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“Women are proud of you, thank you”

Gisèle Pelicot responds to messages of support from women across France.

#Newsnight

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

21 January 1902 | A Pole, Jan Ekielski, was born in Krakow. An architect.

In #Auschwitz from 25 April 1942.
No. 33112
He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year - Inside Climate News Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.  Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, a...

"Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year" | Great piece by Johnny Sturgeon of @insideclimatenews.org on our new ocean heat article: insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Looks fantastic Kevin!

New strategy aims to ‘breathe life into Shandon’ The Shandon IUS, drafted by Cork City Council in consultation with the Shandon Neighbourhood Team and Consultancy Team, is “an action-based roadmap ...

“For once, we’ve the weather to match our aspirations,” said the Green Party councillor Dan Boyle, Lord Mayor of Cork, as he launched the Shandon integrated urban strategy (IUS) in glorious sunshine yesterday.

Conor McGregor represents ‘very worst of toxic masculinity’ - Tánaiste Garda criticises MMA fighter’s remarks on crime rates in Dublin in wake of contentious St Patrick’s Day visit to White House

Conor McGregor represents ‘very worst of toxic masculinity’ - Tánaiste

I celebrated St Patrick’s Day with people from dozens of different countries, all peacefully getting along and trying to live good lives alongside each other in a tolerant and diverse country.

The racist visiting the White House today doesn’t represent us.

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Why are new housing estates forcing people to rely on cars? New housing estates are focusing on cars rather than public transport, argue campaigners, but King Charles' Poundbury plan bucks trend.

“developer-led locations, plonking giant housing estates on fields on the edge of towns, places where it’s all about driving.. whilst brownfield sites lie unbuilt & derelict & high streets are dying”

Because govts favour speculative ~land~ developers for housing www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Unintended consequences here of some aspects of the contributions waiver that drove commencements last year ⁦‪@businessposthq‬⁩

“Property has its duties as well as its rights” good read in ⁦‪@IrishTimes‬⁩

Have you read the latest monthly climate summary by #C3S? February 2025 set an all-time record low for global sea ice extent and ranked as the third warmest February. Find out more in our summary of the February 2025 Climate Bulletin.
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/february-202...

Regional policy: the North-South divide - Town and Country Planning Association Sometimes government indifference, however parochial, can speak volumes about two-speed England, national priorities, and the absence of any regional policy, from spatial planning strategy to focused…

Blog: '20 years ago I chaired the TCPA’s cross-party commission on the country's uneven economy. I noted that without a national framework to guide key projects, England would ‘drift directionless, reinforcing a belief that the winner takes all.’ And so, it is proving again.'

Donald Trump, a neuropsychologist’s view: Untrammelled power is making him behave like a coked-up reveller US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

Donald Trump, a neuropsychologist’s view: Untrammelled power is making him behave like a coked-up reveller

New tool mapping economic, social trends to be launched A new visual mapping tool, the National Census Atlas, has been developed to give planners, policymakers and local authorities a detailed view of economic and social trends emerging across the country.

A new visual mapping tool has been developed to give planners, policymakers and local authorities a detailed view of economic and social trends emerging across the country

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Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

High Court rules An Bord Pleanala must prioritise climate law in wind farm case likely to affect all public bodies The High Court has ruled that planners did not fulfil their duty to comply with climate law in a judgement expected to have far-reaching implications for all public bodies.

Very significant High Court ruling here on the obligations imposed on public bodies by Section 15 of the Climate Act
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

Graph titled '2024 was the warmest year on record and first above 1.5°C.' The subtitle is: "annual global temperature anomalies relative to pre-industrial levels (1850–1900)". The bars are color-coded from yellow to dark red, with warmer anomalies represented in red. The chart highlights a steady rise in temperatures since 1940, culminating in 2024 exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

2024 set a record as the warmest in history, with the average global temperatures 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels.

Multiple global records were broken, contributing to extreme events, including floods, heatwaves and wildfires.

The impact of human-caused climate change accelerates.

Learn more about the Global Climate Highlights ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Elon Musk’s political evolution – podcast Why is Elon Musk increasingly trying to influence UK politics?

Elon Musk’s political evolution – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...