Why the Vatican is at war with Maga giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... (Interesting tidbit in the article, the Pope declined an invitation to mark the US 250th anniversary. Meanwhile Britain is sending the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.... Make of that what you will.......)

This reminds me of a former minister for finance assuring us that the exchequer was "fully funded" (for a few months) in a previous economic and financial crisis. The minister for transport, Darragh O'Brien, 'said the country’s oil supplies and reserves are robust".

A little trick I learned when you are drying out a pair of runners. Hang them on the door of the dryer. It prevents them from getting thrown around and damaged. No need to thank me! #SpeirGorm

No, it’s spelled T-R-U-M-P, not I-R-A-N.

I was just thinking about how FFG maintain us in a permanent state of crisis through which they justify the "necessity" of "hard choices" that always end up prolonging the crisis rather than resolving it. they cite the urgency of the housing crisis to justify basically anything except resolving it

And we deal with each crisis in a hugely incompetent manner. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail - is our national modus operandi.

Correspondent @davekeating.substack.com breaks down Cyprus’ push to define the EU’s mutual defence clause amid concerns over #NATO security guarantee.

Got into an argument recently over this. AI (along with everything else) is the latest tool in class warfare.

The country is edging closer to an energy supply shock that will hit the economy and the only way this will be avoided is if the war in Iran ends very soon, writes Political Correspondent Mícheál Lehane

Why the AI bros are so extra annoying. "You're just too stupid to see the value in AI. Those of us who are very smart are using it. You are uncool and will be left behind." Ok buddy, burn alive in your Cybertruck, enjoy.

That’s fine. However - YOU KNOW THE TERMS. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL. OUR T+Cs APPLY. COME IN, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP. That’s the sum total of the EU response I presume?

Given the day it is I see the old tradition of mildly amusing or just vapid travel "news" is upon us. Well at least it is not dodgy AI serving us lies or half truths all year around.

He is a rather prickly figure himself. Would be gas if HE goes off on one.

The reality that news stories today about Trump might seem like an April fools, but probably isn't.

Proper marmalade dropper from @lucyfisher.ft.com, this:

The nipples are offensive. Did he purchase this with the nipples included? If ever a far right lovin’ loser needed a drag queen in his life….no queen would purchase a breastplate this hideously offensive.

Is this the same Commission who argued it was imperative to scale back the EU sustainability regulatory framework via the Omnibus, because green tape was supposedly killing European competitiveness?

Is Roy Pidgeon playing again? Him off of recent visits to the pub of adjudged sexual assaulter, Conor McGregor. The footballer you all seem to love so much?

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards releases statement threatening to target the operations of the following companies, starting from tomorrow: Apple Boeing Cisco Dell G42 General Electric Google HP IBM Intel JP Morgan Meta Microsoft Nvidia Oracle Palantir Spire Solutions Tesla

As of yesterday, the Irish government was declaring that this wouldn't be needed

I thought we lost all the football?

Americans are getting exactly what they knowingly voted for two times.

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Two more Burkes on way to Mountjoy as Martina the ma, and Amii the sister arrested for contempt of court.

Now Italy follows Spain in denying US landing rights. Poland refuses to transfer Patriot missiles. Cracks appear in US/UK intelligence sharing. The transatlantic alliance is breaking down. In real time.

Trump be like...

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

LUFTHANSA IS THINKING ABOUT GROUNDCING 20 AIRPLANES BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN IRAN, ACCORDING TO HANDELSBLATT.

The next Chief Executive Officer of the Delhi-based low-cost airline IndiGo will be Willie Walsh, the current Director General (DG) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). He is replacing Pieter Elbers. Walsh's name was cleared by the IndiGo board https://airinsight.com/?p=190249

The U.S. has asked Poland to send one of its Patriot missile batteries to the Middle East, but Warsaw says no. Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz: “Our Patriot batteries… are used to protect Polish skies and NATO’s eastern flank… we have no plans to relocate them anywhere.”

Be very grateful you don't work anywhere near the corporate world. Embraced with no questions and lots of my friends are going on AI courses etc. as part of their jobs

AI assistant: This seems like a long document. Would you like to read an AI summary? Me, having just spent several days carefully writing said document as part of my work: I wish you had a corporeal form so I could kill you with a shovel.

ITALY BLOCKS US MILITARY PLANE FROM LANDING IN THE COUNTRY.

Aer Lingus going into business with Muskrat, fine, fine, grand, grand, nothing to see here 😠

Organizations such as ILGA-Europe recently reclassified the UK as having "no functioning legal or administrative process for legal gender recognition." This places the UK alongside countries like Hungary and Russia in European rights rankings. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...

Bringing a bottle of champagne to celebrate the legalisation of hanging children-because most of these detainees are children. Scum. Soulless. Irredeemable bastards.

Carcassonne Airport received €11.7m in EU funding for its recent expansion.

Israel kills a UN Peacekeeper and you're both-siding this? You're a weak, pathetic man Mikey. Your words of "condemnation" of aggression mean nothing if you can't condemn the aggressor, the genocide machine Israel. You're just a useful tool for hatred.

UN's Lacroix: UNIFIL mandate will end on 31st December

I know I studied artificial intelligence two decades ago, but they never taught us how funny the Chinese Room experiment would be in practice.

Apropros of nothing at all really. waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/09/03/t...

Any updates on the arson attack immediately treated by politicians and pundits as terrorism without confirmation that I dared question?

‘Working from home bad’ says group heavily invested in commercial property.

Economists don’t make good radio guests do they.

There’s a 25yr old happily affiliating with Fianna Fáil. We are a strange species.

All the yank soldiers getting their last pup cup, before being shipped out to fight a war for Isra’el, is quite something.

This is modern day terrorism

Americans in the replies saying this is about Epstein as if their country doesn't start going through heroin addict style withdrawal symptoms when they have to endure more than 4 years of not Killing A Load Of People