I feel like I am taking crazy pills - for every 1 rental property in Cork, there's 4 Airbnbs - this is lunacy in the middle of a decade-long housing crisis. Like, wtf are we doing here?
Just came up with a deadly name for an Irish drag queen: Úna Bomber
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.
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Wuthering heights panel from Kate Beaton’s comic ‘Hark, a Vagrant’
Best ever adaptation of Wuthering Heights was by the genius @katebeaton.bsky.social ❤️
Wuthering heights panel from Kate Beaton’s comic ‘Hark, a Vagrant’
Best ever adaptation of Wuthering Heights was by the genius @katebeaton.bsky.social ❤️
That is gorgeous!
AI nailed by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social - “It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards”
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
“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.
Dec 2025 - Jan 2026 print edition of The Onion
Onion spoof ad for Gemini AI - “our AI won’t just tell you how to kill yourself, it’ll sell you the noose”
Got myself a Xmas gift of a print subscription to @theonion.com, first one arrived this week and it’s **unreal**. The fake ads are particularly great.
The wonderful writer and all round lovely person @jmcm.bsky.social needs to raise money for a new laptop - she gives so generously to the writing community in Ireland, please support her with a small donation or by sharing ❤️ gofund.me/365b21652
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
Great list of recommendations from the brilliant John Kelly www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Open the fucking windows on buses are you all insane
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
Recession indicator in case anyone needs yet another one - quite a few closed-down shops in Dublin Airport
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
Now that the left has had a huge victory in Ireland I guess the centrist parties must promise to listen to the electorate and move to the left. I mean they feel compelled to ape the right whenever those headbangers win a few council seats.
Can some band please record a song called ‘Put in Your F*cking Headphones’, so I can play it out loud on the Luas as needed
stop fucking replying to this about headphone jacks. i don't give a shit about if you have to figure out bluetooth. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WATCHING A VIDEO AT ALL TIMES. JUST FUCKIN PUT IT DOWN. READ A FUCKIN BOOK OR SOMETHING
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Online resource to help voters spot and report election interference in Ireland
Major election coming up in Ireland next week, and election interference is a real concern. I contributed to this online resource to help inform voters about how to spot and report illegal election interference - please use and share!
sites.google.com/view/electio...
