kevin

Don't worry Palestinians, the Irish government is *focused* on the situation and won't forget the West Bank and Gaza. They won't do anything material to stop apartheid Israel from committing ethnic cleansing and genocide but they *remain focused*. Endless empty words. #SanctionsNow

Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Messi is an incredibly popular athlete all over the world and absolutely has enough power to just say nah I actually don’t wanna do this but I guess what else could you expect from Saudi Arabia’s most famous tourism ambassador

Of all the things that could possibly drag me back to men’s football, Arsenal winning the Premier League the same season Spurs get relegated is one I hadn’t previously accounted for

Would it be most accurate to celebrate it on the final day of this season?

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

Just bite him, Luis. He’s right there

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Side note, but it is still striking how little Reform actually look like the rest of Britain in basically any polling and yet their base is treated as quintessentially authentic.

That seems insane to have no recall option for someone serving a six-year term

Genuine question, is there no way for the Dems to kick Fetterman out and try to recall him? How many times can he vote with the Republicans against everyone in the Democratic Party before they do something about it?

Always a shame when someone sullies the good name of the British empire

proof:

shout out to bluesky's lead programmer who dipped his mobile phone in his pool to 'cool it off' and then didn't understand why it broke

Précis of the précis: the US wants to treat literally every other country as an enemy, while wanting every other country to treat the US like an ally.

A round of community funding from the council just went out in Belfast and every single group got their funding cut, causing job losses and jobs being downgraded.

Every single organisation.

That Spain’s moderate centre-left government is being held up as the Tank Man of righteous anti-war resistance says a lot about the state of the supposed centre-left throughout the rest of Europe

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

it's sad the the 'before' picture is so commonplace (and so accepted as normal) in ireland

if they were displayed the other way around, you would think something cataclysmic had happened

So now, I have to live in a reality where "everyone knows" something that is really just right wing propaganda, propped up by a handful of journalists who would deny their role in bringing this mass ignorance about.

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

If I’d have known quitting the military was difficult, I’d never have suggested it. Silly me. I only said it because I thought when you quit they’d hand you one million dollars and let you choose which wars you want to end. I didn’t realise people leaving the military would face any repercussions

Oh I didn’t realise it was hard. Never mind. Carry on loading the orphan crushing machine, I guess

ugh there's this guy on our news network who won't stop lying. i dunno, he just showed up when we started giving him checks every other week. no, don't go out there and contradict him, this is the news, do you wanna just hide or something?

my NYT opinion piece on why the state of Israel should be abolished and all of its leaders should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity will be published ANY DAY NOW, since it's an opinion and the NYT is about publishing all opinions

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on 21 November 2024 and it has made no difference to how Netanyahu is covered in the press. We’re all supposed to pretend not to know that he is accused of deliberately starving civilians.

I’m a Bills fan and love Allen to bits but 1) I absolutely hated the pick at the time and 2) I’m not convinced Allen makes the jump he did in a normal NFL season in front of fans. Think that second part is often overlooked tbh

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

Like: part of being functionally illiterate is *not being able to perceive that things may be biased*. Not understanding that someone might be lying, or wrong.

Half the US stock market is now tied to LLM's, which only appear impressive if you are functionally illiterate.