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The paradox highlights that insanity is a rational response to an insane situation, and trying to escape it proves you are not insane. Modern life #catch22
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No economist has ever explained the trap of being poor better than Terry Pratchett's boots theory. A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years. A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet. Poverty isn't just a lack of money. It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.
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He is too busy to answer questions in the Dail but has plenty of time for this shit. Currently 72% of people do not want to join NATO and this performance is to attempt to change peoples minds. Fuck Martin fuck Harris and Fuck NATO. #Referendum
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin will now appear on tonight’s #LateLate Show. He will discuss today's security alerts at various media organisations, as well as preparations ahead of the European Political Community (EPC) summit and EU meetings, which are to be held in Dublin next week.
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Tom Felle, the journalism lecturer at the University of Galway is now not responding to questions about his faked Phd, which he initially defended as genuine, forcing RTE to file Freedom of Information requests and an appeal. With that scale of deception, Felle is likely for the high jump. What sort of questions might Felle be asked? "Tom, did you defraud the Fulbright scholarship programme of €10,000's with your fake Phd?" The more serious questions are for his employer, the University of Galway - led by President David Burn with ex-FF minister Maire Geoghegan Quinn leading its governance body - which says that Felle's fake qualifications are a "private and internal matter" Not when students and funders have been deceived. The taxpayer sinks €100m+ into that university each year, so the FF higher education minister James Lawless might find himself in the firing line if there are no answers forthcoming.
"Any questions about the veracity of academic records would be a matter for the [University of Galway] university to address internally and privately" RTE Prime Time claims to have exposed the fabricated academic qualification of Tom Felle, a journalism lecturer at University of Galway. According to #rtept Felle has deleted his LinkedIn, isn't now responding to questions and University of Galway is claiming the question of Felle's claimed PhD qualification is a private matter! RTE reminds us of previous issues with journalism degrees in Galway ... "In 2018, the university (then known as NUI Galway) refunded fees to third and fourth- year students after complaints of substandard quality in some journalism courses" Here is Tom Felle, in 2018 and in 2024 after he grew the beard.
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MATT TREACY finds Tom Felle was styling himself as a Doctor a year before he claimed his PhD was awarded. The media expert on ‘disinformation’ who RTÉ says faked his doctoral qualifications, is an assessor for Coimisiún na Meán, opining often on immigration. gript.ie/the-expert-on-disin…
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No surprise here. A so-called expert on disinformation and 'fake news' has been falsely claiming to have a doctorate from a distinguished English university. This lad seemingly was appointed as an expert assessor for the media regulator Coimisiún na Meán. You couldn’t make this shit up! rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/1…
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#Breaking A man who beat to death the pregnant mother of his two children has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for what the judge described as a "brutal attack on a completely defenceless, heavily pregnant mother" rte.ie/news/2026/1106/159825…
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?” In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
Starting to really understand why a core theme of dystopian novels is that nobody reads
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🚨BREAKING: It’s confirmed: Hungary just passed the largest tax cut in Europe & the entire Western world. - One-child mothers are exempt from income tax until they turn 30. - Women with two or more children will have no income tax for life. Every European nation must do this.
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JUST IN: 🇬🇧 England now records 1,000 new cancer diagnoses every day, the highest level in history.
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The Defence Forces are “unaware ” how many, if any, of their foreign-born recent recruits came to Ireland without a passport or documentation as they do not gather that information, Carol Nolan TD was told. She said she is seeking further information and that this was not about individuals but standards. gript.ie/army-cant-tell-if-f…
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In Irish, the word for otter translates as ‘water dog’, the word for squirrel ‘tree dog’, and the word for seal ‘sea dog’.
