Worrying Twitter thread on a new self-declared "grassroots" campaign group campaigning against sex ed in Irish schools, which seems to have local far right involvement

Beyond the politics, the risks of stock photo usage are pretty evident too:

"In 2014, as a young family, we did a photo shoot with a photographer friend to get some nice shots for the family album. No money was exchanged – we got nice photos for free, they got nice images for their portfolio. As part of this agreement, we agreed to let them upload them to a stock photo album. We knew that these were available for purchase and we gave permission. Perhaps, naïvely, we imagined that on the off chance that any was ever selected, it might be for a small magazine or website. To confirm, we have not received any money for the photo – then or now, and nor do we expect any.

We were surprised and upset to see that the photo was being used as part of a campaign with which we do not agree. We completely support same-sex marriage, and we believe that same-sex couples’ should of course be able to adopt, as we believe that they are equally able to provide children with much-needed love and care. To suggest otherwise is offensive to us, and to many others."

The web-app dev and ops best practices used by the Obama campaign's tech team. Some key tools: Puppet, EC2, Asgard, Cacti, Opsview, StatsD, Graphite, Seyren, Route53, Loggly, etc.