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Macron has the body language of someone sat next to the local nutcase on the bus.

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80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD... MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!

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“Words are all we have.” ― Samuel Beckett

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Happy Birthday, George Washington. Born today in 1732. When he was sworn in as first US President he wore a plain brown suit, signalling his intention to be neither a king nor tyrant When he willingly gave up the Presidency, George III called him the “greatest character of the age”

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Call out to any former employees or service users for interviews for our new project…

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Have to agree with most of what Jay Rayner has to say here (except on "natural" wines, some of which are reasonably good, some frightful...) www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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Media Literacy in Schools Is on the Rise as Teachers Grapple With Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories www.teenvogue.com/story/media-... good.

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A former commander of an International Space Station mission counters Elon Musk’s misinformation about the current ISS mission. Musk lashes out and calls him “fully retarded” and an “idiot.”

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Learning how to critically engage with sources of information is more crucial than ever. The systematic scaling back of the histories and humanities, the disciplines that teach these skills, threatens to further undermine Western democracies from within.

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Excellent summary...

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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." On Toni Morrison's birthday, the magnificent speech with which she accepted the Nobel Prize as the first black woman awarded it

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Join us for the Great MoLI Book Swap! Taking place on 1 and 2 March, the Book Swap is your opportunity to rehome your well-loved books and pick up some new reads. Spend a day exploring our exhibitions and exchanging books with fellow bookworms! moli.ie/events/the-g... 📚

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Eamon de Valera’s statement to the Associated Press #OTD 1939 on Ireland’s policy of neutrality in the event of war.

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A joy to talk to @womensprize.bsky.social about the The Story of a Heart, my writing inspiration & the book I’m telling everyone to read right now. #OrganDonation 🫀🫁💗 womensprize.com/in-conversat...

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2025, Book 6 ✔️

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North east Syria. April 2024. This was at a refugee camp near Raqqa. Nearly 7000 families received emergency food parcels every month. I just got confirmation that today that this whole programme, USAID funded, is cancelled. 600 of my Syrian friends are now unemployed 😢

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The eutrophication of the internet is absolutely rapid. It's filling with more shite than a British river under the tories. It'll be unusable in a couple of years at this rate.

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The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

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Why are those who are so obviously benefitting from the status quo so angry about it? There has never been a better time to be a rich white guy. These maniacs are sitting on 20, shouting ‘twist.’

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Sloppy Joes This is finger licking food, fun and a little messy to eat, but full of fabulous flavour. It’s also a great way to get some veggies into the diet of fussy eaters! This recipe serves four. Ingredients and method in the thread below.

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Trust in public institutions has been declining ever since they replaced Pippa in Home & Away and tried to gaslight us into believing nothing had changed.

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Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”

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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

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Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes. There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU. Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

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New version dropped, lads.

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A ‘stunning proposal’. CNN’s euphemism for ethnic cleansing is up there with Swift’s “modest proposal” for cannibalism in Ireland

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Orla Tinsley: ‘I’m not a doctor, but ...’ the man began

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I don't post a lot about some of the terrible things that are going on in the world. That's not because I don't think about them and have that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach, but... I'll just be repeating what most of you say that do comment, but in a less articulate way.

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I try not to be alarmist, but as a Jewish academic with a lot of inherited familial trauma, it does not make me feel great that an avowed supporter of the German far-right now has access to my Social Security number.

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🧵 1/3 History rarely judges kindly those who, when faced with a moral choice, chose the path of least resistance. Link to the full article here: www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

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I'm starting to think it was a mistake to no longer require every 15 year old to memorize four Shakespeare plays about kings gone mad

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Thursday January 30 “Resentment, condemnation, anger, desire to see someone punished are things that rot your soul. Such things fasten your troubles to you with rivets. They fetter you to many other problems that actually have nothing whatever to do with the original grievances” - Emmet Fox

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Well done for making it to the end of January. Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself. If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.

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Emojis are dubious, a cartoon Rorschach test. In other words, I suspect none of us know wtf they really mean

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2025, Book 5 ✔️

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