigel Farage just couldn’t be arsed. My verdict on the latest attention seeking stunt from Britain’s tin-pot Trump
There is STILL an endless supply of vocal halfwits that insist on the daily that these scum are part of 'the left'
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 5d agoSpeaking to reporters at Leinster House this afternoon, Matt Carthy said his party's proposals aim to make sure that citizenship is something that is "valued and earned". jrnl.ie/7207397t
Reminds me of how important Repeal Shield was during the 2018 referendum. The amount of mental space that was freed up by just ignoring the anti-choicers instead of trying to argue with them. It let us focus on putting forward our own points
Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · last wk.I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last wk.Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.
"Not the odds, but the stakes." That, as it glides in with this: My reply to a reader who asked what could journalists be doing now to break with some of their more corrosive habits. I post it from time to time.
My name is John Handelaar and I vote in Cork South Central, in the unlikely event that my local TD Micheàl Martin, the head of government and only person both able and too weak and chicken to sack this prick, is interested in what people in his own backyard think about this fuckwit neonazi failsib
john handelaar@handelaar.org · last wk.In a country in which democratic values really were long-established, rather than merely painted on the other week to placate the IMF, a minister attacking a rape crisis centre *and* using rape victims to attack an industrial dispute IN THE SAME WEEK would have been permanently ostracised, instantly
In a country in which democratic values really were long-established, rather than merely painted on the other week to placate the IMF, a minister attacking a rape crisis centre *and* using rape victims to attack an industrial dispute IN THE SAME WEEK would have been permanently ostracised, instantly
One of the constituency workers in this story was lying on purpose to a constituent and I see no value in pretending otherwise
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · last wk.I've now called the constituency office of my FF, FG and SF TDs, and I spoke to the FF and FG offices, and left a message with the SF one. According to one of the constituency workers they had been getting a lot of contact supporting the Minister's policy of removing the video promoting consent.
A big part of the PHP fix was just one guy in Czechia, Ondřej Surý. What he had to say about it is worth a read www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’
Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
theatlantic.com
"I only use chatgpt in the ideas phase" haha that's so weird. I just have them
The BBC World Service side is still making what we used to recognise as "BBC News", but inside the UK it's been this shit since David Cameron. The only way to repair BBC News UK is to "special measures" it under World and terminate *all* its current editorial decision makers while World fixes it.
John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social · 2w agoMaybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.
4, 6 and 9 are -- to be fair -- definitely and without question, each the product of two prime numbers. So those surprisingly-brittle ssl certs do have *some* basis in public-key cryptography theory, at least
the labour mp who wants to ban trans people from hospitals also thinks 5G causes cancer because of course she does
Nothing very surprising in the ITV Reform documentary, but why was the racist dating site that guy used was called "White Date" when "Plenty of Fash" was right there?
Reminder: Jim O'Callaghan, who arrived in the Dáil the other week because his sister was on tv, and now thinks he can be leader of Fianna Fáil for some reason, is a dumbshit fascist cunt who's never been vetted by anybody
Lynn O'K@lynnok.bsky.social · 3w agoJim O'Callaghan has shown such distain for women as victims of men's violence. He insisted on continuing the right of abusers to access the therapy notes of their victims to use against the victims in court. And now this is the result of his collapsing of the free legal aid and family law system.
Lousy assumption. Jim O'Callaghan is a first-term know-nothing councillor-level intellect with a famous sister, promoted miles beyond his no-talent, now scouring the arse of the British media barrel for a series of racist and/or otherwise-fascist ways to ingratiate himself with cunts who drive taxis
Alan Dunne@aldunne.eurosky.social · 2w agoJim O'Callaghan and many of his government colleagues are reasonably experienced politicians, so the only logical explanation for them fucking things up this badly is hubris. reckoning they have the numbers since GE24 to spend 2-3 years acting with impunity
Yer man has the exact kind of face necessary to just blow a reasonably-high-power fan at it to simulate the motions of speech, and dub whatever someone else wants to say onto him. Which is approximately how he sounds basically all the time
Irish Independent@independent.ie · 2w agoMajor escalation of legal aid dispute as solicitors set to withdraw all criminal defence services from Monday www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...