Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera

If you get a new dangerous dog and you tell everyone it's dangerous and you let the dog off leash in a kid's playground and it bites a kid, the dog will be put down and you will be held responsible. Unless you're an AI company in which case you say "it could have killed us all!" and everyone claps

It's like he comes so pre-disgraced that he gets the racism as a freebie. So the Telegraph, or The Critic, or Talk TV, or the BBC, or RTE in their hurry to launder his transphobic bigotry as "controversial" just skip right by the fact he thinks black people can't act or muslims are beneath contempt.

It's an odd side-effect of him being so absurdly focused on transphobic bigotry that the fact he constantly posts *hundreds* of the most racist things I have ever read online is just never, ever mentioned. Things that would follow any other person to their grave as THE thing that disgraced them.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

People are still writing long threads about the professor whom no one outside of academia should ever had heard of and who took his own life because people wouldn't stop writing about him

First they erased a ‘Protect the Dolls’ t-shirt from Strictly Come Dancing. Now they’ve erased Pride badges from University Challenge. The BBC are saying that our visibility as LGBTQ people is a political issue. Meanwhile they’ve commissioned a 2-part series on JK Rowling. Impartial? My arse!

Haha I guess attacking an extremely popular, highly regarded, well-liked famous author with a pathetic and stupidly nonsensical broadside clearly driven by bitterness is one way to get people on your side

No. That's not what happened. Claude didn't do that, the company Anthropic did that and they should be held accountable - but it's been apparent for a while now that these companies can do whatever they like and they will never be held accountable www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I assume everyone who wrote about the hospital bike shed in their columns and talked about the hospital bike shed on their radio shows and tweeted about the hospital bike shed on their Nazi owned micro blogging app are very excited to discuss this

Does John Banville think artists have a duty to take a stance on moral issues? His stand is apparently for amorality. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...

Austin Spare was something of an  l'enfant terrible, revered and scorned. In 1956 he persuaded this cat burglar who dropped in one night through his skylight, to stay and have his portrait drawn.

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

Yeah and the only reason is Twitter. We desperately need to get people - especially politicians - off X.

I’m going to call specifically so they don’t dismiss my email as not being from a real voter. I want them to hear from a real voter- their voter- and I want them to relearn the difference between bots and humans again. (Always be polite to the person answering, it is worth saying)

I promise you this. If 1,000 of you did the same before 5pm today they would all be issuing clarifications by end of day. (well, probably not Jim O’Callaghan, who doesn’t know why cars come with a reverse gear)

I am going to make a point of saying that I think their colleagues have chosen a fringe position, only endorsed by creeps and wierdos until yesterday, & specifically want to know if they, who are asking for my vote, are also weird about touching children.

This report contains plenty of quotes to help your local TDs know that (a) pandering to bots costs real life votes and: (b) will make you just so mad a second time if you read it. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

And then I’m going to ring the office of my local FG TD and read him Jennifer Carroll McNeill’s comments from the Dáil yesterday and I’m going to ask him if agrees that the idea of making a film promoting consent as the basis for touching children “doesn't represent the views of Government”.

I’ve slept on it now and when I woke up, I was still still mad about it. This morning, I’m going to ring the constituent office of my local FF TD and tell him just how mad it made me. Then I’m going to call the constituency office of my local SF TD, and ask if Matt Carthy’s support is their view.

Sally Rooney: "political classes in Europe today are co-operating and learning from US & Israeli regimes. Not only are far-right fascist parties rising to power as a result but mainstream parties are adopting fascist techniques to stop protests". #speirgorm

Goddamn did I need to hear someone with actual influence and power say this right now

Yeah sorry, that one's on us Irish

During non-pedestrianised times - with the gates folded back - they look and act like regular planter boxes. #PlayStreetsBETA

Dave and Brian from our Joinery Workshop adding gates to the planters for the upcoming #PlayStreetsBETA trial. During pedestrianised hours, people can walk through as usual on the footpaths or can cycle/scoot through using the gap between gates (with the gates providing some visibility through).

he could immediately fund more than half of this by scrapping the €150m allocation for "AI upskilling"

I strongly condemn the unwashed laundry in my laundry basket. I strongly condemn the soup stain on the kitchen floor. I strongly condemn the dirty dishes... Weird. It didn't get those chores done. Condemning shit is not action. It achieves *nothing*. It's a meaningless substitute for action.

President Connolly raised these concerns as a “committed and concerned European and as President of an independent, neutral republic.”

This is great and a delight to read - so you know it wasn't written by Ai. Though I'm very disappointed in Oscar The Grouch

Tommy got his ass handed to him

If my granddad had known how many darkies there would be walking around in 2026, he would’ve fought for the Nazis instead

The man loves free speech.

Sally Rooney should be on the Irish football team

The whole Arday scandal and the reaction to it makes perfect sense when you assume that, for those responsible, the death of a young black person of some modest prominence and influence was a good outcome, they're glad it happened, and would like to do it again.

'Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord' by Boney M (I think we can all agree that I win 🤣)

The face of Sky News calling Irish people “Anti-Jewish”. Sky have approximately 600,000 customers in Ireland by the way.

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/15/poll-which-sally-rooney-book-made-you-join-hamas/

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

The UK is increasingly lost

Extraordinary

I was very inconvenienced by the strikes today which has annoyed me, and so I just want to say very clearly, up the workers, I fully support the strikes, beep! beep!

It should be entirely legal to key every one of these cars

Ahhh. Very much looking forward to reading the replies... Yes... ha ha ha... yes! Sickos

The Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.