Yes - I tried to distinguish between you (singular) the poster and you (plural) the UK. That I evidently failed is on me. 🙂
Personal: Dublin 1966, Galway 1971, Birmingham 1988, Málaga 2019. Political: Irredeemable Centrist. Bite me. Professional: PMO, Governance & ERP stuff. Yay! 🤓
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Yes - I tried to distinguish between you (singular) the poster and you (plural) the UK. That I evidently failed is on me. 🙂
As one of a tiny handful of European countries where the combined hard right and far right get over 40% of the popular vote, the UK should not be allowed within a thousand miles of making any changes. 😒 The ECHR exists to protect us against people like you (plural) - sorry, but it's true.
RTVE se suma a la iniciativa global de RSF para exigir el fin de la masacre contra periodistas en Gaza dozz.es/w4k542
You can still move freely to Ireland, naturalise after a (non-trivial but achievable) number of years, get your EU passport, and be free again. 🙂 Easier said than done if you have any kind of family commitments or strong UK ties. But it may help psychologically to know you are not totally trapped.
Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .
Si me muero, que me muera con la cabeza muy alta. Muerto y veinte veces muerto, la boca contra la grama, tendré apretados los dientes y decidida la barba. Cantando espero a la muerte, que hay ruiseñores que cantan encima de los fusiles y en medio de las batallas. M. Hernández
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
I can only say that some of my "I would never work for..." have held up better than others. Nuclear for sure, Oil & Gas again (I did *one* Shell gig when their CEO was all "let's go renewables"; he got kicked out and they're back to their old evil): but Defence I am not so sure now.
Dig this guy's style. Chaz Langley, the man behind the camera, runs a great Instagram account if you like street style. Unfortunately had to clip the video bc Bluesky only allows 3mins (developers pls change this!) IG langleyseye and iamsuedeofficial
Well, in all seriousnes, building frigates for Norway (assuming that's the story you mean) is a LOT easier to stomach than sending bomber parts to Israel. 😐
Zu den Geldgebern zählen laut dem Forschungsteam etwa #ExxonMobil, #Shell und #Chevron. Sie spenden an Lobbygruppen und Thinktanks. #FossileMafia aufgeflogen 👍 www.golem.de/news/keine-e...
JAVIER BARDEM SIEMPRE EN EL LADO CORRECTO 👏🏻👏🏻 #SiempreEnMiEquipo
I had a question come up and it's a good one, so I thought I would do a quick thread: We often see silent movie footage that is battered, decayed and smeary but what did these films look like to their original audience. And the answer is... it depends!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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The Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo) in the botanical garden in Meise is blooming. For the first time since 1908. This species is known to have a 120 year cycle. It still baffles scientists.
Just to be absolutely clear, this is the Labour government, categorically, and unambiguously, stating that human rights are predicted upon where you are born. That's the outcome of this.
OTD in 1994 the last soviet troops left Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia. They had originally come as a result of absolutely nothing to do with Molotov-Ribbentrop pact but had been “invited in”. For some reason as soon as they can all our neighbors demand we leave. Mystery.
No-one is obliged to give a hoot about my opinions. I'm not sure the *worst* part of living in a pseudodemocracy where oligarchs gerrymander districts, manufacture consent & buy politicians for decades on end is the advanced age of the party hacks, but I'm allowed to notice it's not peak democracy.
Brezhnev did not get any younger as those 2 decades rolled by. Andropov at 68 was 3 years past retirement age when he started. You've skipped Chernenko. And they were surrounded by a Politburo equally on Zimmer Frames. Just so we're even slightly on the same page here. 😄
To what end? I mean, it's great that we're exploring the dictionary and all, but at the end of the day, you either think the USA is run by oligarchs for oligarchs with aid of geriatric insiders *because that's the perfectly-expressed democratic will of a free and informed people*, or you don't. 🤷🏻♂️
Oops, yeah, I was thinking of the parade of ancients Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko... - 1970s-80s rather than 90s.
I love Germany, I have many German friends & collectors. They are mostly horrified at how mainstream German constitutional parties have undermined the work by society to never again repeat the Holocaust. It should be compulsory every elected German…
English translation of "Estadounidense" 😉
Twitter refugee, y'know. 😉
🏛️En la provincia de Cáceres se encuentra el único pórtico de curia romano que se conserva en todo el mundo. Formaba parte de Augustóbriga, una de las ciudades más prósperas de la antigua Lusitania, que hoy permanece sumergida bajo las aguas del embalse de Valdecañas.
[5] ..,unleash to a willing media. In the Irish situation where there are only two trans prisoners, both are within the women’s system. One is a danger to herself & kept apart from the prison population, the other [a child molester] is kept in solitary. There are no risks to the general…
I don't think I've used this word much, if ever, to talk about public policy. But some of the things being both said and implied about migrants are evil. And we should say that.
You keep rehashing this line, day after day, week after week. Why?
Look, the game is stacked against the Left in the USA, always has been, and always will be. But within such little shreds of cosplaying at democracy as are permitted, nobody needs to get out of your way for anything. Attract the Centrist vote, or don't attract it, as you choose.
