The ONLY valid metric for assessing whether the government is addressing the homelessness crisis is whether the number of homeless people is falling. The ONLY valid metric for assessing affordability of rents/houses is whether rents and house prices are falling. They're not. They're getting worse

Baby Minou. From 2017. #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #TinyPanthers

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🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

Of course I drew the whistling potato. #art #potato

This is great news.

Look I just can't believe that a group of people murdered someone in broad daylight, with witnesses and with impunity, and anyone at all wants to argue that that was ok because he maybe shoplifted. Yves Sakila was murdered. How are we ok with someone being murdered?! Jesus what is wrong with ye.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

I'll tell you this for nothing, this ward I'm on would crumble and patients would die if it weren't for immigrant staff. The care is very very good and the three particularly sick patients here don't give a damn who's helping them, once they're being taken out of pain and shown kindness #speirgorm

Back by popular demand, it's time for another Phred photo! 📸: Prairie dog by zookeeper Taylor S

If you want to learn how pointless "guardrails" are for yourself there's a free online game here where they have things like an LLM that checks if the LLM might accidentally leak the secret and stops it from doing so. gandalf.lakera.ai

Both France and Italy are summoning their Israeli ambassadors after the Israeli state assaulted their citizens. It won’t do anything. As long as there are no consequences, none of this matters to Israel.

I always thought Broccolini / Tenderstem broccoli was like a sweet offshoot of broccoli raab but it's a hybrid of broccoli and gai lan (Chinese broccoli) and the names are trademarked (though broccolini hasn't been enforced in the US) Brassica oleracea never stops being itself, does it?

Never underestimate the Irish! www.outono.net/elentir/2026...

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki

I may not be able to make peptides, but I’m smart enough to know how to not name my product “neuro-bollocks”.

This is a Very Good Cat who has just had the last pill in a week-long course of antibiotics, each pill gobbled down happily thanks to some absolutely brilliant pill pockets

Remarkable to hear RTE mention the words "shoplifting" at the end of the News but not mention the words "security guards" or "choked" or "physical assault." Despite the fact there's no evidence so far of the first and video evidence of the second.

it's not every day we welcome a visitor in a tuxedo

Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...

The cat is as shocked as any of us to find sick on the carpet. 🐈

I told ya I was sick >>> https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/told-you-i-was-sick-100-premium-cotton-t-shirt

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Jesus Christ, from the size of that cat I’m guessing it’s lard

This is the truest most authentic version of a ‘Carbonara’ as it’s true to its origins as a breakfast slop thrown together for GI’s in Italy in WW2

NEW: Tiny footprints. A blue blanket. The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.

This is entirely warranted and justified. And I really don’t want to see anyone complain this is a result of antisemitic double standards from the ICC, which also issued a warrant for Yahya Sinwar. One legacy of the Shoah is that international law matters. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This man is a sociopath.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Hello cooks, chefs, cookbook lovers! How about we create a list of our favourite cookbooks? Please give us your picks, with a short explanation why. Maybe we could make a 100 best cookbooks list? #FoodieBluesky

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

Do not fear the fat. Like all else, treat it with the respect it deserves. We are so used to overusing seed oils because they have no flavor. A small amount of butter will deliver a punch of flavor like nothing else.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus go.nature.com/4tCD7Ua

In Ireland, we don’t have bodega cats — we have Centra cats, and I think that’s beautiful

bird portraits are neat

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Under the IHR (2005), @drtedros.who.int, the Director General of WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DRC & Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/3P4ZDac

The ‘keeper of the woods’ over the Glendoo brook in Massy’s Wood #trees #nature #biodiversityweek

This is Watson. His family threw him a surprise 9th birthday party. Invited all his stuffed friends and everything. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: english_cream_watson_)

Henry Lamb's 'Bretonnes Sifting Corn,' (1901) clearly shows the influence of both Gauguin and Augustus John, and in particular his interpretation of the work of Puvis de Chavannes. Lamb's paintings of this time feature simplified forms and a flatter, muted use of colour.

Here is an explainer for what they've just done. We described it then as one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. Now it has come to pass www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

A great Irish artist and illustrator with a quirky sense of humour when required and even available for commissions. Well worth checking out for the saints or sinners in your life.

btw, cat people, this is the single greatest invention of all time: Daphne is cheerfully wolfing down her antibiotic pills thanks to these www.royalcanin.com/uk/cats/prod...

Michael says hi

Finally sat down to write and Ellie has opinions

Just been lucky enough to notice a Great Spotted Woodpecker nest and see an adult feeding the chicks - you can hear them chittering excitedly when the food arrives!

Meet Homer.