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Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.
My first introduction to all that was the movie Carrie which I watched with my mum when off sick age 6 or so. Felt like an appropriate reaction from Carrie to all that prom king and queen/homecoming shite to be fair
Finding a hairdresser who can cut curly hair should not be that hard on this island - AND YET
They just cannot engage with what he was saying over and over again or his role in the whipping up hatred which is always so dangerous and leads to people dying. Supposed it depends if those people matter or count as people to the editorial team though
In case you’re wondering how the BBC is responding to Charlie Kirk’s murder - a commenter is on now comparing his murder to milkshaking politicians here, that she didn’t know who Kirk was or what he stood for but he was civilly debating when he was killed. Complete failure to meet the moment
My postnatal hair loss is so huge it’s only because I have a lot of thick curly hair that I can sort of mask it. It must be horrible if you’re starting off with fine hair and loose this amount.
BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.
Melissa and Mark Hortman’s assassination did not get this level of coverage from the BBC. Not even close. Insane
Nothing wise about ever hiring Mandelson - he did a demonstrably wrong thing putting him in that position, the post conviction friendship was well known- zero excuse to hire knowing that. ridiculous to play whataboutery, comparing yourselves to tories is aiming for the sewer
Mad to think that most of the links to Epstein were well known already and Starmer *still* hired Mandelson. Complete unforced error. The political equivalent of Sidesbow Bob stepping on the rakes one after the other
they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
Wish news orgs would expand a bit, even a sentence or two, on what they mean by “held controversial opinions”
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Incredible paragraphs from Allison Morris here
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Looking back, it’s clear to me that the vast majority of male chefs I worked with had raging undiagnosed and therefor unhelped ADHD. Far more than any profession I’ve experienced
If I start on about my experience tutoring law undergrads and AI, I may never stop and will also sound ten million years old. One of them was told by an AI program (not sure which) that Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co was decided by the UK Supreme Court 😭
'Brutal insult': Green leader Zack Polanski demands Israeli president's arrest on UK visit - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-green-leader-zack-polanski-demands-israeli-presidents-arrest-uk-visit
Exactly, fair play for getting out to stand up to them, not easy when it’s such a local experience
It's brilliant to see huge turnouts in Belfast & Dublin but dare I say there's a certain level of privilege in knowing you're safe to protest & you'll have the numbers. In rural, more conservative towns, it can be much harder to take a stand against bigotry of any kind. Sometimes it's scary.
All they want to do is have an audience telling them they’re great - don’t want to do the work to earn a platform- become good at some skill or lean enough about a subject to teach an audience. Lazy scum. So much actual community work they could be doing
Listened to all this same shite for years when working in The Bank Bar, except it was Eastern Europeans that they hated then for doing the bar work jobs that they couldn’t be arsed to, even in a recession. But they didn’t have social media to talk into the to make themselves feel big & important
Went onto Facebook which I rarely do now - their videos were suggested to me over & over again. Same faces that pretend to care about the hospital- staffed by……. They’re all racist scum and I’m petrified of who is going to soft soap their talking points to me in conversation next. spreading so fast
This is very very bad for Simon and his family, completely disgraceful.
Years ago dissidents summoned me to a meeting to ‘suggest’ i put them at the front of a march id organised to stop cuts to local hospitals. They wanted attention & to get scrapping with the police - didn’t give one about the hospital. I stood firm against it, some are now far right ‘activists’
The traffic stop/check point in Co Clare was just insane, let carry on for days.
Can I just say from lots of lived experience that psychos are attracted to every ‘movement’, they don’t actually care about the movement - just violence & evil that they can use it as cover for. You far right fester long enough real psychos will find it & take advantage to go solo. Needs stamped out
The flip side is also that by focusing on net migration, the UK counts its own brain drain of young talent *as a positive* in its own numbers. It's like the economic version of a death cult
Thought I was having a bad day so put on my favourite YouTube video, then happened to read in the comments that Lindsey Buckinghams wife was in the audience for *that* performance. Felt like my day wasn’t so bad after that
A drunk clock is right once a day sure
Is not actually a skit
The whole “take no medication unless you’re dying and then only take the bare minimum and stop any you’re on as soon as possible, suffer things medication free that you’d never if you weren’t pregnant” approach to taking care of pregnancy by Drs doesn’t help either
Lyra's name displayed in Amsterdam's De Nieuwe Kerk as part of the World Press Photo exhibition's memorial for murdered journalists.
