Him dropping down to one knee. “Together we can vote him out” Her overjoyed “Yes we can”

To be sure, Hungary under Tisza would still be Hungary: relatively dovish on Russia and China, and divided on support for Ukraine. ecfr.eu/article/why-...

The two most obvious foreign policy themes of Trump are: 1) they have no understanding of others agency 2) they have no stomach or attention span The two interrelate in pretty toxic ways and mean this sort of thing will always fail

As something of a Bluesky expert on the Hungarian elections, I'm wishing everyone in Bucharest well as they head to the polls today.

Is that like a cat cafe but filled with little Roger Scrutons?

National Parliament Election in Hungary today 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 Turnout as of 9 a.m. is significantly higher than in previous elections. Plotting the 2026–2022 turnout change against Fidesz–KDNP's 2022 vote share reveals no clear pattern. #Hungary Explore live: europeelects.eu/2026/04/04/n...

It is hilarious in every way but my fingers are still firmly crossed for Hungary today.

Unblocking blockade: Gardai mounted unit on O'Connell St, 3 hours ago. Street will remain closed until all vehicles are removed. www.rte.ie/news/2026/04... www.instagram.com/p/DXBJafKiNGo/

Just a reminder. Haulers don't pay the same for diesel as you do (due to the Diesel Rebate Scheme). Farmers don't pay the same for diesel as you do (marked diesel is taxed at a lower rate).

A seventh List A hundred for Gaby Lewis

Citizenship ceremony cancelled in Killarney Tuesday & Wednesday due to blockades. Approx 6000 visitor cancelled. €30,000 cost to local hotels. @radiokerry.bsky.social

My giant diesel guzzling business is in danger, yes I know my business is at the mercy of diesel prices and have known that risk forever - please insure me from that risk or I’ll paralyse the country, cheers lads.

IMHO this is an example of a certain strand of leftism that adheres so rigidly to an abstract principle that it can’t abandon it even when the facts of a situation indicate that a different position should be taken See also: Brexit, which the Socialist Party/PBP also supported

it is acceptable to wipe your hands on a sleeping relative because they are your napkin

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

Stand up and be herded.

I'm so tired

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets. Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them

What a sad man with notions. At least the fash have their voice in the Dail

Again my thesis is the great divide in politics is being driven by positive emotions and negative ones, and the coalition of the loving needs to win .

Honestly, what kind of business model involves selling seashells on the sea shore? Your customers can just pick up their own for free. Surely you need to export your seashell business far inland, to somewhere without a ready supply of free seashells?

A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

There is a significant garda presence at the Galway docks tonight as hundreds of people have gathered as part of a fuel blockade.

♫"Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer"♫

This is excellent advice... (1/2)

Rosslare Europort says a blockade of freight will mean the port’s shipping capacity will be full by tomorrow night/Monday morning, with further deliveries having to be turned away thereafter

I think it's more accurate to say that Iran managed to establish deterrence based on mutually assured destruction than that it "won" the war. But the problem with MAD is that the destruction is indeed mutual, and in Iran's case staggering. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/w...

the vibes are shifting bullish on professional software engineers

Paid for by the workers they've been blocking off the last while. Might as well call it a toll.

This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

Can't wrap my head round an unelectable group (a) thinking they can decide who does or does not get fuel, and (b) a Govt, which has broken up much less obstructive (and more morally motivated) demos, effectively standing aside for days and letting them do this. What next, will they charge tolls?

Say it everyday but if this was the way: Climate protestors acted Homelessness protesters acted Israeli, US, Russia government protestors acted They’d be beaten and dragged and hit with a water cannon.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Trying to make a list of those businesses involved in the protests so we can avoid them in future. So far I have Mulcahy Agri Services, Leamlara AA minibuses, Athboy Monroe’s Tavern, Galway. I’d appreciate any more. And we can be petty enough just to give them 1* reviews.

I once sat with a group of well known journalists who complained that we don't have a proper left wing party in Ireland, and also that taxes are too high and unions are too powerful. We're not idiots. Reporters are.

Sycophancy as a Service

I think one of my visceral reactions to the protesters is because they are bullies. Loud, boorish bullies. And I have no time for bullies. The irony is Trump caused the global crisis, and miniTrumps are causing the local one.

Apparently you'll be able to walk under it (toll will be 200 million Iranian Rial)

Hahahahhaha Sanchez is trembling! Spain is expelled from the god knows what coordination center. This will totally have a massive impact on the next Spanish election

Informed by somebody who braved O’Connell St that the protest placards are as much anti-vax, anti-immigrant, and pro “housing for indigenous homeless people” as they are anything to do with fuel

They're absolutely right to call him out for this

How is a video that has Judaism as Baal, showing a literal blood libel, and with a representation of Orthodox Jews buying the U.S. President antisemitic, they ask?

YES, A FAILED IMPEACHMENT MEANS REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S CONDUCT. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON TO DO IT

Naas by-pass, the protestors consist of a handful of vehicles, this is not a mass movement, excuse the pun, it's a tiny group that the Gardáí can easily neutralise once the government decides that it has public support to allow them to do so.

Sean Fleming announcing he understands nothing and public will reward his ignorance. More of this Gavan making clowns of people

Good time for Irish diesel-consuming machine operators to stall the economic activity, right on the edge of a European and global economic precipice. Good luck exporting your pharma products, your dairy products, importing your machine tools and parts, your just in time chips, or your snap peas.