Daithi
@daithig.bsky.social
It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King
He/Him
He/Him
Much like the Public Services Card, my biggest concern is that there's only a handful of journalists who actually understand data protection and can argue against this.
I don't want to be hearing from opinion columinists who argued the PSC was kinda like a gym card (this happened)
I don't want to be hearing from opinion columinists who argued the PSC was kinda like a gym card (this happened)
In an interview with Extra.ie, Tánaiste Simon Harris, the Irish Deputy PM, said that he will use Ireland holding rotating EU presidency next year to lead calls for the introduction of ID-verified social media accounts in the EU as well as ban social media for kids
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Simon Harris says Ireland to lead EU drive for ID-verified social media
In an interview with Extra.ie, Tánaiste Simon Harris said that the Government will lead calls for the introduction of ID-verified social media accounts.
extra.ie
December 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Much like the Public Services Card, my biggest concern is that there's only a handful of journalists who actually understand data protection and can argue against this.
I don't want to be hearing from opinion columinists who argued the PSC was kinda like a gym card (this happened)
I don't want to be hearing from opinion columinists who argued the PSC was kinda like a gym card (this happened)
After the court ruling, a couple of UK journalists started taking about how they hoped people like Freeman could relax now because they "won".
Not a chance. These people are consumed about one thing
Not a chance. These people are consumed about one thing
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
After the court ruling, a couple of UK journalists started taking about how they hoped people like Freeman could relax now because they "won".
Not a chance. These people are consumed about one thing
Not a chance. These people are consumed about one thing
Miriam was full of praise of O'Callaghan last year too. "He's getting a lot of things done" or something, without specifying exactly what he is getting done.
With my tinfoil hat on, I detect an effort to normalise talk on immigration that would have been considered extreme a few years ago. No mention of any achievements or the like, just wishy washy statements like "he hasn’t shied away from the thorny issue of immigration"
December 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Miriam was full of praise of O'Callaghan last year too. "He's getting a lot of things done" or something, without specifying exactly what he is getting done.
A former editor of the Irish Examiner went ballistic at the idea he couldn't get a pint after 8pm because of restrictions
You occasionally find fellas who still scream and roar even now about COVID lockdown and if you probe, their main gripe is they couldn't go out for a pint.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A former editor of the Irish Examiner went ballistic at the idea he couldn't get a pint after 8pm because of restrictions
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Why is this advice always aimed at children avoiding their parents, and never at older people belligerently and inevitably regurgitating Facebook opinions so offensive their own kids would rather skip Christmas dinner than endure them?
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Why is this advice always aimed at children avoiding their parents, and never at older people belligerently and inevitably regurgitating Facebook opinions so offensive their own kids would rather skip Christmas dinner than endure them?
I don't quite get how you can threaten a judicial review and then wind up with a Transport body buying your houses tbh
Dartmouth Square residents withdraw High Court challenge to MetroLink
Dartmouth Square residents withdraw High Court challenge to MetroLink
Minister for Transport says project is now ‘full steam ahead’
www.irishtimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I don't quite get how you can threaten a judicial review and then wind up with a Transport body buying your houses tbh
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
Incredible that we still get PR guff from State bodies about "national slow down day" when the Government decided to nix a mandatory 30km/h in cities.
December 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Incredible that we still get PR guff from State bodies about "national slow down day" when the Government decided to nix a mandatory 30km/h in cities.
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
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god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude
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The British press publishes ten transphobic articles a day because it is deeply concerned about violence against women and girls, apparently.
On David Walliams: The Daily Mail reveals that “showbusiness reporters at The Sun were told to drop negative stories about Walliams because both that newspaper and HarperCollins are owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK, even sharing offices near London Bridge.”
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December 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The British press publishes ten transphobic articles a day because it is deeply concerned about violence against women and girls, apparently.
Always interesting when a party pretends they support a bill in theory but there's technical issues with it, and no they aren't going to let it go to next stage and propose amendments to address their concerns, they will just not vote for it at all.
