One of the few truly reliable heuristics from nearly three decades working in financial markets is „people who bang on about Sun Tzu are wankers”.
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One of the few truly reliable heuristics from nearly three decades working in financial markets is „people who bang on about Sun Tzu are wankers”.
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
This - whoever shot him - this
This kid has skills - seriously - 2 year old brickie www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Both the Poles and Finns have beaten the living daylights out of the Russians in relatively recent times - and would love to do so again.
- 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
Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it
Similarly with the protect our women and children crowd -
This line about teaching to the course catalog description is such a pathetic cop out. Beyond academic freedom it's ignorant of how learning and knowledge creation work. "This class is supposed to be about Renaissance Italy but the professor talked about early modern Germany, I want them fired"
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Close the door behind you and turn off the phone..... #Cork
No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure
Another quote from Dr Strangelove: "This man is clinically insane.."
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." - Gen Jack D. Ripper/RFK Jnr
One for Traitors Ireland fans here...
I've always said that if Lee Harvey Oswald was from Belmullet - JFK would have died in his bed after a long life....
i'm selling a guitar on marketplace and some doorknob offered me a pixelart nft of the same guitar in trade and sent me an image of it and told me it was a 1 of 1 so i downloaded it and replied that now it was a 1 of 2 and this was the last thing he said before i blocked him
@mrjamesob.bsky.social - weird how this keeps happening....
So far, that's two aid boats sailing towards a zone where Israel has been attacking everything that moves with drones for a year, suffering mysterious fires. We may never know the full truth....
The #Gaza flotilla boat with Irish volunteers was hit by a dron.... sorry! *checks notes* Saw its lifejackets spontaneously combust, for some reason - last night
Kinda concerning that Armenia - with minutes to go - are playing it out from the back #ArmVsIrl
No probs - it's happened a couple of times just thought i would point it out.
Why is it so chaotic and panicky? It's like a bunch of guys who've never met each other #ArmeniaVsIreland
John - are you not including the links ?
Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson contemplates the futility of existence...
Right wing think tank: "Do Worker Drones Really Need Natural Light In Their Habitation Pods?"
Shocking footage from the McDonalds carpark at Connswater in Belfast last night where far-right thugs were targeting non-white migrant delivery drivers 😠
Looks like the ceasefire talks are not going great, then ...
The English always like to see themselves as stoic, steady, stiff upper lip etc - but it doesn't take that much to tip a fair few of them into a kind of hysteria - Diana, Brexit, Flags, Boats, posh pied pipers like Nige & Boris...
Christ on a white horse - it's some sort of mass insanity event over there
Yay!!
All the jokey Peter Mandelson stuff about him being a sinister Prince of Darkness type...
"Better days are ahead" The days ahead:
I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
They should make sure to use a proper, strong metal ladder and maybe wear hats with coat hangers sticking out of them to ...er....protect against the 5G rays... or something
Between the Killer Asian Hornets and the swarms of Man O'Wars - Cork is rapidly becoming the exotic 'everything's trying to kill me' part of Ireland ....
I point out the numbers all of the time (yes, I'm great craic down the pub) and the reaction is usually: "Really? that's mad - sure can't be helped, I suppose!"
Irish consumers pay about 40% above the EU average for goods and services - we're the second most expensive European country to live in after Denmark. We have zero protections or advocacy for consumers - why is this not the BIG ISSUE for opposition parties? Am I taking crazy pills here?
The future Mayor of New York telling the Times to kiss his ass in hell is really something.
I did read it in Holidays in Hell but also heard it from US service men in Korea- that it had been a thing for soldiers stationed there going back to the korean war
Well, well, well … Look who made the cover of “John Wayne” magazine. Again. Better luck next time, Gacy.
The centre-left bloc has won the Norwegian parliamentary election. I am temporarily relieved. We have a lot of work to do in the years ahead, but this could have gone so, so much worse.
Dessin à la craie de David Zinn
The Yanks used to call the Koreans the "Irish of Asia" - and not because of their readiness to cheerily forget slights, grievences , and grudges.
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
I’ve lived in countries that have issues with “packs of dangerous and rabies-prone dogs,” and parts of the U.S. seem DETERMINED to bring that genuinely terrifying part of our historical development back.
