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MAGA misinformation is still everywhere rewriting history, twisting facts, fueling fear. It’s on all of us to push back with truth. What’s the most ridiculous MAGA myth you’ve seen lately
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
MAGA misinformation is still everywhere rewriting history, twisting facts, fueling fear. It’s on all of us to push back with truth. What’s the most ridiculous MAGA myth you’ve seen lately
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no, but making it any bigger encourages unsafe speeding and driers who go "oh look there's a handy parking spot I can just about squeeze into"
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see the narrow width of the cycle tracks planned on Main Street in Clonee, Co Meath. 1.5 metres isn't wide enough for cycle tracks when other options are available.
irishcycle.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
no, but making it any bigger encourages unsafe speeding and driers who go "oh look there's a handy parking spot I can just about squeeze into"
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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
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Doing some research on equity tokenization and the methodology for every estimate of the potential market size is literally this meme
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Doing some research on equity tokenization and the methodology for every estimate of the potential market size is literally this meme
as for the media coverage of next years upcoming RTB regulation changes - its been absolutely vile. Every single one has taken up a false narrative peddled by the IPOA and others selling the false idea its "forcing landlords out of business" when its very benign to landlords
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
as for the media coverage of next years upcoming RTB regulation changes - its been absolutely vile. Every single one has taken up a false narrative peddled by the IPOA and others selling the false idea its "forcing landlords out of business" when its very benign to landlords
askaboutmoney for example is riddled with chancers trying to find out if they can use licenses to evade RTB. If they don't live there well no, they cannot, but it doesn't stop them fishing for legal loopholes.
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
askaboutmoney for example is riddled with chancers trying to find out if they can use licenses to evade RTB. If they don't live there well no, they cannot, but it doesn't stop them fishing for legal loopholes.
part of the issue with housing activism is its overfocus on historical general issue & hyper lack of focus on easily fixable minor issues - such as the fact that "rent a room" style tax breaks should come with actual tenant rights. Also complete failure to recognise dynamics of house shares
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
part of the issue with housing activism is its overfocus on historical general issue & hyper lack of focus on easily fixable minor issues - such as the fact that "rent a room" style tax breaks should come with actual tenant rights. Also complete failure to recognise dynamics of house shares
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This is the real punchline though
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is the real punchline though
this is an excellent article & a big missing piece where renter activism is concerned
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Too many renters in Ireland have zero legal protections
People who live in digs, spare rooms, sheds or sublets fall outside every legal protection available to tenants — and they are nothing more than a cash cow to policymakers
www.irishexaminer.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
this is an excellent article & a big missing piece where renter activism is concerned
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Worth saying there's a lot of completely normal ways to put the private market into health insurance (germany uses multi payer rate setting) but all of them need govt oversight
Yet another reminder of why health insurance should not be a private, for-profit industry and we should have a single payer, publicly run system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
‘We’re at a breaking point’: Health insurance premiums just keep going up, worsening affordability crisis - The Boston Globe
Many employers’ premiums have risen by 10 percent or more, insurers and brokers say, straining families’ budgets.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Worth saying there's a lot of completely normal ways to put the private market into health insurance (germany uses multi payer rate setting) but all of them need govt oversight
Its a good example of an area which had vanished completely in Ireland while expanding elsewhere, and why Ireland so much has been the canary in the coalmine for what is a largely globally driven housing crisis driven by selective & restrictive bank lending policy & in conflict with govts policies
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Its a good example of an area which had vanished completely in Ireland while expanding elsewhere, and why Ireland so much has been the canary in the coalmine for what is a largely globally driven housing crisis driven by selective & restrictive bank lending policy & in conflict with govts policies
curiously, unlike Ireland, bridging finance actually increased in the UK after the bust, and is especially popular with BTL buyers buying properties to renovate & then let, in which case the increased valuation allows for lower LTVs for trad BTL loans
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
Brief history of the bridging finance sector – Mortgage Finance Gazette
The bridging sector has seen significant growth with new lenders coming in and changing the traditional concept of a bridging loan to cover an array of lending options. Benson Hersch, CEO of the Assoc...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
curiously, unlike Ireland, bridging finance actually increased in the UK after the bust, and is especially popular with BTL buyers buying properties to renovate & then let, in which case the increased valuation allows for lower LTVs for trad BTL loans
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
www.mortgagefinancegazette.com/features/bri...
