Ryan Oakes
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You'd be forgiven for thinking from Sky's coverage that Spurs actually lost that game.
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
You'd be forgiven for thinking from Sky's coverage that Spurs actually lost that game.
Charging people to post obituaries and funeral arrangements is absolutely fucking vampiric. Extorting grieving families is the Irish Times idea for revenue generation? Whoever suggested that should have been made leave the building via the window.
December 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Charging people to post obituaries and funeral arrangements is absolutely fucking vampiric. Extorting grieving families is the Irish Times idea for revenue generation? Whoever suggested that should have been made leave the building via the window.
Only surprise here is they managed to find a representative sample of Irish people willing to admit they're middle class.
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Only surprise here is they managed to find a representative sample of Irish people willing to admit they're middle class.
I'm sure the players don't care about a Saudi World Cup. Except of course Newcastle players who'll be discovering for the first time they declared for the Saudi national team when they signed their contacts
December 11, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I'm sure the players don't care about a Saudi World Cup. Except of course Newcastle players who'll be discovering for the first time they declared for the Saudi national team when they signed their contacts
How many ghosts do you reckon would have to visit some of these CEOs at Christmas before they consider they're the problem? More than 3 and you've less conscience than a Victorian caricature of a greedy person. More than 4? Violence may be the answer.
December 11, 2024 at 4:37 PM
How many ghosts do you reckon would have to visit some of these CEOs at Christmas before they consider they're the problem? More than 3 and you've less conscience than a Victorian caricature of a greedy person. More than 4? Violence may be the answer.
It's too easy to dismiss FIFA as simply greedy. These reptiles quite clearly have convinced themselves they are a force for good in the world.
December 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
It's too easy to dismiss FIFA as simply greedy. These reptiles quite clearly have convinced themselves they are a force for good in the world.
What really grinds my gears is the pretence that journalists are merely passive observers and that a large section of the profession feels they don't actively contribute to discourse when they give soft interviews, decline to run a story, copy and paste a press release or run inflammatory headers.
I increasingly feel alienated from media outlets as coherent editorial packages.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
While there are individual journalists and columnists I trust and whose work I always read, there seems a wider gulf between what the media institutions want and what I want.
December 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM
What really grinds my gears is the pretence that journalists are merely passive observers and that a large section of the profession feels they don't actively contribute to discourse when they give soft interviews, decline to run a story, copy and paste a press release or run inflammatory headers.
Never quite been able to understand the hold this industry has on Irish politics. I mean I assume it's cronyism but you can't even pretend any benefits are being derived from it. If you *need* 20m from the State you are an industry that is dead or dying. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
New Zealand plans to ban greyhound racing over animal welfare concerns
Greyhound industry group says government hasn’t recognised its work to address welfare issues that have plagued racing for years
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Never quite been able to understand the hold this industry has on Irish politics. I mean I assume it's cronyism but you can't even pretend any benefits are being derived from it. If you *need* 20m from the State you are an industry that is dead or dying. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
I enjoyed the part where they committed an unfathomably disproportionate amount of resources to a single murder investigation and did away with any subtext.
December 9, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I enjoyed the part where they committed an unfathomably disproportionate amount of resources to a single murder investigation and did away with any subtext.
If 1 in 6 employers were refusing to hire [insert any other characteristic here] because of their own sweeping generalisations about how that entire group behave it would be uncontroversially framed as their own fault. Fail to see any reason that shouldn't be the case here. That's a them problem.
The report found that one in six employers were reluctant to hire Gen Z workers mainly due to their reputation for being entitled and easily offended.
Why are companies firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them?
A recent report found that companies were dissatisfied with their Generation Z (Gen Z) new hires and may avoid hiring recent graduates in the future.
www.euronews.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
If 1 in 6 employers were refusing to hire [insert any other characteristic here] because of their own sweeping generalisations about how that entire group behave it would be uncontroversially framed as their own fault. Fail to see any reason that shouldn't be the case here. That's a them problem.
Nothing says it's Christmas time like it being virtually impossible to get a taxi
December 6, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Nothing says it's Christmas time like it being virtually impossible to get a taxi
I struggle to identify musical genres at the best of times without Spotify telling me I had a Viking Cinema springtime.
