False claims of a stabbing at Connolly Station on Saturday night were shared to millions of people by a US commentator who had travelled to Ireland to cover the fuel price protests.
jrnl.ie/7019035
The more serious take on this is that prediction markets are going to fuel a wave of these kind of start-ups. Total trash that will claim to be doing the work of journalism (while simultaneously relying on the "old" media for literally every insight they have)
Oof!
the Limerick Leader should act like a real newspaper rather than some random twitter goon
huge if true
FT scoop - Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. One official says it could be equivalent to $1 per barrel of oil www.ft.com/content/02ae...
People who talk like this, man.
Who's memeifying them?
“A former Meta employee suspected of downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.”
Good headline writing.
Iran says no to temporary ceasefire proposal.
Donald Trump threatens war crimes.
The Strait is likely to stay “closed” as long as Tehran wants it for the time being - analysis.
Genuinely flabbergasted (and intrigued) that Nate Silver has noticed this *now*, in that 'Twitter is downrating links in a way that makes it hostile if you want people to actually pay for your journalism' has been true for such a long time now. What has changed for him to notice?
Ahh only delighted Bernie! Great to meet you both
Thanking @garethoconnor.bsky.social @newschambers.bsky.social and the Thursday @virginmedianews.bsky.social crew for offering a whirlwind tour of Studio 1 to my newshound 14yo son. #AuthenticStories
vimeo.com/1180081836?s...
Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.
I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.
The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.
Supporters of farmers in Lismore, Co Waterford occupied a London bookshop owned by the Duke of Devonshire today.
The farmers are locked in a standoff with the aristocrat over rent hikes.
www.thejournal.ie/duke-of-devo...
🚨 EU fuel rationing on the cards: Financial Times report
EC opens formal investigation into Snapchat
Metrolink's €550k-a-year boss has quit the project for family reasons.
Comes at a pretty crucial time for the project... updated cost estimates, and a lot of contracts to tie up before construction begins in earnest next year.
Public service posting, Stephen!
Good lord, some of you people need to read the calendar.
President Catherine Connolly has appointed the following to the Council of State:
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Linda Ervine
Colin Harvey
Kathleen Lynch
Donncha O’Connell
Conor O’Mahony
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
A brief round-up of developments in Gaza and the West Bank while the world looks elsewhere ⤵️
www.instagram.com/p/DWgrLNhjCZE/
Shortest Tudor reign since Lady Jane Grey
"Something else will come along, it always does."
Seamus Coleman.
We may have great men, But we'll never have better.
Anyway, back to the misery.
