Paul Ward (IRL/EU)

What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.

200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀

A lot of the spoiled ballots I saw while tallying were very explicitly and forcibly racist. When the talking heads from Iona and Aontú say that FF and FG need to court their votes, that is who they are talking about.

Your reminder that racism and fascism are inherently anti-democratic ideologies, and thus are owed nothing by democrats or democratic systems.
Under no circumstances do you have to "hear them out", nor should anything be changed to suit them. Ever.

A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres in Virginia Data centres were billed as a boon to Virginia’s economy. Now, residents are concerned about their impact on real estate and electricity costs.

"Today, he deals with the center’s impacts in real time - the one that bothers him the most is the noise pollution.

"'There are no birds around here anymore,' he said, noting the humming or buzzing noise the center emits scares away a lot of wildlife from his area."

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

This video shows the exact moment the garda van was set alight in Citywest last Tuesday night. Aside from the arson of the garda van. The so called 'patriots' set the tricolour on fire to commit the arson.

(Video credit Padraig O'Reilly Photojournalist)

Mark that plane is NASA/NHC tracking the storm over Jamaica.

Channel4 news has covered it.

Employees use AI to generate fake expense receipts to deceive their employers, creating ultra-realistic documents in seconds. The goal is to claim reimbursement for expenses never incurred, exploiting how easily chatbots can now forge convincing receipts. www.ft.com/content/0849...

Very revealing that several Germans have got in touch to say that their chancellor’s comments about migrants were not directed at me. First of all, that would imply I shouldn’t care. Secondly, to imply that non-white races are inherently more likely to commit crime is an attack on *all* migrants.

So for all the talk of loosening the criteria to run for president, we really need to balance that with the fact that absolute no-hopers have used the waft of a possible presidential run to fill our top-rated news shows with utter drivel.

Drivel that journalists have had to fact-check.

Anyway, Gareth Sheridan (remember him? Pharma Bro?) was on RTÉ yesterday and complained that he received a lot of hate online. He then was uninterrupted while he said that you should need a government ID to use social media (because someone might be mean to a failed presidential candidate).

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

Ah why are RTE platforming Steen and her hate?

What the hell are RTE News up to bringing Maria Steen onto flagship radio news as a political commentator.
Where has she been for past 10 years seeking office at council or Oireachtas level?

Load of bollox

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

Private tech companies feeding at the trough of taxpayer-supported public institutions

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest.
#Aras25 #Speirgorm

Inside the fight to save the Amazon: Filmmaker hopes activist can inspire more action

Filmmaker Richard Ladkani knew that he wanted to make a film about Indigenous activist Juma Xipaia from the moment he heard her story

He hopes she will inspire more people into taking action

There was no conceivable world in which the British justice system would find one of their own guilty of war crimes when they're enthusiastically supporting a genocide. But even still, the Bloody Sunday verdict is a slap in the face for all Irish people.

A sitting Dublin city councillor has posted a call for "ethnic cleansing". Don't call them far right though

Bigger questions need to be asked about the Irish times journalists in particular thinking they’re cute or funny, encouraging people for weeks now to spoil their vote and now posting pics like this. There’s a 6 month sentence for taking pics of your vote and posting online.
#Áras25

This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!

1990: Turnout: 64.1%, Mary Robinson (51.9%, 2nd count)
1997: Turnout 47.6%, Mary McAleese (55.6%, 2nd count)
2011: Turnout 56.1%, Micheal D Higgins (56.8%, 4th count)
2018: Turnout 43.9%, Micheal D Higgins (55.81%, 1st count)
2025: Turnout 45.8%, Catherine Connolly (63.4%,1st count)
#aras25

your timely reminder that AGI is neither clearly defined/described nor amenable to scientific or engineering principles... it remains an ideology that is rooted in white supremacy, racism and eugenics

Keeping this bit of Orwell on my mind with respect to the Trump administration's strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

Nothing respectable about this.

Just in case the name confuses people: This is a 16-year-old right-wing sect and is not a part of the Anglican Communion

On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts.
What service he has given us.
Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25