The NYT style guide

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

disgusting statement. three whole paragraphs dedicated to reminding everyone that Iran deserves it

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Not important of course but looks like it's just behind the camera, I think you can see it reflected in the conference phone screen

We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME

Nirvanna The Band - Mega64 Special YouTube video by Mega64

If my feed is gonna be talking about Nirvana the Band for the next week, I need more of you to watch the sublime crossover they did with Mega64 a few years back that went mostly unnoticed. They get a lot of mileage out of what first looks to be a simple premise and then keep going. Love it to bits.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Why was she on at all? Some random woman is all she is. She holds no public position, doesn't seem to be involved in any community or similar organisations, has never held an elected position or even run for one. The only time she tried she couldn't get nominated.

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020.

And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job

Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

This article is a very useful reframing of the tired “Europe falling behind in tech” whinge.

Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades.

What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work.

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Blaming the weather man for the weather while spending the last 4 decades willfully ignoring climate science to the extent we face billions in fines because of EU emissions rules. A government of out and out grifters and clowns.

James Browne is in FF. Instead of whinging that met eireann didn't give flood alerts he could get off his hole and look around at the lack of action that his party has taken on climate for decades.
There will be more severe, unpredictable flooding. Yet JB and FF are content to nothing

centrist voters who gave FFG their preferences in 2024, fully aware that they would do things like this to renters: the Pleased Middle

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

Dublin is the third most congested city and sixth slowest city in the world for traffic The latest research from Satnav company TomTom shows that the average speed during rush hour in Dublin is 13.5 km/h.

If Darragh O'Brien cancels a few more rail projects, we can aim for the number 1 spot next year! That must be his strategy..

Diagram comparing the Celtic, astronomical and meteorological calendars

picking up the 6-year-old from school she said "daddy i think the winter is nearly over because it's not dark any more when we're going home"

YYEESSSSS

Surrealing in the Years: We've found out we know nothing about a lot of Very Important Things Maybe it’s a bad thing that we’re completely clueless.

“In fairness, we also seem to believe that over one-in-three Irish people are accessing social housing compared to the real figure of 9.2%, which begs the question: how much social housing do these people think that Ireland has?”

Here is this week’s column.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.

Legit tho

‘I think that you know as well as I do that five years from now, things are going to be five years worse, unless action is taken at both a civil society and legislative level to constrain the wanton behaviour of those with money and power and vast technological resources.’

Ireland's only supervised injection centre has just secured permanent planning permission.

It's good news for Dubliners - now we need to see these facilities spread to anywhere where there is a drug injection problem.

bringing a battlebot to ces and watching it utterly destroy all the humanoid bots. flipping them over, bashing with hammers, flamethrower, etc

Feljin Jose: Seán Canney has earned the nickname ‘Minister for U-turns’ – and there’s a reason for that Here’s a riddle for you: if two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do make a right, how many U-turns make you spiral out of control?

The U-turns on road safety by this government would make your head spin. Lower default speed limits, RSA reform and red light camera pilot all abandoned while deaths and serious injuries are rising.
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