Will Lawless
@willlawless.bsky.social
AoS, slowly and not that well. Other stuff, like trying to be a halfway decent human being, big fan of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. B.I.H.* Lisan al-Gaib. #YNWA. *Big Irish Head
a reminder that the much-hyped new e-scooter regulations have not yet taken effect. it's almost as if existing laws were sufficient and the Gardaí could have simply been enforcing them all along
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 5h agoOver 160 e-bikes and e-scooters were among the items that have seized during Tuesday's day of action among gardaí in Dublin. jrnl.ie/7122443
It's not "harder to determine". We have centuries of jurisprudence on whose fault it is when an object or machine causes harm.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 16h agoAs I said above, focusing on questions of liability might be fruitful in changing the incentives for behaviour through the system
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
Hey folks, hoping I can call on the community to report this channel for impersonation. They've just straight up stolen my videos and slapped an AI logo onto it all. youtube.com/@theoculusim...
look, if fear of having everyone on the internet celebrate your death by bringing up every bad thing you’ve done is what it takes to stop people being cunts while they’re alive, i say let’s give it a go
Many journalists and commentators revealing their biggest fear is to die and then be absolutely rinsed on social media for being cunts
Donald Glover's 'Good' Reaction
ALT: Donald Glover's 'Good' Reaction
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A useful reminder from @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social of how Rod Liddle reacted when the world grieved the loss of Nelson Mandela:
Dave. You don’t need to do this. You should be playing a hunky librarian who solves mysteries while wearing his little glasses.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2d ago‘God of War’: Dave Bautista in Talks For Kratos Role in Amazon Series After Ryan Hurst’s Exit variety.com/2026/tv/news...
It's DEMO DAY! We are LIVE over on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4492680/... So excited to finally have this out in the wild to share with you all :) #indiegames #indiedev #hibera #irishgamedev #turnbasedthursday (I know it's monday)
*Extremely Wolfe Tones Voice* 🎶Some say Rod Liddle is dead, Rod Liddle is dead, Rod Liddle is dead and buried in Kilarney🎶
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2d agoRod Liddle is dead.
this whole thing stinks of begrudgery, to be honest. too many people in ireland are more than happy to begrudge a grown man a pattern of inappropriate relationships with teenage girls.
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.
US narrative is more complicated for various reasons, but "summer 2020 rishi sunsk started the covid revival project with eat out to help out, and by january everything was so fucked they had to lock down the whole country for 5 more months" is simple, true, and all these weirdos have just forgotten
I will keep bringing it back to this, because it's wild not to. British journalists are wildly right wing because they are selected by a system overwhelmingly run by wild right wingers. Their conception of normal is horrifically skewed.
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.
Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People
Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People
westernpeople.ie
I know a middle-aged nurse who caught COVID four times. Yet the predominant voice we hear now from that era is a middle-aged guy who went far-right because he couldn't have a pint.
researchdoom@bananaintherama.bsky.social · 4d agoI remember my SIL nurse crying in rage on the phone when this was announced. Yes, she got COVID in her ward. She lost a baby. Fuck these people.
it is 2039. announcing a State-funded multi-billion euro clean-up of the Aughinish Alumina site, the FFFG government says mistakes were made, now is not the time to be playing politics, and to vote for them in the upcoming election because other parties can't be trusted
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d agoArsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.
