The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
05.03.2026 08:24 — 👍 653 🔁 316 💬 31 📌 13The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
05.03.2026 08:24 — 👍 653 🔁 316 💬 31 📌 13There is also, "We are sorry you fools didn't understand our obviously wonderful policies."
28.02.2026 07:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A record number of journalists and media workers were killed last year, with Israel held responsible for two-thirds of the deaths.
This is the second consecutive year-on-year record for press deaths.
jrnl.ie/6967411
Six lies transphobes tell about puberty blockers – debunked…
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...
The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure
27.01.2026 11:23 — 👍 748 🔁 192 💬 7 📌 20
Forget 'reprehensible'; this is a stain on the Irish state. Of course, the issue is not new, but if we are serious about human rights, we need to stop the use of Shannon for these flights.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Wood burners may treble children’s exposure to pollution in homes, study finds
06.02.2026 06:09 — 👍 54 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 4
Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020.
And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job
Bridget's Day, Imbolc, first day of spring! 🌱 Am I going to share my crósog bhríde, no.
Am I going to share this petition yet again, because only 8,665 Irish citizens have signed it.
Why haven't you signed it yet? 🇵🇸
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
#LaLeBride #BridgetsDay #Speirgorm
As nothing has changed since I wrote The Abuse Factory Gist re X, the only thing an extra Gist has is a round up of the moral & intellectual collapse of policy and commentary
Too painful for me to go back on, to little benefit.
Niamh Smyth and Richard Chambers aside, it’s been a shocking failure
December homeless figures are usually lower as friends and family overstretch themselves to house loved ones over Christmas. We've been seeing numbers bounce back up in January/February for over a decade now.
Every year homelessness increases no matter how much rhetoric is thrown at the problem.
God this storm is brutal, let me check the only place I can reliably see if my train is delayed...
27.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 136 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 2And yet sadly there is no other way for government ministers and many TDs to communicate with their constituents apparently.
23.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
22.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 2621 🔁 1124 💬 11 📌 245Is that not the point?
21.01.2026 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Justine McCarthy spot-on on proposals for reform of IP family reunification:
“To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not.
It is simply cruel.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
It's too soon to make a decision about leaving a platform generating CSAM, and sure don't all social media platforms have issues?!
And then on the same day he posts images of children on the CSAM generating platform?!!
Is he trying to take heat off Michael Cahill or something?
#Spéirghorm
I'm genuinely flabbergasted at the poor judgement & incoherence on display by the Taoiseach & those advising him.
The function of making CSAM by X/Grok won't be banned by Govt but private app store companies should remove Grok app?!
#Spéirghorm
May, depressingly, lead to increased revenue for him.
09.01.2026 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
09.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 1721 🔁 543 💬 28 📌 10Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.
08.01.2026 13:38 — 👍 386 🔁 224 💬 5 📌 18Hard to know where to start with this? I would love to live in a world where government ministers treated the abuse of women en masse as being as important as, say, Irish beef.
08.01.2026 14:40 — 👍 43 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1With both positions O'Donovan has demonstrated a talent for parroting the views of Irish based multinational social media companies.
08.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Shocking response from the Minister, essentially the "guns don't kill, people do" defence of Musk's CSAM machine. Also spectacular cognitive dissonance, when only last month he was claiming we all need to give up our digital rights to protect children online. #Spéirghorm
08.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
‘What is considered as the darkest and most disturbing of online harms is now happening in plain sight, and it is utterly immoral. It is more proof that big tech cannot be trusted to keep children safe online.’
Children’s Rights Alliance Press Release: bit.ly/4qc3tLZ
Woman arrested live on air by Donald Trump's thugs just because she says she doesn't want her tax dollars used to commit war crimes in Venezuela.
This is far worse repression than they have in Venezuela.
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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