@fergusrobson
Historian of France and teacher of history, fan of people being sound to each other and the planet. Not a fan of far-right, racists, sexists and other such feckers. An Clár abú/Stand up and Fight ❤️ Munster rugby
Valentine's Day is so commercial, let's not lose track of the real meaning of this special day the day native Hawaiians stabbed British Captain James Cook right in his colonizing fucking neck on February 14, 1779 ❤️❤️❤️
Today, Paul Murphy said that the Government are afraid to stand up to big tech, and Micheál Martin replied "How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? That is a reprehensible assertion."
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
I know I don't shut up about this but, fellow Irish people, if you see a racist sticker when you're out and about, then tear it off.
It takes ten seconds.
Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up
Near-real time editing of fascist reality via digital image manipulation.
Also:
Racist as folk darkening of skin tone & that tracks with the white supremacist project at the core of the Trump Regime.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."
Paschal Donohoe * @Paschald Data centres are not only energy-intensive, they are water-intensive. Global Al-related water demand could reach 4.2-6.6bn m3 by 2027, four to six times Denmark's annual use.
After 14yrs of prioritising Data Centres above housing, Paschal Donohoe is now worried about the waste of resources. He held the purse strings, he shaped the policy and he shat on the public. Spare me the damascene conversion story arc.
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Worth reposting here because it is unbelievable how indistinguishable a lot of leftists are from right wing conspiracists
How do they get away with this stuff? They’re either purposefully misleading, or just blatantly ignorant to the facts. Family reunification accounts for less than 1% of inward migration to Ireland. It just means a traumatised person gets to be with their spouse or child while they restart their life
The chair of the Legal Aid Board has just told a FLAC conference that the government is refusing to properly fund the Board to deal with the asylum process under the new Pact, and that it's at risk of driving "an organisation in perpetual crisis to actual collapse"
#speirghorm
Another 10% were from Afghanistan. You know, that place with the Taliban.
Again I'm reminded of Eddie Izzard talking about Europe's attitude towards Hitler in the 30s:
"In a few more years we won't stand for that!"
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is what Patrick O'Donovan is taking aim at, an appreciation post for the outgoing President, not all the illegal content currently being generated by Grok.
#IrishPol
Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this. Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely. Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Slovenia and Spain have condemned Israeli legislation that includes measures to cut water, electricity and communications to facilities run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees #UNRWA
Only seven.
This is called pillaging.
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.
It’s that time of year again! And by that I mean time to read this hilarious story.
Not mentioning once that this guy was an elected representative for the Tories is an interesting editorial choice www.independent.ie/world-news/b...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.
When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Guys Ernie is still missing, he's the sweetest little boy who enjoys the company of humans. If you see him around Richmond Road/Clonliffe Road, please call his mam on 0892533727🙏🏽
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Reposting for the morning #speirghorm crowd. Ernie has been spotted near to his home but he’s scared and hiding.