Maria Steen and Michael McDowell clash over failed presidential bid “I wasn’t going to meet her because I wasn’t going to say to her face what I thought of her.” These people...

Now is the Wintel of our discontent turned authoritarian bummer by this Sun of jerks.

Defund the court and see how they feel then

A painting to usher in the weekend—and perhaps provide a tiny bit of solace: Vincent van Gogh's 1889 "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards," from collection of Neue Pinakothek, Munich www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/R...

It's Neko Case Day. What's your excuse for not listening to Neko Case today? You don't have one. So listen to Neko Case. nekocase.ffm.to/neongreymidn...

This meeting could have been a trip to a petting zoo. Making this known at the next team meeting in the office.

True. I use olive oil soap bar and a wet electric razor and it's perfect. Soap basically self-lathers with the electric. Tidy up with a blade at the end which lasts forever because it has so little to do. Skin feels good too.

An exceptionally tasteless headline from a publication that should really know better, especially at a time like this. But I suppose it resonates with a sensationalist Anglo crowd and their deeply rooted prejudices.

Vote on UNSCR 2231 extension: 4 in favor 9 against 2 abstentions Snapback is happening. All pre-JCPOA UN sanctions on Iran will be reinstated at 00:00 GMT tomorrow.

Israeli loudspeakers broadcast Netanyahu’s speech to UN into Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Mass psychopathy

Speaking of Guineys, does anyone know any other city in Europe that is not actively being bombed by Russia that operates a night time curfew?

Really need someone to make House of Guineys after seeing what they produced.

Another waste of everyone#s time from a reactive and punishing administrative state that cannot tie the laces of the boot it wants to stomp on people.

Oh you agreed something with President DeALz? America is incapable of honouring agreements. A chaotic, flailing, self-lacerating giant you have to try to stay away from. Ireland, unfortunately, is tied to it.

Honestly, ruling over a field of corpses on which Donald Trump plans to build a casino is a fate it seems quite reasonable to wish on what Tony Blair has become.

American cultural dominance means people will always be concerned about its effects on English dialects elsewhere. I wrote about this in relation to Irish English a couple of years ago: stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/m...

"Please do business in our lawless hellhole where we lock up your posted workers in our immigration gulag and demand USD 100,000 per H1B visa for the needed workers we cannot train because we are destroying our universities. President DEeaLzz

UEFA is likely voting on whether to suspend Israel next week; if suspended, it would mean Israel cannot play its World Cup qualifying matches. If the team is not banned, they have a qualifier against Italy Oct. 14. Spain is threatening to boycott the World Cup if Israel does qualify & participate.

Again this is the land route for trucked aid to Gaza with the Israeli checks done at the Allenby bridge so this is knowingly cutting off Gazans not just the WB

Dublin, yer some gouger.

It's not House of Guineys? I was misled.

I see Day 2 of the Irish presidential election is "Light Slandering the Germans Day".

Shazam but for the sound coming from my car's front right wheel.

Welcome to the furniture wankers club, please make yourself cum for table.

Man the bitter disappointment among some Irish media pros that they aren't getting a polite far right circus show ifor the Presidental election campaign s so naked.

We need a better less innocuous marketing terms than Chat Bots and Artificial Intelligence. What have yall got? Crap Bots Bullshit Bots Cheat Bots Echo Systems Vampire Tech Oligarch Tech Anti-Human Intelligence

This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house, work together, and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. *cut to 2025*

As a counterpoint the Starmer / Connolly / Hamas media brouhaha, this picture is amusing.

Oh man...

Word proposal Coprambulism:- When you are deep in the shit and you wading further, unthinkingly.

Israel to close West Bank-Jordan crossing from Wednesday, Palestinian border authority says | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle... This is the land route for moving trucks carrying aid to Gaza through Israeli checks. Another genocidal action.

There is no "right to run" for the Irish presidency and journalists have a responsibility to shut that down when a TD, who ought to know the constitution, pushes it on broadcast media or in print.

Remember the Epstein birthday book where the US president sketched a dirty picture and alluded to his keeping secrets with a prolific child sex trafficker and pedophile? 14 days ago and has barely been mentioned in the past 10 days.

"Environmentalist" and "Trump supporter" are mutually exclusive concepts.

Just left the funeral service for these children, community members killed by Israeli airstrike in South Lebanon yesterday. Dearborn is reeling. What we understand here is that the atrocities we fund and facilitate abroad always come back home.

Awks for Connolly.

Sky News is bad.

Roaring sound of wood chipper grows louder at 1 First Street, Washington, DC.

Without litigating the Hamas stuff, you go on BBC Radio Ulster and use the words "I come from Ireland, a history of colonisation... " You're not on Radio 1 Tahiti.

Still have no idea who yer man is who was bothering the councillors asking for free dinners for 7 years.

Functional delinking of the powerful from the popular. Those with power by virtue of gratuitous wealth are totally insulated from the rest of us except for some state, educational cultural areas. They're preoccupied with dominating them or suppressing space for anti-wealth populism, other challenges

The old dustcover jacket // TED Talks bio // board membership listing could really have done with the "nominee" lustre.

This really reflects how technocratic neoliberal logic has captured the centre of political spectrum. The argument against it is not moral or ethical, it's on cost and feasibility grounds. It's the logic of managing the numbers is what gets you elected.

The US Navy has becomed unmoored from the law and is marauding through the Caribbean like a 17th century pirate fleet.

You cannot expect Murdoch-controlled media properties to handle far right hate any differently in the UK to how it has fanned it in the US ...

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See also stripping juvenile ISIS recruits of their citizenship / identity documents.

American citizens, children, killed.

Raw oligarchy.

The choice was cooking sausages or jumping in the sea (and then cooking sausages). Right decision I think.