“Money, money, money. Must be funny... in a rich man’s world”

How are we doing? Why the world’s most important economic statistic is almost useless in Ireland Watch out if anyone tries to suggest GDP can tell you how well our economy is performing.

The graph shows welfare spending as a proportion of GDP, without clarifying that Ireland’s GDP figures are distorted:

www.thejournal.ie/gdp-useless-...

Strange you should say that - I’m running a zero tolerance policy here on Bluesky for random follows - works a treat!

‘We were never friends’: Kremlin plays down loss of ally following Orbán’s election defeat Loss of closest European ally will force Kremlin to consider whether non-autocratic states can ever be reliable partners

Kremlin: “Viktor who?”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Great photo pick - check out what the light behind his head looks like.

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Totes with you on the 'existence' front!

Pete McCarthy’s “McCarthy’s Bar”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarth...

If only one or two of the owners of the blocked vehicles had been brave enough to ask each of the owners of the other blocked vehicles to join and approach the eleven fascists…

Don’t want to ask how they got wet.

What’s the involvement of the far-right in this?

Color me raising my eyebrows - orange saying his usual “two weeks” shite.

How come I remember he uses this to measure random time - and journos don’t? Maddening.

Who lead the “convoy” in cork?

Source, it appears:

x.com/CGTNEurope/s...

Four words too many in that sentence.

Interesting and vital, but misses the fundamental point that antivaxxers do rhetoric and never do science.

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The tail wags the dog.

‘Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

― Hannah Arendt

Standard US pronunciation of “buoy” is BOO-ie. Reasons are obscure but are covered here:

historyofenglishpodcast.com/category/buoy/

In return for financial and other concessions, religion was solving the problem of political authority long before the Roman Empire.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...

UK Fisherman calls the Brexit deal 'the death of us as an industry' YouTube video by Daily Express

In fairness, they’re not the first fishermen conned by conmen:

m.youtube.com/shorts/_h1HM...

No strategic gain, just a momentary political gain.

Orange has no interest or ability in strategy - just poke-you-in-the-eye tactics.

Awful thought - what if Mafia Don is just randomly verbalising whatever words he reckons are most useless to anybody within earshot?

Sadly, yes 😕

ISO 8601 is your friend.

Headline should have stopped after four words.

Lickspittle, yes. The rest, I’m not so sure about.

Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large

Source attribution:

”Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad”

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.