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"Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night." Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world.

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Atletico were beaten by Bodø/Glimt, so let's steady ourselves here ... =D

10.03.2026 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What in the name of JESUS has happened to Spurs?
#ChampionsLeague

10.03.2026 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I really need guidance from @emmapersson.bsky.social on how she might translate "rättshaverist" into English!

10.03.2026 20:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd go with the latter!!

10.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought we'd never be able to top Miggledy, but by Jesus she's giving it a right go

10.03.2026 18:49 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Vill du se exakt hur välkomnande vi är? Judo för vuxna nybörjare ikväll 19:30 i Skarpnäck. Följ med!

10.03.2026 15:32 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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It's still one of the most unbelievable moments in Irish legal history.

Read our full story from when it happened: jrnl.ie/1983239

10.03.2026 13:31 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 12
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ANNA GULLBERG: Skrev om extremisten – då ringde socialen Förra veckan publicerade Dagens ETC en stor granskning av den högerextreme aktivisten Christian Peterson. Anna Gullberg minns vad som hände när hon skrev om honom – och varför hon varit tyst om en ano...

Extremhögern kring Christian Peterson har vapeniserat orosanmälningar. Precis som de gjort med förtalsanmälningar.

www.expressen.se/kultur/anna-...

10.03.2026 13:11 👍 95 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 8

Haha, you go girl!

10.03.2026 14:28 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of part of a news story about renowned Irish religious nutter and general arse pain Enoch Burke that says: 
Mr Burke, who taught German and history at the school, has repeatedly argued the direction was unconstitutional and went against his right to express his religious beliefs.

Screenshot of part of a news story about renowned Irish religious nutter and general arse pain Enoch Burke that says: Mr Burke, who taught German and history at the school, has repeatedly argued the direction was unconstitutional and went against his right to express his religious beliefs.

I feel that we don't pay half enough attention to this particular aspect of him ...

10.03.2026 14:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not sir, but I'll be watching on TV!! A young female reporter does the games on site now, and while I'm delighted for her, I'm also HUGELY jealous! =D

10.03.2026 14:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There's a great expression in Swedish for people like him ("rättshaverist") who take vexatious legal cases with little or no chance of winning, but unfortunately it's impossible to translate - unless you use a picture of him and just leave it at that.

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

He says that about a lot of things, and he's always wrong.

10.03.2026 13:54 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Ireland is hosting a dedicated pavilion at one of the world's most significant property conferences this week, on the French Riviera, as part of an effort to attract billions of euro in foreign investment into our housing system

@news.rte.ie Ireland is hosting a dedicated pavilion at one of the world's most significant property conferences this week, on the French Riviera, as part of an effort to attract billions of euro in foreign investment into our housing system

The Irish government will do absolutely anything, including inviting in more absentee landlords, in order to avoid having to do something about the housing crisis. It’s not foreign investment, it’s international financial feudalism.

10.03.2026 09:40 👍 97 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 0

Sea shanties?!? I remember when Gregorian chants were the next big thing!!!

10.03.2026 10:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of the biggest problems with this demented moron/paedophile is that no-one in the world can believe a word he says. His comments contradict themselves, often within seconds or minutes of each other.
We already live in an uncertain world, but this clown makes it much, much worse.

10.03.2026 10:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My daughter has discovered the likes of Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie and Phil Ochs all by herself, and that's just people from the folk realm. Films, TV and books have an amazing habit of finding their audience, even across the generations.

10.03.2026 10:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Vote them out and keep them out, or they'll sell you out - again.

10.03.2026 09:47 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Högerextrema memes bränsle på Tiktok och Instagram En högerextrem ungdomskultur som drivs på av antisemitiska memes har fått fäste i Sverige. Utvecklingen förstärks av förändrade algoritmer som belönar spridning

TT: En högerextrem ungdomskultur som drivs på av antisemitiska memes har fått fäste i Sverige. Utvecklingen förstärks av förändrade algoritmer som belönar spridning av hat och konspirationsteorier, enligt stiftelsen Expos årsrapport. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/k0...

10.03.2026 07:09 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

See how easy it is to calm things by their proper names?

10.03.2026 00:04 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

They are so incredibly weak and fragile, and cannot bear to countenance the fact that there are opinions other than theirs.

10.03.2026 00:03 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No worries =)

09.03.2026 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's a joke. There's no way the UFC is going to release him and let him fight the likes of Ngannou somewhere else.

09.03.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The German word for this is "lebensraum".

09.03.2026 21:14 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

He really is thick as fucking mince.

09.03.2026 21:13 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds like a man who'll be fighting on an MVP card in the very near future.

09.03.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Zoo should double down and book every drag artist in the 32 counties for the day.

09.03.2026 20:21 👍 50 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

There's a good bit out there, the apartments are called "bostadsrätt" so if you want to Google that term go ahead and I'll try to answer any questions later!

09.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Birders are the best people. I have no idea what they are talking about half the time but their enthusiasm and love of nature is infectious.

09.03.2026 19:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Working at the moment, will get back to this in a couple of hours, hope that's OK!

09.03.2026 19:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0