Nell (by Gráinne Dowling)

You could read the budget analysis or you could read a Gist from 1 month ago, but you’ll end up with the same information. When you have two incompatible aims, you pick the one that serves the group you care about. thegist.substack.com/p/the-gist-the…

New Gist: The Irish State announced its new plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU, amongst other mad things. This is the Gist. thegist.ie/the-gist-wtf-c…

New Gist: LPT, the Chew-Toy Tax. "This scheme was designed to give the illusion of financial autonomy to Ireland’s elected local authorities while ensuring they never actually got to change anything with their decisions." thegist.ie/the-gist-lpt-t…

Can confirm that the position of the RTÉ newsroom is that Kamala Harris’ first name should be pronounced the way she herself wishes it to be pronounced. This appears to be very shocking to some people

The European Commission has amended the AI Liability Directive based on the final text of the #AIAct. While most amendments did not change the meaning of the provisions, there is a crucial addition that might expand the liability risk for deployers. content.mlex.com/#/content/1579…

Congratulations to Mona McSharry on her wonderful achievement in winning an Olympic bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke

If you woke up this morning thinking "If only I could read a comic strip about Mao Tse-Tung, T'Pau, and some livestock belonging to Gordon Brown," then you might want to buy the new issue of Viz, which is in the shops today

The powers of a Peace Commissioner are set out in Section 88, Courts of Justice Act 1924 (as amended). You will be unsurprised to hear they do not include prohibiting the government or anyone else from establishing accommodation centres for anyone. irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/1…

I found a mysterious green powder on my balcony. How did it get there? Perhaps someone at my neighbour's illegal airbnb threw up from the garden? I was curious what it was so let's try and find out... 1/

After some talking he says he can do a basic test for me. He's guessing it's mdma, he puts a some simple reagent on a sample, the reagent turns black: it's MDMA. But he can't guarantee it's purity and further testing is not allowed.