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However low your expectations are of VdL, she never fails to disappoint. A disaster for the EU, on every level.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
However low your expectations are of VdL, she never fails to disappoint. A disaster for the EU, on every level.
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Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Find someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?"
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?"
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
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they say the arts are thriving in Ireland, but when was the last time we produced a poet capable of satirising a politician to death? #speirgorm
![1414.]
ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
819
John Stanley', the Deputy of the King of England, arrived in Ireland, a man who gave neither merey nor protection to clergy, laity, or men of science, but subjected as many of them as he came upon to cold, hardship, and famine.
It was he who plundered Niall, the son of Hugh O'Higgin, at Visneach', in Meath. Henry Dalton, however, plundered James Tuite and the King's people, and gave the O'Higgins out of the preys" [then acquired] a cow for each and every cow taken from them, and afterwards escorted them to Connaught. The O'Higgins, with Niall, then satirized John Stanley, who lived after this satire but five weeks, for he died of the virulence of the lampoons.
This was the second poetical miracle performed by this Niall O'Higgin, the first being the discomfiture of the Clann-Conway the night they plundered Niall at Cladann*; and the second, the death of John Stanley.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lalgxnyfxas34qyb3u4dp4u/bafkreihzyfu423o65774nubtf43aegne5vq4hrqzqhi7ab2thrjjpzg63q@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
they say the arts are thriving in Ireland, but when was the last time we produced a poet capable of satirising a politician to death? #speirgorm
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You don't gotta hand it to Peter Casey, he's an awful man. Compared to Steen in this specific instance, he did try (and fail) to run for election a few times after his unsuccessful Áras run. So he wasn't completely taking the piss, he was just a bad guy.
She's a bad person AND taking the piss.
She's a bad person AND taking the piss.
Yes....all those angry about not being able to get nominated in Presidential have no barriers in Dublin constituency election - but watch how they decline. #spéirghorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
Áras hopeful Maria Steen rules out contesting by-election to fill Paschal Donohoe's seat
Dublin Central by-election expected to take place in late spring next year and likely to be held on same date as by-election in Galway West triggered by Catherine Connolly’s election as president
www.irishexaminer.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
You don't gotta hand it to Peter Casey, he's an awful man. Compared to Steen in this specific instance, he did try (and fail) to run for election a few times after his unsuccessful Áras run. So he wasn't completely taking the piss, he was just a bad guy.
She's a bad person AND taking the piss.
She's a bad person AND taking the piss.
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Inniu, thug an tUachtarán Catherine Connolly cuairt ar phríomhoifig Focus Ireland , áit ar bhuail sí leis an bPríomhfheidhmeannach, Pat Dennigan, agus leis an bhfoireann, agus shínigh sí leabhar comhbhróin don tSiúr Stanislaus Kennedy.
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Inniu, thug an tUachtarán Catherine Connolly cuairt ar phríomhoifig Focus Ireland , áit ar bhuail sí leis an bPríomhfheidhmeannach, Pat Dennigan, agus leis an bhfoireann, agus shínigh sí leabhar comhbhróin don tSiúr Stanislaus Kennedy.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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"In the past 24 hours at least 25 Palestinians were killed, among them a family of five"
Hind Khoudary reports on Israels latest attacks across the Gaza strip
Hind Khoudary reports on Israels latest attacks across the Gaza strip
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"In the past 24 hours at least 25 Palestinians were killed, among them a family of five"
Hind Khoudary reports on Israels latest attacks across the Gaza strip
Hind Khoudary reports on Israels latest attacks across the Gaza strip
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This is a genuinely abominable act.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is a genuinely abominable act.
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The motion calling on the government to enact the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill was passed in the Dáil today. The government must pass it, including services, immediately.
Protest outside Dáil calls for inclusion of services in Occupied Territories Bill www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Protest outside Dáil calls for inclusion of services in Occupied Territories Bill www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Protest outside Dáil calls for inclusion of services in Occupied Territories Bill
Activists and Opposition concerned legislation would only include trade of goods from illegal Israeli settlements
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The motion calling on the government to enact the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill was passed in the Dáil today. The government must pass it, including services, immediately.
