Haven't been able to get this one out of my head. Magnificent writing. Harrowing. RFK Jr has a lot to answer for! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️ Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road. Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍

It will very much be worth your time to read this.

VIEWER'S COMPETITION SHORTLIST: we're posting two of fave #ceefauxviewscomp entries each weekday and will count up the most likes/comments/reshares in 24 hours. 3/20 by @nedkelly.bsky.social

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

This Fred Astaire bit is incredible. The timing and precision. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vi...

This Doonesbury was published 43 years ago:

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually

Is it ok to eat a loch monster’s vegetables? Not Nessie’s celery.

Northern Ireland continues show off just how broken UK counter-terrorism law has become...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Take a minute.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

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Superb piece by Dave Hannigan on Ireland’s number one shitehawk 👊

My book 'How To Say No Emphatically In German' now available - only £9.99!

Daylight Saving Explained:

Never thought I'd say this. It's gonna be harsh and might give you angry feelings when you see it. I've come up with one simple life rule: Never ever (I know you're gonna, but please don't) let yourself feel stupid when you look at the first words down the left side of this post

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

My mother has had type 2 diabetes for decades and was treated for cancer. Under the US system, she would be dead, and I would be bankrupt. We really underestimate the good that is the NHS.

We need Transfer Deadline Day for other professions too. Surgeons being whisked out of the operating theatre to ply their trade in a rival hospital. Firefighter shimmying back up the pole b/c another fire station has bid for them. David Attenborough kicking penguins b/c he wants a move to Eastenders

150 years on from their establishment, the Irish roots of Hibernian FC laid bare. By @DeclanBogue http://www.the42.ie/hibernian-150-years-irish-roots-6791524-Aug2025/

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

David Bieleski first met Rory McIlroy when they were both 16. When they met again at Portrush almost two decades later, it completed a remarkable tale of redemption. The42.ie/6768794

Recently got asked one of those default interview questions about "Name someone who inspires you". I've always struggled with these questions, as I'm not one to put people on pedestals. But then I remembered someone who legitimately inspired me in every way A former student of mine 1/15

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

English political establishment up in arms because an Irish guy said something it didn't like. Then a Black guy said something it didn't like. If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

I spent five whole minutes paralyzed by laughter

damn dude

Closeness lines. A rather poetic piece by @drawingolive

OK.. this is pretty good. 😂 youtube.com/shorts/QhF3G...

We all know that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. But that's only a very small amount of information about the value of birds. As such, I felt it imperative to create a conversion chart for more bird scenarios and what I believe them to be worth

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 3968

Quite the payoff

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

Here's bit of an explainer I was involved in on how the NEM works, and the energy transition unfolding within it. (..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear) 🔌💡 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Very cool data visual work by ABC on the changing way we vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...