I guess when Trump keeps saying on Fox that Europe has given us Greenland & we now own it, the hosts are either too afraid of him to correct it, too stupid that they believe it, or intentionally feeding their audience a steady diet of lies because that’s their business model.
VIDEO: At China's Hengdian World Studios, tourists can become the stars of their own mini TV dramas, complete with professional cameras, lighting and directors. The experience taps into the country's booming microdrama craze, where episodes can last as little as 30 seconds.
Thanks to Maynooth Students' Union & the Maynooth University History Society for inviting me to talk about "LGBTQ+ Stories from Medieval Ireland" as part of SHAG (Sexual Health and Guidance) Week. Here's me pointing out lesbian sex in the 12th-century Book of Leinster. 🌈👇
As predicted they will try to say its fake ir corrupted.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoKen Paxton: "There are definitely some examples of felons voting we believe in Harris County ... we'll be pursuing this. It won't be resolved by the time the election is over."
How to eat like a Medieval Hermit. It wasn’t fancy, but at least it was usually free. This is a 14th century recipe for fried fava beans and onions though I left out the fancy spices and replaced them with hermit friendly herbs. youtu.be/8Rs1QlaYRi4?...
How to Eat Like A Medieval Hermit
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
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Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that ban A.I. for kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (Gift Article)
Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.
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With thousands of empty properties in every town and village this constant talk about building is evidently harmful to the environment that we are casually destroying daily for very little reason.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 8h agoIreland unlikely to build 60,000 homes a year without surge in apartments, Cairn warns
Champagne, cocaine and some very long walks: when pedestrianism ruled the sporting world
Champagne, cocaine and some very long walks: when pedestrianism ruled the sporting world
Crowds once flocked to see ambling athletes pull off amazing feats of stamina. Edward Payson Weston was chief among them
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Making fun of and/or ignoring strangulation is bad actually. People die. Unbelievable that has to be said.
Why do politicians only say what they really think AFTER leaving office?
"At best his actions represent a bumbling breach of democratic norms. At worst political reprisal, from an embattled minister, against an organisation deemed to have been unsupportive of him in the past" My latest in the Examiner about what's at stake when civil society is silenced #spéirgorm
DRCC consent ad shows it's a huge risk to tell the State something it doesn't want to hear
The justice minister's assertion that Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's WeConsent campaign 'didn't reflect the views of Government' went almost unnoticed in the storm
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Farm workers are falling sick in a Kenyan horticultural town. Were they poisoned by pesticides?
Farm workers are falling sick in a Kenyan horticultural town. Were they poisoned by pesticides?
Timau’s industry has provided local Kenyans with an economic lifeline. But now, many believe it has made them seriously ill
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State requires large number of workers from outside European Economic Area, according to ESRI. www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...
State requires large number of workers from outside European Economic Area, according to ESRI
However, country struggles to retain many of them, especially highly skilled ones
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The small size of some stone age arrow heads from Denmark suggest they were used together with poisons.
Stone age hunters in northern Europe may have used poison arrows to hunt big prey
The small size of some stone age arrow heads from Denmark suggest they were used together with poisons.
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Every American election is basically: "On the left we have normal person with normal opinions, on the right we have Richy McGunsAndIsrael who believes women should be put on the moon, thinks clouds are trans and has punched six dogs since we started introducing him and he's just been elected"
Trump claims he struck Iran last night, but "it was just a minor attack, it wasn't a war ... this isn't really war ... war would be the second world war"
A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia was among four passenger planes affected by bomb threats across Europe today. Elsewhere, two planes bound for Warsaw were searched after landing, while a fourth aircraft arriving from Israel was being checked in Bulgaria. jrnl.ie/7213565
Ryanair flight among four passenger planes targeted by bomb threats across Europe
No explosives were found on two Warsaw-bound planes or a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia.
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There is no "almost automatically" under the current system. All the Labour Party has done is sell their soul to pander to racists who wouldn't vote Labour anyway. 30 years to qualify to settle under asylum rules is half an adult lifetime in limbo. Ridiculous and cruel way to treat people.
I'm trying to make a living in an industry that spent $160 million on an Ali G movie, how's things with you?
Gardai and the PSNI are working together to establish the whereabouts of a missing Limerick woman who hasn’t been seen for a number of weeks. Carrie Mullane hasn’t been seen in a number of weeks and may have travelled to Derry after first travelling to Co Fermanagh. jrnl.ie/7213213
Gardaí and PSNI working together to establish whereabouts of missing Limerick woman
Carrie Mullane hasn’t been seen in a number of weeks and may have travelled to Derry after first travelling to Co Fermanagh.
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the way he went straight into attacking nonbinary gender recognition makes the point better than I ever could. a party so driven by culture war dynamics that when their leader is asked whether kids should be allowed to refuse a hug from a relative, he says "no, and they can't be different either"
I'm the texter. glad @gavreilly.com put this to Michael Collins. here is the statement from two years ago, where Independent Ireland said they weren't going to be a culture war party. this is also where they announced Ken O'Flynn as their new chair. the irony is profound
Independent Ireland Statement on a week of “Wild Speculation” — Independent Ireland
Independent Ireland strikes influential deal in Europe, as Mullooly officially joins the EDP Party General Secretary and TD Richard O’Donoghue: “The Government, for the last four years, has tried t...
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Virgin Media News@virginmedianews.bsky.social · 23h ago🗣️"For the love of god where are we at...that there's harm in a grandparent hugging their grandchildren!" Independent Ireland Leader Michael Colling has criticised the recent ad from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and dismissed that his party are a "culture-war" party on #MondayGR.
Your regular reminder that billionaires choose 'philantrophy' bcos a) they refuse to be taxed b) want to decide who gets the crumbs from their tables
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2d agoStripe’s Patrick Collison is on the front line of billionaires’ war against wealth tax
US elections remind many of us in the rest of the world that we do not have this level of routine voter suppression. We must fight to keep it that way. Making people wait this long to vote is a political choice. Thank you & good luck to Americans who are braving this system 🙏
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · yesterdayMontgomery County, OH. Population 537,309. One place you can vote early.
Terrifying rumors are swirling about Israel pressuring Trump to launch a nuclear strike on Iran immediately after the midterms or some other major escalation. I wish I was sure that this was too unhinged to take seriously, but we do not live in sane times where these kinds of dismissals are possible