Protest outside Dáil calls for inclusion of services in Occupied Territories Bill www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Protest outside Dáil calls for inclusion of services in Occupied Territories Bill www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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In case you missed it, our Irish Fine Gael MEPs voted with the far right on this one. #speirgorm
For the first time, the European Parliament passed major legislation with a coordinated majority between the centre-right EPP and far-right groups, breaking the long-standing pro-EU coalition that installed von der Leyen.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In case you missed it, our Irish Fine Gael MEPs voted with the far right on this one. #speirgorm
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A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers.
Observer status for NI politicians in European Parliament
A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Stra...
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A cross party group of Irish MEPs has written to the president of the European Parliament requesting that Northern Ireland political representatives be granted observer status at the Brussels and Strasbourg chambers.
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UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
The Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
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So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it?
Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.
It IS possible.
Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.
It IS possible.
You can't prioritize both. That's what 200,000 years of human species tells us. We are an apex predator and an invasive species. Now we may decry the effect of that on other species but...
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it?
Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.
It IS possible.
Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.
It IS possible.
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US President Donald Trump ripped into a reporter from the US network ABC News, just days after calling another woman journalist "piggy" after she asked a question related to the convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein
'Piggy' - Trump hits out at reporter over Epstein files
US President Donald Trump ripped into a reporter from the US network ABC News, just days after calling another woman journalist "piggy" after she asked a question related to the convicted sexual offen...
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
US President Donald Trump ripped into a reporter from the US network ABC News, just days after calling another woman journalist "piggy" after she asked a question related to the convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein
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Thank God we’re not unnecessarily jamming this into schools full of millions of vulnerable, emotionally pliable children. *touches ear* Wait, I’m getting an update —
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Thank God we’re not unnecessarily jamming this into schools full of millions of vulnerable, emotionally pliable children. *touches ear* Wait, I’m getting an update —
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I prioritise BOTH. And you?
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
You're almost there. You're nearly nearly there. Which do you prioritize more? Humans or non-human life...
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I prioritise BOTH. And you?
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.
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"An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed at least 13 people. Dozens more were injured in the attack"
Israel is a terrorist state.
Israel is a terrorist state.
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed at least 13 people. Dozens more were injured in the attack"
Israel is a terrorist state.
Israel is a terrorist state.
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Editorial Board. Hitler never called a female journalist a pig to her face. It’s time for these fascist comparisons to stop.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Editorial Board. Hitler never called a female journalist a pig to her face. It’s time for these fascist comparisons to stop.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Break up big tech monopolies. The system has become too vulnerable. Build local alternatives, resiliency.
X and Cloudflare down for thousands of users
X and Cloudflare down for thousands of users
Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the US, according to Downdetector.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Break up big tech monopolies. The system has become too vulnerable. Build local alternatives, resiliency.
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“…Mr Burke was willing to sacrifice the pupils…on the altar of his fanatical campaign against transgenderism…the former teacher went right into the heart of the school, roaming around its corridors & he described him as a "baleful & malign presence, an intruder, stalking the school…”
Ick
#spéirghorm
Ick
#spéirghorm
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“…Mr Burke was willing to sacrifice the pupils…on the altar of his fanatical campaign against transgenderism…the former teacher went right into the heart of the school, roaming around its corridors & he described him as a "baleful & malign presence, an intruder, stalking the school…”
Ick
#spéirghorm
Ick
#spéirghorm
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Delighted with this ruling; the judge sees the line of abuse & uses the law to stop the disgusting intimidation tactics of EB 🤮
“The judge described..the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of his pupils.
#spéirghorm #Wilsons #Trans
“The judge described..the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of his pupils.
#spéirghorm #Wilsons #Trans
FINALLY a judge is pointing it out explicitly.
The behaviour of Enoch (& the other Burkes) is a clear safety concern.
Genuinely, how far off are they from rationalising violence as appropriate to their cause?
The behaviour of Enoch (& the other Burkes) is a clear safety concern.
Genuinely, how far off are they from rationalising violence as appropriate to their cause?
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Delighted with this ruling; the judge sees the line of abuse & uses the law to stop the disgusting intimidation tactics of EB 🤮
“The judge described..the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of his pupils.
#spéirghorm #Wilsons #Trans
“The judge described..the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of his pupils.
#spéirghorm #Wilsons #Trans
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