I might not have the regular Irish Times column that Steen has, but I do have quite a bit more than a few anecdotes to back up what I say. Maria Steen thinks the #genderPayGap is a myth but that is a hopelessly basic and naive take. Here is why.
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🚨🚨special episode: I spoke to the UK’s former head of international energy strategy about what the war means for global energy supplies. It’s bad news, I’m afraid.
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Holy fuck.
Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand (via Bill Madden) 😂🤣👇
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
I like this cartoon so much we paid the New Yorker the fee it requested to include it in my book.
We’ve not even had the vote 100 years. Let’s not let thing backslide.
Happy International Women’s Day, one and all.
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
NEW: Ferry pollution is worse than all the cars combined in many European port cities… but more than half of European ferries could be electric by 2035.
With the average ferry being 26 years old, the fleet is ripe for renewal now.
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b/w photo of an absolutely huge bloke in a huge fur coat (polar bear, apparently, which he shot himself) next to a diminutive woman in a hat (his wife Dagmar Cohn)
It’s the 140th anniversary of the birth of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from his own frozen excrement... 🧵
Morgan Freeman as Kindly Old Criminal in He Cant Have put The Poster Back Over the Hole It’s Impossible
“I remember the first time I saw Andy…”
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
Money can buy happiness. If Elon Musk built a rocket and shot himself into the fucking sun that would generate massive happiness.
Kinda this
Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.
Using SCSI estimates suggests retrofitting DCC's Wood Quay HQ might cost roughly €70.2m. The council's CEO, Richard Shakespeare, says it'd cost roughly €350m-€400m, so it makes sense to abandon Wood Quay and build a new HQ on Kevin St. But the council won't explain how it got those numbers.
A lot of folk still don’t know that Aramark own (super fancy) Avoca, as well as providing food services for Direct Provision Centres. Very easy not to go to Avoca, I reckon. Public opinion got them out of NGI, after all.
Radical New Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre Plans Recommend Leaving It The Fuck Alone
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I'm a lollipop lady. I always make sure I stop the Teslas. Fuck Elon Musk.
Board of Peace - Season 1
“Sweden’s largest private pension fund has divested $8.8 billion in US Treasuries, the most significant withdrawal yet from American government bonds since Trump’s Greenland crisis erupted, citing “increased risk and unpredictability in US politics,”
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Internet Divided On Video Of Sad Confused Mentally Ill Man Forced To Give Speech By Handlers waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/01/22/internet-divi...
People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
“And I can’t understand the reason that America collapsed”
New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone.
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