Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I can't believe this week we've nearly had a nuclear war and a papal schism and it's only Thursday

Just worth saying, for absolutely legal clarity: the government does not have the legal prerogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety. Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre. (1/2)

Page from a book in Kingdom Come: Deliverance on the Papal Schism. GOTY.

My love of video games with Avignon Papacy lore lying around has finally paid off

zoom #shortsong #singersongwriter YouTube video by Ian McConnell

Today's news youtube.com/shorts/okbRD...

He's just written a comedy series, Bait. Apparently it's good!

Other than Pater Capaldi, I think Riz Ahmed could fit the bill

It feels like we're in January 2020. Something is happening but we haven't quite realised it yet.

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes

ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

What's the biggest sign you're getting older? Mine is that I got a new phone and now take 8 accidental screenshots per day.

Trump says US munition stockpiles mean wars can be fought 'forever'

I can't believe we all have to just keep on working and going about our day with headlines like this

Senator Alice Mary Higgins asked the CnaM Chairman why his organisation didn’t take action under the Irish Online Safety Code against Grok generating CSAM.

Apparently, it didn’t appear to them to be a breach of the code.

What , then, is it good for?

I don't think we need to worry about any software being worse than Teams

The most romantic thing you'll ever read in Playboy

Fairphone 4 with e\os installed.

After 4 hours and finally abandoning the installer and doing it manually with Git Bash, I have a #deGoogled phone. I need to go outside for a while now.

Progress report: The 'easy' installer has failed on step 8 of 29. Device is somehow locked in the bootloader despite having unlocked it. I have downloaded multiple Android developer tools and had 3 coffees #DeGoogle

I may just have found the most difficult and boring way to break a phone

I'm experimenting with installing a deGoogled android OS on an old phone and oh boy do phones not want you to do that

Even when it was bears I knew it was judicial review

My Dart stop is closed this morning. I didn't find out from the Irish Rail app I have, but rather from a lady at the bus stop whose friend had sent her a screenshot of an X post

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

Harris heads to Brussels as EU readies €93bn retaliatory tariffs over Trump's Greenland threat

It’s time to put away childish things. The Tik Tok Tanaiste is no more. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Substack Simon.

Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister

This is mad. This is approaching the mad levels of Charles the Mad, who thought he was made of glass www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reminds me of an old joke about sub-editors only job being to change all the whiches to thats, and all the thats to whiches

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up.

Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views?

Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

Having your Dart be so late it skips all the stations and goes straight to Connolly is like getting a Chance card in Monopoly

Lot of childhood memories of getting weird stuff in the post from the Irish government (Millennium Candles, iodine tablets) so this is very relatable

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This one was definitely aimed at me, the script was basically: "Like you, woman listening to a video games podcast, I am but moments from the grave"