Notices by Gerard Cunningham ✒️ (faduda@mastodon.ie)

We had some loose talk about an Irish honours list a few weeks ago.
Here's the thing.
Official Ireland would have seen to it that Sinead O'Connor would never have made that list.
And that's why it's not worth having.
We already know who our heroes are.

@dec23k If no title is conferred then that becomes moot.
Otherwise you'd find everything from Scott medals and Gaisce to Aosdana declared unconstitutional.

@dec23k

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

@Antiqueight Honestly I'd rather save a newsroom

@Antiqueight @nwhyte

John.

@Antiqueight @gutenberg_org
Household Words would have been another publication, which merged/was taken over

@Antiqueight
https://www.thejournal.ie/last-council-seat-women-breed-more-kildare-6408002-Jun2024/

@Antiqueight @telescoper

Fine Gael aren't imaginative people. They just have the One Weird Trick...

@Antiqueight

"the clerk not receiving enough training and only receiving online training the night before polling."

There's a whole mess of problems there because someone decided to save a few bob.

And it's never an isolated incident.

@Antiqueight @cstross @deantoir_ceardaiochta
Has she an option to appeal to ECHR?

@Antiqueight Were in the age of TulipAI

@Antiqueight @cianhan
Shift + Backslash? \

@Antiqueight @cianhan
Alt-Right + tilde (the key to the left of "1")

@Antiqueight No, that will be the villain, Hanna Gruber.

@Antiqueight I'd watch that. Though you know they'd give her a backstory where she was a SEAL before going corporate.

The best thing about the latest Fedi drama is that thanks to the absence of a Misery Heat algorithm I have no idea what the latest Fedi drama is.

Time to check the News ..

@AnarchoNinaWrites

"... the idea that if you just make the argument, and prove the point, an ethereal debate moderator/teacher/nanny is going to give those nazis what for, and make them behave."

a.k.a. the Sorkin West Wing Fallacy.

In my defence, I also spoke ill of Pat Robertson when he was alive...

In my defence, I also spoke ill of Berlusconi when he was alive...