Paraic Hegarty

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

No indeed

As usual, the American pronunciation was the universal one but the process of trisyllabic laxing continued in Britain and Ireland changing the pronunciation here

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Irish people are very familiar with so-called non-lethal “rubber bullets” and “baton rounds” and the deaths and maimings they were responsible for in the hands of Empire in the North of our country

Oh hey, Discord is taking a survey on whether users want generative ai slop machines crowbared into every crevice. They obviously want to but this is an opportunity to hurt a shareholders feelings and that's rare enough these days.

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These people are the current worst of humanity and they will keep doing more and worse. History will judge them for the lying, cruel, bigoted, corrupt, cowardly self-serving thieves they are. I cannot hold the Peace Testimony so I lay it down. Miserere mei

‘A warning not an insult’: US doubles down on criticism of Europe Forecast of Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’ was part of call for pro-growth reform, says Trump official

Your drunk uncle giving you life advice www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you can manage that, everything else will come; if you give in, nothing can help you.
Václav Havel

Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him. And so, from the bottom of my heart, my New Year's wish is that you not lose your hope, faith and ability to delight in the world—even if the world is the way it is.

The more I think about it, the more I incline to the opinion that the most important thing of all is not to lose hope and faith in life itself.
Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him.

This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar.

from ‘Shapechangers in Winter’
By @margaretatwood.bsky.social

Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

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Just remembering now I had a dream during the week where I was explaining the concept of eventual consistency and CRDTs

Having flown from Cork to London to Hong Kong to Brisbane, from Gold Coast to Sydney and now gone through security for my flight from Sydney to Melbourne, an eagle-eyed security person has finally spotted the nail scissors I didn’t know I had with me all that time 😳

We know that the Sun is male and the Earth is female because the Sun gets all the credit for rising and setting but it’s the Earth doing all the work

Congratulations, Dr Turner

I know what Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests but in this case the correct answer might actually be “have you lost your minds?”

Top 5 on shuffle 20/10/25:

Anyone Can Play Guitar, Radiohead
Wonderful Life, Black
Missed the Boat, Modest Mouse
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell), Squeeze
Like Water, Steve Mason

Top 5 songs on shuffle 19/10/25:

Survive It, Ghostpoet
Mirror in the Bathroom, The (English) Beat
No Hard Feelings, Wolf Alice
I Love You, Fontaines DC
Houses in Motion, Talking Heads

Top 5 songs on shuffle 18/10/25:

All My Days, Alexi Murdoch
Play for Today, The Cure
Ruin, Cat Power
Heartbeat City, The Cars
Duel, Propaganda

You’re right, I *love* the muppets. These guys are a dose

Muppets

The ability to hide people’s comments for everyone and then block them is perfection

No principles. Scared of their own shite. Do I mean Stripe, the government or RTÉ? Yes

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right.

There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]

Nobody has an obligation to nominate anyone for anything, ever. You have a right to ask, they have the right to decline