Seán Keating

Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights Watch...

Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies.

There is no time to delay.

Micheál Martin raises the white flag on achieving our climate targets 🏳️
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.

🧵 it’s beginning to get towards the spooky season! Samhain, which gave rise to Halloween, is an important part of Irish culture & mythology. That’s why I’m ready for it in my decorations & my art!

You can see the influence of Irish mythology in my drawings if you scroll down in this thread! [1]

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self. ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are. Order Life with Baum!

like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

The Blogs: Cycling betrays Israel From the blog of Dan Cohen at The Times of Israel

Betrayal? Beats genocide.

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2025 Illustration: Niklas Elmehed Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

I’d love to be a fly on the wall watching the Tangerine Idi Amin right now

I do that London Dublin sail rail from time to time.

The Avanti trains that only go as far as Chester are usually fairly chill.

Except for coach C. Everyone legs it down the ramp to grab seats in the unreserved carriage. They never think to wander down through the other empty carriages.

I recently read Muybridge by Guy Delisle (highly recommended) and was thrilled and fascinated to learn that the original design for the camera shutter was inspired by the guillotine.

Suberb fact.

Now I know I can be happy for the rest of the day.
Safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it.

There is something reassuringly wholesome about contraptions in this era of data centres and AI slop.

Yet again, the satirical media doing a far better job at conveying the truth than the mainstream press.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

“I can’t stop the world burning and civilisation’s collapse, as it is hard.”

Tesla is now selling a Model 3 Turn Signal Stalk Retrofit for $595. 😳

An expensive upgrade to bring back what they removed: the classic turn signal stalk. 🫣

First create a problem, now sell the solution for a premium. 💸

Innovation is important but great UX makes users’ lives easier, not harder. 😉

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

So bloody useless

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

A great publishing moment. Very pleased to see this.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

This is amazing stuff even from Ivan Yates... Did he think he was having a chat with one of his consultancy clients or something and not live on air?

My favourite one was "the EU is the supplicant here"

All 400 million of us apparently

This is what they're doing to U.S. citizens right now.

Imagine what they're doing to immigrants.

America is going to ban MRIs because they are an antifa gun theft conspiracy.

it’s very simple: good things should happen to sports team I love and bad things should happen to sports teams I don’t. Is that so much to ask?

Party piece One final light-hearted question from presenter Sarah McInerney related to the candidates’ party trick. Catherine Connolly took the ball and ran with it citing her "keepie-uppies" skills as seen this week on social media. She said she was disappointed to only do ten when she used to be able do 100. While Ms Humphreys cited her "listening ability" and "love of people".

The Rás for the Arás - #Aras25 - is proving to be a lot more entertaining than it should be. Consider how the two candidates responded to a jokey question.

(BTW Humphries is shite at listening. She's one of my local TDs and the one time I wrote to her about a local issue she didn't even reply.)

Woman holding protest sign: You think it started on the 7th October because the BBC won't show you seasons 1, 2 and 3

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis