The Daily Mail going to Tony Blair for a take on conflict in the Middle East, is it?

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

imagining some NY Post editor as the guy in the two red buttons meme, with the choices being "DOWNPLAY SCANDAL IN SERVICE OF TRUMP" and "BLAST OUT NEW TABLOID DETAILS"

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Rubio’s face is interesting, here. He’s ready to knife both of them. No matter how spineless a man, there’s always one insult too far.

Trouble is… Cheetoballs will actually like that cover. ‘course, this is the same Barry Blitt of the rather infamous Barack Obama In Robes & Turban Next To Michelle Obama In Combat Fatigues In Front Of A Burning US Flag cover in ‘08, so perhaps depicting Trump as a golfing Patton is a compliment.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Oh so *now* it's the Defense Department

“Invade Iran and a great empire will fall!” “Cool, thanks, oraclio!”

I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history

Genuinely, what Irish person has ever identified with "the West" and not just meant, like, Connemara.

Pro tip: if you're going to send someone a nonsense letter that you hope uses enough serious sounding "legal" language to be taken seriously, you should probably make sure you delete the bit at the end where ChatGPT offers to write a different version lol

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

It’s March 6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birthday. Here’s my favourite rendition of her Sonnet 43.

Much as I dislike defending our current government, most of whose members you wouldn’t send to the well for water, they’re going to be criticised either way. Paying at least a good proportion of costs is standard practice in these situations for beneficiaries. m.independent.ie/irish-news/a...

Those of us who have never hitherto heard of this geezer will have one question… … and the answer is apparently “Markwayne’s ma was indecisive”.

Full story here on @thejournal.ie 'Sell up and get out': Video shows landlord rep blaming new rules for 36 planned evictions www.thejournal.ie/evictions-we...

Another benefit of an Arts degree. You've read your Colette and you know there's a long respected history of people in sexual competition with cats for the love of their owners. Beir bua, Jessie.

Honestly insulting at this point that the government continue to insist this and similar events have nothing to do with their new legislation

I see Jessie Buckley is being cancelled by some whiny Americans because she hates cats. Well, let me tell ya, in a show of solidarity, I hated Cats too. Hated it hated it hated it. Nobody should suffer by being in the presence of Cats.

Peace in our time. You can ALL open an Iceland store now, lads. Give it three weeks and That Gobshite will be taking credit for the end of the ten-year Iceland v Iceland War, of course. Or floating the idea of arming supermarket insurgents to attack Reykjavik. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Aw man. I guess Michael Martin must feeling pretty disappointed with these guys for not listening to him yesterday about gouging customers

Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.

This came up at a Limerick Council meeting a few years ago. Some Limerick councillors were very eager indeed to be given a weekly list showing them who’d been allocated housing. Can’t link to the meeting thread as I can’t remember which one it was but here’s a later post. View hasn’t changed.

Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

I might be naive, but a headline featuring a Minister saying "my job is not to be sensitive", above a caption featuring a "mother of explosion victim" is not a very good look

Tonight is the beginning of the Jewish festival of #Purim. Purim is an ancient Persian word, meaning "lots" - unpredictable, irrational, outside our comprehension. It celebrates survival in the face of oppressive forces. Chag Purim sameach to all who celebrate, and a wish for peace to the world.

That sound you hear is irony dying.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

You couldn’t make this up. And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Me: surely, he didn't actually say the words in the quotes in that order. this is cartoon villain level stuff... [looks it up, confirms that he did, in fact, say this] Jesus Christ.

US military planes shot down since Vietnam, leaderboard by country: 1) Iraq 2) USA 3) Kuwait

They don’t usually declare “WE’RE GONNA DO WAR CRIMES” out loud in advance, but here’s Whiskey Pete putting in an early application for a trip to The Hague

Had the sudden notion to have scrambled egg for breakfast/lunch/dinner (I forgot to eat all three) and… three month out of date eggs are grand, right? Also decided scrambling them would take too long, so just microwaved them. If I die, avenge me if you feel like it. Take up arms against the eggs.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

supposedly professional journalist arguing its good that the school was struck but also it didn't happen but *also* also if it happened it wasn't our fault it would get a lot of people real worked up if I said what this reminds me of

I’m reminded that Tulsi Gabbard even sold “No War With Iran” shirts on her campaign merch site … I assume any leftover tat will be getting the Lionel Hutz Add A Comma treatment. web.archive.org/web/20200213...

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

I don’t think that we need to think Anthropic are heroes of the resistance or whatever, but I do think it’s illuminating who is able to see a couple years down the road and think “oh shit, I might be held liable for this stuff” in a way that, say, Planatir clearly isn’t.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Because you are, because "The Centre" is not a fixed point. It's not even real. We are all rabidly left wing compared to the Ireland of the 1620s, for example. Just the most fundamentally silly people getting in front of microphones every single day.

Jesus, I've only just read about what @ucddublin.bsky.social and @ucdmedicine.bsky.social have done to a student who was raped by a fellow student, and who had the images circulated. I feel physically sick.

An embarrassment of very powerful decision-makers in government are landlords also deciding on rental legislation. Many of the same people are HAP recipients, this getting paid by the same government/state budgets they’re making decisions on 🤦🏾‍♀️🫠 #spéirghorm #IrishPol #LandlordDáil #Housing #HAP

Cool and How many of them have spouses who have rented out properties?