I know it's a scheduling thing but I am still far less interested in Clayface since Mike Flanagan fell off it.

Sure you could develop your housing policies using evidence, examine the pros and cons, the potential environmental, infrastructural and social impact of such a decision, or…

You could ram through legislation for the beds in sheds program just because a billionaire funded “think tank” asked you too

This situation really sucks, Joe. Sorry to hear it. Sounds awful.

Wish we saw the last of Troy Baker tbh.

Lars from Tekken and his very weird quiff/sidefringe combo.

The Michelle Pfeiffer Flock of Seagulls look.

Currently growing my hair out a little and looking like this.

Genuinely seething.

Also on a bunch of anti zionist lists which is fine. Israel will live only in our history books.

Some WEIRDO put me on a gamer list.

Did not think the blocklist thing could hurt me until

Don't know about goblins but the other three were me.

Verry sorry about your mam Anni.

@politicalawake I think Pragmata has the potential to become the start of a cultural shift within the gaming industry. The Post Woke era is here

These dorks are gonna lose it when they find out Diana is voiced by a black woman

unseemly behavior imo

okay now this is a color combo

I think patching movies after the fact should be outlawed actually

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Freedom 🇺🇸🦅🏈

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable

In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived

Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power

The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.

I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment

Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.

I wish people would just leave the basking sharks alone. they are completely tormented by drones and boats and paddle boards etc

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026, dir. Nia DaCosta)

Silent Hill f really has a lot of rich and interesting things to say and makes replays worthwhile in a way that I am now surprised I don't see everywhere.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

if ONLY that’s what Bluesky was, are you kidding me. there is one religion here and it’s called ‘replying earnestly’

You leave the first game thinking a factor in the whole moral dilemma is that Joel is destroying any chance at a cure but you leave the first season thinking "ah well they'll work out eventually that infected pregnant people are the key".

I think part of how this story has been massively mishandled by ND is in how the game presents Ellie as some sort of fleeting anomaly but the HBO show explains a fairly easily repeatable scenario for immune babies. Way different stakes to only really facilitate an Ashley Johnson cameo in the show.

Saw a thread knocking around here somewhere today on why, if we want to see political change in Ireland, we need to start getting behind parties like the Social Democrats.

Unrelated, they see fit to source TDs who worked here:

"our son was run over by our car" is a masterwork in the field of passive language

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I want it to be EU law that any film, TV series or album must be available to buy from a storefront without needing to be subscribed to a service.