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
Some orgs are still doing the 'Let's put a newspaper on the Internet' thing and that's fine - but 96% of irish ppl are getting the news via smartphones now - and it has to be useful to them
Technically acceptable so long as it's northeast of a line from London to Chester, as per the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum.
Up shortly on @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social - this weeks TV & streaming ! Mark Ruffolo in Task, Gogglebox Ireland and Charlie Sheen's Crack Dealer (not on Googlebox Ireland, sadly)
What a small but agile regional news site can do - major traffic light outage across Cork city - within 15 minutes- a liveblog with video/pics and instant updates - Around 35-40k ppl tuned in across all platforms - the possibilities of digital media.
The antisemitism goes right to the top
Keynote speaker at next conference so...
We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
I used to joke that by assembling startups from teams of the right people who had just been laid off, you could destroy the corporations that laid them off, but seriously that time is now
Not going to tell the Nation's Poll Corrs how to do their jobs - but the Taoiseach may be able to offer some clarification on the abject silence on this - and from those threats from that Ghoul Huckerbee over Gaza. Seriously - what are we doing here?
Is there going to be any push-back AT ALL from the Irish Gov on Elon Musk, targeting our deputy leader, who has had death and bomb threats to his family? Have we surrendered our sovereignty to the Tech Oligarchs? WTAF is going on here? JFC
My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”
This is both profoundly stupid, and profoundly dangerous
Talk about your insane dystopian futures - Myanmar is a gangster state
A protester sits in the middle of the blocked Rustaveli Avenue in the pouring rain in Tbilisi. Day 284 of nonstop nationwide protests in Georgia. Photo: Lika Zakashvili
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [lute solo] 🎶
Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything
It's always the ones screaming about it.
Started with anti-vaxxers screaming abuse at women in pharmacies & libraries - got away with it and got a taste for it. They formed mobs, rioted and burnt out trams buildings with zero push back. At some stage there has to be a reckoning with these thugs.
Almost certainly going to be the plastic 'patriots' - whoever it is needs to get the full force of the law. This can't become the norm in Ireland.
Germany score and the stadium PA blasts out Peter Schillings 80s stone cold classic Major Tom #GerVNIr
'Get Confident, Stupid!'
Not exaggerating when I say this has been the most exciting thing to happen this weekend
When Mamdani won the NYC mayoral primary there was loads of talk of how "social media won this for him!" and they fail to understand it wasn't just the slick videos, it was the CONTENT of them. Zack Polanski also understands this.
Literally the second meme I've made in my life.
That's funny - I would have assumed she was a St Pat's girl...
If you want to understand these chumps - you have to walk a mile in their bankrupt shoe business.
For those of us whose strongest connection to this song is Pulp Fiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6q...
Narrator: He owned the libs, only to then get owned by tariffs.
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
I deplore your taste in 19th century French artists, but I do so more in Seurat than in Ingres.
Day 19 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo
Very sad story behind this song- singer Pauly Fuemana died in 2010 of a rare form of MS - he was only 40 and had six kids.
If anybody asks - that's what's happening
You wouldn't want anything to do with a Yank/Trump World Cup anyway #IrlVHun
Juat faked a moonie on the landing.
Their love was unnatural - their offspring, cursed
“I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.” — Zuck, 100% pathetically bitch-made by a man who said he should be thrown in jail for life, appeasing an administration who says his wife’s family isn’t American, loving how RFK is dismantling every public health advancement that CZI ever made.
People want very badly to laugh this off, but I cannot stress enough: Believe people when they tell you their intention. The president of the United States is threatening war against the nation's third-largest city. Therefore, the governor of Illinois should mobilize residents and prepare for war.
I've never seen a comma work so hard
These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡
This is real, somehow
It keeps getting crazier - he's now threatening a major US city.
I am *begging* Irish politicians to have one comms meeting about this before the press inevitably ask them so they don't fuck it up as badly as UK Labour are right now. "The Irish flag should be a symbol of national unity. I condemn anyone who uses it purely to intimidate vulnerable communities "
This at Reform conference from Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist… We seem to be getting the full breadth of conspiracy theories
