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Helsinki this morning
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Helsinki this morning
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
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A bit harsh for a team that ran the Lions close
‘The worst team in Wallabies history’: Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
‘The worst team in Wallabies history’: Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
‘The worst team in Wallabies history’: Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat
Joe Schmidt’s legacy is ‘in tatters’, wrote one journalist after Ireland won 46-19
www.irishtimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A bit harsh for a team that ran the Lions close
‘The worst team in Wallabies history’: Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
‘The worst team in Wallabies history’: Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
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Last night, in Hamburg, we had another disarmament.
Never forget the unbelievable long-term consequences of war.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/ham...
Never forget the unbelievable long-term consequences of war.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/ham...
Bombe im Hamburger Schanzenviertel entschärft
Der Großeinsatz von Polizei und Feuerwehr im Hamburger Schanzenviertel ist beendet, die Anwohner können zurück in ihre Wohnungen. Die Fliegerbombe aus dem Krieg ist entschärft.
www.spiegel.de
October 13, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Last night, in Hamburg, we had another disarmament.
Never forget the unbelievable long-term consequences of war.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/ham...
Never forget the unbelievable long-term consequences of war.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/ham...
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Things that love night
Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
And make them keep their caves.
Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
And make them keep their caves.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Things that love night
Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
And make them keep their caves.
Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies
Gallow the very wanderers of the dark
And make them keep their caves.
FYI stay safe
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November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
FYI stay safe
I don't think that includes your thesis, mine kept me up all night.
“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain
― James M. Cain
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I don't think that includes your thesis, mine kept me up all night.
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“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain
― James M. Cain
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain
― James M. Cain
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Approaching perfect reflection of reality:
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Approaching perfect reflection of reality:
Cold, wet and grey
‘I know it’s colder than Australia’: Wallaby Angus Bell ready for Ulster stint
‘I know it’s colder than Australia’: Wallaby Angus Bell ready for Ulster stint
Australian forward to play overseas on sabbatical and go to Ulster on short-term agreement
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Cold, wet and grey
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I also wish people would spell out the alternative proposal here.
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal.
We thought we could compete.
We thought we could compete.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I also wish people would spell out the alternative proposal here.
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”.
This is what I call value for my tax money
This is what I call value for my tax money
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November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”.
This is what I call value for my tax money
This is what I call value for my tax money
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The reason Joyce's short story The Dead resonates so hard with Irish men and women is because Greta fell in love with a proper Irishman who didn't use an umbrella... whereas Gabriel probably owned two, not counting the one up his hole.
A mate who was a teenager in the wee north in the 70s was delighted to discover, when his family moved from Derry to Belfast that a guy could use an umbrella in Belfast without being called gay (unlike Derry where you just had to put up with the rain running down the neck of your denim jacket)
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The reason Joyce's short story The Dead resonates so hard with Irish men and women is because Greta fell in love with a proper Irishman who didn't use an umbrella... whereas Gabriel probably owned two, not counting the one up his hole.
Okay I am at that age now 🤷♂️
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Okay I am at that age now 🤷♂️
If you want equality i wouldn't have started from here!
Bertie Ahern quoted in the Irish times: "The problem with equality is that if you give it to one person, then everyone else comes looking for it."
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you want equality i wouldn't have started from here!
Watched the Manchurian Candidate last night, it was striking how 2 plot points are still relevant in this age. Create chaos in US political system and use the resuliting emergency powers to cement your rule, and the other one is having the candidate standing on stage covered in blood.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Watched the Manchurian Candidate last night, it was striking how 2 plot points are still relevant in this age. Create chaos in US political system and use the resuliting emergency powers to cement your rule, and the other one is having the candidate standing on stage covered in blood.
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I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
And not
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
And not
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
And not
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
And not
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
‘This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
‘This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940
Written in the outpost of Rearcross, the letter is a bleak portrait of human misery worthy of Samuel Beckett
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
‘This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...