My only Easter tradition is watching the Shane Byrne masterpiece www.instagram.com/reel/DWqWAFe...

Easter bunny becoming hyped up lore character is just mad to me. Am I becoming one of those aul ones shaking my fist at the clouds?

Double rainbows Dave

Storm Dave comes with rainbows

Would it grow faster, and retain, if "Discover" wasn't determined to show cartoon porn, hospital gown selfies, endless pet bereavements (with sympathies), random kink accounts in addition to cartoon porn etc etc. I get it is the Discover feed...but using the platform less as get tired of going wtf?

The last three paragraphs read to me like a transcript of any given day Stormont before it collapsed in 1972

Hey Mr Starkey, the UK enabled the US in Iraq and unleashed ISIS and other Islamist terrorist groups. It also radicalised impressionable Muslims in the UK to commit acts of terrorism, including the murder of my son, Jack. For a so-called historian you’re incredibly fucking ignorant.

My God, the never ending rain

unfortunately for Trump the birthright citizenship question has hit this version of Neil Gorsuch

Preparation preparation preparation. Jesus Christ

If you know anyone on an autism diagnosis waiting list on the NHS you know why very large numbers have to "self identify". Take the number of years you're assuming and triple it, at least

Clinical negligence specialist here. Terrible idea. Truly terrible. Radiologists are amongst the most impressive people I’ve ever worked with, they show me stuff that should have been followed up and it’s so unbelievably inconsequential visually. They’re magic. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

The sheer amount that is packed into the pilot of The Sopranos, is just jaw dropping on a third rewatch

Things I’ve unexpectedly gotten quite into in and around turning 40: Hot cross buns Birdwatching when I go somewhere new Tracking seasons by what flowers are blooming - lotus, cherry, apple, copper beech etc

Putting children on social media is heavily talked about- with good reason - but who film their grandparents with dementia for content on social media, should be banned from owning anything other than a landline - for life. There is so much of it on TikTok - it’s insane

The lack of childcare options in this country for children with additional needs is a national disgrace.

I'll be getting a post up next week for the end of the quarter to talk about the polling more, but this is an odd angle! SF are up since the GE, the government parties are down. If we had an election in a week, the movement would be insufficient, sure, but it's several years away....

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

Law school grades are predictive of lawyers' incomes. But Gabriele Plickert and I found that women with the highest grades earned LESS than lower-achieving men in private practice.

I get that it's tricky for certain niche publications to find experts in topical issues their readers care about. But if you can't find a polling expert who has actual *expert*ise and can avoid outright lying about polling experts who actually are experts, maybe don't bother.

The police have said that, if caught, thieves can expect to go a wafer a long time.

Unable to finger any suspects, the police say that they're foiled.

Thought that Irish joke on UK SNL was good. Loads of words next to each other there I thought id never say

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

I've always thought that the UK media reported about the covid pandemic's first two waves in an incredibly sanitized way. Even now few people realize that in those 18 months, there were more covid deaths, even proportionally to total population, than during all WW2's German bombing raids on the UK.

My sister worked on Covid wards where those too sick for ICU to save, were looked after and died. In their 100s. Most who needed hospitalised weren’t for ICU. 12-16 deaths per shift. I was listening to her talk about this in real time, while boris said let them Pile high. Where do you go from that

To be honest the report talks of the “almost” collapse of the NHS. I don’t know what collapse looks like if it isn’t thousands of people dying for want of an ambulance or hospital bed, and nurses, doctors, ambulance and support workers -eg cleaners sick & dying for want of adequate protection

I know it’s a race to the bottom but there is no platform more dangerous to a mother to be or one who is sleep deprived - than instagram. The amount of well presented medical misinformation about birth &sleeping on there is astounding. I work year round on infant coroner cases. Insane stuff on there

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave. However bad the first wave, the second wave was even worse with more than double the hospital admissions than the first. And much avoidable. A vaccine within grasp. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Some new exhibits just dropped in Musk v Altman trial including these texts with Mark Zuckerberg and Musk

Like a horse and trap driver writing about how cool car are. Class

Would love to hear the names the current and former students have for her. Bet they’re class

Partial rainbow over the Mournes yesterday 👌

74. I am concerned that parties, including litigants in person, should use AI appropriately and should be given guidance as to how they may properly use AI in their litigation. I would therefore set out the following principles of general application:

Ireland: Court of Appeal criticises citation of fake cases by party in defamation case. Gemma O'Doherty appeal fails. AI hallucinations identified. www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Jesus but postnatal depression, a Velcro baby and three months of solid rain is quite the toxic combination

They literally had a hospital porter on the Toy Show during covid such was his contribution to making that child’s life better. It’s ridiculous.

Millions of them still support him, how could you ever trust that place again

Ah reminiscent our pre 1969 voting policy that is now being revised as not sectarian but just classist. When families like my parents & their siblings were called a fenian litter, a voting system one the UK Government were fine with. The one they don’t teach that they permitted & facilitied

This is bound to happen at some stage "Yes the Wifi is down. No we can't feed your child"

Anyone who’s ever been in hospital will tell you the people who bring you food are always the nicest - this is stupid for so many different reasons

I will never EVER forget when I was admitted for IV hydration due to hyperemesis - beyond weak, couldn’t drink or eat at all. One of the nursing assistants handing out the meals, came to my bay, and very gently fixed the leg of my pyjamas that was gathered up to my knee. They had the time to notice

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe should actually do a green marshal plan on heat pumps and public transport and file it under “defence“ and I’m not joking.

Just feels so completely cruel

Opinion: Calls for an amnesty for British soldiers in Northern Ireland are based on a myth

I’ve already seen people call the attack on Jewish ambulances a “false flag”, saying every Jew should personally come out and condemn Netanyahu if they don’t want consequences, that the ambulances only serve a “Jewish area” that is a segregated “mini Israel”, posting memes etc. Stop!

Some of us on here knew Natalie. She was funny and kind and she should be here with her son. Thank God justice has been done for her family x

"The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde...on Friday." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...