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The museum of unconditional surrender
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Irish data nerd.
66.5% of foreign born Americans work
www.bls.gov/news.release...
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
China still has an unnatural ratio of male babies to females.
Long term it's women who matter for population numbers.
China has probably been below replacement female birthrates for 40 years.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The rules of the road in Ireland say you have to leave the outside lane if you are not overtaking.

This as written would make the inside lane too full and cause traffic jams.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🚨 Battery discharge early yesterday evening reached a new all-time high of 396MW, equal to 5.6% of electricity demand at the time.

Cork's Aghada plant the biggest contributor.

Recent changes in scheduling and dispatch already making a difference on these high demand, low wind nights.
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
When do Irish words become English language words? When they are in the English dictionary?
The BBC style guide says not to use Garda but to use an English word. But garda is in my English dictionary www.bbc.co.uk/newsstylegui...
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Meetup in t-cube O'Connell street is going well. We will be in Mulligans Townsend Street at 8pm
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think we should name Dublin airport after a celebrity that will confuse everyone:
Matt Holland,
Karl Spain,
Mick Galway.
Why an earth would we want to rename the airport that already explains to everyone where it is, what it is, what it's for and what county it's in.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Where Irish_Patriot_1916 blue ✔️ accounts on twitter are based
youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?...
Animaniacs SING-ALONG 🎤 | Yakko’s World | WB Kids
YouTube video by WB Kids
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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every poster on #speirgorm has a copy of Soundings
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Ok, new Common Sense just released. It's timely and pithy and hopefully you think it worth your time (and mine).
We called it: "Who's the Boss?"

dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
dts.podtrac.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A #painting I finished and sold last year. "Connemara Boats", a view from a small but storied bridge in south Connemara, east to the Rosmuc peninsula - a stunning part of the world. I painted it because I like the organic mish-mash punctuated by human made moments. #art #stunday #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from ?

The door who came in from the cold. Smithfield Dublin.
I'm not from there but worked for decades there
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Your Daily Dorothy Parker
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The Irish Georgian Society is hosting a talk on Tuesday 25th: "Built to Brew: the Architecture and Urban History of the Irish Brewery" by architecture historian Dr Livia Hurley. 6pm at their Dublin HQ (opposite Grogan's). Details and tickets: www.igs.ie/events/brew-...
>Breweries by Livia Hurley (Water & Ireland's Architectural Heritage talk 8)
The Irish Georgian Society is Ireland’s Architectural Heritage Society. The Society aims to encourage an interest in and to promote the conservation of distinguished examples of architecture and the a...
www.igs.ie
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I would never recover from this.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
People taking prescribed medication has impacted my business. Can we stop treating TB or bail out my spittoon shop
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM