What is it with all leaders and governments everywhere being absolutely in thrall to these tech bros? They hang off every opinion like it came down from a mountain carved on stone. Money, I know, proving itself over and over to be the root of evil.

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 16h ago

Patrick Collison of Stripe speaking to European Finance Ministers at the Castle today.

yes the players and management have been put in an awful position but we should not accept the argument that they have no choice here. they're pulling a Sheeran

Some Ireland players ‘feel really uncomfortable’ about Israel matches, says Hallgrímsson

Séamus Coleman overlooked for selection but earmarked for future coaching role

irishtimes.com

Don't really think Ireland as a whole deserves a pat on the back for the work of some artists, activists, and the people who pressure and protest, when our government watered down the OTB, the GAA refuses to drop Israeli weapon insurer Allianz, and the FAI is happy to play Israel without Irish fans

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As someone in Northern Ireland, it's been sitting uncomfortably the amount of lefties saying Britain has never gone fascist before when most of you have no clue what they did here. Give it different names if you want.

‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.

‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave

Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way

theguardian.com

In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

himalmag.com

Ms Rachel is the Mr. Rogers of our time. She is steadfast, she is amazing, she is loving.

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4d ago

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month

How to check whether you were affected in Revolut’s blunder in handing over customer passports, driver’s licences, addresses, phone numbers etc In-app: —> Account (top left of screen) —> Chats

I find it difficult to trust anyone who doesn’t consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:

Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up

The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.

jrnl.ie

Nine of the eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court are on the US sanctions list.

Ko van Huissteden@kovanhuissteden.bsky.social · 6d ago

Uiterst schandalig voor Nederland en Europa. Nederland is gastland van het Internationaal Strafhof en heeft de verplichting te helpen. In plaats daarvan pleast onze regering liever Trump. decorrespondent.nl/17244/als-tr...

Academic publishers everyone. Modern day piracy.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo.

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

Is the first ever orange man advocating for United Ireland?

Israel has destroyed over 800,000 Palestinian olives trees. The olive tree is the heart of the Palestinians and like all greedy Western colonists they must destroy the soul of the indigenous people.. destroy their children, destroy their land, destroy their memories, erase everything.

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

Even without the ethical and environmental issues, cannot wrap my head around the uncritical use of genAI and the likes of ChatGPT - why would you want to outsource your cognitive ability, your own capacity for thought and reason and creativity? Why are people so unconcerned about losing that?

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

nature.com

Died #Onthisday 1916 in Ginchy during #WW1 Tom Kettle, barrister poet politician B&W📸@ucdarchives 'Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead, Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor, But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed, And for the secret Scripture of the poor'

I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.

X is evil - pass it on.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

bylinetimes.com

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

And as with Jason Arday, you can see the problem here. Because a handful of gatekeepers decide what is ‘news’ & what isn’t. This is a stunning investigation but if & how it catches fire depends on the follow-up…& Times & Telegraph are embarrassed & implicated. So much now depends on the BBC…