Ivan O'Brien

@dnlbenson I tried to upgrade to annual sub on your substack but the offer price is not showing for €. Cheers.

@ChefBrianMcD @OBrienPress Enjoy the book Brian.

What a beautiful gift to receive from @ivanobp & @OBrienPress 🙏 Michael O Brien & I scheduled meetings for 30 minutes but they always lasted 3 hours That was down to the great company he was. I loved spending time with him. I owe a lot to him & I will not forget that 🙏

Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. 🤬

@cyclocross24 This is magnificent!

Cyclocross troubles 💩🛝 🇵🇱

I love the many ways that AI is improving my life

I hate when extremely coordinated people randomly fall out of the window after criticizing their tyrannical governments.

Paul Mescal was asked how “wild” it felt meeting King Charles at the Gladiator 2 premiere. "I'm Irish, so it's not on the list of priorities" 

48 yrs ago today... November 12,1976 – article “Greenhouse Effects due to Man-Made Perturbations of Trace Gases” published in Science allouryesterdays.info/2024/11/11/nov…

What makes anyone think 2°C and rising by 2029-2048 is survivable?

@eurosport Worth buying the tux anyway!

@eurosport That’s great news! Well deserved.

He's only gone and done it! ⭐ ️ Congratulations to Rob Hatch, winner of Sports Commentator of the Year at the Broadcast Sport Awards! 👏🎙️

They are protesting a bill that seeks to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people and will result in less protection and rights for them.

@AlanLevinovitz Some Americans come to live in Europe: and a holiday wouldn’t be long enough for significant health changes in any case. Portions in Europe are MUCH smaller, and the amount of sugar and salt in many things is a lot lower. Those have to be big factors.

So what's more likely: The European standards for food create a miraculous new food environment in which, thanks to the stricter standards on ingredients, you simply get healthier and fitter? Or European portion size is smaller, you're on vacation, in a different context, and those changes lead to healthier eating habits. In my opinion, the choice between the two explanations is crystal clear.

There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning. He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no chemical additives! no food dyes! no high fructose corn syrup! — and our health problems magically resolve. This is 100% incorrect, and fundamentally misunderstands the problems with our food system.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” - Twain You see what the @nytimes did here. They didn’t fix their story & republish it with the truth. They just removed the video. They didn’t counter the lie. How many people will see this?

Surveillance camera records the moment an israeli police car deliberately swerves into a Palestinian motorcyclist for the pure fun of it #SickSociety

This gentleman asked MAGA fascists for examples of countries with Trump-style policies that are thriving today. The ignorance of these fascist imbeciles will surprise no one. 😳👇

The most telling reality regarding the recent events in Amsterdam is that not one member of the Dutch power elite - neither its monarch, nor its prime minister, nor its government or any of its ministers, nor any party leader, nor the mayor of Amsterdam, nor its police chief, nor any of its leading journalists or commentators or public figures or civic institutions - has uttered a single word in support of a single Dutch citizen assaulted by foreign mobs on Dutch soil. Rather, like other Western leaders, this elite has uniformly reserved its solidarity for the racist, genocidal Israeli thugs who rampaged through Amsterdam, physically assaulting Dutch citizens and vandalizing Dutch property, on the sole basis that they assumed these citizens and properties to be Arab or in sympathy with the Palestinian people. The self-proclaimed guardians of The Netherlands and the security of its people then added insult to injury by comparing the resulting attacks against the visiting fascist thugs to the darkest days of Dutch history, entirely oblivious to the reality that it is in fact they who have collectively legitimized the closest thing to a pogrom witnessed on Dutch soil since 1945. Welcome to twenty-first century Europe, and to The Netherlands in particular.

So it begins. MAGA is about to find out how tariffs actually work first hand.

🚨BREAKING: Amsterdam Police open investigation after complaint by the #HindRajabFoundation on violent acts by Maccabi supporters in the city center. Evidence of anti-Arab chants, fireworks, and attacks now under review. #EndImpunity More info here 👇🏾 hindrajabfoundation.org/inciters/amste…