You'll often hear that progressives need to "demonstrate they take immigration concerns seriously". I think that's a trap. As soon as you "take seriously" the concern of someone who thinks a brown tide is washing away Christiandom they expect you to act at a scale matching that threat perception!

There were 1 million views on X for Tommy Robinson posting this on June 18th calling for mass public executions of "Pakistani rope gang" (Perceptions may differ on whether this is a call for the state to execute convicted criminals for grooming, or to organise public lynchings, or both).

the Kyiv Pride march today is led by Ukrainian queer soldiers and vets carrying pictures and names of queer Ukrainian heroes killed while fighting homophobic russian empire. Ukraine fights for a better, dignified future for all of us.

The Irish Times view on university rankings: only part of the story

A perfect Father’s Day gift

Sickening passing longterm boarded up council homes every day They are not alone How can it take years to bring these homes back into use, & in a housing emergency This is not about resources This is about mindset & ideology Dominic Street, Shandon, Cork City #DerelictIreland

Keep watching to witness the 'otter elbow shuffle' and 'I am here, where are you?' whistle. Filmed on the River Lee, Cork City this afternoon. #cork

Cork has something nowhere else has. I'm talking about the Butter Museum in Shandon. - CMAT

BBC: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being bombed in her home by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

No declaration of war. No due process. No congressional authorization. The UN’s top expert on counter-terrorism & human rights says the U.S. is committing extrajudicial killings at sea. 211 dead and counting. Where is Congress?

Der Kampf gegen den Faschismus ist nicht gewonnen, der Kampf gegen den Rassismus ist nicht gewonnen, der Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus ist nicht gewonnen, der Kampf gegen den Imperialismus ist nicht gewonnen, der Kampf gegen den Sexismus ist nicht gewonnen.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT “NORMAL SUMMER WEATHER” FOR THE UK — ESPECIALLY IN JUNE! (Record is 35.6°C) We are seeing the effects of climate change due to human activity playing out. Image is the latest Met Office forecast for London

Il a ajouté : « L'Ukraine est reconnaissante au peuple polonais pour son soutien et sa coopération, qui jouent un rôle important dans la lutte pour notre et votre indépendance de la Russie. »

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Zelensky a renvoyé l’Ordre de l’Aigle blanc au président polonais Karol Nawrocki, après que celui-ci le lui a retiré. Je reviendrai sur cette affaire ce week-end : la démarche ukrainienne initiale était maladroite, mais la réaction polonaise est, elle, totalement aberrante.

Lovely stuff

My lovely neighbours are moving out. They've been here 9 years. Their daughters have played with my son since he was 7 months old. The two girls are crying along with me and my son. Landlord selling the house and they can't get a mortgage. Upsetting doesn't come close.

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

Let me just remind everyone that Barnier does not speak for all Europe, he no longer has a formal EU role, and he’s just one European guy with an opinion. I’m another European guy with an opinion and it’s a different one.

If you want to be better at pronoucing the names of the Croatian team players than the ITV commentators, watch this. The commentators are given this but can't be bothered to make the effort.

Dublin-born Cape Verde defender Pico Lopes was offered a slot in the national side over LinkedIn. Accepted the second time because the first invitation was in Portuguese „which i didn’t speak”

Hibernia Line's "Akka" on its maiden voyage into Cork from Boulogne-sur-Mer. #SpeirGorm

Until social media companies are classes as publishers, with the responsibilities that entails, nothing will change

The Israeli government — including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — is accused of starving the civilian population. EU shrugs.

Ireland, a good one for us. But the NIMBYism is strong in a lot of these places. #SpeirGorm

Further debasement at the hands of City Council. What have we done to deserve these crash barriers 🫠

🇪🇺🇺🇦🇲🇩 All EU countries have agreed to open the first cluster of negotiations on Ukraine and Moldova's accession to the EU.

This is a huge story. www.ft.com/content/dd79...

From a journalist who knows what he taking about: "EIon Musk is a race-baiting demagogue who stirred up the Belfast riots. It’s time our governments took a stand" www.independent.ie/comment/opin...

“All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.” Judith Kerr was b. #otd 1923

In case we had any doubt

Welcome to Oscar District, Badge 36, Marlie. Marlie joined the A Watch crew in Rathfarnham for her induction to #OscarDistrict. On arrival she met with S/O Keith Mason and was given a brief about the station.

Kharkiv art museum is burning as the enemy tries to destroy culture at any cost. This is Kharkiv mayor helping to evacuate the art pieces

Doctor say that vaccines are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. A nepo baby who snorts cocaine off toilet seats, bathes in raw sewage, and takes raccoon penises home for “further study“ says they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Social obligation of property, Eigentum verpflichtet in german constitution. For some reason politicians have to be reminded about this periodically.

⚡️Kharkiv Art Museum in flames after 'cynical' Russian drone attack. The strike caused a major fire at a critical Ukrainian cultural site and injured five people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

Meadowsweet has been emerging in some verges #WildflowerHour

Death toll in Gaza surpasses 73,000

OTD in 1940 Soviets deported 10,000 people from Estonia. Most were women & kids. Russia became the world's largest country by solving our demographic problem with people we deport & our colonies demographic problems with Russians.

‘Girl and Fish, Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Ireland’ (2015) by Sophie Green. ‘Tangerine Dreams: Rituals of Belonging in Contemporary British Life’ at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. 😳

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

It’s interesting seeing some of the very obvious misinformation being peddled online and through social media re Belfast atm primarily by US / UK bad faith actors: (1) Race riots and pogroms in NI are about keeping ‘Ireland for the Irish’. The rioters are from (British) Loyalist backgrounds.

I’ll pipe down about #Eurosky shortly, but this is the first time in ages I’ve been excited about software that does something I want: federated #SocialMedia where you own data *and can take it with you*. Props to the teams at @bsky.app, @eurosky.social and others for making this a reality! 🙌

Nine hours with no water on the Northside and now brown discolouration. Is this safe to drink @uisce-eireann.bsky.social ? #Cork @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Never bring a wife to a nun fight.

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week