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Jonathan is correct here but this was the point where the leaders of the white people world decided there would be no laws or rules any more: they had won the Cold War, they were heroes and moral titans and they could kill anyone they wanted, destroy other countries for any reason they fancied.
December 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Jonathan is correct here but this was the point where the leaders of the white people world decided there would be no laws or rules any more: they had won the Cold War, they were heroes and moral titans and they could kill anyone they wanted, destroy other countries for any reason they fancied.
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The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech.
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech.
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!
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What a total disgrace that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and, above all, Sinn Féin voted this down.
Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside.
The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again.
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Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside.
The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again.
share.google/GFZMEYpIfSe0...
Bill to ban fox hunting defeated in Dáil
The bill to ban fox hunting in Ireland, proposed by People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger, has been defeated in the Dáil.
share.google
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What a total disgrace that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and, above all, Sinn Féin voted this down.
Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside.
The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again.
share.google/GFZMEYpIfSe0...
Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside.
The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again.
share.google/GFZMEYpIfSe0...
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A pack of lies from SF to protect the landed gentry... Gross
Eat shit, Sinn Fein. #speirgorm #mairedevine
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A pack of lies from SF to protect the landed gentry... Gross
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Something the Irish church might consider. The Church, despite lecturing for centuries on the sin of lying still owes some €1.5b to survivors, to date the Irish taxpayer has been picking up the tab. Most Irish Catholic Churches are 19th C monstrosities* which could be used to build social housing.
Catholic Church in New York Moves to Sell $490 Million Manhattan Property to Pay Sex Abuse Survivors
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balleralert.com/profiles/blo...
Catholic Church to Sell $490M Manhattan Property to Pay Sex Abuse Survivors
The Catholic Church in New York plans to sell a $490 million Manhattan property beneath the Palace Hotel to fund settlements for more than 1,000 sexual abuse survivors.
balleralert.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Something the Irish church might consider. The Church, despite lecturing for centuries on the sin of lying still owes some €1.5b to survivors, to date the Irish taxpayer has been picking up the tab. Most Irish Catholic Churches are 19th C monstrosities* which could be used to build social housing.
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I mean, it is the plan they lobbied him for.
Hey @tupped.bsky.social you might not have seen this yet..
www.businesspost.ie/politics/met...
Meta expected to support Minister’s age verification proposals at a meeting with the Minister mere weeks after meeting with the Minister who then announced a vague scheme for age verification.
www.businesspost.ie/politics/met...
Meta expected to support Minister’s age verification proposals at a meeting with the Minister mere weeks after meeting with the Minister who then announced a vague scheme for age verification.
archive.ph
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I mean, it is the plan they lobbied him for.
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The headline doesn't do justice to this story
A former Fine Gael councillor and cathaoirleach of Cavan County Council has been jailed for two years and nine months for stealing €172,000 from a housing charity
Ex-FG cllr jailed for theft of €172,000 from charity
A former Fine Gael councillor and cathaoirleach of Cavan County Council has been jailed for two years and nine months for stealing €172,000 from a housing charity.
www.rte.ie
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The headline doesn't do justice to this story
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Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
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Five of the anti genocide protestors on hunger strike that the British govt have held as terrorists have been hospitalised. This Scottish newspaper is the only news outlet in GB that thinks this is newsworthy.
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Five of the anti genocide protestors on hunger strike that the British govt have held as terrorists have been hospitalised. This Scottish newspaper is the only news outlet in GB that thinks this is newsworthy.
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Scandalously at 1am, the government has just pushed through a law with far reaching ramifications.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scandalously at 1am, the government has just pushed through a law with far reaching ramifications.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
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Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
On how a hollowed-out power system looks like it is preparing for its end.
www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-po...
On how a hollowed-out power system looks like it is preparing for its end.
www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-po...
Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
Yesterday’s plan to control internet has already dwindled down to a pilot, with no MyGovID integration. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
On how a hollowed-out power system looks like it is preparing for its end.
www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-po...
On how a hollowed-out power system looks like it is preparing for its end.
www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-po...
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🪧Current new build 2-bed apartment sales price in Europe
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🪧Current new build 2-bed apartment sales price in Europe
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
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Behind all the hyped-up talk from the Government about their plans for social media, what they have actually done is bottled the regulation of the tech companies and are proposing to regulate the users instead, because we look easier to tell what to do.
@tupped.bsky.social’s recent gist explores the implications of a ID verification system & points out that politicians are adopting policies that suit big tech rather than protect our rights.
There’s a way of doing this without creating an internet surveillance state.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
There’s a way of doing this without creating an internet surveillance state.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Behind all the hyped-up talk from the Government about their plans for social media, what they have actually done is bottled the regulation of the tech companies and are proposing to regulate the users instead, because we look easier to tell what to do.
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Judge Kerr said he accepted that this was not a terrorist case but that the pipe bombs had been left to "cause fear and distress and in order to achieve a sectarian aim of stopping the GAA using public pitches".
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
A man who left pipe bombs at a Co Down sports ground in an attempt to intimidate a newly formed GAA club into leaving, has been given a three year sentence.
Man who left pipe bombs at Down sports ground jailed
A man who left pipe bombs at a Co Down sports ground in an attempt to intimidate a newly formed GAA club into leaving, has been given a three year sentence.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Judge Kerr said he accepted that this was not a terrorist case but that the pipe bombs had been left to "cause fear and distress and in order to achieve a sectarian aim of stopping the GAA using public pitches".
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
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Because of external factors, this weekend’s Gist came out on Tuesday.
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Because of external factors, this weekend’s Gist came out on Tuesday.
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
So if you got a chance to hit repost that would be very helpful.
It’s on Patrick O’Donovan’s plans to implement Meta’s preferred form of ‘regulation’, but also to make it worse.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
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Instagram has gotten into the automated SEO spam game, exciting stuff:
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Instagram has gotten into the automated SEO spam game, exciting stuff:
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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When it comes to government digital services, paid for with my tax money to process my personal data, it's true that I am interested more in privacy than other issues.
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Plan to verify people’s ages on line with Government ID a ‘disproportionate response’
Civil liberty and digital privacy campaigners question legal basis for proposed digital wallets
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
When it comes to government digital services, paid for with my tax money to process my personal data, it's true that I am interested more in privacy than other issues.
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Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Plan to verify people’s ages on line with Government ID a ‘disproportionate response’
Civil liberty and digital privacy campaigners question legal basis for proposed digital wallets
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
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See how much easier it is to skip the step where people go "hmmmmm I wonder if this obvious chancer is being genuine?" and jump straight to dismissing everything he says cause he's clearly full of shit
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
See how much easier it is to skip the step where people go "hmmmmm I wonder if this obvious chancer is being genuine?" and jump straight to dismissing everything he says cause he's clearly full of shit
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The future is building a humanoid robot at great cost to replace hiring a guy to hand out water bottles, then hiring a guy to remote control the robot handing out water bottles.
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The future is building a humanoid robot at great cost to replace hiring a guy to hand out water bottles, then hiring a guy to remote control the robot handing out water bottles.
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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LinkedIn is a social media site for failed James Bond villains.
The LinkedIn visionaries have come up with a solution to their AI datacenter cooling problem. It involves putting them in the coldest place they know: space. Which is extremely funny if you know like any physics at all.
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
LinkedIn is a social media site for failed James Bond villains.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man