In a nutshell.

I get very irked that some people think that Hurt is a Johnny Cash song.

Various degrees of "the hit" on show here.

What was not speculation was that it undermined the position of the dollar as the global currency of choice of the oil business. Something that was worth more to the USA than seizing Iraq’s facilities. Two years ago Maduro stopped #Venezuela’s oil being traded in 🇺🇸$ 4/

There was speculation at the time that for the USA one of Saddam’s most aggravating moves had been three years earlier when he sought and received UN permission to cease trading Iraq’s oil in 🇺🇸$ switch to 🇪🇺€. I’m not sure if this was ever proven as a cause for war but it can’t have endeared him.

Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me. In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery. 1/

People acting like this is all new. America caused ALL of the problems because of oil. They first installed the dictator Shah in Iran in exchange for 40% of Iranian oil shares. He ruled and oppressed the Iranian people for 25 years, leading to anti-American sentiment

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

They're here @8radioireland.bsky.social

Three of the most mental political interviews I've seen in a while all published in the last few days 1. Mary Lou McDonald (flirting with outright nativism) 2. Roderic O'Gorman (not a single lesson learned) 3. Michael Collins (completely inscrutable ramblings) Something in the water this week

The *only* answer, surely, is this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rR...

In a just world, this would lead this vile platform to be fined out of existence. I fear, it will not.

A failed experiment that needs to be ended quick smart.

Shameful. 😜

8radio is really kicking ass today. Fantastic stuff. #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm

⚡️Ukraine enters EU's single mobile roaming zone. Ukraine formally joined the European Union's single roaming zone on Jan. 1, allowing Ukrainian citizens to use their mobile phone service across the European bloc without incurring additional charges.

You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns music.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj6...

me, riding into the new year like

Order of priorities reflected here

Fucking pricks.

Trojan work!

Lisbon, New Year’s Day. My feeling is, the decorator misheard the word ‘brasserie’…

We have a rules based system. What the suddenly right swinging SF are trying to do is pretend we don't have any rules at present, because having a rules based system is hard to argue against. The reality is, they're pandering to the right and it won't go well for them.

He's a proud nazi, I know that. My question is why is this tolerated?

Why is this being tolerated in Ireland? #Nazi

President Catherine Connolly's 2025 electoral hat-trick: ✅Greatest first preference vote in history ✅Largest share of valid poll in history ✅Highest victory margin in history ⚽️🏀🏐 #Áras25 #Spéirghorm #OnTheBall

This rightward swerve has been catastrophic for them.

I mean, we have rules! This is just total pablum, a symptom of SF's ongoing identity crisis where they refuse to define what they stand for

"rules based" is one of those tidy phrases that's hard to disagree with. Sure don't we all accept rules? Then you look at what the rules are, and what the consequences for disobedience might be.

Happy New Year from these former Georgian strays, rescued and placed for adoption in Europe and North America by our small team of volunteers. Follow their happy endings on Instagram @zerostraysgeorgia. And if you ever want to adopt from Georgia, DM me! 🐕🐈

Nom-nom-nom.

New Year’s Day haiku by Seamus Heaney — here in two versions: Seeing Things (Faber & Faber, 1991) and revised version (photo) from Bamboo Dreams . 1.1.87 Dangerous pavements. But I face the ice this year With my father’s stick.

Spectacular stuff.

Happy New Year May your 2026 be filled with books that entertain, educate, and inspire

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

Fill 'em with sugar before she comes back!

Appointing the guy who made his career from never building anything while Minister for Housing as Minister for Transport and then doing the shocked Pikachu face when he decides not to build a bunch of public transport infrastructure

I see Darragh O'Brien is doing about a good of a job as Minister for Transport as he did as Minister for Housing. This was meant to be the soft assignment lol

Don't let the sauerkraut harvesters from Waterford hear you say that. They'll dump truckloads of gherkins in front of your house.

Vote-Left-Transfer-Left-ohlookitaSF/FFcoalitionfancythat

Sinn Féin is not left wing. No matter how much we'd like them to be, or need them to be.

Maybe someone could remind the serfs that, historically, they have been able to deal with mad Tsars

The British send their Russian assets to prison. The USA makes theirs president.

New year, same shite from the brits. arethebritsatitagain.org

First day of 2026 and the Brits are at it again.... We will not be silent. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

Orange lights?!?

Perhaps if she wishes them to be considered left wing they might not jettison any of the left wing policies that they have.

Has this charlatan ever delivered on any of his promises?