I absolutely love bizzare transfer data. The TUV to SF transfers in Belfast a few years ago were mad
Linking paracetamol use by mothers during pregnancy to autism is the latest lie from RFK and his bunch of pricks - it’s basically the only form of pain relief women can take during pregnancy- they want to heap ‘blame’ onto them and for them to suffer even more. I hope the worst for that man
Great shot. Soft greenery at the top left drapes it all so beautifully
New on BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME we explore the controversial life and political career of Queen Marie Antoinette of France 🇫🇷 Our guests are Professor @100days1815.bsky.social and comedian Jen Brister This ep is only available in the UK on BBC SOUNDS for now, but comes to other apps in 1 month
Big fan of spuds as part of breakfast
Racism pays as much here as it does over the water
Could not believe my eyes. Flags just in mid air.
Hugh Bonnaville mastered the switch of topics in a way I’ve only seen done so well as the people of south Armagh. Fair play to him, a great use of his platform on live TV that he knew would be easily given to him when many others don’t get the chance
Reminds me of the colour scheme I used to have on my windows 98 computer
Right? G’won up there and do your wee song, everyone will love it go on
Loath as I am to even look at him for a second - Conor McGregor looks and sounds like he’s doing a poem for the feis while wearing his communion suit in that video. A bit that he’d be asked to stand at the fireplace and do whenever any aunt or uncle visits for years. Scundering stuff
Yep - also a huge amount of making big meals and serving the men first or giving them the best parts of the meat etc. it’s all very complex
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
The post 1950s generation of Irish women who are both obsessed with feeding and also pathologically hate fatness would make an excellent PhD subject
Every new entrant does make me think about how on earth you’d present any sort of data on this circus though.
I can tell exactly what the sound of that last scream before collapse into deep sleep is like too. The relief when I hear it
Fully agree - the benifits far outweigh any arguments about not changing
People who aren’t paying attention don’t think anti-trans stuff matters, as they don’t know any, & think of caricatures of trans ppl on sitcoms etc. To the far right yobs it does matter. This happened in Dublin, which doesn’t have the anti-trans culture of Britain. You should care:
This framing of the Greens “taking” votes from Labour is wild, you either earn peoples votes or you don’t, you don’t own them and you’re definitely not entitled to them. Don’t vote for me but rather vote against someone else is such utterly pathetic, lazy and entitled politics
Anyone working there can waffle all they want about why they are doing it - but it boils down to greed and knowingly being part of something that is seeing the destruction of accessible healthcare for people.
Never ever make fun of here again
A reminder that the IT’s ‘decade of centenaries’ reporter, someone subsidised by the state to produce official material for schools, somehow left out British kidnapping of children in Tipperary in 1919 to use as hostages after Soloheadbeg (he did however find space to label Dan Breen a “psychopath”)
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
Why are Sky News blurring the faces of adults who are likely committing a racially aggravated offence in the process of their reporting? 🫠
Right? Essentially making the Coroners decisions here something that can’t be appealed. It’s all so insane
Pacta shunt servanda means nothing to that pack of shunts
“The landlord says the rent increase reflects the market rate for the area.” What a disgraceful mess. Where are the rent controls? Basic social democratic policy. Why were the temporary controls allowed to lapse? Will we still have homes in 2027? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Right?! and if the Coroner refuses to re open it - where would you go next - I don’t know and that’s my area of practice. Embarrassing to put it onto paper let alone send it to print
Exactly! I mean * The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023* - prime example of why the ECHR was negotiated in. Great foresight to do so evidently
The “Blue Sky is dying because I’m not getting enough attention & growing the wee ‘makes me feel class’ followers number every day” takes are absolutely mortifying. I’m not saying I was good on Twitter - i was not my best self there, it rewards tension & negative chat and you end up in a cycle of it
Must be hard to see her need to be there but at least she’s being cared for like that
always telling on themselves. MEANWHILE scores of marginalized people get the shit kicked out of them DAILY and are in fact NOT fascists. How does this work?
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
I had far more of that talk blithely waffled at me in Dublin though - by a magnitude of about 20. From non Dubs as much as Dubs. That’s just my experience, I can’t lie.
