Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that. Borked is a splendid word. As your other correspondent said, I think Brother is probably the best bet

At the risk of mansplaining, have you updated the firmware lately? If that’s the issue you might knock another year or so out of it

Mark E. Smith, singer, lyricist and only constant member of post-punk group the Fall, was born in Broughton, Salford, on this day 1957. Smith formed the band after attending a 1976 Sex Pistols gig at Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, and was its leader until he died in 2018.

Bloodied abandoned school bag, Minab.

“Well, it's only in time that we'll find out if it was illegal or not.”

- FF TD Galway East follows his instructions.

Sign the Petition Arthur Leahy Bridge

Petition to name new Cork bridge after the amazing activist Arthur Leahy c.org/G9jPzJTZYb. #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

Alanna O'Malley: US multinationals will not flee Ireland just because we stand up to Donald Trump Time we put down the St Patrick’s Day shamrock bowl and speak up for international law

'US multinationals will not flee the country just because the Irish Government stands up for the principles of global order.'

- Alanna O'Malley

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Since 2 March 2025, UNRWA’s aid supplies for #Gaza have been blocked by the Israeli authorities.

Food, medicines & other essentials for hundreds of thousands of people remain in UNRWA warehouses, ready to enter — while access stays severely restricted.

#UNRWAworks — we must be allowed to scale up.

it's sad the the 'before' picture is so commonplace (and so accepted as normal) in ireland

if they were displayed the other way around, you would think something cataclysmic had happened

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Fair play to Spain for demonstrating more bottle than any Irish Govt ever did!
“There is a deal with the US, but our understanding of the deal is that operations have to comply with international legal frameworks & there has to be international support for them,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Infographic from NTA report.

The latest NTA report for the Cork Metropolitan Area shows 83% support reducing speed limits to 30km/h in built-up areas.

I put forward a motion in January calling for the most ambitious possible 30km/h speed zones across Cork City.

Safer streets. Safer children. Strong public backing.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

As the petrostates wage wars that send oil & gas prices spiralling, what a great incentive to go all-in on renewables & stop funding terrorist states and their endless wars into the bargain.

I wonder if an economist /analyst would be interested in calculating how much cars cost us.

The import.
The fuel.
The tax.
The time in congestion.
The deaths.
The injuries.
Sedentary weight gain.
The stress.
The emissions.
The lessons.
The insurance.

The delayed services by dispersed settlement

there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

Chronic ocean heating fuels a ‘staggering’ loss of marine life:

“Historically, overfishing has been the main driver of biomass declines in many of the world’s fisheries."

“The current challenge is that this overfishing crisis is being further exacerbated by ocean warming and deoxygenation.”

This is so distressing to read, the BBC really messed this one up

It's not a ceasefire if one side keeps firing:

Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.

Plato

I remember seeing Zelensky on TV at the start of the war and thinking "A week from now that guy's going to be either dead or reciting a scripted surrender in a Moscow prison." By inflicting such terrible, pointless suffering on two countries, Putin has exposed his own weakness and Ukraine's strength

Alarming isn't it. It isn't demand for timber causing Amazon deforestation though it's land grabs for cattle ranching due to demand for cheap meat. It's time we all realised that it comes at a huge environmental cost.

Regulate platforms, not children – Commissioner urges caution over social media bans - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 23 February 2026

Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children.
I urge caution:
✅ Focus on "safety by design"
✅ Demand algorithmic transparency
✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards

Read my Shout Out👇
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

ROVÉLO CREATIVE'S GUIDE TO Cyclist Visibility BIke stencil Visible bike stencil behind a dash - invisible invisible unless rolling through a stop sign

Quick Reference.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

Galway councillor claims RSA messaging amounts to ‘victim blaming’ – ‘Children are not killed because of a lack of high-vis vests’ A Galway councillor has called for a “no confidence” vote and a major overhaul of the Road Safety Authority (RSA), claiming its education campaigns place responsibility on vulnerable road users rather...

“Children are not killed because they're not wearing high-vis vests. Children are killed because people are speeding, they are inattentive, they are drink driving, they're on their mobile phones, or the design of our roads is not appropriate.” Cllr Alan Curran

www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...