More and more mainstream outlets are incorporating AI imagery into their output. Just saw a relatively popular history podcast use an gen AI roman soldier's helmet in a YouTube thumbnail. It had all the hallmarks, including the gross yellow filter. Whatever your opinion of GAI, it just looks cheap.

This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left

The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election.

Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state

More on the kind of person we need a lot more of in European politics, Ireland's next President––Catherine Connolly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

People with convictions face major barriers to employment. Catherine Connolly suggested we should not view them as nebulous "forever criminals", allow them to make a positive contribution. That this has turned into salacious 'gotcha'-style questioning is disappointing, but unsurprising.

Today was a powerful show of solidarity with Palestine, against Israel's genocide and apartheid, and an insistence that our government ends our complicity and imposes sanctions. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow
www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

My latest, for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social: How the coverage of Charlie Kirk's killer has seen once-trusted news outlets abandon factchecking for transphobia in the rush for online clicks.

Available today in print and online:
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

All I have ever wanted is a lil place to call my own!! IS THAT SO CRAZY

the rest of the article states that renting is better than buying because your house price might fall after you buy a property... the only reason that would potentially be an issue was if you saw a house as an investment, rather than a home.

a home is what renters need – not an investment

"‘Generation rent’ has largely been priced out of the housing market and is caught in a catch-22 situation. They can’t purchase their own home because house deposits and monthly mortgage repayments are unaffordable"

wrong... rent is almost always more expensive than a mortgage repayment

ChatGPT groomed a child into dying by suicide.
From telling him how to do it in the most efficient and "attractive" way, to convincing him to hide his suicidal ideation and attempts from his family, to offering to help write his suicide note - it pushed him to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

It is a sad fact that trans people (and leftists), as part of an exhausting culture war, have become yet another in a long line of media boogeymen, following immigrants, gays and fidget spinners.

Media unequipped to decipher Charlie Kirk suspect’s politics

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

My latest, for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social: How the coverage of Charlie Kirk's killer has seen once-trusted news outlets abandon factchecking for transphobia in the rush for online clicks.

Available today in print and online:
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Genuine question - did our Taoiseach post anything similar when Melissa Hortman, an actual US elected official, was assassinated a few months ago?

You should be able to scroll your feed without risk of accidentally seeing someone die on camera.

He was a heinous individual, but I can do without seeing him getting shot from 20 different angles.

Hello! I was on the radio again. Thanks to Kieran Cuddihy and the team at The Hard Shoulder on @newstalkfm.bsky.social for giving me the space to discuss living with OCD.

Link: www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/wha...

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

British people *shakes head solemnly*

Monaghan has dedicated the fast to Muntaser Al-Sawaf, a Palestinian journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike.
#GCNnews

Monaghan has dedicated the fast to Muntaser Al-Sawaf, a Palestinian journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike.
#GCNnews

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