Brendan Halpin

If what the President said was obviously wrong, why is the cabinet minister remaining anonymous? Why don't they proudly step up and defend the indefensible? Because Catherine Connolly isn't wrong. She's speaking the truth and cowards are afraid we'll piss off the liars.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

They didn't die in vain.

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Only half?

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

pervert glasses. so apt

throw tech journalism in the river, and if it tries to climb back out, shoot it

Use your words.

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

Step aside on the wing there Louis Bielle-Biarrey, it’s time for Loose Beer-Barrielle.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.

Not gonna quote someone who‘s drowning in angry replies, but

I think it’s notable that, in my experience, people who actually work on public health are much more likely to feel empathetic & curious abt vaccine hesitancy (not anti-vax grifting) than non-professionals who just (rightly) love vaccines

“Invade Iran and a great empire will fall!”

“Cool, thanks, oraclio!”

I am glad that Bluesky has now captured all the best parts of #rstats twitter: dank memes, sick burns, hot takes, and flame wars.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Pundits don't understand that foreign policy (esp military stuff in interaction with more powerful partners) is not decided by public opinion. Govts lie and obfuscate to continue to do things the person in the street knows are immoral; pundits' job is to herd opinion into acquiescence, not report it

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Does this explain why a primary school was lethally obliterated twice?

They seem to completely misunderstand that they actively ceded that data and research sovereignty to multinational publishers a long time ago and no longer 'own' that research or have free access to that information and data. The naïeveté of this myopic view and is frankly shocking and disturbing.

MixedModels.jl A Julia package for fitting (statistical) mixed-effects models

A quick plug for juliapackages.com/p/mixedmodels (by Doug Bates and phillipalday.com -- similar capabilities to lme4 but **much** faster

Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95% A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...

For teaching, I’m on team “the CI is just the inverted hypothesis test” - not a lie and connects to a thought experiment that’s easier to talk about - www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

Apologie du terrorisme : un responsable CGT du Nord finalement relaxé Condamné à un an de prison avec sursis en première instance, Jean-Paul Delescaut a été relaxé par la cour d’appel. Celle-ci a estimé que son tract de soutien au peuple palestinien, bien que « maladro…

Abuse of "apology for terrorism" laws to criminalise solidarity with the Palestinian people ignored by those who drone on about "free speech". But is currently greatest threat to freedom of expression in Europe and US. Good outcome here, but only after the trauma of arrest and a judicial process.

*Donal Trump punches Micheal Martin in the face*

MM: It was a preventative strike and I call on my face to be less provocative in the future.

RTE: After the break economist and body language expert Dan O’Brien gives us his Top 5 tips to avoid face-provocations in the AI era.

Son of JP McManus files new appeal to quash coroner’s cocaine verdict on wife’s death Emma McManus died at Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados following a party in December 2020

Curious story: a combination of the Streisand Effect, and a conviction that he knows the law better than the judge and coroner that is worthy of Enoch Burke. #Spéirghorm #speirghorm

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

It's so pathetic that the morons of tech -- a sector full of morons -- are **just now** realizing that the fantastical amount of compute they've been consuming is not sustainable as a business model.

I've only been saying this for ages; but, of course, I'm a killjoy and am just ignored.

Gobshi'ite