Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
This is a completely insane proposal.
Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)
How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?
Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth
But what if you want to funnel a load of money to hoteliers
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
Not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that getting death threats, threats of violence, and having the full force of online far right extremism directed at you, is a common experience among people who are not in the public eye?
I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years.
I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.
20-04-1914 USA: Ludow Massacre in southern Colorado, one of the deadliest attacks against striking workers in U. S. history. Tent colony of displaced strikers and their families beaten and fired upon by Natl Guard and private agency. Two dozen men, women, children killed.
This is exactly the right time for this kind of message because you are 6 months from the midterms, which has a comparatively short campaign ramp up, and the 2028 hopefuls are going to start their coalition calculus this summer. Now is the time to set the agenda for the 2028 party platform.
Pro Putin party in with 44% of the vote in Bulgaria 💀
Documents show deputy first minister did not raise human rights once on trip to Gulf state accused of fuelling Sudan’s brutal war
www.theferret.scot/scottish-government-uae-...
Bid to take down fake videos and images of garda response to fuel protests False viral information, much of it being generated abroad, is on a scale ‘never seen before’ in Ireland
Meanwhile, Aidan O’Brien, an analyst at the European Digital Media Observatory Ireland at Dublin City University (DCU), has been monitoring how the far-right in Ireland and abroad reacted to the fuel blockades. He said a “disinformation economy” went into full swing during last week’s protests. He uncovered conspiracy theories about the energy crisis and talk of “the great shutdown”, which were already in heavy circulation on Irish social media by the middle of March. “When the protests erupted, Irish right-wing social media influencers went into overdrive posting video content. Many of these influencers benefit from features introduced on the platforms, like algorithm promotion, and have monetised their accounts,” he explained. “There is now a disinformation economy. Influencers know the most dramatic footage, alongside the most sensational framing, will go viral, generating income. They aren’t just promoting this footage and their narratives because it suits their agenda, they’re making money doing so.” After that international far-right influencers pounced on the content, he said. “Nearly immediately, and often within minutes of the initial videos being posted, it was downloaded and repackaged by influencers outside Ireland. “It happened so quickly that you might assume these people are heavily immersed in the situation, but they’re chasing the content, and the story, often repackaging footage with false claims that the protest was about migration. “This happens because over the last five years our disinformation ecology has become exponentially complex and is fully integrated with the international far-right disinformation ecosystem.” Ireland has now become a “major focus of attention” for the international hard-right, he said. Canadian far-right influencer Ezra Levant travelled to Ireland last week as did Kevin Posobiec, whose brother Jack is an American far-right political activist and social media personality. Both filmed content while here. The fact both men…
![The fact both men were willing to “jump on a plane” said a lot, added Mr O’Brien.
“The foreign attention and amplification of these protests are concerning…Our Government needs to start demanding real accountability and action from these [social media] companies…
“If the Minister [for Communications Patrick O’Donovan] is concerned about ‘lopsided coverage’ of the protests, he shouldn’t be worried about the radio but look at social media.”
On Friday, Minister O’Donovan admitted he made a “hames” of his call for a “review” into broadcast media coverage of fuel protests. He said, “in hindsight”, he should not have suggested that the media regulator — Coimisiún na Meán — should “review” both local and national broadcast coverage of the fuel protests.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:soimfvdqqoieabdpxtlt3mxz/bafkreifhphtz5fx6kn2dmopshfztyb7nsgqf56e5nyhzi3znv2glxhldha)
The fact both men were willing to “jump on a plane” said a lot, added Mr O’Brien. “The foreign attention and amplification of these protests are concerning…Our Government needs to start demanding real accountability and action from these [social media] companies… “If the Minister [for Communications Patrick O’Donovan] is concerned about ‘lopsided coverage’ of the protests, he shouldn’t be worried about the radio but look at social media.” On Friday, Minister O’Donovan admitted he made a “hames” of his call for a “review” into broadcast media coverage of fuel protests. He said, “in hindsight”, he should not have suggested that the media regulator — Coimisiún na Meán — should “review” both local and national broadcast coverage of the fuel protests.
I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech.
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Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“…Irreversible for hundreds to thousands of years”
“Irreversible”.
This is infinitely more consequential than Trump, oil prices, Hormuz etc. yet we continue to ignore it.
The sad reality is evictions are a result of government policy No different from our former colonisers Putting profit & property rights over the right to a home Disgusting #DerelictIreland
The sad reality is evictions are a result of government policy
No different from our former colonisers
Putting profit & property rights over the right to a home
Disgusting #DerelictIreland
#speirghorm
This is worthwhile reading. It really conveys one of the things that I keep coming up against when considering whether I can incorporate AI into my work.
i'm horrified by this. for about four different and compelling reasons that I probably don't need to explain to Bluesky this is an horrific idea, but if you're a FF-FG decision-maker those reasons will probably be dismissed because jobs, corp tax, not upsetting USians, etc.
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Listening to arguably the biggest weekend radio show on the national broadcaster, and the tsunami of abuse suffered by an elected representative was not mentioned during the panel discussion.
I'll repeat: Irish media/politics has no idea about the far right, and that is a danger for democracy.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
I do find this insistence on contingency and hedging survivors’ accounts really tedious. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed Lindsay Boylan—and many others—by the New York Attorney General.
Going to start @ing @gavreilly.com for status updates on the Straight of Hormuz like it’s the gyms during COVID.
#Ireland
#Speirgorm
Community-owned energy projects with people names are my favourite thing right now.
One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue.
When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.
Excellent analysis.
“Gas prices? What gas prices?” better cities create choices. Via the Urban Truth Collecrive Image of people riding bikes in a protected bike-lane in Paris
“We could never do THAT in OUR city!” Leadership doesn’t make excuses. Via the Urban Truth Collective Image of people walking on a wonderful pedestrianized street in central Montreal
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