Martin McGrath
@martinmcgrath.bsky.social
Tries to be funny, often fails. Irish, Labour, LFC, NUJ & CIPR. Has a PhD, isn't afraid to use it. University lecturer in PR, branding & design, also sometime journalist, writer & editor. Will work for karma. "He's not angry, he always sounds like that."
A Russian attack on a German airport would trigger NATO's article 5, wouldn't it? Even if they were Ukrainian planes. Has Putin lost his marbles? BBC News - Drone carrying explosives found at German airport, police say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport in Germany
The drone was found near Ukrainian cargo planes before another object collided with a cargo aircraft in mid-air.
bbc.co.uk
AI slop... I move that we should call this freshly non-cratered region of the moon The Sea of Hallucinations
onesillyfag@onesillyfag.bsky.social · 3d agoAsteroid strike on the moon.
See, there's nothing an AI can do that a human can't do just as well...
In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d agoSounds like otter chaos.
DO On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There’s a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber joo. YOU COWARDS!!!
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
As Chris Packham said in a recent New Scientist podcast, this is not a "mass extinction" (an act of nature) – it's a "mass extermination" conducted by a conscious species that knows exactly what it is doing.
Marina Purkiss@marina-purkiss.bsky.social · last wk.Our planet has seen multiple mass extinctions… None caused by its inhabitants Until possibly now All because humanity couldn’t get its shit together to stop the insatiable greed of polluters & their parasites & just like other mass extinctions, earth will go on …without us
The #AllIreland football was a genuinely great game. Congratulations to #Mayo - I'll be honest I didn't think you had a hope but you were brilliant.
"They had searched their emergency checklist for the section on flying the aircraft with both engines out, only to find that no such section existed." How was your day at work, dear?
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s also the 43rd anniversary of this extraordinary event in which a 767 ran out of fuel and had to glide to an emergency landing at a racetrack which was in use at the time on landing gear that didn’t fully deploy, and from which everyone walked away
Why do Orcas do this? Scientist: "Perhaps it's play. Perhaps they're teaching juveniles to hunt. Perhaps it's to make Sunfish easier to eat. Perhaps it's social..." Me: "Because Orcas are dickheadss. Giant, black-and-white, scary dickheads." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game
Scientists believe sunfish-smashing behaviour could be form of entertainment or to help younger whales feed
theguardian.com
Leaving Mahmood at the Home Office is a missed opportunity to really create a proper break with the past and create sense of doing things differently. How many more years of wasted chuntering about small boats and burrowing deeper into Reform's shit pile.
I mean part of me thinks it's hilarious to say to John Healey "Okay, smartarse, you think it's so important to spend a shit load of money on defence when absolutely everything else is broken? Here, you find the money!" But also part of me thinks it's a big job to chuck at a silly joke.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w agoJohn Healey is Chancellor
Essex's Reform council's plan to move school summer holidays forward one week to "make family holidays cheaper" is a brilliant example of political naivety meeting economic illiteracy
Ending rough sleeping would be good. Has been done by Labour before. Isn't expensive. Can be delivered.
So, now we've got a left-footer in No.10, is it time to give all those Norman churches back to the Pope?
If anyone would like to see a short video of a dog using their tail as a rotar blade, this is your lucky day.
"We're going to need a longer Parliament Street..."
Giles MacDonogh@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 2w agoWill he fit in?
Why is Steve Rotherham holding that baby like that? Has he never held a baby before?
Burnham speaking without a lectern, which means (presumably) he's speaking without notes, which (given the rambling nature of his leadership appointment speech) is a risk...
Anyone running a sweepstake on how many times Burnham mentions Everton/football in his speech this afternoon?
Very pleased that there remain sane voices in Labour against expanding North Sea oil and gas extraction, somewhat encouraged that Burnham's office have distanced themselves from the original story, and hope whoever has tried to bounce Burnham into this is put in their box mailchi.mp/sera/environ...
SERA News - Holding the line on North sea oil and gas
mailchi.mp
Hard to know which final was least satisfying today, the one-sided hurling All Ireland or the mostly drab football World Cup. It was not a great a sporting day.
Did want Messi to get a second World Cup win but Argentina deserved to lose... and some of them deserve to be taken out and given a good digging.
