Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp

Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy

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Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Any music platform worth their salt should be banning AI music altogether. It's bad enough that you make millions profiteering off the sweat and blood of musicians with little return, but to profit off AI shysters, is another level of dystopia.

The Irish government have two modes: A) Doing nothing. B) Making something illegal (and not worrying about enforcement). A social media ban *looks* like they're being tough on tech companies, when in reality it lets big tech off the hook for many of the harms they're responsible for.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Irish officials proposed scrapping ‘linchpin’ of climate legislation

Move would have ‘scuppered any notion that this Government takes climate action seriously’, environmentalists say

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“They could build affordable housing at the speed they build data centers.” They just don’t want to spoil the party. #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Inequality #Housing

GodlessPrimate@godlessprimate.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.

Nothing quite like shredding & vapourising the very people you hope will rise up and overthrow their government...

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d ago

US bomb attack of residential area of Iran kills two-year-old boy and his parents with other children pulled alive from the rubble By @wordsbyhg.bsky.social

Power is back in Matanzas Cuba, at least for a couple of hours maybe. Everything in the fridge destroyed, it's 34 degrees there today. Now the rush to cook, clean while there is water and recharge stuff like phones and lamps for tonight. We don't know we're born.

“To whom do I owe my tongue when silence is the weapon that forces acceptance…” www.ionadhindrajab.org

In no length of time those in power will cite the failure of/overinvestment in the AI project for our infrastructure failing I can SMELL it, but will they do anything now to prevent that damage? god no that would be hasty we've to cross the point of no return first and THEN regret it

Arse-nic to Aughinish.

Prof John O Brennan@jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 5d ago

As well as supplying Russia with vast amounts of alumina, Aughinish Alumina is contaminating groundwater around its plant to massive levels, polluting a beautiful part of the Shannon Estuary. Where is Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency? Asleep at the wheel, it seems.

Farmer organisations like the IFA and Macra, the ICMSA and @talamhbeo.bsky.social should come out with public statements about how Irish agriculture needs a minister that acknowledges that climate change is here, now and the industry needs to both adapt and mitigate for it - fast.

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...

I have donated to @amnesty.org in the past, but I won't be doing so again after @amnestyuk.bsky.social's pathetic apology to Rowling. In future I'll give my money to organisations that retain a spine

A rare example of European media reporting the actual words of illegal settlers.

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

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We are governed by fools. Incompetent eejits, gullible gobdaws and people of inferior intellect. And yet, we keep putting them back in power ..

Father Ted: Mrs Doyle - Maybe I Like The Misery

ALT: Father Ted: Mrs Doyle - Maybe I Like The Misery

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Charlie Weston@charlieweston.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hospitality Vat rate cut fails to reach consumers as just one of 60 items checked falls in price Five items rise in price despite 9pc rate being introduced last month www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

Reminder: €31 million is the EPA-approved fund/provision for future remediation of the entire Aughinish site. Opinion: It will not be enough.

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

Great… 🚮 #Micro$lop #Copilot

Gearóid O'Connor@goconnor.bsky.social · 5d ago

This on the other hand is worth paying attention to IMHO. www.csoonline.com/article/4203...

Wanna do me a little birthday favour? It's a bit of an uphill struggle for me to get eyeballs on my videos, lots of people don't know I have a YouTube channel and I'm working on video essays these days, so if folks could help me out and spread the word? That'd be nice! youtube.com/@caseyexplos...

Casey Explosion

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

From District Magazine. Grim.

It is not “failing,” because the reason it exists is so Meta can say “look at all our efforts to eliminate harassment content.” Their so-called policy exists to insulate them from criticism. They have been doing this for as long as the company has been in existence. It’s chapter 1 in the playbook.

Meta's Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing

Creeps are continuing to film themselves harassing women with Meta smart glasses, racking up millions of views on Instagram.

futurism.com

I now have his story which will be displayed next to this photo in the Rebellion! exhibition. It exposes just how ridiculous arresting these people as terrorists is.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.

A doctor is arrested by the police as a terrorist for peacefully protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action, Parliament Square today, from my series ‘Rebellion!’

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

Are they racing on AstroTurf? Grass very green in Ballybrit. #WaterRestriction