Paul Carroll

Daniel O’Connell

Happy 250th birthday to a great Kerryman, the Liberator, Daniel O’Connell #irishhistory #speirgorm

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RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

From the editors of the newspaper that barred printing "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing" for nearly two years of an ongoing US-backed genocide while doing constant backflips to deny the obvious facts on the ground and explicitly declared genocidal intent of the Israeli government.

I've spent time in South Cal.

I know that folk, without thinking, without any consideration, assume I am Latina. I never minded.

Boots on the ground now, I am not safe in the USA.

I wonder how many ICE claim they're Scottish.
I am Scottish. Racists are morons.

It was!
Space 1999, UK/Australian show where the characters explored other planets' geology and biology precisely to see if they could sustain life as an alternative to living on half a moon flying through space...

Was about to make this point, but glad that you got there first 👍🏻.

Would I get into trouble by completing the sentence "the only good Kennedy is a..." ?

Fair.

If we switch it off, can we try not switching it back on again?

Hundreds of British Jews condemn ban on Palestine Action as 'unethical' Prominent Jewish figures including Michael Rosen, Gillian Slovo, Alexei Sayle and Andrew Feinstein have signed a letter addressed to the prime minister and home secretary

Hundreds of British Jews have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper describing the proscription of direct action group Palestine Action as “illegitimate and unethical”.

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

See the canonical example below.

You're on top form tonight, Hugo...

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

Makes me feel doubtful, right from the start.

An image that looks like it is from the NYT opinion section. Heading: “Is There A Smart Way to Cede Power to the Galactic Empire?” Sub-hed: Three Opinion writers debate whether Lando Calrissian should make a deal with Lord Vader. There are four images of contributors with names: Jar Jar Binks, Salacious B. Crumb, Nute Gunray, and Ross Douthat. The last line reads “Produced by A Lack of Critical Thinking”

What the F are we doing, people????

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…

Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)

Listening to CMAT's stunning Euro-Country and remembering that months before the economic crash that devastated Ireland, Ahern said of people criticising his economic policies "I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide".

"Bertie Aherne emerges as preferred Fianna Fail candidate".

Have we not been playing that CMAT song enough or something?

AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond Businessman says Government should abandon project as AI will lead to rise in self-driving cars

Another classic in the genre of “rich people’s dumb opinions” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

No mass transit required in the future, just some robotaxis, because most of us will he working on the off-world colonies I suppose...

PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

It's also plain stupid. Everyone lives somewhere, be it a city a country or a province, that could claim to be too small to make a difference; collective action is our only hope.

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

Letters to the Editor: Agriculture in Ireland plays only a minor role in global warming 'I discovered a strange phenomenon — the complete absence of the vast herds of cows that we are told are producing vast quantities of methane and carbon dioxide'

Glib climate denial of the “I’m a scientist myself” variety, smuggled into national media via the soft underbelly of the Letters Page. Depressing stuff.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...

Apart from the fact that a 'scientist' shouldn't believe that absense of evidence of cows isn't evidence of absence, he should also realise that Ireland's 0.11% contribution to global warming is vastly disproportionate to our population so is, yes, a considerable problem.

a man wearing a white vest with the letter i on it sits in front of a computer Alt: American actor Martin Landau, in the role of John Koenig, commander of Moonbase Alpha in the TV series Space 1999.

Nuclear reactor on the Moon, what could possibly go wrong...

John Oliver, "Gaza is starving is objectively true. But it is also slightly misleading because it is too passive"

"Gaza is being starved - by Israel"

A tree that has the appearance of a face.

I was washing up and my Mum said “Jesus is in that tree up there”

I give you Treesus.

I have a friend who goes over to Wolverhampton regularly, to watch their football team. We all have our crosses to bear...