In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
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I wonder what is the best way to share this week’s Gist on Threads?
Pros: reaches loads of people, gets algorithmically stuffed into Facebook and Instagram too.
Cons: nearly 2k words. Is this the Threads audience?
Charles Xavier, 93, who is so autistic he can kill people with his mind, said: “You can really thrive here if you’re different. There’s on-the-job training, free accommodation and endless opportunities for progression. And nobody bats an eyelid if you come to work in your underpants.”
Gavin Monks, 65 – who books his car in for regular services five years in advance and writes complaint letters to Pizza Express every time their menu changes – frequently laments that “everyone is diagnosing themselves these days”.
Please think - have you ever heard of anything more cruel, done by a State which the EU, US and UK support to the hilt?
Just when you think you couldn’t have a lower opinion of Bono, here he knocks it out of the park with his shallow egotism & self-reverential nonsense around the US and its enabling of mass murder in #Gaza.
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Peruvian independent media outlet La Encerrona has identified the Israeli soldier being investigated for genocide in Peru as Adi Karni, from the 603rd Batallion, adding he might still be in Peru.
This is true of EVERY ISSUE the Irish government faces - housing, health, the Gaza genocide, climate.
They say one thing, and do ... nothing.
Absolutely nothing about any of them.
This is absolutely horrifying. What justification could they possibly give for strip-searching those women? This is intimidation. This is punishment by sexual assault.
58% on Cork
'Martin’s bilingually bellicose approach was compounded when McDonald appealed to Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy to intervene, only for it to become clear that the Murphy hadn’t a clue what Martin had just said.'
Here is this week's Surrealing! Enjoy!
The Gist: The Group Think Government
Wednesday's Dáil chaos reveals the limits of Executive power and the dangers of a lack of decision-maker diversity. This is the Gist.
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To note:
Both Micheal Martin and Simon Harris said we would have “close to 40,000 houses built” in 2024.
Before the election, govt repeatedly dismissed reports that house completions in 2024 would be closer to 30,000 .
Lowry on RTE now defending a ceann comhairle he installed as his little mini-coup lies in ruins.
A despicable, reprehensible individual found to be "prfoundly corrupt" who dodged taxes, yet is still voted for by people in their thousands. Irish democracy in a nutshell.
#speirgorm
A pronoun of toddlers
“We’re starting to think she might just be an actual person with a whole lifetime of trauma,” consultant psychiatrist Graeme Livingstone, 48, revealed. “Though we’re still unsure at this point.”
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Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be more blatant if it was accompanied by a tiny finger moustache?
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@sfdirewolf.bsky.social "feels, more than ever, like Cassandra of Greek mythology, shouting dire warnings that no one is willing to hear or believe. 'It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most ppl with privilege uncomfortable.'”
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An Apology.
Earlier today we caused some upset by claiming that Bono's US Presidential Medal of Freedom is for services to Israel and Tax Avoidance.
We apologise to those affected. There was of course no excuse for failing to mention that the medal is also for being a Tory.
"What about the safety of those sleeping rough? What about their concerns? If you’re scared to walk down O’Connell St at night, then what of the people who have to spend all night, every night, on those same streets, cold, hungry and possibly in pain?"
Surrealing:
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Prescient, poignant
New Year's Gist: My Daughter's Path
The last of the holiday specials, this is a short story I wrote some 25ish years ago.
Now, having had three children, I think it's still good. I hope you like it.
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Replace SVP with FFG/G, the current Government to understand why.
Was gonna say 1985 Take on Me, but their 2017 Acoustic version (www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB11...) but then I remembered Dexys Midnight Runners and Come On Eileen :-)
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According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now.
We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.
South Korea is on a precipice. Will the US, which commands the Korean military in times of war and operates under a joint command, approve this or stand aside? "Korean martial law command announces decree banning political activities." en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024...
I've started on a first starter pack - some Twitter Ireland originals and media types go.bsky.app/FLAa4Lb
