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The Irish Presidency draws in the far right like moths to a flame

Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows Total of 532 arrests at London protest on Saturday, most for displaying placards or signs in support of proscribed group

Sir Jonathon Porritt, who was arrested:
“This was an absolutely clear case of a government using its powers to crush dissenting voices when it is the government itself that is most reprehensible for what continues to be an absolute horror story in the world."
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boycott these companies but for their complicity in israel's occupation, apartheid and genocide against palestinians priority boycott targets of the bds movement: chevron caltex texaco intel dell hp carrefour axa disney siemens re/max sodastream pressure targets of the bds movement: google amazon expedia teva airbnb booking.com organic boycotts supported by the bds movement: macdonald's coca-cola papa john's burger king pizza hut wix BDS

please familiarise yourself with current bds boycott targets and share

one thing that shocked me the other day was reading that imports of israeli fruit and veg have gone up

we all need to check the labels and refuse all israeli produce. let it rot on the shelves. literally the least we can do

Kinda bananas the amount of people I know IRL who use the likes of ChatGPT for any and all thinking now, without questioning the information or sources at all. Humanity yearns for the days when questions were answered by a haunted board or a horse stomping its hoof.

Limerick people: who can help deal with an injured/sick heron that can't fly?

If Irish Times,Indo,Examiner, RTE, etc aren't running with headlines(not just articles) but headlines,if their journalists aren't writing articles and columns back to back about this new execution of journalists in Gaza,they are failing completely in their solidarity and their professions.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

a chart showing rising dc power consumption but flatlining renewable growth levels

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels

You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.

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This might as well be a cautionary tale about how the Irish Green Party in government could not achieve its headline climate goals merely with policy tweaks and without challenging the fundamentals of the underlying economic and ideological model

It'd be funny if every shortlisted writer withdrew from the prize and Boyne won by default. Would he collect his mini monument to alienation?

Heartbreaking: Palestinian journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Quraiqa were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the tent of Al Jazeera correspondents near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

May God have mercy on them and grant them paradise.

The Phoenix reported that Gareth Sheridan has been meeting with councillors around the country accompanied by Sharon Keogan www.thephoenix.ie/article/prox...

Sven-Ole Thorsen pretending to hit a seated Arnold Schwarzenegger with an absolutely gigantic hammer/maul, both in their Conan costumes. Arnie is doing a great "oh no a hammer is hitting my head" face and Thorson is smiling happily.

Every once in a while I cheer myself up by looking at this picture of Sven-Ole Thorsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger being adorable clowns on a Conan set.

Yorkshire terrier? You mean an eypup?

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF

Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

76. Of the few major literary works of Julian that don't survive intact, the most notable is "Against the Galileans," too anti-Christian to justify copying & re-copying. However, the 5th-century bishop Cyril of Alexandria quotes several substantial fragments of it in his "Against Julian."

HUGE wife. Absolutely MASSIVE Scottish wife.

74. Julian's reception in Byzantium was only negative when it came to religion. His "apostasy" & opposition to Xtianity were obviously condemned. But he also became an exemplum of an emperor who opposed the church in any way. Many an emperor thought to oppose orthodoxy was called a "new Julian."

75. Beyond religion, Julian's reputation in Byzantium was moderately positive: he was seen as a patriotic & competent ruler, while his best qualities were literary. His writings remained popular enough as stylistic models that much of them survive to this day.

How can I incent people to not use "incent" as a verb, ouch

“Ya got two chances, Sister.
Some and

*BANG*

…nun!”

one often wonders, after hearing buttigieg answer a question, if it would sound meaningfully different to ask an LLM trained on 10,000 hours of dem poll surveys hand-curated by clinton advisors

Xena Warrior Princess PS1 game promo - features a picture of Xena with some screenshots of the game. Text reads - the way to a man's heart is through his ribcage. Xena lets her chakram fly in the fiercest adventure to hit the PlayStation. Miss out and you'll be gutted.

Always remember

Famously, the Stasi politely withdrew from book awards. This is why they were such a terrifying authoritarian force.

Slovenia bans arms shipments to Israel

Who stands with Slovenia?

Lots of people are saying that today marks the largest mass arrest in Britain.
Not quite. Back on 17 Sept 1961, my mum helped organise this demo where over 1000 were arrested for sitting down in Trafalgar Square.
If we don’t want today’s resistance to be forgotten, let’s not forget yesterday’s.

It’s important to remember none of these people are doing anything they are engaged in a large scale entrepreneurial LARP

James Joyce's Ulysses and Bram Stoker's Dracula sales figures are just pipsqueaks next to our John

(Well next to his ego anyway)