Siobhán Dowling

Seien Sie versichert, Herr Merz: Mein Mann und ich werden mittelfristig freiwillig dafür sorgen, dass „Ihr Problem“ gelöst wird. Wir werden dieses Land dann in absehbarer Zeit verlassen. Denn wir sind nicht bereit, die täglichen Demütigungen länger hinzunehmen. ⬇️

"Don’t treat yourself like a translation factory, you are a couturier of words. Make it bespoke."

I had a most enjoyable wander through @marshslibrary.bsky.social during the week

„Den Kindern klarmachen: Er meint nicht uns“: So reagieren Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler auf das „Stadtbild“-Zitat von Friedrich Merz Der Kanzler spricht im Zusammenhang mit Migration von einem „Problem im Stadtbild“. Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler mit Migrationshintergrund berichten, wie das bei ihnen ankam.

There is widespread disgust and dismay about Chancellor Merz's description of Germany's diversity as a "problem" in the "Stadtbild"

Some reactions: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/den-k...

One of the most arseachingly annoying and dangerous things about AI is that folks assume it's another form of Google when it accumulate random pockets of data to formulate what it thinks you want to hear because it wants you to keep using it and we don't like being told no

This will be superb

YouTube video by DadoTheGoodVillainChannel Trigger Happy TV - Dom Joly Big Phone Compilation Part 2

When this was a sketch show, rather than our daily reality:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Dc...

Solidarität üben!

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

That was my immediate thought. Who's going to be first one unleashed?

Inherited... from... themselves...?

vile people.

the daughter of parents' friends was recruited as well, but as she came from a very ordinary background they brainwashed her and kept her as a skivvy in an organisation in Dublin. Took years to get her out.

Opus Dei believes far more deeply in class than any Marxist.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

We are delighted to be collaborating with the PATHOS project and @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for this event on Saturday, Nov 8th (@immaireland.bsky.social):
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More info about our ‘War in Europe’ issue at:
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@irishpen.bsky.social

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Also had tiresome conversations at different offices trying to explain that Brexit would not be affecting me.

Oh dear god. This sounds so familiar.

I joked that we'd been in it since 1973, so quite a bit longer than Pberg... Joke did not go down well.

No idea! The internet?

I once had to convince someone in the Pberg Bürgeramt that Ireland was actually an EU country and I was allowed to live there. Showing them my EU passport and all.

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

Took a wild guess and I scrolled to the bottom and yep:

"This article was originally written and published on the 23rd of April in German. It was translated in English with the use of Artificial Intelligence."

No idea! I do remember they counted votes for Dustin the Turkey that time he ran.

WOKE. CULTURE WARS. CULTURE WARS.

I think this is called momentum...Don't knows seem to breaking for Connolly.

When you really want to look at a chapter of a book that has to be read in the library and your daughter is off school all week sick and so you still can't decide on your essay topic...

Joys of mature studenting/parenting

Yep, I'm now thinking there must be a censored version of this that I had seen on TV at some point.

Pretty sure that *NO KINGS* is a "foundational truth[] of this republic."

“Marxists in full display” and tigers and bears, ooh my

Marine Le Pen voit son recours contre son inéligibilité immédiate devant le Conseil d’Etat rejeté La présidente du groupe RN à l’Assemblée a été condamnée à quatre ans de prison, dont deux ferme aménagés sous bracelet électronique, et à une amende de 100 000 euros ainsi qu’à une inéligibilité immédiate de cinq ans dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires d’eurodéputés.

Marine Le Pen voit son recours contre son inéligibilité immédiate devant le Conseil d’Etat rejeté

Alles auf Anfang - Max Czollek, Hadija Haruna-Oelker | S. Fischer Verlage Deutschland versteht sich als Erinnerungs- und Aufarbeitungsweltmeister. Aber wie kommt es dann, dass Rechtspopulisten Wahlen gewinnen, rechtsextremistische...

Heute ist Release-Day von "Alles auf Anfang", was ich gemeinsam mit @hadijaho.bsky.social geschrieben habe!! Es ist unser Versuch, die Niederlagen der letzten Jahre zu ordnen & darüber nachzudenken, wie es jetzt weitergehen kann! @sfischerverlage.bsky.social
www.fischerverlage.de/buch/max-czo...