Ireland's food security illusion: As Trump's war threatens fertiliser supplies, the collapse of Ireland’s fruit and vegetable sector leaves us dangerously exposed, writes Michael Kelly.
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This is my most recent acting show reel, with clips from @newscheckcomedy.bsky.social Frontier Pictures and Adam B youtu.be/77C2GeH9AK0
For some reason, the shirt & ties that administer sport want everything possible to be done in service of _not_ disrupting the traditional powerhouses meeting in every final.
Eg Rugby Union’s treatment of Georgia, Fiji etc; GAA constantly changing the c’ship to allow multiple losses on way to Sam
I & my peers heard lie after enabling lie touted by a pliant media calling us conspiracists, watched politicians sup the imperialist soup as soon as they enter cabinet, and every ambition we worked towards become more diluted & less rewarding, while every pound we earned become ever more worthless
I turned 18 in Sept 2003. In my adult life, there has been a war started by the US or Israel in all but a handful of months.
Hungary’s ruling party yesterday introduced a bill aimed at cementing last week’s controversial seizure of millions of euros worth of Ukrainian state bank cash and gold.
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of 'unlawfully' using white phosphorus in new Lebanon attacks
School almost makes sense…
and then it absolutely doesn’t.
#CalvinandHobbes #HistoryClass
Zelensky should charge USD $1bn per unit for those drone interceptors, even (especially) if they cost less than $100 to build.
That’s just to meet supply and demand. He should also add USD $1bn per unit as a discretionary tax to the US for humiliating Ukraine so readily, frequently and obnoxiously.
"They didn't even try to claim that it was legal.”
"I mean, even Putin pretended that attacking Ukraine was legal and he put up some sort of excuse. But they haven't even done that.“
Emily Thornberry advocating for more dishonesty in public life, and implies that the UK would have been more open to joining the US war in Iran if the yanks had at least tried to pretend it was legal.
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There was some point about ten or twelve years ago, where football was no longer inspiring the video games, but the video games were changing football.
(See also, Netherlands last minute free kick routine at the last World Cup, passed short to the pen spot & scored)
@footballgaming.bsky.social
German media conglomerate Axel Springer announced today it is purchasing the U.K.’s Telegraph Media Group.
The SDLP has published it's 'Preparing For a New Ireland' policy document.
It's refreshing and some might even say unconventional, for a policy document promoting Irish Unity. It asks tough questions and provides concrete answers.
Thought provoking!
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I have folders names that begin with numbers (often years, but also just sequential lists), on an external hard drive. Finder in Columns view cannot display these correctly in order. It works fine if I’m opening a doc from another app, but Finder itself just vomits them into whatever order it feels.
So he just threw all that credibility to the wind by joining Labour while Starmer is still in situ? You can’t claim to be impressed by a party‘s direction when it has u-turned 15-odd times in 18 months. Any good work by Khan or Miliband is undermined by front line messaging, seemingly deliberately
European gas prices surged up to +50% within hours after the US–Israeli strikes on Iran and LNG disruptions in Qatar.
Meanwhile, major US LNG exporters saw their share prices jump.
When fossil fuel prices rise in Europe, profits rise for fossil fuel companies elsewhere.
The EU has shown pathetic timidity towards those two rogue nations; giving up all semblance of commercial sovereignty by begging Trump not to raise tariffs; contorting themselves into oblivion to maintain ‘normal’ relations with Israel throughout their genocidal campaign in Gaza.
They could sell a collective total of ten copies and it would all be BBC News and radio staff devoting the rest of the week’s coverage to their concerns. The rot in UK news media is the determination by the establishment players to prevent the ’market’ deciding which titles are influential.
I’m now of the opinion that the comedy dept of the likes of the BBC is deliberately tasked with diminishing the seriousness of government wrongdoing. The court jester is still a court insider.
‘If you don’t laugh, you’d cry!’
Yes, because milquetoast PMs keep dragging us into US imperialism!
‘British journalists are being “played like an instrument” when they publish stories based on government leaks and anonymous sources. There is also no way for proper public scrutiny to be placed on such a source.’
A ‘source close to the PM’ is a hobo who stumbled into Whitehall for all we know
It would appear that European governments will only say the United States is acting against international law when…
…the threat is against a European territory such as Greenland.
The United States of America and Israel has just bombed a school full of students in Iran.
~40 students killed and 48 injured.
This violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn't apply to the U.S. and Israel.
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
Burning the GDP of small countries on server farms that have a life span of about 3 years before they need upgraded, to power a service that after 3 years of hype has failed to show any profitable use case, reliable functionality (still hallucinating), or tangible reason to exist.
The problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Why are the broadcast studios even asking for their opinion today? Count Binface has had better election results and didn’t get national airtime.
“The DOW Jones is at $50,000. That’s what we should be talking about.”
Someone please ask her where Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign fits into her interpretation of divisive politics.
