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Truly shameful that close to 6,000 children will spend another Christmas in emergency accommodation in Ireland
Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland
F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland
F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
So much potential for homes wasted for a decade while people die on our streets
Shame on all the owners for hoarding while also destroying our streets with this vandalism
Time for use it or lose it across Ireland so everyone has a home
Parnell Place, Cork City #DerelictIreland
Shame on all the owners for hoarding while also destroying our streets with this vandalism
Time for use it or lose it across Ireland so everyone has a home
Parnell Place, Cork City #DerelictIreland
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Truly shameful that close to 6,000 children will spend another Christmas in emergency accommodation in Ireland
Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland
F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland
F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
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It’s been 70 years since Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was published.
Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.
Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.
The Quiet American Captured the Hubris of American Empire
It’s been 70 years since Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was published. Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.
jacobin.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It’s been 70 years since Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was published.
Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.
Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.
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Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.
Home of the Year judge Hugh Wallace has died aged 68
Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.
www.rte.ie
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize
Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.
hyperallergic.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
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Listening to Sarah Marshall’s podcast about the Satanic Panic, and thinking of the time I was visiting friends in Wisconsin in the ‘90s, and they said you had to be careful (esp. around Halloween) if you had black dogs or cats because “we have satanic cults in the area”
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Sat...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Listening to Sarah Marshall’s podcast about the Satanic Panic, and thinking of the time I was visiting friends in Wisconsin in the ‘90s, and they said you had to be careful (esp. around Halloween) if you had black dogs or cats because “we have satanic cults in the area”
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"
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16 years ago today we opened the doors to Dublin's newest bookshop.That @gutterbookshop.bsky.social continues to thrive today brings me so much joy. We created something that brought people together & celebrated books & reading. I feel like I added something good to the world & I'm so proud of that.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
16 years ago today we opened the doors to Dublin's newest bookshop.That @gutterbookshop.bsky.social continues to thrive today brings me so much joy. We created something that brought people together & celebrated books & reading. I feel like I added something good to the world & I'm so proud of that.
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🧵 This gold boat is my talisman. It’s Hiberno-Celtic & dates back over 2,000y ago. The shape & proportions are ones I use, when I draw; I first saw it over 50y ago.
As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]
As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]
September 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵 This gold boat is my talisman. It’s Hiberno-Celtic & dates back over 2,000y ago. The shape & proportions are ones I use, when I draw; I first saw it over 50y ago.
As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]
As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
theonion.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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For no reason in particular
July 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For no reason in particular
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I think everything we thing of as “science” (the scientific method, replication, peer review, etc etc) is emergent of one single thing. What do you think that is?
June 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I think everything we thing of as “science” (the scientific method, replication, peer review, etc etc) is emergent of one single thing. What do you think that is?
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“Original Sin,” the new book detailing Joe Biden’s in-office decline, “is written not unlike an autopsy report, describing a gruesome political car crash in dispassionate, clinical detail,” Tyler Austin Harper writes.
An Autopsy Report on Biden’s In-Office Decline
“Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”
bit.ly
May 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Original Sin,” the new book detailing Joe Biden’s in-office decline, “is written not unlike an autopsy report, describing a gruesome political car crash in dispassionate, clinical detail,” Tyler Austin Harper writes.
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U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
WASHINGTON—In a move that significantly restricts the eligibility of thousands of American troops to fight for their country on the front lines, senior U.S. military officials announced Wednesday that...
theonion.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
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Couple Debates Ethical Implications Of Bringing Another Child Into This Bar
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May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Couple Debates Ethical Implications Of Bringing Another Child Into This Bar
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‘“Rome, Open City” was shot eighty years ago, before the war in northern Italy was even over, but it feels no less real now than it did in 1945.’
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas · Diary: Rome, Closed City
Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, released at the end of 1945. The movie begins with a version of the disclaimer...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
‘“Rome, Open City” was shot eighty years ago, before the war in northern Italy was even over, but it feels no less real now than it did in 1945.’
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Students going to the United States on J1 visas have been warned of the "potential risks" of being involved in activism while abroad. http://jrnl.ie/6678380
Students warned of 'risks' of activism on J1 as US authorities clamp down on dissent
A number of non-US citizens have been detained and threatened with deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian campaigns.
jrnl.ie
April 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Students going to the United States on J1 visas have been warned of the "potential risks" of being involved in activism while abroad. http://jrnl.ie/6678380
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They want a fetus to be a person so they can pass laws controlling women.
But not when it's their financial responsibility?
Just like we've been saying for years...
But not when it's their financial responsibility?
Just like we've been saying for years...
"Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpose of calculating damage awards."
Well isn't that interesting...
www.kcrg.com/2025/04/10/a...
Well isn't that interesting...
www.kcrg.com/2025/04/10/a...
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’
Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpo...
www.kcrg.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
They want a fetus to be a person so they can pass laws controlling women.
But not when it's their financial responsibility?
Just like we've been saying for years...
But not when it's their financial responsibility?
Just like we've been saying for years...
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I have seen a lot of frustrated Americans ask where they’re supposed to get factual and reliable news on what’s happening in their country, and to be honest, the answer has been “major news outlets in other countries” for about a quarter of a century at least.
April 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I have seen a lot of frustrated Americans ask where they’re supposed to get factual and reliable news on what’s happening in their country, and to be honest, the answer has been “major news outlets in other countries” for about a quarter of a century at least.
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Americans may soon not be able to afford medicines. Hardly fair on the ones who only voted for the racism bit.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Trump’s tariffs come into force as he warns of ‘major’ levy on pharmaceuticals
EU plans to hit back with 25% counter-tariffs targeting US goods
www.irishtimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Americans may soon not be able to afford medicines. Hardly fair on the ones who only voted for the racism bit.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Ominous New Report Just Lists Places To Hide
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theonion.com/ominous...
April 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ominous New Report Just Lists Places To Hide
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theonion.com/ominous...
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Know them when they truly reveal who & what they are, this is the Labour Party’s Scottish MSP, praising & idolising Trump, a felon who disgustingly degrades woman, is a fascist, and who is attacking democracy civil liberties and allies, this is one sick pup who elevates Trump in the worst of times.
April 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Know them when they truly reveal who & what they are, this is the Labour Party’s Scottish MSP, praising & idolising Trump, a felon who disgustingly degrades woman, is a fascist, and who is attacking democracy civil liberties and allies, this is one sick pup who elevates Trump in the worst of times.
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