Will Lawless
@willlawless.bsky.social
AoS, slowly and not that well. Other stuff, like trying to be a halfway decent human being, big fan of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. #YNWA.
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"You have to feel for Man United," Sue Smith said on the radio at the end of today's game. Let me just stop you there, Sue
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"You have to feel for Man United," Sue Smith said on the radio at the end of today's game. Let me just stop you there, Sue
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Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.
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We've done some boxing by mistake
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We've done some boxing by mistake
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🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
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Yaaas Newgrange do your thing up yours Stonehenge you're only an IKEA job
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Yaaas Newgrange do your thing up yours Stonehenge you're only an IKEA job
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The same people who "love Christmas" so much that they put up a tree in November also take it down on Boxing Day *the actual literal second day of Christmas*. They also then complain about how much the hate January. Well folks, you did it to yourselves! We invented Christmas observence for this!
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The same people who "love Christmas" so much that they put up a tree in November also take it down on Boxing Day *the actual literal second day of Christmas*. They also then complain about how much the hate January. Well folks, you did it to yourselves! We invented Christmas observence for this!
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I have never had this issue before, and even weirder everyone was acting like *I* was unusual.
My good dudes, I am just trying to observe in the most usual manner possible. I am, quite literally, attempting to observe Christmas Time.
I hate how we have moved Christmas into advent and even autumn!
My good dudes, I am just trying to observe in the most usual manner possible. I am, quite literally, attempting to observe Christmas Time.
I hate how we have moved Christmas into advent and even autumn!
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I have never had this issue before, and even weirder everyone was acting like *I* was unusual.
My good dudes, I am just trying to observe in the most usual manner possible. I am, quite literally, attempting to observe Christmas Time.
I hate how we have moved Christmas into advent and even autumn!
My good dudes, I am just trying to observe in the most usual manner possible. I am, quite literally, attempting to observe Christmas Time.
I hate how we have moved Christmas into advent and even autumn!
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oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
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"Real centrism has never been tried"
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"Real centrism has never been tried"
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A new report shows that Russian oligarchs are exploiting ISDS courts to resist the sanctions that have been imposed on them.
So on the one hand the Irish Government talk a lot about their support for Ukraine while on the other hand, they want to lock us into these insidious courts through #CETA
So on the one hand the Irish Government talk a lot about their support for Ukraine while on the other hand, they want to lock us into these insidious courts through #CETA
December 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A new report shows that Russian oligarchs are exploiting ISDS courts to resist the sanctions that have been imposed on them.
So on the one hand the Irish Government talk a lot about their support for Ukraine while on the other hand, they want to lock us into these insidious courts through #CETA
So on the one hand the Irish Government talk a lot about their support for Ukraine while on the other hand, they want to lock us into these insidious courts through #CETA
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I remember being astonished when a million people turned up to protest in London - 10 million worldwide - and thinking they cannot possibly ignore this. And when they did was the moment most of us realised that our govts no longer account to their citizens, but to other interests elsewhere.
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I remember being astonished when a million people turned up to protest in London - 10 million worldwide - and thinking they cannot possibly ignore this. And when they did was the moment most of us realised that our govts no longer account to their citizens, but to other interests elsewhere.
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In the broad sense, yes: and for the following specific reason
![The aide said that guys like me were
'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.?!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hyjbx4hnlxe5il24ydnn4sr/bafkreigjq4fwyrlb22hww3z7tq2vhmmnsxdly6ohc64pe6o323vwcw3ana@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In the broad sense, yes: and for the following specific reason
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I really think this is not as big a story as it should be. We are in kick-them-out-of-the-UN territory
The US imposes sanctions on another two judges of the International Criminal Court for not dropping a warrant against Israeli leaders.
Les Etats-Unis sanctionnent à nouveau deux autres juges de la Cour pénale internationale
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I really think this is not as big a story as it should be. We are in kick-them-out-of-the-UN territory
Labour to end up with less MPs than Sinn Fein would be pretty flippin funny
🚨 #GE2029 | Reform lead by 15pts
➡️ REF: 33% (+3)
🔵 CON: 18% (=)
🟢 GRN: 17% (-1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (=)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 18 Dec (+/- vs 10 Dec)
➡️ REF: 33% (+3)
🔵 CON: 18% (=)
🟢 GRN: 17% (-1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (=)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 18 Dec (+/- vs 10 Dec)
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Labour to end up with less MPs than Sinn Fein would be pretty flippin funny
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Bluesky: releasing a "find your contacts" feature.
Me: making god damn sure not a single aspect of my stored contact information here is connected to anyone I know IRL.
Me: making god damn sure not a single aspect of my stored contact information here is connected to anyone I know IRL.
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Bluesky: releasing a "find your contacts" feature.
Me: making god damn sure not a single aspect of my stored contact information here is connected to anyone I know IRL.
Me: making god damn sure not a single aspect of my stored contact information here is connected to anyone I know IRL.
