We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life. I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.

Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky. Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky. This proves one thing. It's not about protecting children. It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.

Percentage of "extreme liberals" under 30 years of age who have been diagnosed with a mental health problem: 56% Percentage of "extreme conservatives": 10%

Social welfare recipients should be given 27.5% of the average annual wage, Social Justice Ireland has argued. newstalk.com/news/social-wel…

Sinn Féin Leader @MaryLouMcDonald has announced that the party will move legislation in the Dáil next week to remove the mandatory three-day wait period for abortion in early pregnancy sinnfein.ie/news/legislation…

Britain’s return to the EU is only a matter of time ft.trib.al/Pj0T2N1 | opinion

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

What's most infuriating about the Musk trillionaire shit is that his enterprise is built almost exclusively on gov contracts. It's not just that he's expropriating our wealth in an abstract way -- his fortune is built on the tax dollars we pay, that he then obtains through graft.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

train station in Nantes opened in 2020 with no air conditioning. The design promised it would regulate its own temperature in extreme heat. Six years later, when it's 26°C outside, it's 32°C inside. They're bolting on giant fans to fix it. The building has large glass walls. That's the whole problem in one sentence. Glass admits solar radiation, traps the heat inside (the greenhouse effect, the same physics that warms your car in a parking lot), and a structure with big glazed facades facing the sun will get hotter than the air outside no matter what the design brief promised. You cannot passively "self-regulate" your way out of solar gain through that much glass during a heatwave. Physics doesn't read the architectural statement. I (Skander Garroum) wrote an essay a while back about Europe's strange denial around air conditioning, the cultural conviction that AC is an American excess Europeans are too virtuous to need. This station is that denial poured into concrete and glass. The intention was admirable: build a station that stays comfortable without the energy cost of mechanical cooling. The execution ignored that the building's own form (sun-facing glass, an open hall) made passive cooling impossible from day one. The deeper issue is that Europe is designing buildings for a climate that no longer exists. The Nantes station was conceived when European summers were milder and a heatwave was a rare event. The thermal model assumed a cooler baseline. Then the baseline moved. Summers that used to peak in the low 30s now push higher and last longer. A building designed for the old normal becomes a kettle in the new one. Via Skander Garroum (this is France but the Denial is global you See just everywhere)

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has written to the housing minister expressing 'concern' over provisions in new housing legislation that would require social housing applicants to prove they are legally and habitually resident in Ireland jrnl.ie/7067007