Not going to take lectures on stupidity from an anonymous & performatively naïve Unitedstatesian TBH. 🙄 Off you jolly well pop, and have a nice day. 👋
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human is wearing hot pink sunglasses that allow her to be naughty when she puts them on and NO ONE CAN SEE! But what is this?! Dad has a pair of naughty SPOTTING sunglasses?! Oh no! Hmm. Maybe they're PRINCESS sunglasses instead. (1)
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
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That freedom was available to citizens of any EU member stat, incl. UK, moving to any other EU member state, incl. UK. It is not available to new EU arrivals in the UK now, or to new UK arrivals in 26 of the 27 EU member states. (UK citizens can still move freely to Ireland due to the CTA).
Tomas posts his actual experiences under his real name, and you spout contrarian nonsense under a pseudonym. It's true: some things are better than others. 😑
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Miles de personas llenan la plaza de la Virgen de València al grito de “¡Mazón dimisión!” por los 10 meses de la dana
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Time once again to reclaim this version of Englishness and Britishness from the racists and increasingly shrill right-wing politicos and commentariat (from FT profile of new National Theatre Director) www.ft.com/content/61cd...
Oh God. Andriy Parubiy, a key Euromaidan revolution figure and former Rada speaker, has been assassinated in Lviv.
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
1/ Ces flux ont d'ailleurs laissé des traces archéologiques, y compris en Grande-Bretagne : dans cet article, des fouilles dans un cimetière anglais du VIIe siècle ap JC où on a retrouvé une personne ayant un ancêtre récent originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouest phys.org/news/2025-08...
Un soldat africain pendant la bataille d'Hastings (1066) ? Réponse de médiéviste : 1/ c'est possible ; 2/ c'est très improbable ; 3/ on s'en fiche car c'est de la fiction ; 4/ ces réactions outrées sont très signifiantes. Je détaille chaque point ⬇️
Donc, finalement, un soldat noir à Hastings ? Possible, très peu probable, on s'en moque un peu, mais il est très intéressant de voir qui hurle à la mort, qui en fait un truc gravissime - et, contre ces discours de haine, de rappeler la complexité des sociétés médiévales.
4/ L'imaginaire d'une Europe médiévale entièrement blanche est en effet crucial pour ces personnes, qui en ont besoin pour légitimer leur hostilité aux migrations contemporaines, au nom d'un fantasme ("avant y en avait pas / c'était mieux avant")
Are you asking how party machines work in a corrupt oligarchy? I mean: that is what you are asking. But I am not sure you realise that's what you're asking. 😬
De Open Arms
Here's something to brighten your day: as of yesterday every single buyer of the TrumpCoin since its debut is under water. Thoughts and prayers.
En direct, Gaza : les bombardements et tirs israéliens ont tué 55 personnes dans la bande de Gaza selon la défense civile, vendredi
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Decided to treat myself to this so I can learn more (than nothing) about the National Gallery collection. Because of work commitments I find it hard to do evening courses, but this is online and I'll be able to watch it back if I'm working late and miss it. www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/o...
That the US of the 2020s is run by the same sort of institutionalised, self-applauding, dribbling ancients who ran the USSR of the 1990s is not a sign of a thriving democracy, however you spin it.
29 August 1941 | An Italian Jewish girl, Gianna Di Segni, was born in Rome. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents Rita and Riccardo. None of them survived.
I suspect the reason we see all these suspensions is that no-one on US officialdom has invested in the systems or training or manpower to do either of these models.
The other model, up to now on goods from China, is it is held at Barajas (Madrid airport) and you need to go online and upload the sales invoice (goods details), sales receipt (proof of payment), then they do the required inspections, then they come back with the price to release for delivery. 😬
Tests conducted by the EPA on wastewater at the North Cork Co-Op Creamery Plant adjacent to the site of a large Blackwater River fish kill two weeks ago found the Co-Op was not compliant with its discharge licences www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
EV sales in Europe in July vs a year ago. The improvement has been truly astounding. The ground is moving under the car market and too many people aren’t feeling it or, even worse, denying it.
BREAKING: The BBC won't be sacking Rylan Clark because its presenters are only forbidden from expressing political opinions that are unreasonable, such as objection to genocide x
It just gets passed on to the customer. I get training materials posted to me from the UK for my work as trainer. There's a customs inspection fee and a tariff fee (if applicable, but you pay for the inspection anyway), and the postal service collects it all at the door.
‘While immigration has provoked widespread anger in Germany and helped foster the rise of the far-right AfD, the presence of an increasingly large Muslim population has also helped relieve German society of the burden of memory.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It's Newry Pride this weekend and the town was looking great, all decked out. And then last night someone went through the whole town and tore them all down. Emboldened, fragile dicks. Dundalk Pride delivered 40 flags today so let's see what happens now. 🏳️🌈
"Unitedstatesians", like the existing "Estadounidenses". 👍🏻
Every day is asking too much from me
That's not a counterpoint; that's just being a curmudgeon! 😄 We're still above 30°C here in Málaga and will stay there all next week. The hysteresis delayed effect is very noticeable here. Same in Spring, where 01 March means nothing compared to the equinox. Even the trees pay attention!
