Oh hope not.

"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

This deathtrap is the kind of thing that was rented *before* the government decided to scrap planning for shed-based housing.
It wasn't up to code but someone desperate rented it anyway. How much more dangerous will the dwellings become when apartments like this are the NORM? #spéirgorm

DETE increases military export licences to US, Germany It failed to publish because of “a new IT system”.

After failing to publish data on Irish companies granted licences for military exports to the US and Germany because of “a new IT system”, the Department of Enterprise has confirmed the licences increased by tens of millions of euros between 2024 and 2025

www.ontheditch.com/department-o...

Collins is trying to make out that international protection applicants are competing with Irish people for housing. This is not just not true, it's disinformation. A shameful racist lie.

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

‘Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business-Monetisation and algorithmic amplification has turned peddling disinformation, hate speech, and harassment into a for-profit industry’.The far right Irish blue ‘thicks’ who went after Eileen cash in on hate.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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.

Elderly Northern Ireland couple face £100,000 fine if they fail to demolish hilltop home Council previously gave Séamus and Dolores Mooney planning approval but has since ordered couple to knock their house down

The framing of this headline is misleading. These are older people, sure, but also he's a developer who knew exactly what he was doing when he built this house without PP and against the protests of locals.
No sympathy whatsoever.

We simply, as a species, have to band together and and ensure that anyone who wears these glasses is looked upon as a desperate predatory nonce. It should be considered as weird as walking down the street wearing a Fleshlight.

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.

Irish government: YES THIS IS GOOD WE WANT THIS

50% off electricity prices in Ireland*
*Special offer that only applies to data centres. Everyone else can pay some of the highest electricity prices in the EU (because fossil gas).

In what other job would you be happy making those comments about your role and getting to keep your job?

“Please remember I literally do not know anything.”

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Insane story: Using facial recognition technology, The New York Knicks apparently tracked the movements of a transgender woman attending a game at Madison Square Garden to ensure she never appeared on the game's televised broadcast

Opinion: Carbon tax may be the tax we love to hate, but it's the one we can't afford to scrap Carbon tax may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future, and the government was wrong to cave in after protests, writes John Gibbons.

“The Irish government balked at introducing any such moderate, sensible energy-saving measures, presumably fearful of backlash from a public conditioned to believe that any sacrifice, no matter how small, is intolerable”.

My take is in @thejournal.ie today.

www.thejournal.ie/readme/carbo...

Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.

Jennifer Horgan: We have set a new standard for what angry men can achieve. It's terrifying Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

"The joy on the faces of far-right men, more angry, angry men, tells me everything I need to know about the blockades and this new standard of protest... We respond to the needs of angry, suffering men before the needs of everybody else."

#SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation.

NEW: A cross-border investigation led by @investigate-europe.eu has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation in the EU.

jrnl.ie/7013368

Ken O’Flynn TD is currently showing himself up to being a misogynistic pig of a man! He shared a video by a far right ‘influencer’ Michael McCarthy, a pedlar of debunked anti migrant conspiracies, where he’s mocking Eileen Flynn. Independent Ireland shamelessly chasing the far right vote! 🤬

Sharon Osbourne attending a Tommy Robinson march proves Kneecap were right about her.

Fuck Sharon Osbourne

I saw Eileen Flynn speak at a NWCI event in 2020 (I think?)
She was so impressive (not just as a representative of her community), I hate to see how she’s being portrayed and treated.

Can they not send him to Coventry?

And that’s just in Ireland. They may own homes outside Ireland too.

I can’t afford a house where I currently live, the house across from us is a holiday home - the couple who own it have two other holiday homes as well as their main home.

As a male #Munster supporter, I'm outraged by this decision & want Munster to reverse it.

This will keep happening if us men don't stand up & fight against misogyny.

They & McMillan knew about it all & think it doesn't matter.

Brave & Faithful my arse.

#Speirgorm

Narrated by “Mother Earth”?

Would love to know a bit more about processes involved in this.

here in Ireland Wicklow County Council did it for the car park at county buildings back in 2022. no reason why we shouldn't have them everywhere

Sweet suffering jaysis.
I want to know the materials wasted and how many prints were sent out to schools?
Is this part of a series?
Part 2
'Landlords - they're really cool'

This can't be appropriate, sitka spruce is a plantation tree that creates acidic deserts that has caused landslides.