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Two years ago yesterday, as hundreds of starving Palestinians waited in line for humanitarian aid, including flour for bread, the Israeli military opened fire, killing over 100 Palestinians and wounding over 700.

Can everyone liking or sharing this pukey piece please remember that a lot of people have a very different experience with passport officers

Tremendous piece on a subject most Irish people never even give a thought to, but has huge impact on so many immigrants’ lives. Please read and share #speirghorm

On a tiny scale: as a dyslexic person I assure you: autocorrect got worse in the last 3 years. The biggest flaw has always been mishitting the first letter. Due to the way ai is structured, this will not ever be fixed & got worse. It also now confidentiality substitutes Correctly spelled words.

Govt embarks on sale of 900 state houses, old and new Kāinga Ora sells rundown one bedroom demo-job for $1.37m in now-affluent seaside suburb of Pt Chev – and there's much more to come, reports Jonathan Milne.

When John Key sold 1000 state homes, it made headlines & sparked debate

Now Chris Bishop has cancelled 3500 builds & selling 900 houses (with land extra) in what's been called a private developers' lolly scramble, it's hardly making a splash

How #NZ has changed #nzpol

now yes of course anti-vax issues are a problem in many parts of the world, and there's some small pockets of it in England, but the data shows that the majority of UK parents do wish for their kids to be vaccinated, and vaccine hesitancy is actually quite low. but rates of vaccination are falling.

Very much on Team Taxi Driver here. Deregulating taxis (which is what is needed for Uber to work) is a Bad Idea if we want to have a sustainable taxi sector. Uber will spend a few years subsidising fares to undercut the trad market, then they will raise prices and cut wages. It's how they operate.

TBF half of every canvassing training is "close whatever you open"

Have they gotten awful flahoolach with the ashes? Everyone I saw this year had half a forehead worth.

Last time I got ashes was mid-crash and it was a tiny jot off a wine cork with a thin cross cut into it +.

100%

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Maybe I only know this because I'm a software engineer, but apps can't actually create taxis or drivers

I can now see why all of the people who ignore structural injustice are really into this.

This is a bit of a rush -

Too broke to pay tax? Methanex pays $70m dividend to Canadian owner The Govt has paid hundreds of millions in subsidies to the Taranaki-based methanol producer; now there are calls to speed its exit from NZ. Jonathan Milne reports.

So just to be clear Luxon wants Kiwi families to pay a new tax on their power bills to build an LNG terminal that we don’t need & that will cook the climate, so that Methanex, a company contributing 0 dollars in tax themselves, can keep sending their profits offshore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/m...

In today’s NZ Herald

The reputation Dublin (wishes it) has of being a cheeky friendly city is actually (and increasingly) intimidation, harassment and public insult from a cohort of men with nasty nasal voices scoring somewhere between JK Rowling and a rubber chicken on the witty scale.

I realize that the only thing that has changed in the last six years is my tolerance for this kind of nonsense - but I am probably going to tell the next person to go mind their own business.

The amount of random "smart" comments I (or women I've been with) have gotten from strangers (all men) since I've been back in Ireland has been shocking.

#Spéirgorm

Was having a nice pre-birthday night in the gay bear club in Rome last night, until it was raided by Roman cops.

Note to self, Italian police don't like being called fascist to their faces.

I just wanted to watch a lil tv show about yearning and now I'm in a mood cause the #WinterOlympics womens hockey quarter final isn't on TV.

#HeatedRivalry

I'm actually still raging after this interaction.

He got very upset when we weren't sympathetic about how hard it was for him to evict people.

This was inspired by an absolute snowflake landlord on the bus who really wanted to chat about how hard it was for people like him, who retired at 55 cause of a tax fraud scandal and has been living comfortably off his tenants wages for the last 20 years.

I used to have a button on my phone that would make it pretend to ring so that could get me out of a conversation...and after 5 days home in Ireland I would like that button back. #Spéirgorm

How could the public comprehend a scandal without a pig or pig products?

Ian Paisley Jr inviting Erika Kirk to Northern Ireland and wanting to set up a branch of Turning Point there should be a bigger story given the DUP's murky funding of advertising etc back in the Brexit referendum.

I was explaining the DUP brexit murky money story to someone yesterday who didn't know and actually that should have been a bigger story as well.

I'm home a week and confused as to how I could have ever commuted to the office five days a week in this.

Was I ever comfortable?

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