Seems the BBC significantly exaggerated the Home Office case here, both in their wording on Twitter and on the broadcast itself. Home Office lawyers did *not* say this, which would be politically toxic, and play right into the hands of you know who. >
It's used in Spain and TBH makes a lot of sense here.
These territorial, highly aggressive pests will now have to deal with hornets. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Si no comes huevo, por el motivo que sea, apunta esta receta tradicional manchega. Es pariente de la tortilla de patatas social.elpais.com/spn3o4
Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
I don't think we fully grasped yet how important solar will be as an energy source. Great graph @carbonbrief.org based on @iea.org data.
I've read many times that that is the plan. And one that is likely to succeed, sadly. A one-sided fight between the billionaires who can suborn politicians and regulators, who won't care if they destroy the BBC/ press/ radio, versus the public who must pay taxes whether they like the outcome or not.
BBC and Sky News will realise what they are told to realise. Why would they suddenly now start to care about what is *really* significant to their viewers? Their viewers are the patsies, the rabble; to be pushed this way and that, not to be treated as customers whose best interests mean anything.
People are making fun of this, but honestly there's nothing more English than sticking a flag on an island that's not yours
España pide a la alta representante de la UE que tome medidas ante la "insoportable situación humanitaria" en Gaza dozz.es/j0rk_1
Trumps America
The only way out of this is out of it together. Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less. We hang together, or we all hang separately.
A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people. They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy. They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
They are going to use this horror as a pretext to accelerate their trans genocide in this country. And yes, it is a genocide. It is a war on trans existence. They want trans folks disappeared and ultimately dead.
Who we are responding to attacks on trans folks right now is a major component of how we answer this specific moment in history. Keep that in the front of your mind as the right does what it is going to do in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting
Goodnight from Owen Hayman, suddenly aware that the spirit of his dead wife is stroking the back of his hand just like she always used to do to get him to turn off the TV news and come to bed. Goodnight from Faith Cranfield, lace-lucking her new Doc Martens. Goodnight from Hookland.
The legal basis to admit the Ukrainian commander into Poland (or another Schengen state) despite Hungary listing him in the Schengen Information System (ie an EU-wide entry ban in principle) is the exception in the Schengen Borders Code, on grounds of "national interest" (Article 6.5.c of the code)
I appreciate your answer but I'm not aware I've changed terms. I left the UK in 2018 after 30 years, & I do not recognise what the UK Labour Party has become. It is closer to Vox than to any other Spanish party, and far too extreme for Ireland. I worry my old UK friends are so many boiling frogs.
I cannot express in words how tired I am of those attempting to justify Labour's official position against marginalised groups, e.g trans and non-binary individuals and migrants, who claim to be "progressive". You aren't. Denying rights is denying rights, no matter the language you wrap it up on.
El ministro de Exteriores insta a la UE a “tomar medidas” de presión contra Israel para que levante el bloqueo de Gaza
Why do people do what? Have a go at placing 2025 UK Labour in the Spanish or Irish political spectrum and see what it tells you. Or tell me when UK Labour last stood up with an ounce of bravery for democratic values. Whichever you find easiest. 😉
The Home Office has the power to block the overseas bands from entering the UK, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Join us and email the Home Office now: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176528/...
Norfolk folk, anti-fascists & anyone with a conscience: there’s a neo-Nazi music festival coming to Great Yarmouth in September, you can help stop this by emailing the Home Office ⬇️ Nazi scum off our streets & out of our seaside towns
After Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR paper: Measles cases: up 1200% Mumps cases: up 70,000% Multiple fatalities People with no science knowledge were taken in by Wakefield. People with no science knowledge are taken in by anti-vaxxers. Listen to scientists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour's policy depends on which way the winds of Fascism are blowing at any given time. "A shiver looking for a spine to creep up".
“Cuando yo muera no quiero que llores. Quiero que nunca me olvides y que, cuando crezcas, te cases y tengas una hija, la llames Mariam, como yo”. El embajador de Argelia ante la ONU se emociona al leer la carta de una periodista asesinada en Gaza a su hijo social.elpais.com/6toc74
* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com
A vanishing lady magic trick goes very wrong in THE CHARLATAN (1929), a solid mansion murder mystery with a stacked cast of character actors. It was released as a silent and a part-talkie but I have only seen the silent. Enjoyed it a lot, it's very much up my alley.
A paywall that makes you do TWO layers of GDPR and cookie permissions reviews BEFORE declaring itself a paywall deserves its own place in one of the more central rings of Hell. I shit on this website from a height.
I must warn you, you are making unwarranted assumptions about Labour MPs. 😒
🚔 Buscan a un niño de tres años desaparecido en #Marbella desde julio
"Don't believe the lies of the workers!" Sit. Back. Down. 😐
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