Gerard Cunningham

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Once is conceivably a mistake (though I can't be sure with this crowd). Twice is reckless disregard. Three times is conscious terrorism and the stuff of war crimes tribunals.

'why i left the green party and joined labour' - darren johnson

he didn't leave. he was kicked out of the green party for being a bigot.

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Wuthering Heights - a story about how there's no such thing as a good landlord.

An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around

Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.

175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.

The My Lai massacre for our generation.

The Hague - and Hell - awaits.

“Considering how force can be used against children”.

Hey, UK?

Vote Green.

RTB still can’t compel landlords to lower rent if investigators spot illegal hikes Changes to make it possible were to be included in a new law, when first announced. But they were dropped.

This isn't an oversight.

Someone looked at the settings, and deliberately and intentionally flipped a switch.

FFG, the party of landlords and developers.

www.dublininquirer.com/rtb-still-ca...

Meanwhile, Micheál Martin is polishing the shamrock bowl ahead of next week's pilgrimage..

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding a copy of The Hedge Knight by George RR Martin

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding his school bag and smiling.

If you need a timeline cleanse you should know that Dexter Sol Ansell who plays Egg on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms went to school as Egg for World Book Day.

#Spéirghorm #Ireland
#RentalCrisis #HousingCrisis

The culture the disapora takes with it is preserved in aspic. The home culture continues to evolve, so they grow apart, even before taking into account the new cultures the influences absorbs abroad.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I'll believe it when I see it, but I'm all for a tableau of various mayhems leading to a reveal of Josette Simon and Orac still fighting the good fight.

Turns out there's a wiki, if anyone wants to run the numbers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

They already let Venezuelan fishermen drown. This is just the same evil at scale.

Patrick's Day in Dublin is going to be very interesting this year.

Always_Have_Been_meme.jpg

I don't want to reboot, I don't want a remake, I don't want a reimagining of any show.

Okay, maybe Blake's 7.

Becoming the meme..

Almost as if he didn't listen to his own speech in Davos...

I'd be willing to bet the ratio is even worse in Dublin/Ireland..

And quietly grok has turned nudification back on

Samuel L Jackson, with an eye patch and leather coat, in his role as Nick Fury

Whaddaya mean, Noem is now in charge of Shield?

Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks?

It Is a Real mystery alright.

CEO sets out the case for Beehiiv versus Substack Interview with Beehiiv CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk about the newsletter platform's support for journalists and how it differs from Substack

There's always an alternative to the substack nazi bar.
Here's just one of them..

pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/...

Listen, you don’t need to play this lad and hear his very stupid answer. Suffice for you to know it involves the sentence “I am too smart to read books.”

Dozens of our readers say they were evicted shortly before the new rental rules came in “I received an eviction notice on Friday – just one week before the change. I’ve barely slept since,” one reader said.

This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents).

www.thejournal.ie/your-stories...

They're both johnny-come-latelys next to the janus-faced New York Times.