Watching all this English flag shite going on in England and thinking about all the infuriating glib “oh you lot are all mad over there, and what’s it all about anyway, it’s ridiculous really” conversations I had to endure when training over in England. As if we were thick flag obsessed simpletons
It was so stark. Every single one of them. You know when you see someone do something physically incredible & you say to yourself “god no matter what i could never do that” well i felt that over and over looking at them working, I’m just not capable of what they were all doing seemingly effortlessly
Every time I think about the downward spiral of everything I try hard to remember what it felt like being on the maternity ward with my 2nd baby, where everyone who looked after us seemed to be more loving, giving, patient & gentle than the next. That there are pockets of brilliant light here still
This is the most progressive electable offering to govern me. Can’t really express my horror - no matter what I vote I can’t do anything about it. It’s so unbelievably frustrating - I hate the NI setup more and more every day. My taxes pay to terrorise people & validate racism
Yes I devour all of their output I LOVE them!😍
And to be clear, this is at least partially on the govt at this point. If you spend this much time acting like immigration and asylum are the big issues, that will feed into it
I know most would be on the remove ‘gaslighting’ train but if I could erase one pop psychology l term from popular discourse it would be “love language” this utter bull is peppered everywhere now
Remember: the greater the emphasis placed on a lawyer being “distinguished” or “leading” the weaker the legal argument will tend to be. A good legal argument does not need such epaulets, and a bad legal argument is not saved by them.
You see, the great thing about law is that it comes down to what the law says, regardless of how “distinguished” or “leading” or “expert” a lawyer may be. It is a curiously egalitarian subject, where a cat can speak to a king, or at least to the king’s counsel.
How integral the role of the ECHR in the GFA is the easy gentle question on an undergrad law exam, the 10 mark question to ease students into writing and loosing their exam nerves to allow them to do the big 40mark essay question. There is so little to discuss, you can’t beef it out without lying
Hard eye roll. Policy Exchange puts out a report which conveniently erases the UK Govt's GFA commitments on the ECHR and The Telegraph rush out stories that the experts have spoken, even as the plain wording of the GFA gives a lie to this. Patrick Minford syndrome lives on.
Same! One client heard that the CEO of the other side of our case was travelling first class not business and so rearranged an entire trial - 2 years worth of work, to move it a day so he could travel first class too -12k difference in price. That was my WTF am I doing here moment
If he was an adult it sounds like a scene from an art house movie that people would write essays about. The random busts of existential truth are just the best
Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today
Being a parent is an amazing journey, lots of ups and downs- but being an aunt is pure unadulterated joy. My favourite job ever
I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Just after cutting the baby’s tiny fingernails
Pleasantly surprised to see some of you still are able to believe that good things are possible.
Our big ‘leftist’ party is shit scared (being ridiculously generous here) to be human about immigration because of the attitudes of voters - we needn’t let on that we are much better
Rylans career will be fine. Racism pays, after you let on you’re being persecuted for your perfectly reasonable racism & play the puppy with a sore paw bit just right, it can lead you to being on stage performing with Robbie Williams. It’s as lucrative here as in England - I’d say we’re just delayed
I feel like if you can’t design a development that doesn’t have to have 129 less houses in it if a single tree stays - then you should not be allowed to be re certified as an architect by your regulatory body the next year you go to register.
Yer man was such a dote. As was the early teenage boy on a bike who said they were class.
People of all ages were asked their opinion on the way to the shop, my favourite reaction was an elderly man who said they were smashing and where he could get a pair. She replied “the shop” Excellent witness for the defence there - you want details? Frame your closed questions better
Toddlers are a lot of the time v irrational but then they hit you with a sentence that is incredibly true. Today mine said “mummy can I walk to the shop now, l want everyone to see my new shoes and tell me they’re nice” which is pretty much exactly how you feel when you get a great new pair of shoes
Being honest I don’t think Starmer could win against this given there is now an algorithm pouring this red hot hate directly into their veins. There is too many of them predisposed to it
Hard to believe that the country that voted in Thatcher every time she asked, would have an appetite for hating forrins & gays. Is willing to rip up the strongest protection from state abusing their human rights as well as being apathetic about making our lives here even worse. Real head scratcher
This country was built on immigration is an objectively insane thing to say about England given how it actually got rich. Insane
CMAT did a Celtic Tiger style photo call on Stephen’s Green for the launch of Euro Country! With Marty Whelan. Iconic.
Rylan - further proof that the genuine concerns are always an excuse to spout lies you want to be true
Who’d have thought someone else could do more damage than CMAT to Bert
Yep! Have never seen anything like it in my life
Everything I know about Richie Torres is against my will - I watched that interview with Adam Friedland and if you told me that he was created as an AI hologram or was a character from the now defunct metaverse, I’d believe you. His dead behind the eyes smile?! What?!
Someone else said it first but man, the thing where Ritchie Torres says "tragedy" over and over again feels like the game has been laid bare. The dems found the one word they will use to describe the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, it is painted as a natural disaster that can't be avoided.