Child of Prog

I never had a problem at the SFX, but the walk down from Abbey St was sometimes rough.

I remember taking Testament to the Big Tree for a pint the afternoon they supported Anthrax and it got so rowdy they legged it.

That brings me back. I never saw violence at gigs, but then I first started going in '84, and metal shows drew a different crowd. But Dublin was violent. In the suburbs as well as the city centre.

I remember the Edenmore Dragons too. They were legendary, up until the Stardust decimated them.

Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy wearing a formal shirt and tie.

14 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Manfred Georg Broder, was born in Leipzig.

He was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944, from where on 4 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

I thought a double-edged sword would give me an advantage over single-edge lads but every time I cut them I'd only cut myself on the way back.

Hold on are all swords not double edged? just sharpen the other side like

Oh look, yet again a piece on the BBC on trans people (this time the incredible bad schools guidance) and do they interview a teacher? No. Do they interview a trans student? Lol, no! Do they interview a parent of a trans kids? Again, lol, no!

If you'd bet on Cass, you win the big prize

The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity.

It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.

right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

The core problem with capitalism for capitalists is, it has to keep finding new aspects of existence to commodify and then sell back to consumers.

AI is an effort to take our digital selves (social, intellectual, work online presences), homogenize them, and charge us for the resulting generic slop.

Khaless wept, if this isn't a fucking word.

"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."

The drummer from Kodaline, some lad who was on Fair City and sang in the Eurovision, and a Premier League footballer.

One girl starred in musicals for years and another danced at the Folies-Bergeres.

One of the teachers went on to become a much-fancied newsreader on national TV.

LinkedIn, man. Some guy in marketing pings me, wants to pick my brains about maybe switching to writing as a career.

"Dear Brennan," he begins...

Nope.

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

My da was 83 on Sunday. Just WhatsApped him to find out how the hearing aid function is working on the Airpods we got him... but he can't talk because he's going into work.

(They teach bridge.)

sigh

It's crazy that America has racismed its way into a hyper individualistic society with no real physical communities where people would rather ask chatbots for help than neighbors or librarians because other people are seen as threats instead of countrymen and compatriots.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Jesus.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

If you deport a bunch of people who are working, shouldn't the unemployment rate go down?

Astonishing behaviour by Kieran Cuddihy on Liveline attacking the antifa compiler of the ICE list identification website.

Just incredible bootlicking, especially after yesterday's interview with the Irish ICE detainee.

Flabbergasted here.

An actor I worked with last year reckons that ultimately AI-free curated spaces will profit while those who embrace the slop will drown in it.

The tragedy is that Ms. Hart is destroying the thing she's making money from. In three years' time she'll have to grift off something else.

I never drank wine and I haven't had alcohol in decades, but lately I've been trying non-alcoholic wine, and... it's just shit grape juice, innit?

That may not reach the standard of proof required by a court of law, but it’s more than enough to rule out someone for an ambassadorship.

Let's be honest, they knew he was a snake, and that's why they sent him into the snakepit.

At school open days where they big up their academic high achievers, I always suspect they're doing it to hide their failures with the ones they let fall through the cracks.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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And the Financial Times, two years ago.

The FT ran a piece on Mandelson's connections with Epstein two years ago, and one of the reporters asked Starmer about it at a press conference. "You know more about that than I do" was the answer.

Starmer can't say it, but Mandelson was appointed BECAUSE of who he is and who his connections are.