Yes Ireland has election security. We tie the pencils to the voting booth with string.

Total collapse of support for the old main parties

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.” — Voltaire (1694–1778)

Merz is the banality of evil chancellor

„Culturally coherent“? A euphemism for „racial purity“.

The idea (in the US and UK) that immigration is the central issue of our time is really mass psychosis.

LOL

Ukrainian forces conducted a long-range operation against Russian military industrial facilities in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The city is more than 1,800 km (1,100 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The money the US is donating to Argentina exceeds the entire USAID budget (as was).

🌙🐘 When Night Falls — A Sanctuary of Love and Healing 💞 As darkness settles over the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, tiny trunks rest beneath warm blankets. The orphaned elephants, once lost and afraid, now dream safely — wrapped not just in comfort, but in care, hope, and second chances.

Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level. Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.

Why the fuck is ICE buying guided missiles, chemical weapons, and artillery? What are they planning to do with it, exactly? We're not nearly freaking out enough! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

7500 Töchter gegen Merz heute in Berlin vor der CDU-Parteizentrale! Krass! ❤️‍🔥✊🏻 #MerzRücktritt

Shocked to understand that #Merz has echoed Goebbels directly in his use of #Stadtbild. Merz is at Höcke niveau, no better.

I haven‘t painted any diving parrots (yet), but here’s a diving whale. #painting

i wanted to say something about puffins, and therefore had to look up the german word for puffin. In german, puffins are Papageitaucher! Parrot divers! Diving parrots! Haha.

“To be at a point where the ability to speak Irish might be a key driver in young people voting for a potential president – that’s huge, that’s something really extraordinary.” - Osgur Ó Ciardha Kitty Holland reporting on the Gaeilge factor in youth support for Catherine Connolly. #Aras25

Picked up two 170x60 MDF boards from the roadside (zu verschenken). Coated them with gesso. Now i have painted one of them. Its ok. Could be worse. I sense an urge to do v large #paintings using spray cans. No idea how i might organize that, nor what i would paint, but you only live once.

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for: a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it! b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

This journalist is reliably excellent

Coffee at Zähringer Burg #painting

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

An excellent obituary of the Tory party, which has succumbed after a relatively brief illness. The Tory party was around 300 years old.

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Surely this is the moment to introduce proportional representation bill into Uk parliament. Traditional parties dominate number of MPs but look to be losing popular support in a way which could make FOTP decimate them at next election. PR would lead to coalitions against fascists as in Germany.

My second 75x50 canvas went in a different direction. It made me laugh. #painting #art

This was a challenge. 75x50. Bigger than i have painted so far. First figure rather than portrait. Its ok. Maybe refine it further later. #painting

I'd say ice is floundering 😹

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

„No Kings“ is ab incredibly lame rallying call because it should be „No Dictator“. Even better would be „No Billionaires“. They aren’t serious.

For shame. 😡

Germany‘s basic law may in fact effectively forbid such action.

They didn’t turn full fascist quickly enough and find the slot has already been taken.

When they say Tony Blair might have a role in Gaza, are they referring to War Criminal Tony Blair?

Greta Thunberg being eligible for the Nobel Prize is not only a slap in the face to the Orange Baby, but it would be poetic justice for a woman of peace and caring to win out over a man of hate and conflict. She demonstrates the deep instinct of humanity when money is not involved.

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Splendide trace du front froid sur la France s'étirant de ~Biarritz à ~Strasbourg à 13 h. Notez les petites discontinuités ici ou là. Fascinant !

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

A revolutionary spirit is abroad in Italy. Another general strike from Friday to Sunday. Main topic Gaza. Secondary but significant domestic issues. Basta! I hope the Italian energy can enliven people power elsewhere in Europe. Basta!

wow Italy www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...

Ashamed to say I voted for these people. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Will never make that mistake again.

@GAZAFLOTILLA PROTECTION GROWS EVERY DAY!