Ken Radford
kenradford.bsky.social
Ken Radford
@kenradford.bsky.social
Irish
Interested in many things
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Ssamjang Chicken Parcels

Lightly spiced, tender chicken served wrapped in lettuce, topped with delicious Korean picked onions and a sublime Ssamjang - a beautiful, mildly spiced Korean chilli paste.

All ready in 30 mins. Recipe in @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/food-columni...
December 13, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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December 5, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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I loved Wicked. One of the best endings to a “part one” ever.
December 5, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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The Covid Corruption Commission - there are going be a lot of lost phones...
December 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky friends! 😃

(These adorable pups belong to my older son’s girlfriend.)
December 1, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Happy 1st of December 🎄🎄🎉
a purple background with santa claus and the word love
ALT: a purple background with santa claus and the word love
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December 1, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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1. I’m pretty sceptical about representative democracy: broadly speaking, I think it’s a contradiction in terms. But if we are to have such a thing, it should look like the assistant dying bill debate in Parliament yesterday. That debate showed us what we are missing all the rest of the time. 🧵
November 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother called him ‘an abuser of women’
Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother called him ‘an abuser of women’
Email from mother, published in the New York Times, said he mistreated women and displayed a lack of character The family dynamics of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, have burst out into the open after an email from his…
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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"...The truth is that the only borders that have been opened over recent years are the borders to the sort of rhetoric and politics deployed by Nigel Farage and his fellow travellers on the hard and far right."

Brilliant on how Starmer is engaging in "irresponsible and inflammatory politics."
November 30, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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Disappointing that RTÉ is pumping its live updates out via twitter/X (its website linking back into X)- given how closely aligned it is now to disinformation. Post election there's a clear issue in how public media feeds that platform www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...
Final push for votes before polling stations close
Follow live updates as they happen as polls open across the country after a three-week general election campaign.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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The Macquarie Dictionary selected "enshittification" as its 2024 word of the year.
Definition: Noun Colloquial: the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.
November 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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My late mother, Mary Keane, loved Listowel and its people. She spent most of her life behind shop counters, mostly in the family pub. She offered this sage advice to those who want to see small towns thrive globally.
“If you don’t shop in your own town, then you won’t have a town to shop in.”
November 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Expecting any social media platform to be representative of *the* electorate in general is deeply unrealistic. There are fundamental demographic differences between some platforms even before you get to ideology! Sorry, I am too old to go on TikTok. These are global platforms too...
November 23, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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“As each wave departs X, the site gradually becomes less valuable to those who stay, prompting a cycle that slowly but surely diminishes X’s relevance.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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That Cabinet Secretary instruction that cabinet ministers ought not become active participants in this debate has really hit home.
The Observer: Assisted dying leads to ‘state death service’, warns minister #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Enough with that guy. Good riddance.
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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i think this is what “achieving critical mass” looks like in graphical form …
November 21, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend.

He had told the media he was jailed for "pushing" his former partner in 2006.

Court records obtained by The Times say the sentence was given because of "the serious nature of the offence”.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend
The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM
November 21, 2024 at 11:07 AM
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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