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Cat valet, etc. Awaiting the sixth extinction in Dublin. Here for the witty aperçus and cat photos. For vintage crime fans my Oxford World's Classics edition of E.W. Hornung's _Raffles_ is out: https://tinyurl.com/2p9tv5pf
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Talk to your doctor to see if fascism may be right for you

Buyer’s remorse.. Today’s @smh @theage cartoon.

My latest @theguardian.com Books cartoon

In my hazy memory the victims of Golden Age crime fiction are forever being stabbed with things like exotic daggers (kris?) and assegais, which were conveniently found decorating the walls of English country houses. So why can't I think of a single example? 🙄

Brave people, facing down a genocidal regime. Be nice if some of those “concrete measures” ever materialized

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

No, I don’t need rescuing. Mind your own business. #caturday

Crucifixion play? I suppose it's a form of passion play

Tonight, in a very special episode of The Rookie ...

Bluesky is a magical place where people from all walks of life come together to ignore their loved ones

Free shipping isn't free - it costs me my dignity when I buy things I don't need just to hit the $25 minimum.

People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.

I preferred the old Stupid Tourism

As if white South Africans hadn’t suffered enough

Almost every line of this is quotable, so you should just read it yourselves. The District Judge was having a particularly good day, though 🤣

This is because dockers in Marseilles are refusing to load machine gun components destined for Haifa. The French government, worried that the refusals will spread to other ports, claims that Israel won't use weapons with French components to kill Gazans. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Reader 2, the early years

A rogue nation, run by grifters and the conscienceless

It's trouble in hell, as two of the most awful men in the world vie for the number one spot

"How dare you have the audacity to wake me from my psychedelic sleep?" tomcox.substack.com/p/at-home-wi...

Man spends $44 billion to buy Twitter and thus the election, and they still don't love him.

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Thank god for AIPAC... www.normalisland.co.uk/p/us-vetoes-...

Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity. We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen. Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.

50 years ago today, when Britain voted to remain in Europe (and not by a small majority but a large one), the Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph, etc were not owned by three far-right Europhobes.

RTE reporting this with zero input from local community who are tormented with drones delivering takeaway food - not the best use of technology - or the best direction for the city www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

Pure evil

He should try negotiating with a dithering old grifter

Edmund White, RIP.

Where are all the data centres and why should you care? jrnl.ie/6718619

Coming just after midnight tonight...something a bit different, but very cool! An interactive, visual investigation that maps - for the first time - all operating and planned data centres in Ireland. Out soon on thejournal.ie

'Actually it's just some guys' strikes again. www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

Human sacrifice to appease the harvest gods

I don't deserve to wake up and see an Irish-American arguing in earnest that the Irish are not white. I'm a good person. I pay taxes.