This is funny on its own terms but it's also like when a 21-year-old learns some well established fact and posts a thread lecturing the rest of us for not knowing it, often asking "why isn't this taught in schools?" despite it definitely being taught in schools
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-cla...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-cla...
Trump, 79, Claims Nobody Knows What a Magnet Is
Trump deflected hard questions about the economy with tales of magnets.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is funny on its own terms but it's also like when a 21-year-old learns some well established fact and posts a thread lecturing the rest of us for not knowing it, often asking "why isn't this taught in schools?" despite it definitely being taught in schools
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-cla...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-cla...
Any idea proposed by a man wearing a chain of office is a bad idea
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www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Any idea proposed by a man wearing a chain of office is a bad idea
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www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Just an endless stream of bad uses of AI, with hardly a significant good use to show for it. I'm betting the money runs out before anyone's able to come up with one.
Oh my god I’m crying
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just an endless stream of bad uses of AI, with hardly a significant good use to show for it. I'm betting the money runs out before anyone's able to come up with one.
As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well
Thanksgiving dinner is like poker: If you can't spot the racist uncle at the table, you are the racist uncle
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thanksgiving dinner is like poker: If you can't spot the racist uncle at the table, you are the racist uncle
Opinion columnists don't have real jobs and therefore have nothing of relevance to say about "the workplace"
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Opinion columnists don't have real jobs and therefore have nothing of relevance to say about "the workplace"
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Lol fuck's sake
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lol fuck's sake
Interesting murder weapon
*DICK CHENEY DEAD AT 84: PUNCHBOWL
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Interesting murder weapon
Imagine watching The News on TV as a kid, thinking "when I grow up I'm going to do that". You go to college, study journalism, then start at the bottom and work your way up. Then one day your employer makes you go national TV and tell the people that two "podcasters" have fallen out
November 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching The News on TV as a kid, thinking "when I grow up I'm going to do that". You go to college, study journalism, then start at the bottom and work your way up. Then one day your employer makes you go national TV and tell the people that two "podcasters" have fallen out
RIP shitposting
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
RIP shitposting
Also the onions he was wearing around his neck
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Also the onions he was wearing around his neck
The doings and transprirings of the "Royal" families of more backward nations are of no consequence to us citizens of free republics
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The doings and transprirings of the "Royal" families of more backward nations are of no consequence to us citizens of free republics
It is Back to The Future canon that Marty comes from an alternative timeline where 80's kids are still listening to Chuck Berry. Ironically, the film's theme song, "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News would be musically incomprehensible to Marty
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It is Back to The Future canon that Marty comes from an alternative timeline where 80's kids are still listening to Chuck Berry. Ironically, the film's theme song, "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News would be musically incomprehensible to Marty
Thinking there are "too many" black people on TV is the very definition of gutter racism. There is no debate to be had on the subject. This is the red line at which every half or quarter decent person says "sorry no that's just racist"
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thinking there are "too many" black people on TV is the very definition of gutter racism. There is no debate to be had on the subject. This is the red line at which every half or quarter decent person says "sorry no that's just racist"
A moment that has stayed with me: after the result was announced as gaeilge, and cheered to the rafters by Connolly supporters, the returning officer began "and in English...", eliciting a hearty guffaw, and for a brief moment it was as if anything said in that language was an irrelevant formality
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A moment that has stayed with me: after the result was announced as gaeilge, and cheered to the rafters by Connolly supporters, the returning officer began "and in English...", eliciting a hearty guffaw, and for a brief moment it was as if anything said in that language was an irrelevant formality
An interesting feature of this infamous cartoon is that all the faces are drawn in similar style, except the Sinn Fein guy who is given the simian features typical of English caricatures of the Irish going back centuries
Whenever I hear about the decline in standards from the old days of Decent Conservatism this is the first image that comes to mind. The man who drew this was given an OBE.
October 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An interesting feature of this infamous cartoon is that all the faces are drawn in similar style, except the Sinn Fein guy who is given the simian features typical of English caricatures of the Irish going back centuries
Let's be practical here, you'd need a referendum to change the nominations process, and nobody has proposed an alternative. So there's zero chance of it happening. Any talk of "looking into it" is post-election blather. It'll all be forgotten by the new year
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Let's be practical here, you'd need a referendum to change the nominations process, and nobody has proposed an alternative. So there's zero chance of it happening. Any talk of "looking into it" is post-election blather. It'll all be forgotten by the new year
Here we are, from 11th November, 2011. RTE were showing a documentary recapping the election, which had occurred only a few days before:
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Here we are, from 11th November, 2011. RTE were showing a documentary recapping the election, which had occurred only a few days before:
Gonna do some digging and see if I can find my tweets from 2011 when I said the political media had disgraced itself by treating the presidential campaign of that year as if its main purpose was to entertain them
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Gonna do some digging and see if I can find my tweets from 2011 when I said the political media had disgraced itself by treating the presidential campaign of that year as if its main purpose was to entertain them
This runs to almost a thousand pages; I'm just over 100 pages in and it's only getting started. I think it's going to be awesome
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This runs to almost a thousand pages; I'm just over 100 pages in and it's only getting started. I think it's going to be awesome
Lol
This is no longer the case, and the Taoiseach is now on his way to Dublin Castle for the declaration
The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election.
Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state
Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lol
These are the people we're being lectured about "excluding"
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
These are the people we're being lectured about "excluding"
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This was actually one the saner spoiled votes I saw
October 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This was actually one the saner spoiled votes I saw
Hearing reports of people spoiling their ballots by writing 800-word op-ed columns about how Ireland needs to have a grown-up debate about joining NATO
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Hearing reports of people spoiling their ballots by writing 800-word op-ed columns about how Ireland needs to have a grown-up debate about joining NATO