Carol O’Riordan

This is why I say that in the age of AI, it is imperative to be pro-human. Accuracy is not the measure of the value of literature. It is whether your intended audience, other humans, feel seen, recognized, moved by your work. This is what makes work human. This is not something AI can capture.

It's actually terrifying reading this and seeing how it all is spelled out so plainly. And still, AND STILL, they won't even recognise it as an issue, never mind addressing it.

62% of people who voted to #repealthe8th cited ‘a woman’s right to choose’ as the primary reason for their vote. How’s that for democratic legitimacy?

Shocker as the physical embodiment of Ireland's ills points finger away from him and his ilk, who caused untold distress and countless suicides, to marginalised groups. May this walking talking pus filled big toe never know peace.

Much like Irish media playing up party's like Aontú. Reform gets a disproportionate amount of air-time from Brit media.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like neoliberal renter capitalism. For the love of God, just build offshore wind farms & battery storage. www.businesspost.ie/politics/ire... #IrishPol

When you are too rich to know how normal people survive

Just a note to political parties contesting the Dublin byelection that, rather than sitting silently on the sidelines, you need to come out and condemn Hutch's racist comments on immigration. In a democracy, it's not enough to be not racist; one must be actively anti-racist. Silence is complicity.

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

Sad to see yet another vehicle donated to a disability service plastered with name of the service and donating organisation on the outside. Why do disabled people have to be publicly identified as recipients of charity when going about our daily lives? Why do donors ask and service providers allow?

I don't want to hear another fucking word about how the war in Ukraine exemplifies Ireland's need to abandon neutrality when we're throwing their refugees to the mercy of Ireland's housing "market". If our solidarity can be expressed with bullets but not beds it is devoid of humanity. #spéirgorm

Let me tell you what the prick who hoards housing in your rural community is taking from you by forcing my family out. The guy who runs your kids' after school chess club. The couple who bring young people back into the local pub to play board games on your quiet nights. A yoga teacher.1/n

Genuinely do most Americans think the rest of the world will just blame one guy and leave it at that. I mean he's the main focus but an entire country electing him, around 1/3 still supporting him and an opposition unwilling to protect their democracy from him isn't being forgotten #speirgorm

Presumably in another 40 years everyone under 50 will say the new Stephens Green shopping centre is a beautiful iconic integral part of Dublin I hate the new soulless design but I'm also amused cos I'm old enough to remember we all despised the current cheap looking Mississippi river boat in 1988

"Times scribbler too dim to understand how owning a second house makes her a second home owner" news

I see we have a new "liberalism has gone too far champion" "Social media is also at work here. It has clearly melted some brains." Yes, David. Yes it has. Someone let this lad loose with an excel spreadsheet during covid and this is the result... 1/

To say "Ireland is full" is not to hold or outline a view - it's a formally meaningless statement of course - it's rather to make a signal to the violent minority for whom this phrase is a claim to racist and fascist solidarity. Time to stop treating II like a normal party maybe. #speirgorm

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

I see the US media are calling the illegal war with Iran ‘war of choice’. They did the same calling an attempted coup the big lie. You would think journalists would have more respect for words. It is not cutesy or clever ffs it minimises the seriousness of the act and tacitly gives permission.

Solar panels that generate power from raindrops! Just perfect for Ireland

We're throwing innocent people in concentration camps and letting them die, including children. Our government, in our names, with our money.

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

Let’s do this for all of Ireland

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

I'm >15 years warning Irish politicians, media houses and journalists of the dangers posed by the far right, and not one of them has ever bothered to listen to me, instead choosing to make the same mistakes as every other European country Spoiler: It's going to get much, much worse. #speirgorm

I fully support people's right to protest but I don't support far right bullshit pretending to be about farmers and hauliers and I can't recall another protest ever being allowed to bring the city to a halt for 36 hours and still going without any consequences whatsoever

If you're gonna use the term, save TACO for situations where Trump can reverse himself, and damage is financial or abstract. This is not that. This is a madman taking the world hostage, causing death and global chaos, sparing us from civilizational ruin for his own opaque reasons. No moving past it.

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

What happens if the US Forces refuse the order? Is it a coup? Is there still a government? I don’t think it is quite as simple as just saying no. I mean, I think they should refuse to take part in a genocide but the ramifications are huge.

25th.

Highlight from today's research: cooling data centers already uses as much water as all the bottled water manufactured globally. They're expected to need 170% more water by 2030. 25% of humanity lacks reliable access to clean water. Jesus Christ.

As of yesterday, the Irish government was declaring that this wouldn't be needed

Just a reminder 👇

Your reminder that @finegael.bsky.social MEPs voted for this and the far right celebrated. May the dead haunt every moment of their dreams, in this life and the next.

An Taisce has asked the EU Commission to review Ireland's latest nitrates derogation, which allows Ireland to use more nitrates than the rest of EU, despite our rivers being polluted with too much. As we said at the time, the decision had no scientific basis & failed nature, the public, & farmers.

Entirely aside from the genocide, it is so weird to say you revere a foreign state. Imagine if a politician came out and was like “I REVERE POLAND!” That would be weird. This is weird.

AI in an oil shock energy crisis looks like a huge gleaming crimes Cadillac in 1973. A product that forgot it relied on an ecosystem that just got hit by a meteor.