Terry Connolly

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"They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe."
George Carlin

This is the United States' Brexit moment (economically)...it's not about looking strong and protecting jobs, it's about whether business has a stable and predictable environment in which to trade and grow, and this is not it. Look at UK stagnation today: this is the future of the US.

Good evening everyone!

An old tram used to transport peat for Bord Na Mona.

#Speirgorm #Ireland #BordNaMona #Midlands #Eire

“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman

"I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

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Well, there's just so much to have discourse about, this doesn't make it to the top of the pile.

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

The problem is shareholder capitalism

Ursula von der Leyen seeks closer economic ties across EU as new Trump era begins European Commission president tells Davos that the bloc can no longer rely on ‘rising tide of global trade’

#vonderLeyen seeks closer economic ties across EU as #DonaldTrump II era begins."Europe has relied on the rising tide of global trade to drive its growth. It has relied on cheap energy from Russia, and EU has too often outsourced its security.Those days are gone” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'I'm not going to ask you again. What the hell is in your mouth?'

❤️🥰 #Bluesky ##Speirgorm #Dogsky

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Today is Blue Monday.
January is a long and difficult month for some.
Smile at someone today, they may need it.
This too shall pass. 🙏
#BlueMonday
#BeNice

They banned TikTok but you can still buy automatic rifles and shoot up schools.

#Tiktok

This public engagement is part of #CorkCityCouncil involvement in the 🇪🇺 #INTERREG North-West Europe project GreenDense - working with Dordrecht, Bremen, Stuttgart, Brest, Brugge & Mechelen plus other partners to explore new and multi-dimensional approaches to greening city centres.
#Cork #EU

YouTube video by Mrwhosetheboss The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why.

In case you haven't seen it yet, Uber is held up as a prime example of the Enshitification of the Internet: youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8?...

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

Once you utter its name you bring it into existence:(

This was the year that was not the year   This was the year that was not the year  I repaired the bathroom tap  and emptied out the kitchen drawer  of a lifetime’s worth of crap.    This was the year that was not the year in which I launched a new career.  A West End hit eluded me  and so did Time Person of the Year.    This was the year that was not the year  I became a household name.  Action figures were not sold of me.  I wasn’t made a dame.    This was the year that was not the year I spent less time on my phone.  Nights of passion did not happen  in boutique hotels in Rome.    This was the year that was the year  I didn't get that much done – much the same as the year before,  much like the one to come.  Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem called ‘This was the year that was not the year’.

I think about this a lot...and why I'm one of the few fans of how "Game of Thrones" ended.

Older and wiser already!! Knowledge is celebrating the New Year with bubbley booze...wisdom is opening it at 11pm so it can be finished off before going to bed at 0:10am...Happy New Year #2025

After hearing how eating too much sugar and carbohydrates affects the human body I’ve decided to cut back on the amount of people I listen to

That headline is just clickbait. I listened to it yesterday, not at all as suggested. The interviewers tried to lead the questions in that direction, but that's really not the substance of what Stephen Fry said.

Nosfera mé
Nosfera tú
Nosfera sé/sí
Nosferamar
Nosfera sibh
Nosferadar
Nosferadh

Saves file on the computer One drive: got it Me: where? One drive : what

Yeah

The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present

From @mrkocnnll.bsky.social in today’s @irishtimes.bsky.social: The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

Thanks 👍 and of course the difference of opinion over the value of the house is at the centre of it:(

I feel stupid for even asking...is this true, or the most elaborately perfected satire ever written?

President Michael D. Higgins is pictured delivering his Christmas Message 2024 in front of a Christmas tree in Áras an Uachtaráin

President Michael D. Higgins has released his Christmas Message for 2024. You can watch the President's Message at youtu.be/uMn1uOhnkA8 or read it at president.ie/en/diary/det...

Such an eloquent and spirit lifting #Christmas message, the #SDGs must return to the heart of global discourse #Speirgorm