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Imagine how much better off we'd be as a society if we just skipped to the "he's clearly talking bullshit" bit, instead of people treating his words like they might actually be true

“Hating cork means never having to say that you are sorry.”

Joe Dolan

In the regions of Italy where coop models are a longtime established you’ll see low wage inflation, lower cost of living inflation and higher standards of living. I’d call that shareholder value paid via a social dividend…

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and appeared to thrive.

Fungus-infected 'zombie spiders' found in Irish caves

Just in case you weren’t paying attention, we now have a fungus that can radiosynthesise nuclear waste and fungus controlled zombie spiders waiting on you to go cave exploring.

Headline: Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

Fungus Got Talent

Going to shame everyone I’ve wronged into feeling guilty about my actions by posting a “I’ve gone on a spiritual journey of redemption by saying that I’ve gone on a spiritual journey of redemption” video on instagram.

#Winning

Spending the morning devising a 5yr plan to get through the rest of this week.

I hate that this is Ireland now.

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Some of the kids returning to school in the Amna Learning Centre, Gaza. Three new tent classrooms will be added in the coming days. This initiative is possible because of the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine, the brilliant Perth Doctors and the tortoise shack. Let me know if you want to help.

this is why I cancel you, former comrade ;)

You’d miss having to put a candle in your front window in solidarity with something or other every few days, wouldn’t ya. #Solidarity

Just realised how disappointed the light at the end of the tunnel will be to see me. Poor fella doesn’t deserve to be let down that badly.

Eva Abu Mariam is a 20yr old dental student in Gaza. She joined me to talk about her experience of the genocide, the ongoing Israeli attacks and the inability to get food, water and medicine.
Full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

Happy Monday!

I added Saturday’s Parkrun to my page, though I’m leaving out my long daily walks:

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You're no-craic and...

2003: Alistair Campbell whistles merrily at the photocopier. If anyone asks what he's doing, he snaps "NOTHING YOU FUCKNUCKLE WIMP".
2025: people are using social media to raise money to pay hyperinflated prices for tents to keep their kids dry as the world falls apart.

Didn’t know Hugh Wallace. But I have several friends who did and they loved him from the first critique. Very sorry to hear about his passing. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

I dare the Blanchardstown Centre management to rename the car park The Ruth Coppinger Car Park.
Sometimes you just want to watch the world burn…

Lots of Karl Marx gnome statues

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho,
It's off to work according to the labour theory of value we go!

Seen four, yes FOUR, soaring over Ballymun Road and around Griffith Ave extension on Saturday. I know where two of them nest only a few kms away from my house. It is so good to see them.

Here’s RTE DG Kevin Bakhurst admitting to illegal work practices AND that RTE is insolvent. I published that podcast in Jan 2025. Since then RTE continues to use taxpayers money to drag workers they’ve wronged through a legal system to deny them what they are owed.

RTE Seasonal work 101: Know your rights this Christmas

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Something grimly ironic about rogue employer RTE, who are denying hundreds of employees their rights and entitlements, publishing a workers ‘know your rights’ report.

I’m not saying that I am barely hanging on here. I’m saying that the sadness in my friend’s eyes when she told me to “mind yourself” says that I am.

#MondayMotivation #Winning

Only the newspaper columnists can save us now. Them and the grownup political correspondents turned security analysts

The Russian false flag Operation Queenstown has begun. Alert the columnists.

Obviously empty homes in the middle of a homelessness crisis is societally criminal, I’d caution that in this case it’s more to do with people not wanting to live in cork.

More attacks on worker’s rights, environmental protections and access to justice all in the name of growth…
Growth in what?

Immigration to Ireland was down 16% last year. Just putting that out there.

“It holds bountiful oil, gas, minerals & fish. And it promises to shorten global shipping routes”.

Well hallelujah, collapsing Arctic ice sheet will allow full-scale looting of one of world’s last remaining pristine landscapes.

Capitalism (and media) looks increasingly like a global death cult.