The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
Colm
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City Planner, public servant, less cynical on LinkedIn. Building that mid density paradise with the wide footpaths and big green squares. Immigration is good for you, me, society and the economy. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
She's ace. If you need to farm out parenting to a screen I highly recommend.
Can anyone remembwr why Trump is opening up the UK's multiple imperial quandries? I thought he wanted to nail that shit down and keep his base on Diego Garcia? Very funny that he thinks Micheál Martin will go all Javier Milei for him.
This is not fairness. This is not leadership. And it is not acceptable. I am deeply disappointed and angry about the new citizenship rules. How can forcing people to wait eight years before they can even apply for citizenship possibly solve the problems facing Ireland? 🧵
not to be melodramatic, but do people remember what freedom is? liberty? autonomy? I seem to recall a lot of people howling those words about five or six years ago, now we've got Obergruppenführer O'Callaghan saying "I should get to decide how many people there are" and hardly anyone bats an eyelid
No doubt the Irish Times will acquaint that silly Miliband with reality soon enough.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last wk.Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce tomorrow a comprehensive ban on UK trade with the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in illegally-occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's reportedly to include a ban on trading services, including British investment in settlements.
I get up early in the morning and drop off to a creche and then get public transport to work. They lied about bringing the cost of one down, they've just hiked the second.
Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did.
Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.
People are always surprised to learn that packaging, processing, and transportation are almost always small contributors (<10%) of food-related GHG emissions. The TYPE of food we eat -- meat versus plants -- is a MUCH bigger factor.
News outlets should run a "Climate Change Disaster" banner for things like glacier collapses and 40⁰ heat, and then have the 13th paragraph of their article note that some people disagree with the banner but not all of the world's normal people.
In the blue corner, Prodigy playing in IMMA. In the red corner, my baby's closed bedroom window, in Dublin 12. The window is not faoring well.
I can't square the 2 RTÉs in my head: one that is so careful its news reports are often devoid of the info they intend to convey, its politics coverage so neutral as to read like meeting minutes, and the one that gave sensational prime time docudrama coverage to a 2-TD Dáil grouping local to Kerry.
The Times wrote literally dozens of articles on Jason Arday, including one only a few hours ago saying he "may want to get himself a nice pair of orange trousers" that has since been deleted. The story was as much about academic accountability as GamerGate was about ethics in games journalism.
Evidence, if it were needed, that a camera phone behind eclipse glasses cannot capture the cool thing.
Don't forget to check in with your optician today to check if they have any welder's helmets in stock.
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people. "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print here: zenodo.org/records/2108...
#BREAKING | Massive Israeli airstrikes hit multiple areas across the Gaza Strip. (Gaza Notifications)
#Burnham "Hello Mr. Prime Minister & welcome to your new home. Lets get to work." "Yes, lets appoint a new team and announce our first initiatives!" A ghastly hiss from the corner: ~~ hisssssss ~~ No ~~ "What the-" An ethereal voice, strained: ~~ Ssackingss... You musst birth your enemiess ~~
Simon Jenkins dismissively referencing the England-Argentina world cup semi final as "a US football match" while everyone in England is still in mourning (in a good essay on the Falklands) is peak Simon Jenkins.
Kemi Badenoch, uncomfortable with a friendly tone, goes for friendly and bizarre.
