Lee Dillon
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Dublin, Ireland.
#MoreWomen #MoreTrees #IsItFair
RT & ♡ = of interest to me.
Dublin, Ireland.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
www.foodtechbiz.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
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December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park?
This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...
This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park?
This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...
This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...
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Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
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December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
'all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another' - the 'atomic fact' cited by R. Feynman as being the essence of science.
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www.ft.com/content/e196...
The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another' - the 'atomic fact' cited by R. Feynman as being the essence of science.
www.ft.com/content/e196...
www.ft.com/content/e196...
'Twas the season 1982 🎄
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Christmas Shopping in Dublin
The eight of December was traditionally the day when the Irish did their Christmas shopping. A report from Dublin city centre on Christmas shopping at a time of recession and the prevailing demand for...
www.rte.ie
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'Twas the season 1982 🎄
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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A lot of people are pointing out that this guy is no prince among men and that JPMorgan Chase has done some stuff, and right—that’s what makes it so notable that this guy thinks there will be accountability for this stuff in the future. He believes this is the *strategic* choice. That’s revealing.
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A lot of people are pointing out that this guy is no prince among men and that JPMorgan Chase has done some stuff, and right—that’s what makes it so notable that this guy thinks there will be accountability for this stuff in the future. He believes this is the *strategic* choice. That’s revealing.
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"And all of us who witnessed it felt it could only be a form of target practice that they were saying ‘Right, today, lads, we’re going to shoot them in the head.
Tomorrow, we’ll shoot them in the chest.
On Saturday night, we’ll shoot them in the testicles'."
Tomorrow, we’ll shoot them in the chest.
On Saturday night, we’ll shoot them in the testicles'."
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"And all of us who witnessed it felt it could only be a form of target practice that they were saying ‘Right, today, lads, we’re going to shoot them in the head.
Tomorrow, we’ll shoot them in the chest.
On Saturday night, we’ll shoot them in the testicles'."
Tomorrow, we’ll shoot them in the chest.
On Saturday night, we’ll shoot them in the testicles'."
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“I’ve seen babies who’ve been shot. I’ve seen babies who’ve lost their limbs. I’ve seen teenage boys who’ve been deliberately shot by the Israeli military in specific parts of the body on specific days.
“This clustering of injuries was so striking it cannot possibly be coincidence.”
“This clustering of injuries was so striking it cannot possibly be coincidence.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“I’ve seen babies who’ve been shot. I’ve seen babies who’ve lost their limbs. I’ve seen teenage boys who’ve been deliberately shot by the Israeli military in specific parts of the body on specific days.
“This clustering of injuries was so striking it cannot possibly be coincidence.”
“This clustering of injuries was so striking it cannot possibly be coincidence.”
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“I remember baby Zaynab, was seven months old, who died when I was there because there was no there was no formula feed to give her.
Days before Zaynab died American doctors had come to Gaza with formula feed. Israeli border guards removed every container.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Days before Zaynab died American doctors had come to Gaza with formula feed. Israeli border guards removed every container.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Inside Gaza’s apocalypse: A doctor’s testimony from a landscape of rubble and starvation
A veteran volunteer surgeon describes deliberate shootings, starvation and mass devastation in Gaza as he prepares to speak in Clare
www.irishexaminer.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“I remember baby Zaynab, was seven months old, who died when I was there because there was no there was no formula feed to give her.
Days before Zaynab died American doctors had come to Gaza with formula feed. Israeli border guards removed every container.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Days before Zaynab died American doctors had come to Gaza with formula feed. Israeli border guards removed every container.”
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Beautiful writing.
‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.’
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‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.’
benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/we-shed-as...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
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November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Beautiful writing.
‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.’
benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/we-shed-as...
‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.’
benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/we-shed-as...
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Sign at an outdoor classroom for a nature center: “Think outside. No box required.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sign at an outdoor classroom for a nature center: “Think outside. No box required.”
‘For the second time, a tiny minority of Dublin 6 [Ranelagh] residents are blocking the will of the vast majority’
🤯🍌🍌🍌🤯
“Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
🤯🍌🍌🍌🤯
“Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
David McWilliams: Ranelagh’s latest MetroLink objection highlights bananas nature of hyper-minority rule
Ireland is moving from a democracy to ‘vetocracy’, where governance is paralysed because someone, somewhere holds a veto
www.irishtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
‘For the second time, a tiny minority of Dublin 6 [Ranelagh] residents are blocking the will of the vast majority’
🤯🍌🍌🍌🤯
“Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
🤯🍌🍌🍌🤯
“Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This is good & comes in at just under an hour, including intro & Q&As.
Tl:dr - After we've checked our privilege, we should use it.
#MoralRevolution
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Tl:dr - After we've checked our privilege, we should use it.
#MoralRevolution
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | The Reith Lectures | 1. A Time of Monsters
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is good & comes in at just under an hour, including intro & Q&As.
Tl:dr - After we've checked our privilege, we should use it.
#MoralRevolution
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Tl:dr - After we've checked our privilege, we should use it.
#MoralRevolution
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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The “Who Would Win?” book series relies on the cheap thrill of violence to educate children about the natural world—“and that’s what makes it fascinating,” Peter Sagal writes.
Who Would Win?
Why kids can’t get enough of these battles to the death
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November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The “Who Would Win?” book series relies on the cheap thrill of violence to educate children about the natural world—“and that’s what makes it fascinating,” Peter Sagal writes.
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The government's failure to progress DART South west is infuriating. It condemns tens of thousands of people to spending hours every day sitting in traffic.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The government's failure to progress DART South west is infuriating. It condemns tens of thousands of people to spending hours every day sitting in traffic.
'“It wd be prudent to inform the public worldwide of the association w/ ALS [Motor Neuron Disease],”.. & to recommend that False Morels (gyromitres) pose not only a short- but also possibly a long-term danger to health & life &, as such, they should never be consumed.”'
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village
Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer.
www.gavi.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
'“It wd be prudent to inform the public worldwide of the association w/ ALS [Motor Neuron Disease],”.. & to recommend that False Morels (gyromitres) pose not only a short- but also possibly a long-term danger to health & life &, as such, they should never be consumed.”'
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
'“Russia has neither a vote nor a veto over who can be a member of NATO,” Rutte said'
www.politico.eu/article/mark...
www.politico.eu/article/mark...
Rutte rules out Russian veto on Ukraine joining NATO
The alliance chief also warned that the threat Moscow poses to Europe will far outlast any peace deal reached with Kyiv.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'“Russia has neither a vote nor a veto over who can be a member of NATO,” Rutte said'
www.politico.eu/article/mark...
www.politico.eu/article/mark...
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM