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Philip sums the whole thing up perfectly here.

If it's the one I think it is, it's also clearly way out onto public land. Maybe a bit of karma if it falls apart.

Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.

I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal.

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Seanad is so broken. Politicians that fail to be elected as TDs get appointed as a consolation, and senators that failed to be reelected literally get back in without any kind of mandate. 🙄

"The car involved failed to remain at the scene" - the car drove off by itself did it? The language around incidents like this almost always absolves the person driving the car from responsibility. Do better @news.rte.ie

News is scrambling to find a narrative which is anything other than “he was radicalised by the normalised evil of profit driven health insurance ”

In Grim Twist, Some Root for Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing The authorities have pleaded for help in finding the person who killed Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. But some seem more interested in rooting for the gunman.

Said to someone recently that there had to be a point at which something like this happens. Not specifically this, but a violent revolt against an establishment that condones and benefits from the suffering of less well off. It's really not hard to see why people would side with the killer.

Hard to comprehend that over 3000 people voted for a literal gangland criminal drug lord who's responsible for pain and suffering in their community 😐 #ge2024 #generalelection

X trying to block transfer of platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion Social network says it must give permission for accounts to be sold or transferred after sale of rightwing InfoWars

X stating that they can do whatever they want with your account whenever someone in the company feels like it seems like a precedent they may regret setting.

Be aware

They still haven't fixed casting from the app though :(

I haven't used threads in any meaningful way at all and afaict my feed there is just completely random.

If Conor McGregor is found guilty of rape then he should be in jail. I’m not saying this in support of him, at all. I just don’t understand why it’s a civil trial for damages, or why, having been found guilty, he isn’t now being tried for the crime. He should pay damages and then be locked away.

Exact same for me. They pulled fibre to the pole outside the house nearly a year ago and still haven't connected it. I'm wondering if an FOI request can be made.