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Always interesting when a party pretends they support a bill in theory but there's technical issues with it, and no they aren't going to let it go to next stage and propose amendments to address their concerns, they will just not vote for it at all.
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I was wondering why the hell Tipp TD Ryan O'Meara was suddenly pushing the digital wallet identity verification thing so I checked and of course he was one of the TDs that Meta directly lobbied about it
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
Lobbying
www.lobbying.ie
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I was wondering why the hell Tipp TD Ryan O'Meara was suddenly pushing the digital wallet identity verification thing so I checked and of course he was one of the TDs that Meta directly lobbied about it
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
Though it does seem that an experienced political machine in Fianna Fail couldn't sniff out the tenant issue more thoroughly and solely relied on Jim Gavin's word.
December 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Though it does seem that an experienced political machine in Fianna Fail couldn't sniff out the tenant issue more thoroughly and solely relied on Jim Gavin's word.
Way too many journalist hyping up that Fianna Fail report before it was released and some sound utterly deflated.
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Way too many journalist hyping up that Fianna Fail report before it was released and some sound utterly deflated.
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Oh no, the once-elite airport lounge is now just another crowded space.
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh no, the once-elite airport lounge is now just another crowded space.
In Martin's world, his Justice Minister (and Government) wanting to relax the rules on torture doesn't compare to the drama he's going through for picking a drip of a Presidential candidate.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has hit out at media coverage of the long-awaited Fianna Fáil review of its disastrous presidential election campaign, calling some reporting "disappointing, selective and inaccurate".
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jrnl.ie/6904240
Taoiseach hits out at 'selective and inaccurate' media coverage of presidential campaign review
A special parliamentary party meeting is due to be held this week.
jrnl.ie
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In Martin's world, his Justice Minister (and Government) wanting to relax the rules on torture doesn't compare to the drama he's going through for picking a drip of a Presidential candidate.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Ah we've reached the "sensible centre having issues with unelected judges" stage of Ireland slide rightwards.
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ah we've reached the "sensible centre having issues with unelected judges" stage of Ireland slide rightwards.
When the HD remasters of Star Trek The Next Generation were released, they showed some episodes in the cinema.
A guy dressed up as a Vulcan, in full Star Trek uniform, started getting more and more angry as a guy wouldn't move from his seat.
A guy dressed up as a Vulcan, in full Star Trek uniform, started getting more and more angry as a guy wouldn't move from his seat.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
When the HD remasters of Star Trek The Next Generation were released, they showed some episodes in the cinema.
A guy dressed up as a Vulcan, in full Star Trek uniform, started getting more and more angry as a guy wouldn't move from his seat.
A guy dressed up as a Vulcan, in full Star Trek uniform, started getting more and more angry as a guy wouldn't move from his seat.
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
Calling it a Finglas Bus Corridor but it stops in Phibsborough (Harts Corner). This BusConnects project has been awful.
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Calling it a Finglas Bus Corridor but it stops in Phibsborough (Harts Corner). This BusConnects project has been awful.
Hotels really need to specify whether the room has a bath or shower, not this bath/shower nonsense which could mean anything.
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hotels really need to specify whether the room has a bath or shower, not this bath/shower nonsense which could mean anything.
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I will go to my grave screaming about how Pennywise being a clown hits completely different for anyone under 40 or 50, because the original intent was that Pennywise LOOKED HARMLESS, because “IT” predates scary clowns, & if the story were modern, Pennywise would manifest as a ninja turtle or Luffy
Welcome to Derry reveals why It loves to use the form of Pennywise the Clown so much.
Why Did IT Choose its Pennywise the Clown Form? WELCOME TO DERRY Reveals the Answer
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December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I will go to my grave screaming about how Pennywise being a clown hits completely different for anyone under 40 or 50, because the original intent was that Pennywise LOOKED HARMLESS, because “IT” predates scary clowns, & if the story were modern, Pennywise would manifest as a ninja turtle or Luffy