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A brilliant Banksy.

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"South Africa’s history tells a story..where white dominance was not inevitable, where settler rule did not last and where a different future, however uncertain, remains possible...Mr. Musk may do all he can to reverse or subvert this story. But he won’t be able to" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Wordle 1,353 4/6 I got to the point fairly fast! 🤣🎊🥳 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Signs of #Spring @ulsteruniversity.bsky.social #Coleraine this afternoon. #daffodils #crocuses #snowdrops #NorthernIreland #Ireland

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The Onion being better than a lot of media and news outlets.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Wordle 1,348 4/6 Yes,please! 😄 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Not every entrepreneur at this scale has been this dependent on federal money … With DOGE, there does seem to be a paradox there. He has been a big beneficiary of national industrial policy, especially Democrat industrial policy, through government funding.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds verymuch like cancel culture to me, which I thought the MAGAs were against?! 🤔 White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― Haldir, to Merry, in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

A very Irish February morning along the #RoyalCanal near #Maynooth as an #IrishRail InterCity picks up speed as it heads west towards Sligo.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This election map from the FAZ shows that the AfD in light blue dominates the former East Germany.

submitted 8 days ago • 222 comments

A march has taken place in Dublin to mark the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which falls tomorrow.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

🇺🇦 Three years ago tonight, hours before Russia launched it's full scale invasion, with 200,000 Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border, Zelensky addressed the Russian people directly, in their own language. "If your army attacks us, they will see our faces, not our backs"

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Wordle 1,345 4/6 Broke the log jam eventually, if you pardon the mixed metaphors! 🤣 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

He shouldn’t have too

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'Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce [because]...They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one'. #EntrenchingInequality www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"What is happening is destruction, not reform. Whatever they have been told, ordinary Americans will not benefit from the chaos. But we know who will" on.ft.com/3Xbcd8t via @FT

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Never a bad time to read Michael Lewis' great and much-needed book recounting the largely unheralded but vital work of government agencies, many that people rarely hear about, unless Trump's goons fire their workers. Specifically about the US, but applicable far beyond www.npr.org/2018/10/02/6...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I know I’m in a minority thinking that politicians in the UK & EU need to start telling a much more positive story about the benefits of migration, but in an aging continent it is quite urgent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

Wordle 1,340 6/6 You what now?! 🤣 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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A fascinating, deeply researched, read about the apartheid-era, privileged white South African backgrounds of Musk and Thiel, and a few others, now ensconced in positions of power in the US. "How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Wordle 1,335 4/6 The puzzle nearly held sway! 😀 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Bit of positivity amid the tsunami of Trump's vandalism. The fact that Mr. Driscoll was appointed because "the White House identified the wrong agent as acting director" is also funny 😃 ‘"Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

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Yeah, see, the whole deal with the Founding Fathers is they DIDN’T want a king.

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Wordle 1,328 4/6 I learned fast enough to avoid crashing out with this one! 😃 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Wordle 1,323 2/6 I hopped to it! 🤣 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Chinese New Year to all who celebrate! 🎊 #ChineseNewYear

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Wordle 1,322 4/6 A crisp finish! 🤣 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wordle 1,321 3/6 Believe it or not, it's a three! 😁 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Hatches battened down as far possible. Looking forward to seeing Kansas if we go all "Wizard of Oz"! Stay safe! 🤞🌬️ #StormÉowyn #Ireland

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

There's a storm definitely on the way for Ireland - these goldfinches are usually very combative and chase each other away from the birdfeeder with no mercy being shown, but all the squabbles set aside today. Get the food in and get ready - not bad advice for us humans either! 😃🐦 #StormEowyn

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All 32 counties now have a red warning as the UK Met Office have upgraded Northern Ireland to red also! A very rare event. #StormÉowyn

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Guitar, 1693 Joachim Tielke, Hamburg Softwood, ivory and turtle shell veneer, mother-of-pearl and ebony, with engraved marquetry, gilt vellum rosette and carved ivory openwork head. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Wordle 1,313 2/6 Not as much of a stretch as I thought it might have been! 😊 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

submitted 41 days ago • 2679 comments

3 years, 11 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 11 hours, 9 minutes, and 57 seconds ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.03%

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

SaurDon and his orc hordes are back and dumber than ever! #Trump

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 41 days ago • 318 comments

For the day that's in it... #Trump

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to conceive of the hours of work that went into this mapping! Being able to see the lie of the land, though, makes it much easier to really get a grip on the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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Let the sight of Vesuvius gently erupting in 1638 warm you on this chilly January morning! From Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus, printed in 1678.

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Belated Happy New Year! 🎉🎊 Some of brain cells seem to have survived Christmas! 🤣🎄🤣 Wordle 1,305 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

A remarkable story of a remarkable victory www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

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Correct Time Cover

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