Harmonious Bosch
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Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
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Not seeing this being referred to as a white male grooming gang, which it is.
This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Not seeing this being referred to as a white male grooming gang, which it is.
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step 1: “why do we have so many bureaucrats? get rid of them and invest in doctors!”
step 2 (two years later): “why are doctors spending so much time doing admin instead of treating people? let’s hire some bureaucrats to do that for them!”
…and repeat
step 2 (two years later): “why are doctors spending so much time doing admin instead of treating people? let’s hire some bureaucrats to do that for them!”
…and repeat
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
step 1: “why do we have so many bureaucrats? get rid of them and invest in doctors!”
step 2 (two years later): “why are doctors spending so much time doing admin instead of treating people? let’s hire some bureaucrats to do that for them!”
…and repeat
step 2 (two years later): “why are doctors spending so much time doing admin instead of treating people? let’s hire some bureaucrats to do that for them!”
…and repeat
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It's hard to explain just how bad the leaked "Digital Omnibus" is, but this short video does a good job of it.
Imagine if someone so thoroughly lacquered from snorting slop while praying to Sam Altman were asked to edit a privacy law.
Imagine if someone so thoroughly lacquered from snorting slop while praying to Sam Altman were asked to edit a privacy law.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's hard to explain just how bad the leaked "Digital Omnibus" is, but this short video does a good job of it.
Imagine if someone so thoroughly lacquered from snorting slop while praying to Sam Altman were asked to edit a privacy law.
Imagine if someone so thoroughly lacquered from snorting slop while praying to Sam Altman were asked to edit a privacy law.
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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
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Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Yes indeed.
"the fact that a regulator is using tools (and therefore presumably spending money and resources) to specifically track the public’s use of software designed to enhance digital privacy is likely to ring alarm bells."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
"the fact that a regulator is using tools (and therefore presumably spending money and resources) to specifically track the public’s use of software designed to enhance digital privacy is likely to ring alarm bells."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Yes indeed.
"the fact that a regulator is using tools (and therefore presumably spending money and resources) to specifically track the public’s use of software designed to enhance digital privacy is likely to ring alarm bells."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
"the fact that a regulator is using tools (and therefore presumably spending money and resources) to specifically track the public’s use of software designed to enhance digital privacy is likely to ring alarm bells."
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
'Remote working a 'mistake', claims Irish man who works remotely from Malta for tax reasons'.
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
'Remote working a 'mistake', claims Irish man who works remotely from Malta for tax reasons'.
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Even more reason to keep this institution from succumbing to a decade's long attack from the right wing whose strategy is to create an environment where the rest of us hate it enough to accept its demise - the exact same playbook used against the NHS
Ruin it when in power and attack relentlessly
Ruin it when in power and attack relentlessly
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Even more reason to keep this institution from succumbing to a decade's long attack from the right wing whose strategy is to create an environment where the rest of us hate it enough to accept its demise - the exact same playbook used against the NHS
Ruin it when in power and attack relentlessly
Ruin it when in power and attack relentlessly
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I urge @allymcgovern.bsky.social and my friends in Britain to consider whether apologizing to the President of the United States has yielded anything positive for the free press. It has tended to do little more than encourage lawful extortion demands and editorial changes that undercut public trust.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I urge @allymcgovern.bsky.social and my friends in Britain to consider whether apologizing to the President of the United States has yielded anything positive for the free press. It has tended to do little more than encourage lawful extortion demands and editorial changes that undercut public trust.
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
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One of the hallmarks of almost all self identifying nationalism in 2025 is a hatred of the country you claim to love.
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
One of the hallmarks of almost all self identifying nationalism in 2025 is a hatred of the country you claim to love.
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So proud of my father for all the passion, courage,care and vision he brought to the last 14 years as President of Ireland. Both my parents have always been driven by a deep wide love for Ireland & the world, for people, planet & possibilities. Looking forward to their next chapter! #Grá #spiergirm
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
So proud of my father for all the passion, courage,care and vision he brought to the last 14 years as President of Ireland. Both my parents have always been driven by a deep wide love for Ireland & the world, for people, planet & possibilities. Looking forward to their next chapter! #Grá #spiergirm
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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Interesting and accurate data here on current legal challenges (and trends) to permitted developments from @fplogue.bsky.social
share.google/UgrRnSFOhjnQ...
share.google/UgrRnSFOhjnQ...
Money Talks, B**lshit Walks
The Money is is talking us into autocracy - we shouldn't let it Money is talking us into autocracy by appropriating the common good to serve the 1%, but the common good isn't promoted by squashing peo...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Interesting and accurate data here on current legal challenges (and trends) to permitted developments from @fplogue.bsky.social
share.google/UgrRnSFOhjnQ...
share.google/UgrRnSFOhjnQ...
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The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
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Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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“Objectors will be on hook to pay six-figure legal costs under JR clampdown”
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
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 1:13 PM
“Objectors will be on hook to pay six-figure legal costs under JR clampdown”
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Judicial Review is about ensuring public bodies comply with the law. Upholding democratic laws isn’t “objecting”
Language matters
@conalthomas90.bsky.social @wayneoconnor.bsky.social
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
The apple tart upsetter himself.
Bertie Ahern quoted in the Irish times: "The problem with equality is that if you give it to one person, then everyone else comes looking for it."
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The apple tart upsetter himself.
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The British commentariat is so cooked that they can't even conceive of people wanting to vote for someone who thinks shitting on minorities is bad so let's just ignore it
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The British commentariat is so cooked that they can't even conceive of people wanting to vote for someone who thinks shitting on minorities is bad so let's just ignore it
The government and arms of the state responsible for this attack on access to justice will make their best surprised faces when it doesn't result in an increase in the amount of housing built. Because the status quo suits the moneyed interests just fine.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.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.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The government and arms of the state responsible for this attack on access to justice will make their best surprised faces when it doesn't result in an increase in the amount of housing built. Because the status quo suits the moneyed interests just fine.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...