Alan Ryan (Slowed & Reverbed)

Ireland will not take part in next Eurovision Song Contest due to Israel’s inclusion Meeting of European Broadcasting Union decided vote on Israel’s participation was not needed

Ireland should be doing more for Palestine, boycotting the genocidal state of Israel on every level: trade, sporting, and cultural links.

But RTE's stand on the Eurovision is still cause to be proud.
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Ireland’s influence in non-proliferation far outweighs our size and it’s because of our neutrality. It’s maybe the most important thing we do on the world stage and our media basically never talks about it. So of course he wants us to step back, it makes it easier to argue against neutrality

Fifteen Years

❤️ xkcd.com/3172/

Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!

Part of me finds this moral-panic engagement farming almost as cynical as the AI cultural hellscape it purports to criticise.

Hypothetically, things might be this bad some day, but as a parent of two school age children I refuse to believe it's this bad now, or at least that it's a widespread Weltanschauung :(

Wonderfully wet and wild.

Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.

Rewilding is how we make that happen.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all

When life imitates art

“Is This Final Art”

Some one in their death bed and everyone is looking to ChatGPT for last words A cartoon by Dave Coverly

Let’s get real.

A cartoon by Dave Coverly

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

"If I can't steal, my business doesn't work."

OK then.

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!

Protect Viz at all costs.

Jesus Christ.

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.

As someone who works in the children’s comics industry I would like to share my thoughts on this: Fuuuuuuuck offffffff.

Also can't believe this was almost 20 years ago. Still think of it as new music ☠️😬

Did you ever hear a band or a piece of music that sounds like it was made *just for you*, perfectly attuned to you? Burial is that for me. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Still can't.

New BURIAL klaxon 😭 🤗 😊 🤩

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

I only drop in here now and again because I'm just not pure enough for it. #Bluesky

logging onto Bluesky