I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán.
It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight.
Holy shit.
Ah, yes: the mask slips immediately.
We need to talk about far-right radicalisation in rural Ireland, seriously and urgently.
#spéirghorm #ireland
Ireland has:
🌊The mighty Atlantic Ocean battering our western coast for tidal
🌬️Wind howling across the country for turbines
☀️Long bright days that stretch into night in summer for solar
But loud fools still call for dirtying the environment even more 🤦🏽♀️😳
#spéirghorm #Blockade #Protest #IrishPol
A photo of a dog from about their waist up. They appear to be standing. He looks very serious.
this is how men stand at tailoring shops
captaindavida 10h Follow It's not that women shouldn't be able to vote. It's that women shouldn't have to vote. I want you to live your fullest life as a mom and not have to worry about anything outside your God-given sphere of influence.
Exempting women from voting isn't a gift, it’s a gag order wrapped up in a bow.
Framing disenfranchisement as "freedom from worry" is just a polite way of saying you want women silent and powerless.
It's the truth, you put out good stuff.
I should specify, I'm ahead of the curve because I have @insights.priva.cat.web.brid.gy and @infosecsherpa.bsky.social already there.
I've decided to start using rss feeds again. I had a bunch of emails I never actually read... so I would benefit the planet best by turning those off.
Any suggestions for good blogs to follow?
Support the people patrolling the streets to keep our neighbors safe from ICE! They have been working so hard, and as gas prices rise, their work gets more expensive too.
I sent them $50 today! Can you?
(International folks can send me PayPal and I’ll pass it along! @coldwater, put ⛽️ in memo)
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
First keynote announced for BSides Prague 2026 🎉
Eva Galperin (@evacide.bsky.social), Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is joining us!
A global voice in digital rights and anti-stalkerware advocacy.
🗓 April 23, 2026
Don’t miss it. 🔥
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...
Drogheda and Dundalk have condemned the actions of a "minority of individuals" following crowd trouble during their match at Oriel Park on Friday night.
Flares thrown in the crowd injured a 12-year-old supporter, who sustained burns to his face jrnl.ie/6964436
We settled on Gran Tourismo by The Cardigans. Baby seems to be a fan. I'm still looking for other album suggestions, these late night/early morning musical explorations might not end for a while.
Screenshot from the Journal article about AI use in housing ads, showing a side by side of houses with and without genAI edits applied. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
I will be using AI generated images of myself on dating apps to "show potential" of what I could look like with sufficient investment from suitors
Any album suggestions? Been sat listening to Fin De Siècle by The Divine Comedy. Baby is nowhere near tired and we're getting dangerously close to the end of the album.
You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Has anybody had the gumption to suggest levelling the park in favour of waterfront property? Perhaps because they know someone who could do it.
Romania:
"...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#spéirghorm #ClimateChange
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
What album are you listening to at the moment? Or, if you were to put on an album right now, what would it be?
I'm currently listening to RumbleOfThunder by The HU.
thehu.bandcamp.com/album/rumble...
To suggest that a country as wet and flood-prone as Ireland shouldn't have established mechanisms in place for rapid delivery of flood relief is absolutely nuts. This isn't a surprise act of God. It's common.
Disaster preparedness should be a basic aspect of any government's portfolio. #Spéirgorm
By “public safety” they always mean more cops and never more snow plows
i know most of my network is neteng, cybersec, & programming-ish folks, but if anyone out there is into hardware engineering, we have some senior & principal spots open at Blue! blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/j...
What's really concerning about this bill (second stage tomorrow) is that the power within it - to find and categorise us by our biometrics - is *NOT* the power that was in the heads of bill when we were in pre-legislative scrutiny last year.
There has been no public/democratic discussion about this
I have but one question... how would Winnie The Pooh feel about chilli honey?
If not now, when?
Do androids dream of eclectic creeps?
Can the validation of strangers fill the hole left by self loathing?
What are parasocial relationships?
