Child of Prog
@devindoyle.bsky.social
Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France. Age: unverified.
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Leave Twitter.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Leave Twitter.
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
Gonna ask ChatGPT if I should be surprised about this.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Gonna ask ChatGPT if I should be surprised about this.
Yeah, it's "behave as a confident, well-adjusted human being while you work towards becoming a confident, well-adjusted human being, because it'll help you move closer to being a confident, well-adjusted human being".
I think "fake it til' you make it" is genuinely a great bit of advice but people (understandably!) think it means "lie until you've duped everyone" when in reality it's much more "act like you belong here because you actually do and you need to get over yourself"
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Yeah, it's "behave as a confident, well-adjusted human being while you work towards becoming a confident, well-adjusted human being, because it'll help you move closer to being a confident, well-adjusted human being".
Not a bad morning, even with the cold.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Not a bad morning, even with the cold.
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
The layers of 2025 Fucking Bullshit™ in this story are many.
- Awful, stupid AI art.
- Awful, stupid assumptions on its politics from flag-shaggers.
- Stupid assumptions on what it's about from some lefties.
It's just shit all over.
- Awful, stupid AI art.
- Awful, stupid assumptions on its politics from flag-shaggers.
- Stupid assumptions on what it's about from some lefties.
It's just shit all over.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The layers of 2025 Fucking Bullshit™ in this story are many.
- Awful, stupid AI art.
- Awful, stupid assumptions on its politics from flag-shaggers.
- Stupid assumptions on what it's about from some lefties.
It's just shit all over.
- Awful, stupid AI art.
- Awful, stupid assumptions on its politics from flag-shaggers.
- Stupid assumptions on what it's about from some lefties.
It's just shit all over.
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Happy International Mens Day. Men still do the most dangerous jobs. Are more likely to take their own lives. Experience perceived social penalties for being paternal, caring, sensitive etc. So, with consent, hug a man today. Fixing the patriarchy is in the best interests of men too!
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy International Mens Day. Men still do the most dangerous jobs. Are more likely to take their own lives. Experience perceived social penalties for being paternal, caring, sensitive etc. So, with consent, hug a man today. Fixing the patriarchy is in the best interests of men too!
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I think one of the best things about Irish politics over the past decade is how the successive referendums showed activists how to build a popular base and use it to win, it worked with equal marriage, repealing the 8th and Catherine Connolly.
Can it win a GE? For that, Left unity is needed.
Can it win a GE? For that, Left unity is needed.
You need to energise your base and build outwards from there. If you hollow out your base to chase voters who are fundamentally uninterested in what you're selling, your vote will collapse. There's quite a lot of evidence to support this - the Danish Social Democrats are just the latest example
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I think one of the best things about Irish politics over the past decade is how the successive referendums showed activists how to build a popular base and use it to win, it worked with equal marriage, repealing the 8th and Catherine Connolly.
Can it win a GE? For that, Left unity is needed.
Can it win a GE? For that, Left unity is needed.
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Here are more Xbox Game Pass games coming this November www.eurogamer.net/here-are-mor...
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here are more Xbox Game Pass games coming this November www.eurogamer.net/here-are-mor...
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The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Ruby Bridges is 71. Emmett Till would have been 70.
The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58.
Less than a generation ago.
The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58.
Less than a generation ago.
there are quite a few white folks who vividly recall and rather miss Jim Crow alive and voting in this country right now
I honestly don’t see how anyone can see it any other way if they are honest. Jim Crow was only ~60 years ago! Are we really pretending that the insane racism just suddenly disappeared? This is to say nothing of the hundreds of examples we all have of seeing casual racism in everyday life
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Ruby Bridges is 71. Emmett Till would have been 70.
The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58.
Less than a generation ago.
The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58.
Less than a generation ago.
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How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action?
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action?
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
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Late, Late Troy Show
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Late, Late Troy Show
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Why come up with a functional housing policy when you can falsely accuse immigrants and asylum seekers of being the problem
New: sweeping new immigration reforms to be introduced by government on family reunification, housing requirements and student visas. Sources confirm plans will be “very significant” and far reaching. Full details here exclusively
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Asylum families rules set to be tightened
New regulations will require asylum seekers to prove financial stability, among a range of changes aimed at curbing immigration
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Why come up with a functional housing policy when you can falsely accuse immigrants and asylum seekers of being the problem
The greatest moment in Irish football in years and years and years.
Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The greatest moment in Irish football in years and years and years.
This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
Yup Sheriffer!
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
(Nice one, entire country is crying)
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This lad.
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
(Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)
Troy Parrott now up there with Cillian Murphy as Ireland's favourite sound lad.
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Troy Parrott now up there with Cillian Murphy as Ireland's favourite sound lad.
#coybig
Thrilled that Ireland pulled off the miracle in Budapest, but I have to spare a thought for the gutted Hungarians and their fans and their president and now I'm twice as thrilled.
Thrilled that Ireland pulled off the miracle in Budapest, but I have to spare a thought for the gutted Hungarians and their fans and their president and now I'm twice as thrilled.
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#coybig
Thrilled that Ireland pulled off the miracle in Budapest, but I have to spare a thought for the gutted Hungarians and their fans and their president and now I'm twice as thrilled.
Thrilled that Ireland pulled off the miracle in Budapest, but I have to spare a thought for the gutted Hungarians and their fans and their president and now I'm twice as thrilled.