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Buying a big green leprechaun hat off grafton street as we speak

I’m very sorry to inform you one of the new U2 songs is actually kinda good.

Refreshing taste of accountability in the world today!

“Feminism is wrong, men have to go to war”

“ok then let’s make the army welcoming to women, free from discrimination and sexual harassment“

“no”

Polish defence minister cancels "gender training" for soldiers after backlash

A victory for the man baby brigade here. And you can be certain it’s exactly the same doses who love whinging about how only men have to go to war actively making the military less welcoming to anyone who isn’t man.

Are we going to send our Taoiseach to the Oval Office for a jig and a laugh while the US actively causes power cuts to hospitals.

Irish Examiner view: Humanitarian crisis in Cuba Once you accept that this is a crisis with a human toll, silence becomes complicity

Maybe it’s just my feed but bluesky seems kinda quiet about Cuba this week. The US has no excuse for making Cuban people suffer like this. Horrendous.

Insane libertarian populism: well now ok let’s not judge too harshly there’s a lot of good in here if you take a step back and squint and…

Boring tried and tested SocDem labour policies used by the global HDI top 20: c-c-communism?? 😦

Certified “mild social democracy will kill us all” Economist classic

Quite the chart

Yes, but civilising the locals has so far proven tricky. As a member of the advance vanguard I require reinforcements

Why does one put the fear of god into most people while the other thing that is like 10000 times more common and worse gets like “ah yeah it’s awful isn’t it but what can you do… oh look at the telly my favourite rapist is playing football!”.

Most people are just a lot more afraid about false accusations than the never ending barrage of people being raped and sexually assaulted every day, where only a tiny *tiny* fraction of those victims (3% is probably optimistic) ever get something resembling justice.

Always depressing to me how the median attitude among most people is close to “metoo went too far” when the most powerful man in the world is a rapist, and countless rich successful sports star / celebrity rapists get good press every week.

Palestinians as a whole must be punished in advanced for Minority Report reasons but Israel can act exactly like that today with impunity.

How is bombing, shooting, and starving tens of thousands of civilians, and annexing and settling their country for decades not genocidal?

Is the Bosnian genocide not genocide either in your view? Is anything?

It’s jarring how many people get much more worked up about the “what if” scenario of Palestinians using a position of power in the way Israel does right now.

Mass murdering tens of thousands of civilians, annexing multiple neighbouring countries, settler colonialism, starvation etc.

Amazing how not a single Taoiseach has managed to criticise Trump during Paddy bowl with any more bravery than *Enda Kenny* did (softly) in 2017.

Did dry January now for the second time no bother. Once again noticed absolutely zero difference. A huge win for the drink I’m afraid!

Wie der deutsche Weinhandel Israels Siedlungen mitfinanziert Weine aus israelischen Siedlungen werden in deutschen Supermärkten, Online-Shops und auf Fachmessen als „israelisch“ vermarktet – und normalisieren so die illegale Besatzung der palästinensischen Ge...

An investigation by a German outlet has found that in German supermarkets, wines from illegal settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank are labelled as "from Israel".

This violates both EU regulations and the International Court of Justice's advisory ruling on the occupation of the oPT.

It’s kind of an obvious point but the disparity between the UK and US responses to Epstein is wild. In Britain the scandal might well bring down the PM, even though he wasn’t in the files at all. While in the US, the president and many others who were deeply incriminated just blithely carry on

Tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok are before the Oireachtas Media Committee today... as was long flagged, X has refused to take part.

X even went so far as to reject a written request from the Taoiseach to appear before the Committee.

"Imagine there's one (1) country..."

TRT World - Israeli forces raid Quneitra, Daraa countrysides in southern Syria Local media reports Israeli incursions in Quneitra and Daraa amid gunfire.

Israel don't get enough credit for pioneering a border free world. Just driving their tanks wherever the wind takes them.

My broad view is there is as big, or bigger, issue with older adults and social media as with young people - and that social media bans are just a sticking plaster that allows us to ignore the wider issue.

Ultimately we need proper regulation and enforcement, not bans which allow us to ostrich

I'm sorry but it's very funny to me that the legislature of a G7/P5 country of 70 million is currently drafting the "Fuck This One Guy in Particular Act of 2026."

Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.

Well yes, you have *facts*, but then what are they next to my vibes?

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X The Paris prosecutor's office said a search was underway at the French offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.

Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

And “a coordinated military response“ could just be sending ammunition and shuffling a few NATO deployments around the Polish border like today which is not enough to stop Russia quickly.