Norway will not host international swimming championships while Russian and Belarusian athletes are allowed to compete under their national flags and anthems, after World Aquatics lifted restrictions. The move follows a similar stance taken by Poland, with Oslo now seeking wider Nordic support.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike at Largest ICE Prison in Midwest via @jordanchariton.bsky.social
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What a pain in the ar….
I should go…another time, perhaps.
Inevitable.
“We have built the ultimate hacking machine. No system or computer is safe!”
Days Later: “It was hacked.”
Thinking today about how there are people alive now who were already born when the 1926 census took place, and that there were people in the 1926 census who were alive during The Famine.
Two degrees of separation.
This is quiet good news
It features three cats with intricate, unique patterns on their bodies. The artist notes that these are manually embroidered and sometimes sold with baby cats included. The designs are often inspired by traditional art patterns like folk embroidery or floral themes.
a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.
Can't believe all we need to "help housing" was proposing a solution of no planning permission, no standards, no inspection, no rental rights, and no Government involvement bar passing it.
No. Probably not.
Former Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin explicitly admits Israel committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
He condemns the deliberate destruction of 38 Lebanese villages, exposing the sheer cruelty of the Zionist military machine.
Rock In Peace Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of Traffic, and his solo career and work with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Leon Russell, and more. Gone to the big gig in the sky.
The European Commission will set out plans to cut electricity taxes and coordinate the summer refill of countries' gas storage, as it seeks to cushion the energy fallout from the Iran war.
Given their history with the Americans since 1953, when the Dulles brothers-at the behest of the British- staged a coup, and imposed the Shah, I’d say the Iranians resentment and resistance is rational, and explainable.
Oh! What a brain scramble! I hope you can find somewhere- maybe somewhere better…
Ana Kasparian: “Israel is this tiny irrelevant country really has nothing to offer when it comes to natural resources, Which is why they steal natural resources from other countries. They're likely going to steal this gas field that we're talking about right now...”
"A young Palestinian man was injured on Tuesday night after being physically assaulted by Israeli occupation forces in the Iraq Burin village, S of Nablus.
...transferred a 36-year-old man to the hospital after he was severely beaten by the occupation soldiers."
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Mr Thomas has also been criticised for attending a meeting of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a fringe group that claims to operate alternative local councils and does not accept the legitimacy of the State. “I got a call from community activists. They asked me if I would meet them in relation to a nursing home potentially being turned into an Ipas centre,” he explains. “I went to that meeting; the IRB were there. “I knew nothing about the IRB. I was accused of being a member — and that was absolute rubbish.” Asked if he believed there was a place for such groups, he said: “At the moment, I wouldn’t say there is, no. Look, we live in a democracy.”
Noel Thomas is lying through his teeth here, but the Sindo also have their facts wrong. he attended two meetings of the IRB's fake council in Oughterard, not one, and there is no ambiguity about what kind of meetings they were because they posted the minutes online
Oughterard Community Council Co-Op Also in attendance was Damien Flannery & Councillor Noel Thomas Meeting begins at 18.45 IRT / 19.10 GMT 1. Opening remarks The Chair opens the meeting by asking for a general update on things in Oughterard, and the Oughterard Community Council & Co-Op which was established on the 2nd November 2024. Tom Walsh confirms that the Co-Op has approx. 20 Members. Michael Bergin advises of the situation regarding the former Nursing Home in the town which was used to house Ukranians and now being considered for an IPAS Centre. This has galvanised the Community in opposition, resulting in some of the Elected Local Representatives on the Galway County Council Corporation to call a Public Meeting for later that night. Noel Thomas is one of those Elected Local Representatives and he joins mid-way through the Meeting, expressing his position against the imposition of an IPAS Centre on the Community. The Chair reiterates the fundamental strength of the Community Co-Op, operating under the ancient unwritten Natural Law of: 100 = Your own Council 300 = Your own Courts 600 = Your own Count(r)y
These Councils and Co-Ops, which are being rolled out across the Country, are kryptonite to the cabal as the Corporate Local Councils are the end of the tentacles of UN Agenda 21, and they are obligated to “tick the box” of Public Consultation through the Elected Local Representatives. The Councils, through their Manifesto, have Claimed the Position as Sovereign Liaisons and Sovereign Representatives for the Indigenous Community, and the Oughterard Council will be in a Position to put Galway County Council Corporation on Notice that any proposed Legislation, Acts, Statutes or Regulation affecting the Mapped Territorial Date: Wednesday 9thth April 2025 Powers Bar & Restaurant, Main Street, Oughterard, Galway, Éire Attendees John-Declan F (C) Michael B. (VC) Jamie W. (Trea) Tom W. (Sec.) John-Brian C. (PRO) Jamie L. Michael Wa. Michael We. Derek F. Mairéad We Barry C. Kevin J. Ar son na hÉireann agus a Clainne 1 of 2 Oughterard Community Council Co-Op Area must go through the Oughterard Community Council to bring it back to the Community Co-Op Members to say yay or nay. Each Council Member is encouraged to get 10 new Co-Op Members signed up, by getting their name(s), number(s) and €5 (Membership certs can be issued by the Secretary at a later date), sending the name and phone number to the Secretary to add new Members to the Oughterard Community Co-Op WhatsApp Group Chat. Once Membership has reached 100, then the Oughterard Community Council will be an absolute bona fide Council for Co-Op under Natural Law. The Meeting closes at 19.20pm IRT / 19.45pm GMT
here are the minutes of the first meeting Noel Thomas attended. it's just the opening remarks, but they explicitly lay out the IRB's plans to set up their own councils, like the one in Oughterard, in every community in Ireland
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lived three doors down from the South Lotts bridge for about two years and the article isn't exaggerating when it says it's hit at least twice a week
height sensor and an alarm and a dunk in the Dodder if you set it off more than once
“I just want to put a metal spoon in a / microwave and watch the possibility of / sustenance.” Read “Brevity is the fuse attached to every breath,” a poem by Bob Hicock from the collection, Breathe.
Singer D4vd has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago and whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in September in his apparently abandoned Tesla, prosecutors said Monday. https://to.pbs.org/3Qnd0mf
When I talk about the motherhood penalty being a choice, that it is caused by policies made by those who are not impacted by them, this is what I mean. The key players here are all men.
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An oil painting- unfinished-of Knocknarea mountain, seen through a kind of vortex of clouds, which might represent a storm. Who knows? I’m just the painter! WIP…
…But I have to go to the studio to work on this. Some paintings just flow, but most have difficult periods: this one is going through a “ why-did-I-decide-to-do-this-it’s-a-pain-in-the-arse-now” period… call it an era🙄
A warm sunny morning with mottled clouds, looking towards the Arigna Hills in Co. Roscommon
Damn!
Today is a rare, sunny day in Sth Sligo, but it’s a dedicated painting ( indoors) day.
Anyway, que sera sera!
I didn’t know there was an etiquette about not reposting selfies, but I suppose it makes sense. I don’t do that anyway. But this was a set- piece “ quote-post with a picture of yourself wearing glasses” thing…
Yes…quote post, with one of yourself wearing glasses, so I did that… she liked mine ( and who could blame her, handsome devil that I am?) and then blocked me.
Why? Is she sensitive about reposting her selfie?
I got a listifications notification saying I have been blocked by Jen Bren. She liked a post by me yesterday, and blocked me at the same time. Odd…
