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· Jul 23
'Children say they want to go to heaven — because heaven has food'
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemns ‘man-made mass starvation’ as aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade
www.irishexaminer.com
Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Gaza.
There is no difference.
If you ever wondered what you'd have done if you were alive during the 1940s and you'd known about the death camps, you're doing it right now.
There is no difference.
If you ever wondered what you'd have done if you were alive during the 1940s and you'd known about the death camps, you're doing it right now.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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There are TEN kids; Amni, Enoch, Bible-ly, Deuteronomy, Sneezy, Screamy, Culty, KpopDemonhunter and Embarrassed
The academic success of the Burkes could hardly be rivalled by any family in Ireland
They're highly educated but some are hugely controversial: How the 10 Burke siblings are making their way in the world
The academic success of the Burkes could hardly be rivalled by any family in Ireland.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There are TEN kids; Amni, Enoch, Bible-ly, Deuteronomy, Sneezy, Screamy, Culty, KpopDemonhunter and Embarrassed
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No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation
No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman thinks typing a text prompt into an AI is “really active” music creation, and frankly, that’s insulting.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation
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Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said
Frida Kahlo painting auctions for $54.6m
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby...
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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Ingenieros del MIT diseñan sistema ultrasónico que extrae agua del aire 45 veces más rápido que métodos solares.
ecoinventos.com/ingenieros-d...
ecoinventos.com/ingenieros-d...
Ingenieros del MIT diseñan sistema ultrasónico que extrae agua del aire 45 veces más rápido que métodos solares
Ingenieros del MIT desarrollaron un dispositivo ultrasónico que vibra a alta frecuencia. Al colocar un material absorbente (“sorbente”) sobre el dispositivo, las ondas ultrasónicas sacuden las molécul...
ecoinventos.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Ingenieros del MIT diseñan sistema ultrasónico que extrae agua del aire 45 veces más rápido que métodos solares.
ecoinventos.com/ingenieros-d...
ecoinventos.com/ingenieros-d...
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A great time to remind everyone that the largest landlord in the Gaeltacht is now a British company letting Airbnbs.
Watch now they'll call me an elitist for bringing up that lucht na Gaeltachta are often at a severe disadvantage in terms of housing and opportunity and they don't get much support outside of their own community
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A great time to remind everyone that the largest landlord in the Gaeltacht is now a British company letting Airbnbs.
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
Yes we should use more timber and this should have started decades ago, but not sitka! It's a toxic, invasive species and its high-volume profit-above-all intensive farming here produces soft, spongy, shitty, useless wood. If we start planting more useful trees now the next generation would benefit.
How a new approach to Irish timber could help deliver homes
Why aren't we using Irish wood to build Irish homes quickly, cheaply and sustainably at a time when we are in desperate need?
share.google
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yes we should use more timber and this should have started decades ago, but not sitka! It's a toxic, invasive species and its high-volume profit-above-all intensive farming here produces soft, spongy, shitty, useless wood. If we start planting more useful trees now the next generation would benefit.
"Because we never hit our targets, we never manage to spend our budget, and it makes us look bad, so instead we're going to operate more on a 'whatever makes us feel good' basis and not commit to anything. It's not really that urgent because I personally have a house, so...yeah."
“Why is there no annual targets in this plan?”
“Because we are focused on activation,” Minister for Housing James Browne says.
“We want to get away from yearly targets,” he adds.
@thejournal.ie
“Because we are focused on activation,” Minister for Housing James Browne says.
“We want to get away from yearly targets,” he adds.
@thejournal.ie
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Because we never hit our targets, we never manage to spend our budget, and it makes us look bad, so instead we're going to operate more on a 'whatever makes us feel good' basis and not commit to anything. It's not really that urgent because I personally have a house, so...yeah."
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
That's a lot of brown envelopes.
HSE spending €2.5m leasing properties in Kerry despite maintaining 14 vacant facilities
The overall cost of maintenance and minor works to the vacant buildings owned by HSE in Kerry amounted to over €186,423 in the past 12 months
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
That's a lot of brown envelopes.
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The biggest hinder to solving Ireland's housing crisis is not finaincing, or planning law, or judicial reviews - it's that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael don't want to.
Again if you find yourself wondering about things like Judicial review because politicians and some right wing journos say this is the reason we can’t get things done, just remember this is complete bollix and the real reason is lobbyists, lobbyists, lobbyists and politicians who become lobbyists.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The biggest hinder to solving Ireland's housing crisis is not finaincing, or planning law, or judicial reviews - it's that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael don't want to.
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There's a parallel universe not too far from here where Seán Gallagher is leaving the Áras after 14 glorious years of saying "business" a lot, sharing inspirational quotes on the Áras an Uachtaráin LinkedIn page every day, and promising to learn Irish during his retirement.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There's a parallel universe not too far from here where Seán Gallagher is leaving the Áras after 14 glorious years of saying "business" a lot, sharing inspirational quotes on the Áras an Uachtaráin LinkedIn page every day, and promising to learn Irish during his retirement.
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My philosophy on commas is that I do whatever my editor says. And if the editors disagree whoever had it last wins.
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My philosophy on commas is that I do whatever my editor says. And if the editors disagree whoever had it last wins.
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
I'm having a happy little daydream that the reason Leavitt is so late to her news briefing is that Trump has, being naughty in all our sights, snuffed it.
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'm having a happy little daydream that the reason Leavitt is so late to her news briefing is that Trump has, being naughty in all our sights, snuffed it.
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He should have died in The Hague.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family said in a statement. He was 84 abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
He should have died in The Hague.
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Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
All perfectly normal in Fascist America.
Ireland is really in a "clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right" situation.
Ireland is really in a "clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right" situation.
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
All perfectly normal in Fascist America.
Ireland is really in a "clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right" situation.
Ireland is really in a "clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right" situation.
Like nearly everything he's ever said, this is a weird stupid delusional lie. Nobody should listen to Elon Musk. If he hadn't lucked into nauseating amounts of money, nobody ever would.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Like nearly everything he's ever said, this is a weird stupid delusional lie. Nobody should listen to Elon Musk. If he hadn't lucked into nauseating amounts of money, nobody ever would.
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I just don't think that our economy should be managed by an organisation who paid Ivan Yates for advice.
Fianna Fáil has confirmed broadcaster Ivan Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to its candidate Jim Gavin during the presidential campaign in September
FF says Yates provided debate training during campaign
Fianna Fáil has confirmed broadcaster Ivan Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to its candidate Jim Gavin during the presidential campaign in September.
www.rte.ie
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I just don't think that our economy should be managed by an organisation who paid Ivan Yates for advice.