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Toronto, ON. Originally from Cork with stops in Glasgow and Limerick. IT Manager. Dad to a boy living with autism. Interested in urban development, mass transit, science fiction, politics.
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If Barrack Obama had given a crackhead with multiple baby mamas access to the IRS secure records he would have been impeached and removed by midnight.

uh how to make what

lmfaooooooooooooo

New: @CBSNews obtained internal Army documents showing how transgender soldiers will be forced out. A particular separation code the Army is giving officers is associated with individuals who are national security risks potentially jeopardizing future jobs www.cbsnews.com/news/army-tr...

Breaking News: Loretta Swit, who played Maj. Margaret Houlihan on the hit TV series “M*A*S*H,” has died at 87.

Yet another of his kids who hates him

“What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Mexican meal?”

After 33 years of people (subconsciously, actively, desperately) wondering where the iconic commentary sample in the Gazzetta Football Italia title music came from....

the merch that dare not speak its name

Practically impossible to push back against messaging this strong, astute, and attuned to the lives of ordinary Americans.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

checking in on the brits and immediately backing away slowly

there is a lot to unpack here, none of it good

Just calling balls and strikes

What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever. So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?" Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Would be good if reporters ask the administration why they let a man they knew was constantly using psychoactive drugs to take a hatchet to the federal government and cause uncountable death and immiseration

Imagine if Joe Biden had said ‘where do these three judges come from?’ and one of them had been appointed by… him.

Not the first time I’ve said it and it won’t be the last, but as soon as possible we’re going to need to arrest every ICE agent and put the entire apparatus through a Nuremberg-style hearing and prosecute the shit out of some people for human rights abuses.

Still one of the greatest teaser trailers ever… 🖖🏼 #StarTrek www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZF...

actually mad what happens when the guy is white eh

What a ridiculously stupid headline. An embarrassment for @opinion.bloomberg.com.

AI bros: we are approaching the singularity! me: no thank you physics: everything that gets near a singularity is likely destroyed me: ok tell me more

Jesus Christ Literally Dems should just never shut up about this. Again. We are spending literally billions and billions of dollars to detain people, hurt them, violate their rights NOT to deport them. These were NOT criminals.

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

This should be resigning matter. If you can’t be bothered write a simple letter without the help of a constantly wrong machine YOU CANNOT DO YOUR JOB AND SHOULD GO

The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"

So much winning

Every time Andrew Tate pops up in my timeline I am compelled by law to post one of the @thebeaverton.com headlines I experienced the most joy writing

This is pretty nakedly corrupt.

Junius: “This is why some people loathe the cameras. They change the risk calculus and make speeding an offence that carries a real chance of penalty. For drivers who believe traffic law isn’t real law, a speed camera will remind them otherwise” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round

Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...