Mike McGrath-Bryan

Many such cases.

@micheal-martin.bsky.social Are you also moved by the scenes of hundreds of Palestinian hostages being reunited with their families, some after decades being held without charge or reason by Israel, while thousands more remain in captivity? Why such one-sided compassion? #speirgorm

I'm sure this is thrilling news to Apple TV's dozen or so subscribers, tbh

The source language is my native language.

This idea that, like the poster above, we can randomly assume the King's-English version of a non-English name is the default one, and thus any pun on that basis is liable to be universally understood, is a head-scratcher, frankly.

In fairness, he has form for making poor decisions and claiming he was under the kosh.

Seán, pronounced "sh-aww-n".

I'm not sure how anyone can assume that speakers of other English accents/dialects would have the same understanding.

It's hard to know what next for games.

Three big companies; three ever-iterating boxes with ever-vanishing differences or identities; a business model predicated on chasing bubbles rather than rewarding risk.

There's an opportunity for an indie/open-source console format, imo.

In every single article about the AI bubble I am the sickos at the window

Alan Kelly celebrating like he's just won the Junior B championships

"While speaking to reporters in Co Tipperary on Friday, Ms Connolly was asked if she was winning over Mr Kelly’s support.

She said: “I’ll leave Alan Kelly to deal with Alan Kelly. That’s a full-time job perhaps.”

She may have a point.

Nearly as though you have to meet people where they are!

There is a world outside of England

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Meat - as a concept

The Greatest Showman - the lowest common denominator tunnelling into Earth's core

Fairytale of New York - too many ppl looking for excuse to yell slurs

Good luck to you in any regard - I just can't see the benefit in each of us not speaking/acting from places that are entirely congruous with the Ireland we seek to build and be part of, and more effectively bringing it about, rather than hoping conservatives and centrists can be won 'round.

Bold of the rumour mill to imply that this potential paperweight prototype will see the light of day, considering Microsoft's obsession with gutting consumer goodwill and its own resources.

In any case, there'll be nothing to play on it, unless another Call of Duty somehow still does it for you.

Hooray! More old things! Because new things bad, and big world scary!

Which is part two of my abject confusion - good people keeping bad parties afloat at the grassroots instead of joining parties and orgs closer to their individual values.

I would hope that they would commit to doing so, but it'll take a very substantial guarantee of that - including withstanding the inevitable reactionary pushback within their own ranks - for me to earnestly believe it.

That would also include an official austerity apology.

Thing there is, how many of our generation owes Labour a second thought after how they treated us, much less our time and effort in bringing it back towards socialism?

She also stands over austerity, having been Seanad leader at the time.

A simple 'we got things badly wrong, we apologise; here's how we're cutting ties with that ideology, here's how we'll pay back the bailout generation with interest' would go a long way, I think.

And bless ye if it does. Labour isn't alone in that regard either, I might add.

SocDems have some post-Hayes soul-searching to do; SF have to decide if they want the young people or the reactionaries; PBP/Sol have work to do outside the cities.

It should, and one would have hoped the Executive and PLP would have listened on that score - it will follow the party around until it does.

I read the O'Connor report a while back - entirely too defensive, still.

Howlin has voted for *many* things...

So much so, of course, that Kemmy and the WP's long-standing positions, and those of their new supporters, were listened to - their new party avoided facilitating the rescue of neoliberalism and its socially disastrous consequences, and Labour now stands at the head of a long-united left.

If Labour is to avoid further brickbats about capitalism, centrism, neoliberalism, etc, I'm sure many of us would welcome its left faction subjecting its right to a 1989-style showdown, taking back control and recommitting to Connolly's values.

The Labour centre-right that still holds significant enough sway to the point where this is a story at all - and threatens the broad-left-unity upon which the CC campaign has been built.

And still won't apologise for austerity, either.

Not at all, but I can't imagine Labour, post-1989, has been a warm house for genuine radicals and socialists, and that had to factor into whether it was worth staying around - especially considering the trajectory the party would take a few years later

Michael D. stayed with Labour after the austerity of the 1980s and the bulldozing of the working class and state of the early 1990s. I don't doubt the intent, but question the logic.

Likewise, like many good socialists, CC had her reasons to leave, and has been a fine Independent TD and candidate.

Not sure if a party that genuinely undertook the mass delusion of trying to grow our domestic economy out of crisis by strangling it with both hands via half-a-decade of austerity is a good candidate to be reformed.

Genuinely don't wish ill on good people in the party, but fail to see the rationale

Find someone who loves you as much as Alan Kelly loves attention

A committee of the rich, to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.