I regularly go on Teams calls with people that I can see with my own actual factual eyes while we’re on the Teams call. It’s insane.

Happy Wednesday! Another day of being crushed beneath the relentless wheel of capitalism!

Ireland must recuse itself from EU Presidency digital files unless it changes its approach - Enforce - Irish Council for Civil Liberties There is a wide and dangerous gulf between Ireland's understanding of its short-term interest and what is good for Europe.

Later today, at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) EU Affairs Committee, I will call for Ireland to recuse itself from all digital issues during its EU Council Presidency. Ireland’s regulatory sabotage of EU data law has exposed Europe’s children to serious mental harm.

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Timewarp with Street traders at the corner of Cornmarket Street #Cork looking towards Paul Street then (50s/60s) & now (2024) #TimewarpCork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸Brian Lucey irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

need the rest of the world and that Keir Starmer and the Pope specifically are weak on aliens, before finally announcing that actually the US is invading Earth. Throughout all of this an increasingly exasperated alien spokes-squid repeatedly denies that it has agreed a ceasefire

Ok, the hardest thing to suspend my disbelief over was the very end when America immediately joins a global alliance to fight the alien invasion instead of giving the aliens two days to leave, then two weeks, then two days; declaring that the rest of the world isn’t doing enough, that it doesn’t

Just watched War Machine on Netflix.

Spoilers for an enjoyably silly movie follow…

Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China - electrive.com In December 2025, 45,300 fully and partially electrified heavy-duty trucks were newly registered in China—accounting for 54 percent of total heavy-duty truck

Large BEV commercial trucks are now outselling diesel commercial trucks in China for the first time. While the world electrifies, the US is squandering resources to fight over expensive, dwindling, polluting, fossil fuels. 🧪💡🔌 ☀️💨💧🔋 www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...

"The one thing saving our society from chaos is that none of these other suffering groups would conduct a similar blockade because they are committed to an ethic of care."

Somebody recently suggested we need a website that lets you put in your schooling dates and then tells you all the things you learned back then that aren't true any more, and I want that so badly

They’ve been holding these charity events for 40 years and yet they still haven’t found a cure for wrestlemania. I’m starting to think the whole thing is a scam

Threads post saying Ireland has just declared his independence from England. This should be interesting. With a screenshot of RTÉ News showing an Irish army officer reading the Proclamation.

If you're ever bored by the bland sensibility of Bluesky have a look at threads for some of that social media derangement.

Here's a yank thinking the reading of the 1916 Proclamation on Easter Monday is Ireland declaring itself independent from England today....

Senator Eileen Flynn says she has faced worst online abuse and hate yet in past week The Seanad member has been insulted and abused online for days in the wake of comments about the fuel protests.

Solidarity with @eileenflynn.bsky.social

Senator Eileen Flynn says she has faced worst online abuse and hate yet in past week jrnl.ie/7014874

My great grandfather fought in the Easter Rising - he was part of the ICA contingent that raised the Starry Plough on the roof of the Imperial Hotel on Sackville (O’Connell) Street.

Ten years later, aged 30, he still lived at home with his Ma and Da.

The more things change…

#census1926

Worse than that, she lives in the wealthy person’s bubble. She can migrate on a whim or live in two countries separated by thousands of kms and go most of her life without ever meeting people who migrate out of desperation and necessity.

Immigration literally means nothing to her. It’s just spite.

#Speirgorm Anyone else finding out some interesting family history in the #1926 #census of #Ireland

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cool that they’ve put the 82 and S2 buses on similar routes. no way that could ever be confusing

Stop the Game

#StopTheGame

A Ukrainian Yak-52 light aircraft crew are bringing down Russian Shaheds.

Is that better or worse than when they pronounce niche as ‘nitch’?

Father of disabled child refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.

The father of a disabled child has been refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex. He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.

In today's Irish Times, I unpack the many layers of irony associated with the fuel protests over the past week. The government's €750 million financial package to cut fuel prices adds to the ~€4.8 billion in public finance lost each year to fossil fuel subsidies.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

You say that, but before AI was invented nothing ever broke.

Every time I think about Trump saying the Pope is weak on crime I picture cardinals being terrified to walk down a hallway in the Vatican because every room off it is a crack den and there’s a priest hiding behind every ornamental column, waiting to pounce.

Declan Ganley is a US military contractor in business with Peter Thiel and Karl Rove. his son Micheál's previous job before "refounding" the Bethlehem Steel Company, was as a staffer for Lindsay Graham. he's a stooge for US interests and should be treated as such

This one on the Healy-Raes is, I think, going to stick.

I mean, we see the evidence around us every single day, but still, stark to see this so plainly in graph form.

(also, delighted you're in a position to be having this problem - congrats)

I've found over the years that if you just ignore these issues they tend to sort themselves out. Best thing to do is to just not look at it.

A principled stance can be avoided by taking a route straight through what is known as Dáil-life