Seán O’Callaghan

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

Sweet divine, we've reached the unhinged times.. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Melvyn Bragg is bowing out. In Our Time has always been worth a listen - one of my favourites about The Gin Craze - www.bbc.com/audio/play/b...

Given the compliance record of North Cork Creameries, these clearly read as empty words.

Irrespective of who is responsible for the fish kill, it's almost unsurprising it occurred given this level of non-compliance with EPA discharge licences. This must change.

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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

The greatest achievement of Raphinha’s career remains this photo

The Irish term for a ladybird is Bóín Dé, pronounced Bow-een Day, which literally translates as God's little cow.

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Twenty-eight countries and 187 suppliers. The newer iPhones have 2,700 parts made around the world. Moving the entire supply chain to the US is highly impractical and unrealistic in the span of the Trump presidency ig.ft.com/us-iphone/

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Love some good punctuation-related humour.

Finally got to see the fucking brilliant @mickflannery.bsky.social at Vicar St. Wonderful gig.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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A nice stone pavement with an ugly tar macadam gash.

As predicted, the Clontarf to City cycle way and public realm improvements are already being piecemeal degraded by private companies (this one Step Telecom) smashing them up.

The universities are next Friends,

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A Squirrel is standing on top of a wall, looking at the roof of the round tower on the far side of the wall. The sky is filled with fluffy cloud.

Squirrel looks to Daniel O'Connell's round tower , of an evening.

They have never been interested in a ceasefire. They are interested in destroying Ukraine

RIP Pat Ingoldsby.

"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP

Today, the European Union is the largest trading bloc in the world, larger than the United States and China. We rarely say it, little is known, but that is how it is. We are the second largest economy in the world, and the most socially and environmentally developed region on the planet.

Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1990, 📸 by Dan Sheridan // @Inphosports

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

‘Begin’ - by Brendan Kennelly

Trump and Musk Are Pushing for Regime Change The president and his allies are trying to replace the American political system with something else.

“Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation,” writes @anneapplebaum.bsky.social.

A songwriter and his acoustic guitar, Jason Isbell was sublime at Vicar St. tonight.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