December 5, 2024 at 4:51 PM
I struggle to identify musical genres at the best of times without Spotify telling me I had a Viking Cinema springtime.
I'm sure it's fun and hats off to them but something always feels off to me about Hyrox. It's like someone took CrossFit and removed all of the skill and technical ability in order to make it easier so they had something to compete in.
December 5, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I'm sure it's fun and hats off to them but something always feels off to me about Hyrox. It's like someone took CrossFit and removed all of the skill and technical ability in order to make it easier so they had something to compete in.
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Forgot what it was like to be in a gym at noon on a weekday, just me, pensioners and the local drug dealers.
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Forgot what it was like to be in a gym at noon on a weekday, just me, pensioners and the local drug dealers.
Nice to see Manchester United players sell out lifelong LGBTQ+ fans to protect the feelings of a guy who arrived in the door 5 minutes ago.
December 4, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Nice to see Manchester United players sell out lifelong LGBTQ+ fans to protect the feelings of a guy who arrived in the door 5 minutes ago.
Once a week I think about Dublin Bus admitting that what they branded as "real-time info" were guesses made by a computer based on historic trends and nothing to do with your actual bus. If it's just telling when it's supposed to be there it's just an electric timetable.
December 4, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Once a week I think about Dublin Bus admitting that what they branded as "real-time info" were guesses made by a computer based on historic trends and nothing to do with your actual bus. If it's just telling when it's supposed to be there it's just an electric timetable.
Call it wishful thinking but nothing I've read so far has me convinced whatever government forms next will survive its full term.
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Call it wishful thinking but nothing I've read so far has me convinced whatever government forms next will survive its full term.
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(pulling up the ladder behind me) This is an opportunity for you to succeed through hard work and determination
December 3, 2024 at 4:26 PM
(pulling up the ladder behind me) This is an opportunity for you to succeed through hard work and determination
I've been of the opinion Tidy Towns should be purged long before it became a far right talking point
December 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I've been of the opinion Tidy Towns should be purged long before it became a far right talking point
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And Jesus entered the temple and said to the money changers, "You are an important part of the local economy and I'm looking forward to working with you"
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
And Jesus entered the temple and said to the money changers, "You are an important part of the local economy and I'm looking forward to working with you"
A number of prominent journalists and radio talk show hosts just fell to their knees.
France has just had a review of healthcare for young trans people and it has come out entirely the opposite to Cass. But then again the personnel involved had not been specifically selected to arrive at a politically-required outcome.
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![The most recent international guidelines [12] suggest that GAH should be initiated in transgender adolescents whose gender incongruence has been confirmed according to the criteria outlined in the ICD-11 (Table 1). Additionally, these adolescents should demonstrate sufficient emotional and cognitive maturity to provide informed consent for treatment. Unlike strict age criteria, other factors such as the duration of gender incongruence, medical follow-up history, persistence of transition requests, psychological distress, and the individual's maturity level should be considered when determining the optimal timing for introducing GAH.
In situations where GAH is introduced before Tanner stage 5 (especially when GnRHa has been previously prescribed), suppression can be maintained upon the introduction of GAH to prevent the action of endogenous hormones and the appearance or continued progression of secondary sexual characteristics in the undesired gender.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d56idxm2oyqwwn2uxnegm2yo/bafkreicxk5xed5no2jm57oz6mzrtrenufehvmqn7ig4cqrgdeuiu52hqwu@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM
A number of prominent journalists and radio talk show hosts just fell to their knees.
Every time without exception that a football player announces they won't wear anything that even trivially supports LGBTQI+ people there is always always ALWAYS dozens of pictures of them wearing a shirt with a sponsor that also violates their supposedly deeply held and practiced beliefs.
December 2, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Every time without exception that a football player announces they won't wear anything that even trivially supports LGBTQI+ people there is always always ALWAYS dozens of pictures of them wearing a shirt with a sponsor that also violates their supposedly deeply held and practiced beliefs.
Something funny about a Green Party lacking humility
December 2, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Something funny about a Green Party lacking humility