Reposted by Mad MesonThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9hBREAKING: The Northern Ireland Secretary has banned the Drumcree march in Portadown after two weeks of protest The march has led to a stand-off between Orangemen and nationalist residents on Garvaghy Road 97123
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 17hObviously not the only problem, but would this mean that stay at home parents are ineligible for ILR? 100
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 17hApart from the general AI concerns, using it for a restaurant in particular is crazy. I want to know what specific food you serve! Not a statistical approximation of what a restaurant like yours might serve 020
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 17hObama was to the left of Andrews’ current statement on trans people. He certainly didn’t throw slurs around. And it would be one thing for her to avoid talking about trans rights, but here she’s advocating for stripping existing rights 000
Reposted by Mad MesonMad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 17hAlso, Obama’s lie was to say that he lukewarmly supported gay rights when he actually strongly supported them. He was advocating policy to the left of the status quo. He didn’t start calling people faggots. The current Dem traitors are using slurs and advocating policy to the right of the status quo 011
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 17hAlso, Obama’s lie was to say that he lukewarmly supported gay rights when he actually strongly supported them. He was advocating policy to the left of the status quo. He didn’t start calling people faggots. The current Dem traitors are using slurs and advocating policy to the right of the status quo 011
Reposted by Mad MesonMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...cnn.com‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNNJane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen. 2345100
Reposted by Mad MesonReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Dr: “I’m sorry sir but you have pancreatic cancer” Me: *clutching groin* “OH NO!!!” Dr: *shakes head ‘no’* Me: *move my hands to my knee while maintaining eye contact at doctor questioningly* Dr: *making an ‘up up’ gesture with hands* “bupbupbup” 736176
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 19hThe questions currently unsettling me are: - will they also broadcast his last words? By rights they should, which makes me think they won’t - will he be in his wheelchair or re they going to prop him up against a wall? - who exactly are the people who volunteer for such a duty? 010
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Gender and natal sex are extremely different concepts. And anyway a properly designed unisex bathroom isn't going to permit leering. Anyone I've been in has nice stalls/cubicles with full height doors and walls; not the weird half height stuff in most US bathrooms 050
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Genuinely if my therapist saw me post something like this I would expect her to conduct a suicide intervention 01252
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I used to work in healthcare IT and there was lots of joking about the often ancient infrastructure some of this stuff runs on. But there is a very good reason people are hesitant to overhaul foundational pieces of safety critical systems. 140
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The amount of energy I’ve expended at work to defend the proposition “the product we’ve released should consistently work as intended” 0397
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026(And anyone who thinks it fixes the last two best be careful as they proceed) 050
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I work in tech and I don’t recall ever being on a project that was blocked on how much code we could produce. They’re blocked due to competing priorities, company politics, ill-defined objectives, budget, concerns about maintainability/sustainability, etc. AI doesn’t fix that stuff 2225
Reposted by Mad MesonTade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ink October day 7 311212
Reposted by Mad MesonDave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK" 9878612118
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“We’ve got the exclusive license to adapt the most popular band of all time to a TV show. It’s a guaranteed moneymaker! Our budget is $10 and our animator has not seen a cartoon before” 010
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The way the bees cross between the two metals looks really nice 020
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Larry drops his pants, a woman shouts "Snake! Snaaaake!" 020
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In a world with so many Neal Breen films as yet unseen, there's no need to be watching this 010
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's called the lightning bolt has no one played Mario Kart 000
Reposted by Mad Meson𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026you should be put in some sort of contraption or doohiky 061
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But nothing in the constitution implies a right to privacy or bodily autonomy 020
Reposted by Mad MesonCJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"How do you exempt locals from immigration checks without racial profiling?" “A human-rights based approach is adopted in relation to every individual stopped". OK then. 12817
Reposted by Mad MesonFluoroantimonic Acid @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When creating communal spaces you can either have rapists feeling safe or welcome or you can have anyone who has ever been assaulted or potentially assaulted feeling safe and welcome, not both. This is a principle everyone understands perfectly well when talking about nazis but not youtubers. 1162
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stumbled on this right after posting the above. Identical subject, composition, and feel! bsky.app/profile/memo... 000
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I know I’m kind of missing the point of the post, but I disagree with that being a bad photo. It’s an effing work of art and I can’t believe Google Maps produced it. The framing, the lighting, the soft focus, the fact that it’s impossible to place in time. I love every part of it 110
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh they put it in the plans, but then the next morning the plans had changed back without anyone touching them. They tried this every day for a week, after which the plans remained unchanged and the estate agent had no memory of the property. 0120
Reposted by Mad MesonPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the other thing is that a lot of gentiles, from what i can tell, simply do not understand that asking a jewish person, even an anti-zionist, to never interact with members of the community who are in fact zionists, is really fundamentally antithetical to the nature of jewish communal life 1061168
Reposted by Mad Mesonberserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whatever work Geller has done, it is inherently untrustworthy because of this lack of structure. Yes, we should have restorative justice systems. Yes, rehabilitation should be a goal when people wrong each other. But we do not have the former, so we cannot trust the latter. 210312
Reposted by Mad MesonFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m 41 years sober today. 172334954
Reposted by Mad Mesonthe mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You could also say the same thing about a tarot deck, or a flipped coin. "A stochastic process, filtered through a symbol system" There's a word for that: "Divination". LLMs are best understood as a form of Divination. The psychology around AI even reminds me of occult newbies, tbh.🤷♂️ 1252
Reposted by Mad MesonRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember that repentance, atonement + attaining forgiveness are not the same thing. Focus on the first. 1) Own the harm, fully + completely 2) Begin to work to change for real, addressing root causes via therapy + education 3) AMENDS in convo w/SA experts* cot'd + *DON'T APPROACH VICTIM UNPROMPTED 215328
Reposted by Mad MesonDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026every single ESL course offered in Tipp is oversubscribed and has a waiting list. as in so many aspects of integration, volunteers are working to help fill gaps as much as possible with English speaking clubs, etc. while the govt is only interested in making things worse 44117
Reposted by Mad MesonMad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What I have yet to see is an actual statement of what problem this policy is supposed to address, just comparisons to other countries’ policies. That’s what bothers me more than anything else, because it suggests that the motivation is “foreigners gross” and because it guarantees poor implementation 1132
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Similarly with the residency requirement. 5 and 8 years are both arbitrary numbers. What is the specific good this is supposed to do for Ireland? Cause when I look at my friends and coworkers with 4+ years the bad is very obvious! 270
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And for what it’s worth I (as an immigrant) think the tests are defensible, but I haven’t seen the government defend them. ARE there a lot of Irish citizens who don’t speak any language? Is this causing specific problems? Will the tests solve them? 160
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What I have yet to see is an actual statement of what problem this policy is supposed to address, just comparisons to other countries’ policies. That’s what bothers me more than anything else, because it suggests that the motivation is “foreigners gross” and because it guarantees poor implementation 1132
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If I understand it, the DA's claim is that Jane Doe originally filed a police report in order to let them know that no crime had been committed. And like... that's enough information on its own to know the DA is a liar. 080
Reposted by Mad MesonHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all. 202207481
Mad Meson @madmeson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’m here on a CSEP and I’m definitely getting some… mixed messages from the government right now on what they see as my role here. (For what it’s worth I love Ireland and my goal is “live and work here as long as I’m able”) 020