Its actually the reason why you see the phrase "chain free" in estate agent adverts.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Its actually the reason why you see the phrase "chain free" in estate agent adverts.
and "piloting" it when its literally the most risk free type of loan Bank of Ireland can possibly offer is a publicity seeking joke
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
and "piloting" it when its literally the most risk free type of loan Bank of Ireland can possibly offer is a publicity seeking joke
There's nothing "new" about bridge finance, it was a normal product available to movers until not long before the bust. Presenting it as an "innovation" when its the most risk free product available to only a subset of the comfortably housed elite is gaslighting in the extreme
A new loan to support homeowners trading down is to be piloted by Bank of Ireland next year
BOI to pilot loan to support homeowners trading down
A new loan to support homeowners trading down is to be piloted by Bank of Ireland next year.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
There's nothing "new" about bridge finance, it was a normal product available to movers until not long before the bust. Presenting it as an "innovation" when its the most risk free product available to only a subset of the comfortably housed elite is gaslighting in the extreme
Donating the entire proceeds of the work to a terrorist group, or any organization for that matter, is effectively working for free anyway. Much of a muchness. Can't see her winning this case on those grounds
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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RTE.ie
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Donating the entire proceeds of the work to a terrorist group, or any organization for that matter, is effectively working for free anyway. Much of a muchness. Can't see her winning this case on those grounds
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Yeah, see this all the time when I'm cycling, not just motorists, but pedestrians and cyclists all playing on their phones while on the road or in shared spaces. I've seen cyclists take their phones out to look at, at every single junction
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yeah, see this all the time when I'm cycling, not just motorists, but pedestrians and cyclists all playing on their phones while on the road or in shared spaces. I've seen cyclists take their phones out to look at, at every single junction
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
تصحيح السرد
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
Not just bigger than Gaza, but they reckon as many as 69,000 were murdered in just 10 days of the last fortnight
NEW: Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.
Sudan's Death Toll Has Exceeded Gaza’s, Here’s Everything You Need To Know zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Sudan's Death Toll Has Exceeded Gaza’s, Here’s Everything You Need To Know zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s, Here’s Everything You Need To Know
Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Not just bigger than Gaza, but they reckon as many as 69,000 were murdered in just 10 days of the last fortnight
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Humanitarian and foreign-affairs professionals agree that what is happening in Darfur now is on a scale unlike anything seen in the conflict so far. Why is so little being done? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-fall-of-el-fasher
Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches
After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Humanitarian and foreign-affairs professionals agree that what is happening in Darfur now is on a scale unlike anything seen in the conflict so far. Why is so little being done? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-fall-of-el-fasher
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I'd recommend this illuminating article written by a Syrian antifascist as a guide for spotting leftist grifters like Catherine Connolly and Clare Daly
The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots
Once more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilise around Syria. This is the third time since 2011. The first was when Obama contemplated striking the Syrian regime’s military capabil…
leilashami.wordpress.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'd recommend this illuminating article written by a Syrian antifascist as a guide for spotting leftist grifters like Catherine Connolly and Clare Daly
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Regardless IMO the fact this stuff is so poorly thought out by advocates and opponents of an EU Army just shows how far away it is from being a serious policy.
I reckon the stuff like joint procurement is a much more realistic approach.
I reckon the stuff like joint procurement is a much more realistic approach.
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Regardless IMO the fact this stuff is so poorly thought out by advocates and opponents of an EU Army just shows how far away it is from being a serious policy.
I reckon the stuff like joint procurement is a much more realistic approach.
I reckon the stuff like joint procurement is a much more realistic approach.
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It’s ironic that European FP doves are so against an EU army, given how restrained it would likely be?
National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East.
Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!
National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East.
Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It’s ironic that European FP doves are so against an EU army, given how restrained it would likely be?
National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East.
Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!
National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East.
Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!