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This is the strongest finding to date. There is no "ambiguity", it's not "complicated" (and never has been). This is an ongoing genocide. Isolation, divestment, and total arms embargo now.

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

In a feat nobody saw coming, Elon Musk has managed to rally the entire Irish nation behind Michael O’Leary.

The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged... I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top. It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism. (I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe) It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.

Go raibh míle maith agat Uachtarán na hÉireann, #MichaelDHiggins 🇮🇪❤️

That’s actually the perfect use of generational wealth

“There is no superior race.” “There is no ‘chosen people of God’.” “It is neither the United States nor Israel.” “The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of humanity.” —President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro

“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza. ohchr.org/sites/default/…

The replies to this feel like entering an alternate reality or, more specifically, just USA. 🇺🇸 There is 0% chance of him being nominated to run for the presidency, never mind winning it. 😂 Anybody outside Ireland remotely interested in why that is, I'll briefly outline it. /1

@Ross_O_Leary @CrokePark Women’s toilet was easy breezy for once 🤣

The queue to leave the bathroom in @CrokePark. I’m convinced this is quite literally the worst run venue in the world

@CryptoJoe101 I’d consider canoeing up the canal to get in for a second night 🤣

@Renagh004 lol it's jammers. glad you had a good time.

I probably haven’t left a concert gig post (many a subsequently deleted post) here since maybe 09 BUT omg Oasis, LOVE! I’m not a stadium gig gal generally but this, BLEW MY MIND! Two sisters went to see two brothers! LOVE! Ireland loves the Gallaghers!

@CryptoJoe101 GIO!!! Unreal!!!

Just an hour ago, Anas posted: "If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced... history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop." We in Western media failed Anas & his colleagues time & time again.

The worst thing about bots on X is how painfully cringe all of their replies are.

So if AI improves labor productivity but lowers labor demand maybe we could all collectively work less and, instead, spend some more time on the things we love outside the office.

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Making twitter great again! It's all a ploy to get this place back to its OG roots.

every once in awhile i still get annoyed that game of thrones ended so poorly could have been the best series ever

The Plomin Hard Fork has executed successfully. Cardano is now a self-sustaining network with on-chain voting and a treasury system—fully in the hands of the community. Hello, decentralized governance. ⚖️