Yeah, see this all the time when I'm cycling, not just motorists, but pedestrians and cyclists all playing on their phones while on the road or in shared spaces. I've seen cyclists take their phones out to look at, at every single junction

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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Not just bigger than Gaza, but they reckon as many as 69,000 were murdered in just 10 days of the last fortnight

Humanitarian and foreign-affairs professionals agree that what is happening in Darfur now is on a scale unlike anything seen in the conflict so far. Why is so little being done? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-fall-of-el-fasher

I'd recommend this illuminating article written by a Syrian antifascist as a guide for spotting leftist grifters like Catherine Connolly and Clare Daly

Regardless IMO the fact this stuff is so poorly thought out by advocates and opponents of an EU Army just shows how far away it is from being a serious policy. I reckon the stuff like joint procurement is a much more realistic approach.

It’s ironic that European FP doves are so against an EU army, given how restrained it would likely be? National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East. Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!

"live updates" — surely not anymore?

The Eastern Europeans that I worked in hospitality the from 2002 - 2010 (even during the crash they were the only ones that would stick working nightclub hours) and kept the shrunken social scene viable, now own a lot of restaurants, cafes and catering services. Bloody immigrants, keeping joy alive

I'm impressed by this - it strikes me had I waited rather than bought a Core One earlier in the year, I could have replaced all 3 of my older printers, and not just displaced my now 7 year old MK3(s+)

I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.

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So they were there at the behest of "Free Palestine" movement in Syria, which despite its moniker is a standalone Syria based militia, and a nasty one at that. Run by Yasser Qashlaq, who has his own agendas as well. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

They aren’t thinking about OAP’s who can’t afford to eat but people like themselves who are 50-60’s and get their military pension on top of their £50k plus job and don’t like paying high tax bracket on it

Two retired men I know can't spend their pensions fast enough as their pots keep going up in value. But they'll still moan about Rachel Reeves and potential tax rises/new taxes on them while pondering voting Reform next time. A Mail reader and a Telegraph reader.

GOP owns this. Enough of the chaos of this tyrannical regime. More O'Hare flights delayed as US Transportation Secretary warns of ‘mass chaos' if shutdown continues. Meanwhile, NTSB and FAA didn’t bother to answer/return press phone calls re: catastrophic UPS plane crash.

Keep talking about the genocide in Sudan. Keep putting pressure on the government to sanction the UAE and to bring an end to this horrifying situation. Link to @theguardian.com on Sudan published 3rd November 2025: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With respect what in gods gravy is a “non-militarised European security framework” and how would it stop 300 shahed drones bombing a city

Reassess the sequencing. Overseas far right groups aren’t being ‘drawn’ to these events at CityWest… they are drawing them up, designing these events.

Many such cases in fact (there's a big drop in the frequency of marriages where a woman makes 50% or more of income... because those couples become super likely to get divorced)

One of my favorite aspects of authoritarian Christianity (modern and older) is how easily god can be foiled, and how we have to stop him from being tricked. The holy creator who spoke the infinite cosmos into being gets stumped by a little dental care.

I'm really hope she isn't as damaging to the country as I fear she will be.

HuffPost says that by late March, Trump's golf outings had already cost taxpayers approximately $26M , for travel, security, logistics & secret service detail. Candidate Trump claimed that if re-elected, he wouldn't have time to golf. Liar in Chief!

The leader of the only political party on the right that opposes the far right has quit citing threats. She does not specificy but most political violence in Sweden comes from the far right and they hate what they think of as traitors even more than they hate the left www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

There are some unlawful misrepresentations- if you pretended to be policeman, engaged in a fraud for monetary gain, etc - but falsehood in and of itself such as the fantastical description of Everton trophies and the flat earth are not caught

Logically, FSU (whose declared position is we should adopt US first amendment boundaries) would uphold all racist and antisemitic speech that doesn't include a call for imminent violence. They do want to carve out holocaust denial, but their appeal to EHRC decisions on it makes little sense in UK

It's really telling that mainstream journalists are doing stuff about the *possibility* of the ADF or the Heritage Foundation starting to influence UK politics, when the reality is that they have been here for years, spending huge quantities of cash and succeeding in areas like trans rights.

like I've noticed that locally, even modestly priced early to mid 00s apartments easily have service charges of 900-1000 up. But several, both 90s and 00s, are charging well over 2k per apartment. I'd expect that for a 3 bed big flat, but not for a small 1 bed apartment

i think the questions raised in this probably are a lot of the pressures that feed into high rents, given that fewer than a quarter of apartments are owner occupied www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Shot and chaser. What a lot of people who called Joe Biden a genocidaire seem to believe is that what Biden should have done was gotten Bibi to kill even more Gazans in 2023/24, and then said if you don’t sign a ceasefire the US army will come in and wipe the rest of you out.

I've argued this for quite some time, but some abuses in the PRS are not landlords, but the tenant subletting or using as AirBnB without the landlords knowledge www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Geoffrey has recovered from neutering and is back to his usual exuberant self

Real shame we missed out Maria Steen running a whole campaign on weapons grade manure like this.

I have a dozen annoyances about the Irish political system and politicians but every time I see another Irish person say our system is “completely broken“ etc it just makes them sound so ignorant about the world at large. Don’t be so cynical that you end up sounding like a privileged knob!

Think this kind of thing is always a reflection on management. One of the bookshops I worked in paid me for half an hour before opening and half an hour after closing, and as a result of this I would quite regularly just open early.

To be more specific, media and politicians aren't aware of the scale of continuing reductions The public mostly don't know it fell at all. Both boats + political/broadcast skew to mainly covering boats contributes significantly to net migration falling by half to two-thirds without being noticed

"Compulsory education had produced millions of semi-literates, who were partial to 'a good read'."

"I'm pro EU, now let me spend 10 minutes gloating that the English took it down a peg and are leading the way with Brexit." And divil concern for the effect on this island here, either. The barristerial mind is far above our limited understanding.

It’s funny how well pasokification stuck as a term even though PASOK lived to outgrow Syriza again

That was not the act of a child, it’s an insult to call it childish - it was triple distilled misogynistic behaviour.

Warning signs from an obscure part of the financial markets have got policymakers rattled, and one of their oldest and most profound fears may be about to get very real.

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

A lot of people in the media spent a lot of time claiming to be very angry at the perceived corruption of Hunter Biden for the last 5 or 6 years.

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