C'mere to me now

He's a Marxist with tattooed arms which kinda dilutes the being English problem

Connections
Puzzle #988
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Pogroms, prolly. Unless it's a cross between programs and pogroms

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

Irish president Catherine Connolly

Connolly’s landslide buries political myths about Ireland’s presidential process - how the establishment's attempts to explain #Aras25 are fatally flawed from the outset, and who really matters in the aftermath.

philipoconnor.com/connollys-la...

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Again...

Scrolling down through the endless Bluesky comments on US shenanigans I stopped and thought, Ah, there's an Irelander

The Solution by Bertolt Brecht After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?

It’s always time for Bertolt Brecht.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
-John Muir

A perfect example of what you do do so incomparably well: "remembering things that happen to me, writing them down and adding jokes”

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot stop the spring from coming"

We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".

Bantry

Civil disobedience.

rough (like uff in buff)
cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
thought (like aw in saw)
through (like oo in woo)

Enough.

This was an excellent piece of writing, and I realised where I encountered this unnerving story before was in fact your Throw Me to the Wolves

See when the Romans called Ireland "Hibernia" they were comparing it to a Roman winter rather than the "winter = snow" associations that we have now. They'd seen colder lands, Ireland reminded them of winter back home. Wet and mild.

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you da. Have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And since since comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist." - Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to turn the Perfect English Phrase

Been seven years since I first read this, on the English language's *completely universal but totally invisible* adjective hierarchy, and I can honestly say I've thought about it most days since.

Definitely.

Wow. Amazing how Buddhist poets over 2000 years ago perfectly anticipated social media

Great read illustrating the insanity of two completely separate health systems on this tiny island