And you thought they'd never go back for an in-depth interview with the woman whose face was eaten by leopards.

Do *not* make me take O'Leary's side you prick!

Morning all. The January meeting of Limerick Council's Metro District is this morning at 9:45am. Will be watching on the web, feel free to follow along as usual.🧵 Or just get on with your lives and be happy: that's good too :) #CouncilMeetingThread

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

They never invited him back again, did they? FWIW, that interview (& esp. this clip) was a primary catalyst in me being very eager to see Emmet Kirwan’s Accents when it toured Ireland & visited Limerick last year. Of all the shows I saw last year, it was one of the four Five Stars From Me shows.

This needs to be played over & over until we finally stop accepting the way things are #speirgorm

Has anyone checked it for Greeks?

Nice. Congrats to everyone involved in securing this: you’re making the city, country, and planet a better place to live in.

If you needed any more evidence that Trump is an agent of evil, he’s used three exclamation marks (THREE!) in the main body of a letter. Pretty sure that’s mentioned somewhere in the bible and other religious texts: y’know, somewhere near the back.

Trump clearly see's the future of Gaza as a dodgy real estate project for him and his corrupt pals to milk as much money out of as possible, and nothing more.

Y’all might remember that, in October, the directors of Dutch intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD both said that they’re now sharing less info with the Americans. The US is now a compromised, hostile state that can’t be trusted with a shopping list: treat it as such for as long as it remains so.

This is precisely what the Anti-Coercion Tool was designed for. This is the "Break Glass" scenario. If not now, then you will never use it, and everybody will know that you will never use it.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

I forget about the National Gallery’s annual Turner exhibition every year till someone reminds me (thanks Conor). Always worth a visit every January: and it’s FREE.

OH NO.

More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality: www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

Important thread & I think this is a crucial part. Decades of "always support the troops no matter what they can never do wrong all of them are brave heroes all the time they wouldn't do a bad thing" plus decades of copaganda w/the same message created a mythology that they can't be fascists.

Rather than the older retaliation packages Europe could also just put a 10% tariff on US imports or go straight to taxes on US services to react more strongly. Then prepare escalation steps. Europe has little choice but to hit back really hard since Trumps Greenland demand cannot be negotiated.

The most stupid timeline imaginable, somehow got more stupid.

I say this a lot, because it's true: Under capitalism, we ALL have a price. There's no one who can't be bought. Some people are just a lot more expensive than others! :V

Someone please make a Second Place participation trophy for his 2020 campaign and present it to him.

Maybe someone needs to put it in the context of a marriage, and explain to him he's telling the whole world that small men can't protect their wives from... ... oh shit, he's projecting, isn't he?

Not sure what a funnier outcome: the Ukrainians *actually* obtained The Contraption and Havana Syndrome is real, or that the Americans have paid the Ukrainians tens of millions of dollars for a toilet roll wrapped in tinfoil

“In fairness, we also seem to believe that over one-in-three Irish people are accessing social housing compared to the real figure of 9.2%, which begs the question: how much social housing do these people think that Ireland has?” Here is this week’s column.

Apparently this woman's job is promoting higher fibre diets, in a beautiful example of nominative determinism.

10 Aug 25 -- Family with trans daughter opened an award-winning local bookstore in South Dakota; but after passage of state bathroom law, their daughter can't use the right bathroom in their own store. So they've solid it, packed up and are leaving the state. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Trump's pitiful acceptance of someone else's Nobel prize has a precedent "In 1943 Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel literature prize in 1920, sent it to Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. "It was lost after Goebbels committed suicide in 1945." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

Aside from this being incorrect - the underlying rule on sovereignty and statehood is the Montevideo Convention, which doesn’t imply defence capabilities - this is illuminating on what is now pseudo-official U.S. policy: any territory you cannot defend is fair game for someone else

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

“Selling a machine that can go at a speed in excess of what is allowable is a huge anomaly” Seán Canney, Minister of State for Road Safety 👏👏 hear, hear Oh wait, that was for e-scooters. Where are these calls when it comes to private motor vehicles?

Hey wanna see a cursed sentence? Seriously. You’ll feel parts of you die as you read it.

Nobel Peace Prize, Barely Used Is the new "Baby Shoes Never Worn."

This is typical of this government - issue an outraged, personally affronted denial of the ascribed motivation, but don't actually explain what your motivation is The Minister does not seem, of course, to realise that the ascribed motivation he's denying is actually the kinder explanation

Yikes. Yes, the sad sacks who have a particular view of a fictional character being a certain cup size now range in age from 50 to still in the basement... Remember how the 2018 movie was quickly forgotten. The sexist rage was given a little less daylight I suppose

It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.

Man who took Nobel Prize at gunpoint from winner and made her thank him for the privilege : we have to do something about these trans kids getting undeserved medals

The faux formality of ‘accepts’ is unforgivable sanewashing of what is actually an embarrassing and abject pantomime from both Machado and Trump

"I once gave my Nobel Peace Prize to a man who was about to start a war with his European allies by invading Greenland"

Great men require great obituaries. May he rest in peace.

I just realised that foot guys probably ask grok for feet pics under pics but they come out all warped and weird. Hahaha PAY PEOPLE FOR THEIR FEET PICS DAMMIT

Will say, I do love a good "X is a fraud". Absolute football pub talk.

Single? Oh I hope they meet someone nice

I like the sound of the new sitcom from Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson.

“Invited”🤣 aside, I’d like to point out that Napoleon’s Blocus Continental began when Napoleon announced it in the Berlin Decree in 1806, almost six years AFTER the ‘invite’🙄 was accepted and implemented. History literacy isn’t a bad thing: you’re already on the Internet, David, it’s FREE.

If only Denmark and Greenland were part of some treaty organisation of North Atlantic nations which held collective security as one of its core principles... Imagine, if the US had joined such an organisation, they'd already guarantee Greenland's security.

I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.