Master Datasmith. Elsewhere at https://xitter.gq/t.co/5Rnp8FzZDk and https://xitter.gq/t.co/Ymx42npj2l
Kildare, Ireland
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It is amazing to watch the party that has been in govt now for over a decade act like it has no responsibility for allowing certain families and individuals terrorise estates. This problem does not end by Fiachra in Killiney getting off the bag.
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Employers will be made to include salary details in job adverts under Burnham plans trib.al/8wZ2pma
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John doesn’t understand why young men roll their eyes when he warns them of Mamdani gulags
I live in one of the bluest states in America. I have kids and know plenty of young conservative men here.
Young women are a solid blue wall.
It was young men that decided this election.
Two things stand out from my conversations with them:
1. They don’t want war.
It’s not the fighting. They’ve watched an entire generation return from the Middle East struggling with PTSD, physical injuries, and shattered lives.
I thought the relatively low casualty count would help Trump. I was wrong.
The long Navy deployments and broken promises of a quick victory turned many against the war.
Young men think they’re invincible. They’re less afraid of dying than of spending the rest of their lives dealing with the physical and psychological scars of another Middle East war.
2. They don’t fear communism.
That doesn’t mean they support the DSA. They simply aren’t particularly concerned about it.
The Great Leap Forward, Soviet gulags, and East German Stasi were been removed from textbooks after Marxists took over the education system.
When I warn them about the dangers of the DSA and politicians like Mamdani, they tune out. Push harder, and they roll their eyes.
That’s a serious problem for Republicans.
And we’re losing them because of it.
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Somewhere a health insurance COBOL mainframe just exploded
California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo
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They're saying on the tv that because Alaska allows for ranked voting (the transferable vote), it may be weeks before a result is called. There's only four of them, any fucking constituency in Ireland with 15 on the ballot would have it sorted out in a day
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Love this. Even in the early 90s when I spent a bit of time around Kilburn these Irish bars were still massive. Loads of them. All gone now. (Though I was in one in Acton in the early 2000s...)
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📚 Tramore Book Launch
480 beautifully illustrated pages of stories & pictures from Ireland's favourite seaside town.
🗓 Launch: Wed 25 Nov, 7pm
📍 Majestic Hotel, Tramore
💶 €35 – all profits to Waterford County Museum
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Pope Leo and Bob Dylan look like they're starring in an early '90s CBS drama in which two priests - one by the book and one who does things his own way - try to solve mysteries in their seemingly sleepy Midwestern town that hides a seedy underbelly.
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Imagine being deported over Pineapple Pizza
Uno chef italiano, Davide Tamburella, è stato licenziato a Brisbane, in Australia, dopo essersi rifiutato più volte di servire pizza con l'ananas, considerandola un "insulto" alla propria cultura. Avrebbe mantenuto la sua posizione anche durante un evento da circa 10.000 euro. La Fair Work Commission, il tribunale australiano competente in materia di lavoro, ha respinto il suo ricorso, confermando la decisione del ristoratore Elliot Ingram anche alla luce di altri problemi comportamentali, tra cui insulti e scatti d'ira sul lavoro. La vicenda ha inoltre compromesso la procedura per il visto 186, che consente di risiedere stabilmente in Australia grazie alla sponsorizzazione di un datore di lavoro: Tamburella dovrà ricominciare l'iter
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Dem victory means Texas can finally ban child marriage!
That’s a meaningful difference to how GOP ran the state.
The first two bills I will be filing this session are both by members who have ascended to higher callings.
Jon Rosenthal’s bill banning the practice of child marriage in Texas and James Talarico’s bill that would grant pregnant women the right to a divorce - because right now they cannot legally get divorced while pregnant, even if they are the victim of domestic violence.
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Using Oracle's venerable "scott/tiger" data set to build the compliance tests for Apache Ossie, we needed another table to test fan-out queries. The employees now have pets. And of course Scott finally has a cat called Tiger.
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I grew up in that dark blue region; there’s a couple of different northern cults where contraception is against God’s law. I had a girl in my class who was forbidden to cut her hair or use a radio. She had 10 siblings.
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The actual message is "nobody is coming to help".
University leaders should accept that their own poor decision-making contributed to mass job losses in UK academia rather than simply blaming government policy, education secretary Lucy Powell has said
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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It’s possible Junior is so dense he does not grasp JD is pushing his dad under the bus. Or maybe he does, and things are getting real dark
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Blimey
Brent crude has crashed 8-9% basically since the Vice President JD Vance tweeted blaming the election wipeout on the war and advocated to “End the war/ Focus on cost of living/ Put America First/ Change our relationship with Israel”.
Markets betting that the sheer scale of the Blue wave totally changes the logic behind much anticipated reescalation with Iran.
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Now this, my friends, is how you write the first line of a story, from @helenlewis
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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They will put Hegseth in the Wicker Man and Natalie will sing a haunting Cornish folk song. Yet the Iran question remains. Vance is very helpfully saying the war was the reason they lost, yet refuses to say what to do. The Iran question remains.
Donald Trump was so angry at his breathtaking midterm defeat that he holed himself up in the dark with his ever-present aide, Natalie Harp, as the results rolled in. thedailybeast.com/white-hous…
