m.conway

Brilliant!

@DavQuinn Am so sorry. My condolences to you and the family.

A good dog is a reminder of innocence. Ours (Toby) passed away this evening.

Honoured to attend very beautiful and moving Yom HaShoah commemoration in Dublin last night 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Chair of the JRCI Maurice Cohen's closing remarks particularly resonated in light of repeated attempts this week to cancel the voices of those of us who stand with Israel, and with the Jewish people here in Ireland. "We remember tonight not only how they were murdered, but how it began. It did not begin with gas chambers. It began with words. With whispers. With glances turned away. It began with Jews being spoken about differently. With their legitimacy questioned. With their presence made unwelcome. With invitations withdrawn. With doors quietly closed. It began when people chose not to buy from them. Not to sit beside them. Not to employ them. Not to teach them. Not to admit them to schools or universities. Not to stand up when it mattered. It began with mockery. With boycotts. With exclusion dressed up as principle. With demonisation dressed up as righteousness. And it spread because too many said nothing. So tonight, remembrance must not be passive. It must be a warning. Because what begins in silence can end in catastrophe. We remember. And we refuse to look away. Especially today."

@Shoshana51728 Yep

This war against Iran gave me new respect for the UAE. Represent. 🇦🇪🇺🇸🇮🇱

@imshin Not me

I'm still haemorrhaging followers ☹️

@koshercockney @AlanSimon360759 Sorry, but I’ve been a fan of his since the 1980s. He does truth and logic, but is also a real pragmatic - he will take a lethally disabled Iran all day if the dream regime change isn’t on the table. Israel has always come first.

I have to admit. Years ago, I used to hate the guy. How stupid and naive I was. Now I’m a big fan of Bibi and his strength facing the armies of Radical Islam.

@NASAAdmin @Perifinesse God speed and protect. Wonderful achievement.

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth. On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world. Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

@yoavkaufman That’s amazing.

It's been a wet winter. The Negev is green.

@lucythegreat123 @sweetnjmom Excellent!

X should just update its motto: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will try and try and try again to hurt me." Get a hobby, people. It’s not working and I am getting bored 🥱

@Saul_Sadka A reminder that these machines can be reproduced in a few months. It takes 20 years or so to reproduce a human specialist.

A few ancient airframes: ±$100 million Reminding your troops and the entire world that “no man left behind” isn’t just a slogan, and that you can do things nobody else can even dream of: priceless.

@john_mcguirk The Americans are supremely logical. It takes 20 years to grow a human, especially a specialist such as this operative. Machines are replaceable in months. Wise investment in the human, aside altogether from their creed of leaving none of their own behind.

The Americans went in, sacrificed a few hundred million dollars in kit, just to get one guy out alive. Who precisely blew up the planes is entirely irrelevant. That the Americans would spend a hundred fortunes to save one soldier is the difference between the West and Islamism.

@mihaschw You are back. Good for you. Be well. Glad you had the support you needed. My very best wishes for your future happiness.

Happy Easter, dear Christians! Make the most out of the good times with your loved ones and hold the ones you lost in your heart.Try to do as much good as you can, it’s the best feeling ever. Some might be alone today, not everyone has the luxury of being with their family or friends. Don’t be sad, go be there for others less fortunate, visit an orphanage or a nursing home where the seniors don’t get any visits.. There are always ways to beat any sadness, loneliness or pain. Find the way to be kind, compassionate, useful. I had to deal with a huge amount of pain lately. Losing my man and my Mom, in just 6 month, was ….the darkest time of my life. But not for one second I gave up on being there for others, knowing that the little joy I can bring to someone else will help my own healing. I was quiet for 8 month, doing everything in silence, getting my share of help from my family and the best friends I could have asked for. Also from strangers, the good people out there who just wanted to show their support. And this is the most beautiful part in anyone’s darkest times… I refused every interview, I did not wanted to be about me, I never wanted to be famous as anyone’s girlfriend, but through my work, my achievements, my charity, my activism, my books, my contributions I happen to be so proud of. I never gave up on who I am, what I worked so hard for, I never settle for just being someone’s woman, no matter how much love, respect, trust and safety it was there from both sides. I’m saying this as a reminder to every woman out there- the strong, independent, capable, smart…and in love kind -do not let anyone label or humiliate u, treat you as if u are garbage. Always fight for who u are, always build your own path, like I did, always make sure that u wont end up in the street, if your partner is gone. Rely on yourself, stay financiallly independent and fight back when they will try to disrespect u, humiliate u, discreditate you in front of others. There is a time to mourn and a time to fight your way back to yourself and to SPEAK UP. The Romanian Women are awesome, by the way. But I have to explain this in more details to some Austrian people who believe that we are “inferior” or not worthy of a respectful approach. I will follow up on my story in another day. Happy Easter!

@mihaschw @BillAckman @DemanRobert @X Not kindness only. You suffered a catastrophic loss. I was astonished that it could happen when it did. You have courage, in spades. Thank you.

@margcon1 @BillAckman @DemanRobert @X Thank you for your kindness, @margcon1 🙏

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@mihaschw @BillAckman @DemanRobert @X You have endured such loss. Am so sorry. Be well, dear. Am glad to see you back. Hope you and yours are well.

Without thinking twice, I fully agree with fighting this and any kind of similar nonsense. I read every word and pause when I read about your daughter… This breaks my heart and I hope she will fully recover. I lost my beloved 12y life partner 8 month ago and just 3 month after his death, my Mom had a stroke and for two month I was sitting at her hospital bed, while she was in a deep coma…until she died. And all this time, with all the …double pain, I had to fight a legal battle with, let’s say, the same kind of Rhonda-people, trying to attack me with lies and accusations, all proven false. And even if I was devasted and too…alone in this fight, I would have never quit or settle. Some fights, specially when are about our own integrity and reputation, are definitely worth fighting till the end of Earth. You got this, Mr Ackman.

@BillAckman @X So glad I’m just a pensioner, circling the drain. Also glad I’m not a billionaire who always has a target on his back. May your daughter recover and be well. That is the jackpot. Yours and your family’s health is your wealth.

@1rorycowan @HnhSygl32502 @dunnesstores Agree. The same goes for @dunnesstores staff at Citywest shopping centre. Great people.

To all my friends and followers who celebrate it, I hope you have a very happy and meaningful Easter. And just in case I forget, I want to specifically wish a Happy Easter to all the lovely staff at @dunnesstores in Crumlin shopping centre and in Stephen's Green centre. You're fantastic. The - Dunnes Stores Better Value Beats Them All - slogan isn't just about price; it's also about considerate and helpful staff. So, happy Easter to all you wonderful Dunnes Stores workers 👋

@VerminusM The beepers. Beyond cool.

What's the coolest fact about Israel?

@EoinLenihan Good for you. It’s a terrific read.

Thank you to everyone who has pushed Vandalising Ireland back up the charts and into the No.2 position of all books on Amazon Ireland. Word continues to spread. People want real change!

@OdohertyI64991 And there is the guilt when you can’t take the craythur out for a walk because the blue sky suddenly turns dark and spits bullets.

One of the genuinely great summations of being an animal lover.

@Shoshana51728 Yikes! You even have that too! Good for you. My country’s people are disarmed.

@margcon1 Hard to shoot with long nails. Pew pew.

Shabbat Shalom my people. 🇺🇸🇮🇱