The genocide isn’t over. Although the Israeli government has expanded its Gaza playbook to Iran and Lebanon, the Israeli military is still carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

There's a horrible irony in an Irish team that played good football throughout were undone by a hardworking side playing classic Jack Charlton-ball - relentless pressure, ball after ball lumped into the box, and a couple of goals off setpieces. It worked for us for long enough

'American forces killed almost 200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have prevented'

Some high culture for a Thursday lunchtime. Mozart's Leck Mich im Arsch

The eejits got rumbled flooding Shams' pitch. Amateur stuff - I'm seriously considering not paying them the second half of the fee

At some point in the last few years, people in meetings started saying "I can speak to that" and I learnt I have the strength to resist a powerful urge to slap them

Deploring the actions of the Israeli government and the IDF does not entitle you to hate all Jewish people. Criticising the slaughter and destruction in Gaza and Lebanon is not antisemitism. How fucking difficult is this? * Hating islamophobes and antisemites - cool, knock yourself out

"I have a great idea, Nige. We could troll and trigger liberals who think sexual abuse and paedophilia are bad things"

I often think larger numbers of people could be convinced of the obvious merits of a socialist society if many of those most willing to talk about it weren't keen to excuse the Holodomor and treat Putin & Kim Jong Un as the spiritual heirs of Marx

It also hasn't fully relented on the pics of mostly-naked hairy dudes. Again, nothing against them, but I'm not the target audience - you might as well be giving me stuff about golf or Jason Statham films

Bluesky has suddenly decided I'd like a stream of posts by strangers who have just, or are about to, euthanise a beloved pet. I have the utmost sympathy, but it's not really what I use this app for

1/2 As South Korea's sitting president, with the powers of state at his disposal, tried to usurp the country's democracy, member of parliament Ahn Gwi-ryeong (안귀령) confronted armed soldiers. Despite her fear and the uncertainty of the outcome, Ahn grabbed a gun barrel and berated the soldiers

Follow my big bro for his near-manic stream of culture recommendations.😁 All for the love of the art and his own personal interests, not clout or monetisation @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social

According to @mediaite.com's own report, the people who have a problem with it are "liberals" and "many on the left" - like this infantile clown show is somehow a subjective partisan issue

This is a genuinely - if unintentionally - hilarious read - @theguardian.com of all self-consciously "serious" publications going all out to help part perennial fashion victims from their hard-earned cash. £55 for a pair of pyjama bottoms to wear outdoors, anyone?

Tomorrow Belongs to Them

Can we at least agree that Americans are no longer allowed to make jokes about Kim Jong Un, Turkmenbashi, and other bizarre personality cult figures?

I see people arguing this with "A lot has changed since then - who could have imagined it?" These are companies whose entire field is power supply. If you seriously believe they were saying this due to an honest lack of knowledge then I have no hope for you

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This seems like a reasonable move. What does HS2 stand for?

Because what children in hospitals need is less contact with humans, obviously. Maybe we could just put the kids in pods and feed them intravenously

This photo has gained so much attention worldwide it's only right to draw some attention to the original source, @greenwell.bsky.social

Just a heads-up: I'm pausing production of my action blockbuster that was about to slay the entire film production industry. Please tell your designer to hold off on completing your red carpet premiere outfit while I pivot

The metric system brought needed flexibility to Ireland's standards of measurement, augmenting existing units, to wit: Predominantly - but not exclusively - for "pints": rake lock scatter clatter Near exclusive: hape (of shite) shower (of cunts/bastards) litany (of fucks) #spéirghorm

Just a reminder that this account just makes things up and presents them as news. It's lib fan fiction. Nothing from the Halfway Post is real. They pretend it's satire, but what is this even satirizing? What's the commentary? What's the joke?

It's pretty eye-opening that if there are three Americans standing in front of you there's a strong chance one of them approves of what he's doing

Plot twist: 20% of ICE are revealed to be test-tube Musk spawn

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Stop using Zoom

The guys with "ERO" look like they're on day-release from a local sex shop

"Grok, is this unconditional surrender?"

An Irish company feeding the Russian war machine slaughtering Ukrainian civilians. This has to be stopped

There's an increasing sense of desperation as the far-right pulls out all the stops to try to ensure the survival of their main agent inside the EU

I use @bsky.app to get interesting info. I filter my experience with mutes & blocks. This upsets some people, who call it a "bubble". Maybe when I go to the library & get books on a particular subject, I should also pick up several poorly written irrelevant ones & force myself to read them as well

Why does that train look so angry?

Maybe Trump does deserve a peace award. The Vietnam War dragged on for a decade and left 58,000 Americans dead. He's managed to achieve a similar level of humiliation rapidly and with relatively few casualties

The solution is pretty obvious when you think of it. It's always worked before. All America has to do is wait around for the guy who's let down his daughter by missing her middle school recital to turn up unexpectedly and save his marriage by averting an existential crisis. U-S-A! U-S-A!

I love this little cast-iron pot. The person who gave it to me said they believe it could be 19th century and from Sweden(?). Anyway, it gets daily use in our kitchen - it's a workhorse, not an ornament

Can someone plz check if he's available this week?

Netanyahu endorsing Orban in the Hungarian election. Despite the government removing books by Jewish writers, including Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz, from the curriculum and including works by noted anti-semites. He doesn't mind anti-semitism if it's right-wing apparently.

This reminds me of years ago subediting a story in which the Mumbai hotel attackers were repeatedly described as using "paisley go-karts". Turned out the writer (dictator?) was referring to the burner SIMs they used as "pay-as-you-go cards"

What could possibly go wrong?

He'll get to that right after he's finished ending world hunger, I assume. Hey @reuters.com, I can offer to pay them as well - do you want to rush out a quick report on that?

There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below

The US ego can be a thing to behold. Supposed liberals getting antsy because some Dutch dude says electing Trump - twice - reflects badly on them, and suddenly it's all "Europeans don't know how big our mountains are... and... they don't wash their elbows!" Chill, folks

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Same old story then for Airstrip One

"Taskbar... moved" www.theverge.com/tech/897849/... "Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar"

One of the best comfort foods when the guts are dodgy, there's no appetite, but you need nutrition: Yesterday's seaweed soup with beef (소고기 미역국) reheated

How "desperate" can they be if they're not prepared to take a deep breath and confront him over something so important? Or do something other than anonymously brief compliant hacks?