Home of the Year judge Hugh Wallace has died aged 68 Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.

Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Sat...

Listening to Sarah Marshall’s podcast about the Satanic Panic, and thinking of the time I was visiting friends in Wisconsin in the ‘90s, and they said you had to be careful (esp. around Halloween) if you had black dogs or cats because “we have satanic cults in the area”

www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"

Photo from 2009 of the empty shop unit showing white walls, a pillar and slate floor.

Photo of the empty shop unit from 2009 showing the outside and entrance. It looks very grey and very empty.

Photo of the open bookshop full of books, cards and colour. There's people browsing books and lots of light

Photo of outside of the shop. The street is sunny and colourful with people walking past. Someone has just left the bookshop. You can see things in the windows and a glimpse of the Gutter sign.

16 years ago today we opened the doors to Dublin's newest bookshop.That @gutterbookshop.bsky.social continues to thrive today brings me so much joy. We created something that brought people together & celebrated books & reading. I feel like I added something good to the world & I'm so proud of that.

🧵 This gold boat is my talisman. It’s Hiberno-Celtic & dates back over 2,000y ago. The shape & proportions are ones I use, when I draw; I first saw it over 50y ago.

As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]

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For no reason in particular

The dark underbelly of 'normcore' has been long overdue an exposé.👍

"Guys, let's focus here ..."
What an odd way to report this. 🙄

Travelling to the US and need to detox your phone? Here’s how Amid warnings of US border control searches, here are some simple steps to clean up your digital footprint

"Hey peeps check out our cool hacks for fire forelock-tugging":

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

A touch disappointed that you care ...

I think everything we thing of as “science” (the scientific method, replication, peer review, etc etc) is emergent of one single thing. What do you think that is?

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

This, so very often this:
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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A cremation would be really appropriate in this context.

An Autopsy Report on Biden’s In-Office Decline “Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”

“Original Sin,” the new book detailing Joe Biden’s in-office decline, “is written not unlike an autopsy report, describing a gruesome political car crash in dispassionate, clinical detail,” Tyler Austin Harper writes.

U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat WASHINGTON—In a move that significantly restricts the eligibility of thousands of American troops to fight for their country on the front lines, senior U.S. military officials announced Wednesday that...

U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat

I seldom disagree with you George but today, I do. If your referring the US, I think it has been a slow, and viewed from the outside, steady drip; I remember a guy called Bush 20 years back. Also, looking at how Fox News was invisioned in the 70s shows how the forces have been building.

Couple Debates Ethical Implications Of Bringing Another Child Into This Bar

Couple Debates Ethical Implications Of Bringing Another Child Into This Bar
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Thinking that "the dumbing down of America" has begun anytime recently is the the product of an America that "dumbed down" a long time ago. As is the smug certainty that it was ever not deluded in asserting its smartness.

Telegraph readers, last picks for table quiz teams

Inigo Thomas · Diary: Rome, Closed City Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, released at the end of 1945. The movie begins with a version of the disclaimer...

‘“Rome, Open City” was shot eighty years ago, before the war in northern Italy was even over, but it feels no less real now than it did in 1945.’

Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ah yes, the Irish J1ers - well known for their political engagement.

Students warned of 'risks' of activism on J1 as US authorities clamp down on dissent A number of non-US citizens have been detained and threatened with deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian campaigns.

Students going to the United States on J1 visas have been warned of the "potential risks" of being involved in activism while abroad. http://jrnl.ie/6678380

Is this headline missing a word; 'each', maybe? My brain was hurting a little.

They want a fetus to be a person so they can pass laws controlling women.

But not when it's their financial responsibility?

Just like we've been saying for years...