@fitzfromdublin This is a really important point. The violently atomised character of our societies is alarming. We cannot go back. We should not go forward, to the tech dystopia, and the present is a chaotic mess.
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David Mullins
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David Mullins
@Mullins77David
Political Staff. Leinster House. Catholic Theology/Bioethics Grad. Your Boos Mean Nothing, I’ve Seen What Makes You Cheer=Rick Sanchez. A personal account.
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No establishment figure anywhere has any better understanding of what caused the era of populism, or how to prevent or manage it, than they did a decade ago. So Trump’s decline is ominous and worrying. Voters tried that and it didn’t work. What’s next
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🚨 BREAKING | Mary Lou McDonald has said that Sinn Féin wrote to the Taoiseach and Ceann Chomhairle seeking the recall of the Dáil over the ongoing fuel crisis.
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Listen, Prof. Your brand of juvenile, impoverished, Dawkinesque theological hot take is an endless source of pity evoking bemusement to most people, and not the edgy social commentary you think it is. Grow up for goodness sake and stop humiliating yourself.
Aidan Regan@Aidan_Regan
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
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The Great Silence in St. Peter's Basilica, at the beginning of the Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord. This is the first Good Friday of the Pontificate of Leo XIV
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@aufgehenderRest This is so true. Half book length intro's also have a lot to answer for here perhaps. I had Mill's Bentham and Coleridge on my shelf for years. Eventually went straight to the text proper and found him so fair minded and an astonishingly engaging writer, nevermind philosopher.
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One of the biggest problems facing philosophy today is hostile readers. Readers that come to a text with generalizations or preconceived notions about a text or a philosopher. No one wants to form a relationship with the text anymore. A text is a moving machine, an organism that
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This morning, I spoke with @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV to exchange greetings for the Passover and Easter holidays.
During our call, we discussed the war with Iran, including the ongoing threat of missile attacks by the Iranian regime and its terror proxies against people of all faiths in the region. I recalled the recent Iranian missile attacks on Jerusalem that fell in the area of sites holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jews. The people of Iran also deserve a better future free from this dangerous and violent regime of terror.
We also spoke about the situation in Lebanon, including the importance of the safety and security of Christian communities on both sides of the border. I emphasized that the Hezbollah terror organization cannot be allowed to continue threatening both the people of Israel and Lebanon, who both deserve a future of peace and stability.
I expressed to Pope Leo XIV the great importance of the State of Israel's relationship with the Holy See, the Catholic Church, and Christians around the world. I also underscored the importance of the cooperation of all world and religious leaders in the crucial fight against antisemitism.
I extended my warmest wishes for the Easter holiday to Christian communities across the Middle East and around the world. We expressed our shared hope for a more peaceful future for people of all faiths across the world free from the threat of violence and bloodshed.
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Well worth your time, and particularly apt for the day that it is, from @MichaelPTKelly and @ireland_acn .
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Swift beat him to it. In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), there’s an engine that produces philosophy, poetry, politics, or theology “without the least assistance from genius or study.” Kenneth Patchen’s Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (1945) has a similar machine. After 1984’s publication (1949), there’s Roald Dahl’s Great Automatic Grammatizator (1954) and Stanisław Lem’s “Electronic Bard” (from The Cyberiad, 1965).
sam buntz@SamBuntz
Has anyone noticed that George Orwell predicted AI slop in 1984? The Party churns out cheap literature with a machine called a "versificator."
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@tolkienthoughts @EloMall A Tale of Two Cities, though?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.."
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@EloMall The sentences obviously have different purposes and are meant to convey different things. But stylistically, I just think Melville's is clearly better. Dickens can sometimes be a bit overwrought. And honestly I think the second sentence of Oliver Twist is better than the first
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Does anyone really dispute that Melville's first sentence in Moby Dick is better than Dickens's in Oliver Twist?
