Charlie Taylor

I suppose Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will now have no other choice but to fully lean into trying to lure the kind of voters who send them death threats

Who are the people who spoiled their ballot and why? An initial analysis

This is very important analysis by @kevcunningham.bsky.social Bottom line: the disaffected voters trending far right are becoming less apathetic and more active. It’s only a matter of time.

Who are the people who spoiled their ballot and why?
open.substack.com/pub/kevcunni...

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Beautiful paragraph juxtaposition! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Why is my son’s special needs school used as a Polling Station for every election when there are THREE schools within a five minute walking radius of it? Being severely autistic and non-verbal, he needs strict routine.

The prophecy has been foretold!! ;)

Investigation launched into Dublin Airport passenger data breach

me: *reads a post that triggers me*
me: i just gotta keep scrolling till i find the right post that untriggers me. that’s how this works.

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch pictures onstage in Dublin

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch pictures onstage in Dublin

Well now, that was a joy

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

‘It worked — but we couldn’t win’: Pat Phelan’s weight loss firm shuts down amid competition from Mounjaro, Ozempic

Irish healthtech firm Akara joins Apple and Nvidia on Time’s 'Best Inventions of 2025' list

Akara, the Irish healthcare tech company, has had its AI sensor included in Time Magazine’s ‘Best inventions of 2025’ ranking, in what is a major coup for the firm.

This is the second time the company has made Time Magazine’s annual list

www.businesspost.ie/tech/irish-h...

Woah! That is hardcore

Irish sports tech firm StatSports acquired by Sony in multimillion dollar deal

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

"The platform has turned into a pile of shit, and we’re at the bottom of it"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

At a Conspiracy Conference in Rural Ireland, Charlie Kirk Was the Star The increasingly tight links between far-right groups in the US and Europe were on full display at the Rebels Across the Pond conference in Ireland. The star of the show? Charlie Kirk.

Fear And Loathing In...Boyle

I travelled to a tiny town in north west Ireland to attend a conspiracy conference that brought together figures from the US and Irish far-right communities.

The uniting force at this conference? Charlie Kirk

www.wired.com/story/conspi...

Patricia Routledge in Talking Heads - A Lady of Letters by Alan Bennett (26th April 1988)

Ed Zitron is mad as hell How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics

This is a good read
www.ft.com/content/4c8d...

Stripe valued at a record $106.7bn as stock buyback talks commence

Analysis | America can’t quit smartphones. Smart glasses won’t help. We keep hoping that a magical technology can liberate us from what we don’t like about technology.

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

We have always been at war with Tylenol

Great to be at the launch of @sylvialeatham.bsky.social's new book Chaos Theory. A fun, quirky romcom with robots

Today is publication day!
Rich with info & insights about primroses and canopy leaves, the framework for the hidden power behind a butterfly’s wing or the singing of a wren;as well as otters, wild orchids, pilot whales, swifts, puffins, leatherback turtles, bog cotton, woolly mammoths, Kerry toads

Explain this, atheists!

This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people.

We often worry about the wrong things.

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
🧪

Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore

ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

‘We lack ambition’: Founder of AI startup snapped up by Anthropic on why he left Ireland

‘We lack ambition’: Founder of AI startup snapped up by Anthropic on why he left Ireland

Remarkably few people seem to have loved ones who don’t laugh hard enough when they suggest they’d like to be head of state