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The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, Psychological Society of Ireland & Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy have published a joint position calling for the ban of AI therapy in Ireland. #Spéirgorm #Psychology #AI #Psychiatry #Psychotherapy irishpsychiatry.ie/wp-content/u...

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's excellent End Times Fascism And The Fight For The Living World, which is depressing in its succinct analysis of where we are, but I did enjoy this accurate take down of Keir Starmer's failures as UK PM & Kamala Harris' failed campaign

Solidarity vigil for the Palestinian students from Gaza at the Four Courts this morning. The Irish government must give them visas. #LetThemStudy

High Court quashes Visa refusal decision. Minister must reconsider the application.

Love that for 5ish decades now Bono has been not just the biggest Irish rock star, but arguably biggest musician in the whole world full stop and for that entire time everyone in Dublin collectively decided that Phil Lynott was still the only man for the job

For the education of the general public, I thought I’d reveal the most unhinged possible response to this post:

Apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians are documented, evidenced, relentless. All enabled by the so-called international community, including Ireland. We have legal obligations under international law to act to prevent egregious human rights abuses. #SanctionsNow

Seeing as it’s 42 years old this week, let’s give it up for ‘Tech Noir’ in The Terminator

This is a subset of a wider issue. It is extremely difficult to be a genius criminal mastermind because all your plans rely on execution by people who would miscount their own fingers.

Future time travelers: they were all in one room at one time.

I'm normally opposed to drone strikes but one here might have saved the world a lot of pain.

women should rule the world, but allow men to have extremely detailed airsoft "wars" between countries to unleash their libidinal energy and obtain glory

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Got a quick tidy of hair and beard in barbers before going up to Dublin

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Threads is where the conversation is happening

3 hours ago the Brazilian Supreme Court rejected any challenge to the election results. Just now Flavio Bolsonaro has dropped his objections. Lula is President it cannot be stopped, and Flavio Bolsonaro will be going on trial for corruption. And then to jail.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

. @Straczynski.bsky.social offers a congratulatory message to #StarTrek actor Walter Koenig as his first (of several) guest-starring episode of #Babylon5 debuts in March 1994. "I think the part will come as a considerable revelation to those familiar with your past roles."

The indomitable human spirit will prevail against the indifferent cruelty of the universe

This is our scaretober film of the evening and it's quite good fun. Scott Bakula, Famke Jansen, occult PI shenanigans, it's a good time.

Someone call CMAT, we once again need her assistance.

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

FROM IRELAND??

next up in Politics™ is the Israeli elections

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

Dude, it's literally this every time

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.