David Flood
@maoltuile.bsky.social
Historical researcher into Dublin Corporation and the Irish revolutionary generation 1898-1923. See ‘Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising’ (Four Courts Press, 2016)
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David Flood
@maoltuile.bsky.social
· Apr 27
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
‘If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism.’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This was pretty obvious from the get go, but people were itching to do a backlash to Taylor Swift's popularity that they fell for pretty clearly inauthentic bait. (And anybody who uses that snark subreddit r/travisandtaylor as a source for anything is painfully gullible)
Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack
Data analysis from startup GUDEA reveals inauthentic social media network that pushed false narrative about her ties to MAGA world and white supremacy
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This was pretty obvious from the get go, but people were itching to do a backlash to Taylor Swift's popularity that they fell for pretty clearly inauthentic bait. (And anybody who uses that snark subreddit r/travisandtaylor as a source for anything is painfully gullible)
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The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”
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the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
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nobody needs AI to create graphic novels. ai will, in fact, never be able to create anything worthwhile. you're literally stealing the motivation, training, and confidence to make comics away from these kids you creep, leave them alone!!
Activist and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels.
Colin Kaepernick launches AI storytelling tool at Prince George's County high school
Former quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
nobody needs AI to create graphic novels. ai will, in fact, never be able to create anything worthwhile. you're literally stealing the motivation, training, and confidence to make comics away from these kids you creep, leave them alone!!
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New investigation by B'Tselem & Index Investigation (X: @index_ngo) refutes the Israeli army's claim that 2 brothers it shot & killed in Nablus in June 2025 were "terrorists" who endangered Israeli soldiers.
B'Tselem says the report shows that the soldiers killed the brothers “w/o justification...
B'Tselem says the report shows that the soldiers killed the brothers “w/o justification...
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New investigation by B'Tselem & Index Investigation (X: @index_ngo) refutes the Israeli army's claim that 2 brothers it shot & killed in Nablus in June 2025 were "terrorists" who endangered Israeli soldiers.
B'Tselem says the report shows that the soldiers killed the brothers “w/o justification...
B'Tselem says the report shows that the soldiers killed the brothers “w/o justification...
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The Republicans really haven’t given healthcare policy even a few moments of thought. Every idea is just “take what insurance already is and make it less.”
Marshall on the GOP healthcare plan: "The other thing I would do is establish an invisible high-risk insurance pool, a reinsurance pool. And when people reach a certain amount of spending, say for cancer, they would go into this reinsurance pool & that protects everybody from a preexisting issue"
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Republicans really haven’t given healthcare policy even a few moments of thought. Every idea is just “take what insurance already is and make it less.”
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⭕️American political scientist Norman Finkelstein says Israel is lying about rape on Oct 7
In his interview w/ Dr. Myriam François (X: @MyriamFrancoisC), Norman Finkelstein (X: @normfinkelstein) says that more than 2 years later there is “not one direct image of sexual violence,” no forensic...
In his interview w/ Dr. Myriam François (X: @MyriamFrancoisC), Norman Finkelstein (X: @normfinkelstein) says that more than 2 years later there is “not one direct image of sexual violence,” no forensic...
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
⭕️American political scientist Norman Finkelstein says Israel is lying about rape on Oct 7
In his interview w/ Dr. Myriam François (X: @MyriamFrancoisC), Norman Finkelstein (X: @normfinkelstein) says that more than 2 years later there is “not one direct image of sexual violence,” no forensic...
In his interview w/ Dr. Myriam François (X: @MyriamFrancoisC), Norman Finkelstein (X: @normfinkelstein) says that more than 2 years later there is “not one direct image of sexual violence,” no forensic...
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Israeli officials have still provided 0 evidence to support their claims of rape on Oct 7, despite repeating the allegation again today through the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Speaking recently, Norman Finkelstein said Israel’s Oct 7 rape narrative has collapsed under scrutiny more...
Speaking recently, Norman Finkelstein said Israel’s Oct 7 rape narrative has collapsed under scrutiny more...
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Israeli officials have still provided 0 evidence to support their claims of rape on Oct 7, despite repeating the allegation again today through the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Speaking recently, Norman Finkelstein said Israel’s Oct 7 rape narrative has collapsed under scrutiny more...
Speaking recently, Norman Finkelstein said Israel’s Oct 7 rape narrative has collapsed under scrutiny more...
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Every time there's an update I get messages from friends and family asking how to turn off all the new features. And yet Apple still refuses to add a "clear play queue" button in iOS Music, something people have wanted for years
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Every time there's an update I get messages from friends and family asking how to turn off all the new features. And yet Apple still refuses to add a "clear play queue" button in iOS Music, something people have wanted for years
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I actually thought the ad saying “check out this sickening artificial slop” was perfect brand synergy for what McDonald’s sells to customers
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I actually thought the ad saying “check out this sickening artificial slop” was perfect brand synergy for what McDonald’s sells to customers
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It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
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It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
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The easiest way to understand why Hillary and Kamala lost is to quote them.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The easiest way to understand why Hillary and Kamala lost is to quote them.
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Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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there's like a curve graph for how the badness of UI relates to consolidation and competitiveness in the market. is there like a named law for this yet
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
there's like a curve graph for how the badness of UI relates to consolidation and competitiveness in the market. is there like a named law for this yet
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On Thursday 12 Feb. we will be sponsoring a conference on THE ULSTER PLANTATION, linked to the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project (QUB/Maynooth). This is a free event open to all, held at PRONI (11-4). Registration and programme is at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
On Thursday 12 Feb. we will be sponsoring a conference on THE ULSTER PLANTATION, linked to the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project (QUB/Maynooth). This is a free event open to all, held at PRONI (11-4). Registration and programme is at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...
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Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
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Hey remember that time a few months ago when Elon Musk said he was setting up a new political party and then didn’t? Does he even remember it?
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk says he is launching new America Party
The world's richest man says he is setting up a new political organisation called the America Party.
bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey remember that time a few months ago when Elon Musk said he was setting up a new political party and then didn’t? Does he even remember it?
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
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“That’s a little ominous,” said Drop Site’s Ryan Grim. “Whenever they start throwing money at a new security initiative, often times you can look back later and see exactly how we ended up at war in that region.”
Erik Sperling told Drop Site the new Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
Erik Sperling told Drop Site the new Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“That’s a little ominous,” said Drop Site’s Ryan Grim. “Whenever they start throwing money at a new security initiative, often times you can look back later and see exactly how we ended up at war in that region.”
Erik Sperling told Drop Site the new Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
Erik Sperling told Drop Site the new Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
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People’s tendency to forget the past and brush off warnings about the future militates for mobilizing now and aggressively to stop Trump from launching a criminal war against Venezuela. www.offmessage.net/p/no-kings-v...
No Kings Means No Colonial Wars
Time may be short, but it hasn't run out.
www.offmessage.net
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
People’s tendency to forget the past and brush off warnings about the future militates for mobilizing now and aggressively to stop Trump from launching a criminal war against Venezuela. www.offmessage.net/p/no-kings-v...
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The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...