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DFA argued that releasing feedback on plan to label Algeria as “safe” would hurt diplomatic relations. “It’s probably fair to assume that if the DFA said anything positive about Algeria’s human rights record, they wouldn’t be so determined to withhold it". www.dublininquirer.com/dfa-argued-t...
DFA argued that releasing feedback on plan to label Algeria as “safe” would hurt diplomatic relations
“It’s probably fair to assume that if the DFA said anything positive about Algeria’s human rights record, they wouldn’t be so determined to withhold it.”
www.dublininquirer.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
DFA argued that releasing feedback on plan to label Algeria as “safe” would hurt diplomatic relations. “It’s probably fair to assume that if the DFA said anything positive about Algeria’s human rights record, they wouldn’t be so determined to withhold it". www.dublininquirer.com/dfa-argued-t...
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Today 128 guards in Dublin and Waterford will be armed with tasers - a fundamental shift in Irish policing without any public consultation.
ICCL is deeply concerned at the speed with which tasers have been introduced and An Garda's approach to "piloting" new tech.
www.iccl.ie/news/taser-p...
ICCL is deeply concerned at the speed with which tasers have been introduced and An Garda's approach to "piloting" new tech.
www.iccl.ie/news/taser-p...
Taser pilot is a dangerous step for community policing, says ICCL
Introducing tasers into Irish frontline community policing marks a significant shift in our model of policing and is deeply concerning.
www.iccl.ie
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Today 128 guards in Dublin and Waterford will be armed with tasers - a fundamental shift in Irish policing without any public consultation.
ICCL is deeply concerned at the speed with which tasers have been introduced and An Garda's approach to "piloting" new tech.
www.iccl.ie/news/taser-p...
ICCL is deeply concerned at the speed with which tasers have been introduced and An Garda's approach to "piloting" new tech.
www.iccl.ie/news/taser-p...
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Ireland’s Government has decided to legislate for phrenology.
Garda Callipers to be issued on funding approval, no doubt.
Garda Callipers to be issued on funding approval, no doubt.
And before the FRT bit.... yesterday's newly published bill gives guards the power to detect and categorise folks by their biometric data (facial structure, skin tone, gait, etc) to prevent or investigate arrestable offences...
data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachta...
data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachta...
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ireland’s Government has decided to legislate for phrenology.
Garda Callipers to be issued on funding approval, no doubt.
Garda Callipers to be issued on funding approval, no doubt.
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“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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But then he wouldn't have been humiliated! Can't you see the difficult position MM is in?
Fianna Fáil general secretary Sean Dorgan has acknowledged that Bertie Ahern should have been told sooner that he was not the party’s preferred presidential candidate. jrnl.ie/6905527
Fianna Fáil report on Jim Gavin's disastrous €400k candidacy shows Taoiseach told him to withdraw
TDs have just received the long-awaited report ahead of a showdown parliamentary party meeting
jrnl.ie
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
But then he wouldn't have been humiliated! Can't you see the difficult position MM is in?
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I think all my old mates emigrating because there were no jobs between 2008-2014, and then most of my new mates emigrating between 2018-2025 because there are no gaffs, has had a greater effect on social cohesion than migrants
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I think all my old mates emigrating because there were no jobs between 2008-2014, and then most of my new mates emigrating between 2018-2025 because there are no gaffs, has had a greater effect on social cohesion than migrants
I thought that JO'C was maybe just a cynical opportunist, in the grandest of FF traditions. I didn't realise he was full spectrum far-right.
I only want Martin to stay because O'Callaghan is a massive GC who is pro-Cass (he told me myself, and told me off for calling anyone mildly gender critical a transphobe, he didn't reply when I told him I had been called 'mildly gender critical' myself, so if I was seen as mild, what was he then?)
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I thought that JO'C was maybe just a cynical opportunist, in the grandest of FF traditions. I didn't realise he was full spectrum far-right.
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The biggest threat to social cohesion is the lack of affordable housing NOT immigration. Immigrants are not paying 1M€ plus for a mediocre end of terrace 3 bed in Rathfarnham. They’re not buying fancy apartments around Dublin.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The biggest threat to social cohesion is the lack of affordable housing NOT immigration. Immigrants are not paying 1M€ plus for a mediocre end of terrace 3 bed in Rathfarnham. They’re not buying fancy apartments around Dublin.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
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Call me crazy but I feel like political leaders pointing to a whole group or people within our society and saying "Those guys are a threat" is maybe not conducive to social cohesion either.
The biggest threat to social cohesion is the lack of affordable housing NOT immigration. Immigrants are not paying 1M€ plus for a mediocre end of terrace 3 bed in Rathfarnham. They’re not buying fancy apartments around Dublin.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
We need to invest in social/affordable housing or we are fucked.
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Call me crazy but I feel like political leaders pointing to a whole group or people within our society and saying "Those guys are a threat" is maybe not conducive to social cohesion either.