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The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.

This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

Just a reminder folks. Yes French police are raiding X, but this is on the back of pre-existing investigations, but the Taoiseach does not (and should not) have the authority to order or direct Garda investigations.

Oh well!

To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”.

DCC spent €350,000.

Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.

A fraction of this would have rebuilt Casement Park

"the council is to collaborate with dereliction activists @judesherry.bsky.social & Frank O'Connor" News to us until Cork Independent got in touch As reminder we provided our data for 300+ derelict properties to Cork City Council for free in 2021, as well as our state of art report #speirgorm 1/

"the council is to collaborate with dereliction activists @judesherry.bsky.social & Frank O'Connor"

News to us until Cork Independent got in touch

As reminder we provided our data for 300+ derelict properties to Cork City Council for free in 2021, as well as our state of art report

#speirgorm
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Les locaux de X en France perquisitionnés, la justice veut entendre Elon Musk en audition libre Une perquisition est « diligentée dans les locaux français » de la plateforme X par la section de lutte contre la cybercriminalité du parquet de Paris, a annoncé ce dernier mardi sur les réseaux socia...

"The specialized J3 section of the Paris prosecutor's office has been investigating cases since November 2025 involving "complicity in the possession of images of minors of a pedopornographic nature" and "complicity in the organized distribution, offering, or making available" of such content."

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It's a classic "wait til Micheál discovers who's in charge of flood relief schemes" moment except I'm tired of these. It used to happen all the time on twitter too, politicians tweeting that they were outraged about something that was actively their remit in their government position.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X The Paris prosecutor's office said a search was underway at the French offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.

Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

story updated: the investigation 'was opened in January 2025 following complaints about X's algorithm and the content it recommended'. It 'was expanded in July 2025 after reports of sexually explicit deepfakes and holocaust denial content circulating on the platform.'

James Acaster ethered Gervais years ago, and Ricky has simply never recovered.

The Catholic Church needs to be asset stripped, worldwide. That still wouldn't pay for the damages they've done.

Boo fuckin' hoo. Freeloading fucks.

What is the best website to track TV shows, make lists, and find new recommendations? Like a TV version of Letterboxd? And free preferably?

I tried Trakt but you can only make 2 lists and get 3 recommendations at a time in the free version

Oh yes. I'm sure Finn has had a column or two on it.

We need to point to this whenever someone next goes on about how Ireland needs an honours system like the UK

I'm quite sure this is by design.

So the guy who mentored Morgan McSweeney into masterminding the destruction of the UK Left etc etc etc was also committing treason by leaking government secrets to an international child trafficker with links to Mossad and Putin? Nice.

Picture of Sir Keir Starmer's right hand man with the headline " Morgan McSweeney pushed for Mandelson to be made ambassador -Starmer’s chief of staff viewed the Labour peer as a mentor and hosted him at his family home in Scotland"

Reminiscent of Thatcher's unstoppable need to have Jimmy Savile knighted.

So the guy who mentored Morgan McSweeney into masterminding the destruction of the UK Left and getting his boss elected on a platform made entirely of lies turns out to have been accepting enormous sums of money from the world's most famous child abuser and consistently lying about it? Nice.

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

Thirty-five million dollars were spent marketing this! It is like someone eating spoonfuls of gold-encrusted garbage and beckoning you to watch. Look at how much gold I’ve put on it! More gold than anyone! Doesn’t it look delicious?

Apologies don’t cost anything. How about the bould Pontifex gets the various orders in Ireland to pony up the money they owe us for all their crimes?

This fella seems a rock of sense.

The left seriously need to start finding more common ground. Aontú’s ahead of Labour, PBP and the Greens? And no, I don’t consider Sinn Féin a true left-wing party.

A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.

Pepperidge farm does, in fact, remember this

“A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to ‘do more’ during a massage, documents show. The billionaire founder exposed his penis to her and offered to buy her a horse, according to claims in a declaration.”

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island

Theeere it is

Nigel Farage is mentioned 42 times in the epstien files, no media coverage

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