Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

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Louth For Ever 🦋@louthforever.bsky.social · last wk.

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The Most Dangerous Room In Europe

It is not a public toilet. On women’s safety in the six-counties of Ulster, and where the money actually went.

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Louth For Ever 🦋@louthforever.bsky.social · last wk.

Brb Going to war for Allison Morris

Feels to me like the UK has forgotten what actual terrorism is. Wait until they hear about dissident Republicans driving massive bombs around the place and loyalist terrorists burning people out of their homes

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage

Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Ceci n’est pas une victoire.

Village People singer/writer Victor Willis has died.I met him in New York in 1979 for an NME cover story. He was wry and realistic about his fame. The others, he explained, were good people but all replaceable dancers. He had a voice. Not too far off Levi Stubbs' if you listen.

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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‘The facts are the facts’: Ex-Ombudsman stands over Loughinisland collusion finding 10 years on

‘The facts are the facts’: Ex-Ombudsman stands over Loughinisland collusion finding 10 years on

Dr Michael Maguire says he had “no concerns” about using the term collusion in his investigation into the 1994 killings

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The Pensive Quill is running “What Would Have To Be Built” today. The essay I put off longest, because it moves from naming the problem to asking what would have to be built against it, and that’s harder ground. Grateful to TPQ for the platform. #Spéirghorm 🔗 www.thepensivequill.com/2026/06/what...

What Would Have To Be Built

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My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

This may be one of the cleanest transitions I have ever seen.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

Connolly’s landslide buries political myths about Ireland’s presidential process - how the establishment's attempts to explain #Aras25 are fatally flawed from the outset, and who really matters in the aftermath. philipoconnor.com/connollys-la...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Again...

It’s always time for Bertolt Brecht.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” -John Muir

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot stop the spring from coming"

The Three Sisters Community Garden@3sistersgarden.bsky.social · last yr.

We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱 "You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".

We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱 "You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".

Bantry

Civil disobedience.

rough (like uff in buff) cough (like off in scoff) drought (like ow in cow) though (like o in no) thought (like aw in saw) through (like oo in woo) Enough.

See when the Romans called Ireland "Hibernia" they were comparing it to a Roman winter rather than the "winter = snow" associations that we have now. They'd seen colder lands, Ireland reminded them of winter back home. Wet and mild.

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education