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The Houses of the Oireachtas Service has signed a contract worth an estimated €400,000 plus VAT for the supply of its own-brand wine to Leinster House. 🧵
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European lawmakers are to meet in Dublin this week to discuss how to help Travellers and Roma reach their "full potential" by eliminating alleged discrimination, Irish Equality Minister Norma Foley has said. gript.ie/eu-officials-to-see…
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🇩🇪Niemiecki europoseł Alexander Sell (AfD) staje twarzą w twarz z von der Leyen i ostrzega: "Pani von der Leyen potrzebuje pieniędzy – 800 miliardów euro na uzbrojenie. Co więcej, chce ona – cytuję – przekształcić oszczędności prywatne w inwestycje. Przewodniczący Komisji nazywa to „unią oszczędności i inwestycji”. Już sama nazwa jest oszustwem etykietowym. Oszczędzać pani von der Leyen oczywiście nie chce – wręcz przeciwnie, chce wydawać więcej, i to pieniądze obywateli. Na wojnę na Ukrainie mają zostać ogołocone wszystkie konta oszczędnościowe w Europie. My, Niemcy, wiemy bardzo dobrze, z jaką rzetelnością obchodzi się pani von der Leyen z pieniędzmi podatników. Jako minister obrony w Berlinie rozdawała pani zamówienia publiczne pod stołem. Federalny Trybunał Obrachunkowy mówił – cytuję – o „systematycznych naruszeniach prawa zamówień publicznych”. Wielomilionowe kwoty wypłacano zaprzyjaźnionym doradcom bez przeprowadzenia przetargów, a obciążające wiadomości i czaty zostały skasowane. Aby zbadać te zarzuty, Bundestag powołał komisję śledczą, jednak przed groźbą diony uciekła pani – pani von der Leyen – uciekając samolotem do Brukseli, gdzie została pochwalona przez Angelę Merkel. I tutaj kontynuujecie dokładnie w ten sam sposób: szczepionki za 35 miliardów euro w środku kryzysu koronawirusowego. Znów przez SMS-a, znów z dobrym znajomym. W tym przypadku również śledztwo prowadzi prokuratura i w tym przypadku również zniknęły wszystkie obciążające wiadomości z pani telefonu. Chcecie teraz 800 miliardów euro z pominięciem parlamentu. Nie możemy na to pozwolić, koledzy. Tej kobiecie nigdy nie wolno pozwolić na zaciąganie długu w naszym imieniu. Ta kobieta nigdy nie może mieć dostępu do oszczędności obywateli. My również chcemy lepszego wyposażenia Bundeswehry, ale nie chcemy, aby nasze pieniądze z podatków były rozdzielane pomiędzy przyjaciół i znajomych przewodniczącej Komisji. Koniec z miliardowymi darowiznami za pośrednictwem mediów społecznościowych.🥸
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WAITING FOR THE DEVIL TO TELL THE TRUTH This is a post for morally decent people who aren't afraid of the truth, aren't afraid of asking the right questions and aren't wimping out of making noise and the neccessary assertions about a terribly wrong situation. For the sake of children no one is coming to save. Firstly, this (below) is GANG RAPE OF A CHILD who is in state "care". This is NOT SEX. Why is the press describing 30 men raping a child as a teen having unprotected sex with over two dozen men? Children cannot consent (and why is the Rape Crisis Centre busy telling grannies hugging their grandchildren is a serious matter, while ignoring rape gangs?). They (the media) describe the exchange of drugs and alcohol as though she is equipped to make a quid pro quote deal. Presumably Tusla is also describing this child's situation in this manner (and others like her). Furthermore taxis are ferrying her. They are involved. The judge says he is seeing this kind of situation with regularity and that it was not occurring until recently. So what as changed? No gang members are ever arrested, no on is ever charged or convicted, no one is named.[ These men appear to be working in tandem. They UCD report on predators targeting children in care in Ireland says it is a Rotherham type situation unfolding. Does that mean non Irish men? Not absolutely. But WHY use that place name, knowing it is synonymous with Pakistani rape gangs? I think they may very well have meant that and were not willing to make more than a loose connection because of political agenda correctness and consequences around speaking up. What is happening in Ireland now has ALL the hallmarks of what is STILL happening in the UK right down to the victim blaming of children in media reports which is barely concealed at times and not concealed at all at other times. I will be damned if I am going to sit here and say nothing because there's no confirmation by the press. That is like waiting for the devil to tell you the truth. It isn't going to happen. If you are silent then may you be damned to hell yourself. I am not willing to shut my mouth, and all the secrecy around the perpetrators and the timing of these rape gangs appearing is enough for me to say what I've been saying for some time. Right now this very minute they are being raped, gang raped, drugged and abused in various ways in hotels and other locations across Ireland. Anyone who keeps their mouth shut is entirely COMPLICIT. The same political ideologues who talk about the Catholic church [and the terrible abuse of children that occurred]are now SILENT about WHO is raping these children and taking them from unsuitable unregulated "care residences" like hotels to plunge them into a pit of hell. The so called "right" is not vocal about it enough either. Start demanding answers very loudly. Do whatever. But do it now. For the love of all that is morally decent. For the love of innocent children, open your bloody mouth.
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Used to be pissed off on a bad Liverpool result Now I just realise it's not that important Be happy... every season will have joyful moments Just be ready for your turn 🙂 #LFC
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