Eddy Quan@waronweakness
Writing gurus : "Write short sentences and don't use big words" Charles Dickens in the first sentence of Oliver Twist: "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born - on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events - the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
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Ireland gave €650million from 2011- 2016 to countries listed as the worst offenders for violence against Christians. Countries like Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan, considered guilty of ‘extreme persecution, received €115m. @CNolanOffaly @ireland_acn .
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His excuse that Dublin was too far from his home is just not credible. More likely he came in, took one look around at the planning and infrastructure dysfunction and said, feck this for an albatross, I'm outta here. @john_mcguirk .
Irish Independent@Independent_ie
Metrolink’s €550k boss Seán Sweeney quits in fresh blow to transport project independent.ie/irish-news/met…
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@Mullins77David How do people still fall for this routine? Fianna Fail and Fine Gael politicians talk like they haven't been running the country for literally the entirety of the history of the state.
This is some form of mass domestic abuse.
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"Ireland" didn't "base its energy policy on ideology, hypocrisy, ignorance and incompetence over many years".
Fianna Fail, Billy Kelleher's party who have ruled Ireland along with Fine Gael for a century did these things.
Sociopathic gaslighting.
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Billy Kelleher MEP@BillyKelleherEU
Ireland based its energy policy on ideology, hypocrisy, ignorance and incompetence over many years. We are completely dependent on others for our energy needs. We are against fracking but need LNG for security. We’re against Nuclear power but import it from UK and are now
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You were TD for 22yrs. As far as I can see there is not a single parliamentary question from you to any minister on the issue of nuclear power. If you thought so strongly about it why have you never raised it as part of the public record? Unless I am mistaken here.
Billy Kelleher MEP@BillyKelleherEU
Ireland based its energy policy on ideology, hypocrisy, ignorance and incompetence over many years. We are completely dependent on others for our energy needs. We are against fracking but need LNG for security. We’re against Nuclear power but import it from UK and are now
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@AnMailleach @LeoVaradkar @dubreviewbooks @ShippersUnbound recounts the following revealing episode in No Way Out. What other 'untruths' might @LeoVaradkar have told. Who knows🤷.
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Is there an element of disaster porn creeping into this fuel crisis/Iran issue? You almost get the sense some people want the whole thing to collapse into utter catastrophe.
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This Palestinian lad arrived in Ireland last year and has been treated like a celebrity by half the country's NGOs and very important people, up to the President. He is now openly inciting violence. By any measure this breaches the 1987 incitement act.
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@JamesOConnorTD He is a supercillous literary toadstool who delights in writing from his festering shithole perch, safe in the knowledge that his contrariness has all the intellectual bite of a gummy baby. He will never be the outsider he craves to be.
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For as long as I remember, Fintan O’Toole has been on the attack about TDs. It is such a shame the paper who publishes his writing almost always back the existing system to the hilt. Never profiling those who have a different view unless of course it’s Miriam Lord’s sketch belittling them.
The Irish Times@IrishTimes
Fintan O’Toole: While TDs are off pestering public servants in the cause of imaginary patronage, they are not doing the jobs they are elected to do irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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@SketchesbyBoze The success of the idea that myth is unrelated to truth, as opposed to being a profound way to present or frame truth, has been one of the most terrible failures of the last two centuries. An overly emphasised importance on historical criticism has hollowed out the world.
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If you want pleasure, if you want wisdom, if you want meaning, you need to read folklore and fairy-tales. Very few things in life have brought me more joy than these stories. Our world has gone astray because we dismiss the importance of the old tales.
claude shannon@catpoopburglar
you need to be folkloremaxxing
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@FrHilderbrand For all its undoubted profoundity, it cannot compare to Ratzingers theology. I always found von B to be a cold, or rather aloof fish for some reason. Something you never find in Ratzinger despite its symphonic complexity. Ratzingers is music. Von Bs is like a maths formula.
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don't worry kids, there's one thing no AI will ever be powerful enough to do:
read & understand the collected works of Hans Urs von Balthasar
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