"A murder was captured this morning and tried today. Sentence: death. Execution tonight at 6. All nets. All channels. Would you like to know more?" - Starship Troopers, satirising facism and its propaganda, back in 1997. Prescient.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Pentagon says it plans to livestream an execution. Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, scheduled for December 3. Turning a government execution into a livestream should alarm everyone.

To the surprise of absolutely fucking no-one, the MEPs in question are: Regina Doherty, Nina Carberry, Seán Kelly (FG) Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Billy Kelleher (FF) Ciaran Mullooly (II) I've said it before - no need for a far-right party in Ireland, as the establishment parties are already there.

Jack Kennedy@jackkennedy.ie · 3d ago

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Last year we gave: 7.5% of profits to staff on top of salary/bonus 7.5% to @womensaidireland.bsky.social 7.5% to local projects 7.5% to a bridge building program at a Colombian coffee co-op You can buy coffee here imbibe.ie/pages/shop but it'd be better if you could tell people about our model

Shop

We are an Irish Coffee Roasting Business. We give away 4% of all we earn before we make a cent. We roast coffee very well.

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20,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge

Irish Independent@independent.ie · 2w ago

Higher Education Minister pushes for €300m to fund AI upskilling in budget talks www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Just mastering a single for a super talented artist, song is a total groove. Then halfway through something happens...folks, I cannot overstate the visceral joy a total belter of a sax solo brings. Magnificent. Day made. #mastering

Discord shooting themselves in the face.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · last mo.

Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one. www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-b...

We maintain that there's no way to implement age verification without compromising sensitive data. Those who choose to opt out of this get a censored experience. A reminder: the leaders pushing for age verification broadly aren't doing so for child safety. Their aim is information control.

This should not even be a question, it's so obviously how these things should work.

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · last mo.

European Commission VP Teresa Ribera on data centres. "Asked if the EU should force Big Tech to pay for its own clean power supply, Ribera said: 'I think that we should do so.'" www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...

Just pure gutter racism dressed up in a suit. Appalling stuff. And I wish I believed the media would put on their grown up pants and deal with this properly but I suspect they'll soft-soap and both-sides it into reality.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last mo.

Planned changes to Irish citizenship requirements will ensure that new citizens have an “understanding” of the country and its values, the Taoiseach has said. jrnl.ie/7154915

I see we’re accelerating rapidly towards “the woke thirst mob is hogging valuable data center water”

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last mo.

You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4hUsBWd

BBC: "Dolly set up numerous charities and helped people worldwide, let's get someone who sues charities for a hobby and hates people to say a few words"

@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How the BBC is reporting Dolly Parton's passing.

And @rte.ie need to announce they're following suit quicksmart.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo ago

The Netherlands will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, with its broadcaster saying the event can "no longer be considered neutral" given divisions over the Gaza war. The contest has recently been hit by a wave of boycotts over Israel's participation. jrnl.ie/7139814

Make several bands bigger: BellX2 The Hugees Tools Très Bon Iver Greater Boston Area Europe, Middle East & Africa Smashing Pumpkin Patches

Rob O’Connor@roboconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Make a band bigger: The Rolling Cairns

Make a band bigger: Ten Inch Nails.

Dermot Lynott@dermotlynott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Make a band bigger: Radiobody

As @tupped.bsky.social went to great lengths to explain at the time; if your government is willing to accept a factory in Dublin generating Child Sexual Abuse Material, they will tolerate anything. Watching this pearl clutching by our government over joyriders on TikTok is positively bizarre.

The Gist: The Abuse Factory

X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

thegist.ie

Fantastic video from @swimmersjackson.bsky.social. Go check it out!!

Swimmers Jackson@swimmersjackson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is my new song/video from an album that won't be on Spotify, which pleases me greatly but does somewhat effect my 'reach'. So if you happen to click on it and like it I'd appreciate it if you shared it with one person. 🙏 youtu.be/0fOurrHnJY0?...

🧵 Did you see the First Music Contact report on the “Review of Pay and Conditions in the Music Industry in Ireland in 2024” covered by @nialler9.com a few weeks ago? There's some shocking stats in it. 1/4

Can get on board with this, but surely instead of super-cardioid and hyper-cardioid, we just ditch hyper for "super-duper-cardioid". Also, hat? Clearly a kidney bean. Balloon sword is ok, but am I the only one seeing Earthworm Jim? #audionerds & #soundengineers of #speirghorm, weigh in here

Captain Disillusion@captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Names of mic pickup patterns. We must stop the nonsense. I'm never going to learn which one is "hyper-cardioid." My concrete proposal for simplified nomenclature:

Well, that's disappointing. elasticStage looked like it could be a great service, but it's a hard pass now.

fox noises (spooky)@jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We were almost sure it was elasticStage that paired with Suno for their AI music vinyl service, and were ready to boycott them once we got confirmation, but Looks like elasticStage was nice enough to go mask off pairing with Zionist AI musician Boy George for an advert. Don't use this service.

Magnificent.

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 2mo ago

give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

Regulatory reader here. A lot of the issues would be clarified or relieved if they fixed what ‘making available on the market’ means. Currently MAOTM includes shipments made free of charge— so just mailing a demo tape to a polish cousin would count as a commercial activity. And that’s silly.

Not at all surprised by this poisonous, ignorant nincompoop mixing up "inoffensive" for a word that implies trad can bring about oppression, an act which vaste swathes of trad music laments and rails against. FF are a blight.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2mo ago

Jim O’Callaghan requested ‘unoppressive’ Irish traditional music for EU ministers

Attention musician folk! Time to stop shipping your CDs/vinyl/merch to EU countries. This PPWR thing is a small business killer. Crossposting details below from Instagram. #ppwr #speirgorm #musicians

Hearing it's safe to stare at the eclipse if you're using Meta glasses..

I can't stress enough the importance of making shitty things. Shitty writing. Shitty art. Shitty paintings. Shitty films. Shitty songs. Shitty sculptures. Shitty is beautiful, because it's human. There's no glory without shitty. Get out there and shit things up.

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A dead battery that has been taken out and tried approximately 37 times already when some gadget has died, that despite being empty, seems to always find its way back into the drawer

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 2mo ago

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? an old charging cable that has one of the odd tiny USB shapes nothing uses anymore but something you have must use it or it wouldn’t be in there so you should probably just leave it

Ah, Tom, 'tis yerself, how's tings bai? Are ya still at the auld My Space dot com thing? ##speirgorm #MySpaceRevival

Chambers is basically a US Republican in a FF suit. Totally fine with facist policies like not allowing court challenges when government are not following the law. No interest in spending taxpayer funds on important things like climate, cause that won't help him win more power, god for-fucking-bid.

Feljin Jose@feljin.ie · 2mo ago

Jack Chambers wants you to believe that the Climate Act of 2021 is the reason for decades of poor infrastructure delivery and not the decisions of decades of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments