It's been fun to move from making slightly dark jokes twenty years ago about how I'll probably be dead before they finish it to this becoming the most likely outcome.
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It's been fun to move from making slightly dark jokes twenty years ago about how I'll probably be dead before they finish it to this becoming the most likely outcome.
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
They just changed the law to massively favour institutional landlords over tenants. Their plan on housing delivery is to get foreign money to deliver overpriced build-to-rents. They want to turn the Irish population into a cash machine for foreign investors. It’s outrageous.
This is the most Irish government thing that ever Irish governmented.
If they could somehow sell the entire country to Vanguard or BlackRock and lease it back they'd be onto it like a shot.
Your government: working against you, not for you.
This, as far as I can tell.
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A man so bereft of dignity he's enthusiastically portraying himself as a Yellow Pack Peadar Toibín.
It is entirely believable that loads of people saw this promotion for Dublin Zoo and thought to themselves 'You know what, I'll write to one of the TDs for Cork North-Central about this.' Ken wouldn't make that up.
Hang on a minute
A screenshot of a Techmeme headline which reads "London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build "AI-powered factories" (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)"
When you want to either get in on the named-after-something-in-Tolkien action or give your company a touch of gravitas by naming it after Brunel but can't be arsed to spell it properly.
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
My working theory is that a certain Type Of Guy has not recovered from the shock of Mary Robinson becoming president 35 years ago. Even if they weren't even out of primary school in 1990.
If what the President said was obviously wrong, why is the cabinet minister remaining anonymous? Why don't they proudly step up and defend the indefensible? Because Catherine Connolly isn't wrong. She's speaking the truth and cowards are afraid we'll piss off the liars.
'Connolly's speech puts Taoiseach's chance of a new pair of shoes in peril'.
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'Connolly's speech puts Taoiseach's chance of a new pair of shoes in peril'.
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It's remarkable that cabinet ministers constantly anonymously briefing against the head of state has become a totally normal (and unremarkable) part of the political and media environment in this country.
Gender critters are specifically anti-woman and no amount of cis women championing anti-trans bigotries will change what is undeniably a misogynists movement.
just before Christmas, I wrote about how CitizenGo – a far right group funded by international dark money – tried to interfere in the Irish presidential election
yesterday, they had a stall at the Aontú Ard Fheis
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Sad news for the voters of Clacton who were hoping Farage would be able to bend the POTUS’ ear about fortnightly bin collections.
“It was an unthinkable scenario”
RETVRN ... to a 1970s-style energy crisis.
Violent men bedecked in 'protect women's spaces' using transphobia as justification to harass a women. None of this is surprising. The far right will instrumentalise any issue. The bullying and harassment are their core beliefs. Solidarity with Hannah Spencer, that must have been terrifying.
Many, many people in Britain have a fucked up view of places and cities in the Middle East, often without even realising it. When a friend of mine returned to Glasgow after being in Tehran people here were surprised to learn that folk there were into Belle & Sebastian and Mogwai
Another entry for my graphic novel: The Illustrated Guide to Silicon Valley Super Villains
A lot of these warmongers live either outside the U.K. or inside the UK in gated communities that you could barely find on Google Maps. Quite a few of them will have stocks in defence companies. So they’re just sitting at home safe and increasingly richer, smugly smiling as human beings burn alive.
Listening to interviews with a bunch of tech policy people and apparently the term AI now means basically anything a computer does without close supervision by a human. Because AI is just a marketing term that tech companies say means whatever they want.