Cathal Malone

If Gordon Brown really played a role in securing justice against Andrew, he really will go down as the best PM we had in the last few decades.

His post PM reputation rescued akin to Jimmy Carter's

a performance so good it'll punch Q in the face

Odo, after 200 years of shape-changing practice, doing his best Daniel Craig as he tells Major Kira he loves her. It isn't going well. Probably because of his awful top made from a grey car seat cover.

Odo in human form sure looks a lot like Daniel Craig, huh?

#DS9

There really is a lot less spam and fascism, and there're also a lot more cats in my feed. I'm counting it as a win, even if it takes a while to get the followers back.

On a audio-only call and there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the background. Explanation: his cat has worked out that the most effective way to get his attention is to press the chair lever that makes the seat sink towards the floor, which is my new favourite mental image. Is this a common cat trick?

Young people today don't know anything about Basque separatist groups

(Just made an ETA pun that didn't land)

And the rest of us just lost it.

"Prints, Andrew"

Scotus: You can't arrest the president or his minions, he's got kingly powers.

British: Arresting king's brother.

An outstanding payment - the smallest on my list, because those always take the most chasing for some reason - has been outstanding for nine weeks. Accounts just ghosting me.

I sent an email saying "Charging late fees always seems petty, but..." and it was paid in 43 minutes lol

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Pls note: we do not have an advertising regulator. We have an industry body which they hold out as an effective self-regulator.

Jim O'Callaghan scapegoating immigrants and acting tough on immigration as part of his bid for the leadership of Fianna Fáil is directly comparable to Leo Varadkar scapegoating welfare recipients as part of his bid for the leadership of Fine Gael.

Neither of them concerned about the consequences.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely ...

lmao *jesus*

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

No! FFIX, surely, with Rowld the Dog as Vivi?!

Buldak Ramen.

@garodean.bsky.social I'm really sorry, but you're going to have to sharpen your knives again...

My name, Éibhear, typed into a text box with an error message telling me that "No numbers or special characters allowed".

Hi Axa Insurance. This is my name, and while it's special to me, there *are* no numbers or special characters in it. Also, you are not arbiters of what's allowed to be used in names, anyway

Local radio gives the audience without the fact check.

Declan can't read or write and has spent more time in prison on a mattress on the floor than in school. Declan isn't entitled to legal aid because he's a lag. Declan is convicted. Your job is done. Actual burglar is out there to strike again. That's what we want in FG.

So you are a guard in Roscommon. You have a new burglary to solve. You could do the hard work of taking statements and getting fingerprints and going door-to-door. OR. You could arrest Declan. God love him, because only a mother could. 14 previous burglary convictions, and he lives three doors down.

Free legal aid – “unfair to taxpayers” - Midwest Radio The councillor believes the system needs to be re-examined.

Do you think these lads know that they're talking shite, or are they just thick? This lad wants "repeat offenders" to be banned from criminal legal aid.

(Like, to begin with, this would be wildly, hilariously, blatantly unconstitutional.)

www.midwestradio.ie/news/free-le...

The Life of Brian is the one that always brings it home to me. Ban lifted in 1987.

When I occasionally lecture Irish college students, it's often on the topic of social media and censorship. One of the things I try to impress upon them is that up until the 1990s, Ireland had the most draconian state censorship regime in the Western World, & Playboy was only unbanned here in 1994.

Big tech is a big problem.