Darren Hughes

Fellas giving out about this will have paid €125 to watch Ireland play a friendly against New Zealand for 80 mins in the Aviva 🤷‍♂️

Zack Polanski’s Greens can’t stand the sight of working-class Brits enjoying themselves: buff.ly/6nLudjT

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

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.

Jesus seeing Judas on Sunday morning

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

@LukeT3_2_1 Sorry to hear bud, that is the pits. No words for it.

It’s hard to put into words how much you meant to us all. You’re a superstar and won’t be forgotten. Thank you for some of the best days I’ve ever had 💔🔵⚫️

@DavidJenningsRP Congratulations to you both on four really exceptional years. A class above all other racing content produced in that time.

The final one 👇😥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2oYlw…

Consistently the most entertaining Cheltenham Preview Night of the lot in what’s a very diluted space. Fair play to @dermonolan91 and the whole Rcaehour team. Great work lads.

RECORD BREAKER! 🤩 The sensational KA YING RISING surpasses Silent Witness with an 18th consecutive victory, this time in The Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup! #HKRacing | @HKJC_Racing

“You take on Willie Mullins three times a year and cry about it. We have to take him on every day of the week!” @gelliott_racing not holding back with @benpauling1 😂 Watch 👉 t.ly/tcfp26

@tony_calvin @AKBets One for AK, may not be simple to answer- with the days moved around, does he think Sat (no DRF but racing elsewhere) Sunday (DRF) Monday (DRF) ended up a better result turnover-wise than the original schedule would have?

QUESTIONS for the next @AKBets podcast on this thread please - we are set to record at 10pm tomorrow, to allow us to cover any DRF performances/stories that develop, so I will pick up these at 6pm tomorrow. Packed show already, as we are already set to cover 12 topics.

Arc de Tri-ump surely

@simonsanders1 @sevenbarrows @BarryJGeraghty @NdeBoinville Wow a lot of people are jumping to conclusions.Nicky has been informed and he has been to visit, & in direct contact with the vets.Vicky is misleading people here.All parties ARE all very concerned,Caroline has asked Vicky to correspond & forward vets bills, yet to receive

A boyhood dream come true 🥹🏆 Congratulations to Mark O’Connor and Dingle on winning the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final!

@freddy6T6 Could not possibly agree more. Cheltenham aside (few howlers of note there), the man just doesn’t make mistakes. Always in the right place. Especially in the lower grades, I can’t remember him getting beat on one that should’ve won when it was meant to.

I can only assume Kevin O’Ryan checked with Mark Walsh before the interview if he wanted to be asked about the job, and he said no. With the minority here but Mark is still in the top 3 jocks I’d want to see on board a jumps horse when my money is down.

Welp

@GarbhM Yeah definitely feels that way tbh. Dunno if the outcome can be fixed, but method of victory could well be. Rotten smell off it either way.

@d__hughes Everything about it completely stinks….. even moreso when you look at the R1 KO odds…… couldn’t be more fixed

Some smell off this surely?

The family of Matilda, the 10-year-old girl killed in Sunday’s attack, addressed the crowd in Bondi on Tuesday night. Her father, Michael, said he wanted the crowd to know what a “beautiful person” she was. “Her name was Matilda because she was our first Australian,” he said, holding a framed picture of his daughter. “We came here from Ukraine … and I thought that Matilda is the most Australian name that can ever exist. So just remember the name, remember her.” Live updates: bit.ly/4rYKcPh