The 10 IRA and INLA hunger strikers who died in 1981 survived for between 46 and 73 days. These Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK have been on strike for 45, 59, and 66 days.

Throughout their win vs Botswana at AFCON, a DR Congo supporter replicated the stance of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in African and Congolese independence who was assassinated in 1961 following a joint plot between political opponents, Belgium, the US, and UK 🇨🇩

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Otto very succinctly nailing it. They are concerned about women and girls, but only so far as to keep them for themselves. When the abuse is being perpetrated by X users, that’s working as the system intended

Bielsa-esque. 🔥👌😎 #lufc

The gap between EU armies and Russia in unmanned systems is widening by the day. If Russia were to attack an EU country, it would take a long time to catch up, during which significant territory and manpower would be lost. We need to stop treating unmanned systems as a niche

What’s happened with Manna’s plan to expand its drone delivery service across Dublin? It still only has one base, in Dublin 15, with planning permission – and that’s due to expire this year.

If grovelling to Trump is meant to buy us time to end our dependency on the US, you’d expect feverish activity in Europe to rapidly become autonomous. So has Europe made good use of the time it has bought with self-humiliation? It has not. My blog: open.substack.com/pub/sophiein...

thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

I think about this tweet every day

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The Department lists out a bunch of things that X dot com’s Grok is doing and says that each of them is illegal. So asking the AG to see if there are more ways it could be illegal just seems like a delaying tactic to actually doing something.

So much of this "Trump says" stuff is really just news entertainment, rather than news. He was wrong about "running Venezuela", for example. Nothing he says is really relevant to reality.

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 47% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 66% at 00:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 48% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 7% of demand was met by imports.

A reminder that this fiscally incompetent government are also the least productive government in the history of the State.

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

One of the eternal truths seems to be that people sitting in traffic in cars blame traffic on lack of allocated space, rather than the number of cars. Folks, I have news for you.

In response to an email querying why EU Commissioner Michael McGrath was still using Elon Musk's toxic fascist social media platform, his office replied with an acknowledgement that included a prompt to follow him on X.

Why am I subjecting myself to this? Ouf! 😢 #lufc

That's a free to be fair. Couple of fouls in a row from Forest. #whunfo

Why has the EU not banned Musk's CSAM platform yet?

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Coimisiún na Meán must prove its worth by taking action against Grok AI abuses. www.socialdemocrats.ie/coimisiun-na...

"First #MiniMná is Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - civil & human rights activist, shot by paramilitaries, clattered the Home Secretary when he said British soldiers on Bloody Sunday acted "in self-defence", and all-round legend." #spéirghorm #NollaigNaMban

Nearly six in 10 (58%) people who would vote in a second referendum said they would cast their ballot to return to the EU. The finding in a Deltapoll survey for The Mirror comes ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Brexit vote this year www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator. Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.

It’s been almost four years, and Russia still controls way less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion. What a pathetic failure!

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

i am pro lynx and it is entirely based on emotion and the joy of Large Kitty and you cannot present facts to stand in my way

Today is January 6th, and it’s been five years since Trump attempted a coup and failed. Trump should be in prison, not the White House. The US failed to enforce the law and hold him accountable, and the whole world is suffering as a result

So the GCs assume donors are leaving bc Stonewall used to support trans people. Seems just as likely they (like me) are leaving bc they no longer support trans people. If they do collapse, might not be a disaster. Let's call a new one 'Phoenix'

Relevant point to keep in mind 👇🏼. The far right (at least in central Europe) will always face strong difficulties to unite due to antagonistic views of the past. Even if they walk together on some issues, at the core they face diverging views of the past.

Labour minister [Steve **** Reed] tells local councils they could be sued for boycotting Israel Multiple local authorities have in the past year voted to boycott companies 'complicit in Israeli war crimes' www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-gove...

From George Monbiot

Mirthless laughter. I've argued all my career that US bluster about its companies using foreign tax moves to shield profits was nonsense. The US could change its tax system to address this. Instead, politicians dodge the issue by blaming countries like Ireland www.theguardian.com/business/202...

College Green, the Gardiner Street greening and cycle route, and works on the Beresford Place/Amiens Street gyratory will be the next stages of the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan... as reported in October: irishcycle.com/2025/10/06/c...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.

The world capitulates. 150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax. They make profit we fund the cost. The race to the bottom will accelerate.

Lots of work went into getting this right: I wanted to speak without judgement or sensationalism to some of the sex workers who use football clubs to promote their OnlyFans pages What are their experiences, how did they get into SW and what role does football play? www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...

I very badly want this, and I think it's further proof that a lot of the good stuff we abandoned in the last decade or two because shiny is making a clear comeback. Print is back, obviously, but also physical buttons, going to concerts without recording, and maybe even having a real-life girlfriend.

Thanks. Thanks, printer.

“Make Iran Great Again” It’s clear where this is headed.

This is the most cyberpunk story of all time.

This thread. It’s a practical, grounded analysis of events in Venezuela and their place in the pattern of American actions that protects the dollar.

MAGA is threatening to boycott.