Wesley

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It’s great to see Olympians and Tour de France cyclists are now wearing masks, but it says a lot that society is more invested in protecting famous athletes than people who are sick in hospitals, where there are no mask requirements these days.

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In Rialto, scientists gathered with locals to talk about making sure there’s no lead in the water. The team behind the “AMEND: Unleading Water” project are helping people across the city get their water tested. dublininquirer.com/2...

In Rialto, scientists gather with locals to talk about making sure there’s no lead in the water - Dublin Inquirerdublininquirer.com The team behind the “AMEND: Unleading Water” project are helping people across the city get their water tested.

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We have just hit 13,000 followers on Twitter! You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mastadon, Bluesky and Threads. Thank you so much for listening to sex workers.

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Gavin gives me the creeps and even so I hate him less than most lefties and the sole reason is because he understands (correctly) that you cannot equivocate or yield even a little bit on this culture war bullshit

California bans school districts from outing trans kidswww.politico.com Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, which is sure to infuriate conservative activists.

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Democrats: we must hobble ourselves to lower the political temperature in case Republicans decide to shoot each other

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Four years ago, the national government promised stronger, more democratic local government. What’s happened since? Interventions in the roll-out of Dublin’s city centre transport plan have spurred debate around who gets to set the direction of the city. dublininquirer.com/2...

Four years ago, the national government promised stronger, more democratic local government. What’s happened since? - Dublin Inquirerdublininquirer.com Interventions in the roll-out of Dublin’s city centre transport plan have spurred debate around who gets to determine the direction of the city.

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This Prime Day, let's all remember back to that time that Amazon was bootlegging my merchandise: www.theverge.com/22924353/art... Anyways, use the code AMAZONCRIME to save 15% off of legit merchandise at effinbirds.com until tomorrow.

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It's weird how the bad guy in literally every Hollywood movie of the 90s was a Trump surrogate (remember the Ben Gazzara character in Road House?) but we still ended up here, I guess hurrah for the power of cinema

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timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

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I locked my Twitter account today. I can’t continue to post on a platform whose owner is laser focused on spreading misinformation and hatred about immigrants. Guess BlueSky is stuck with me now — for good!

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Want www.newsweek.com/us-high-spee...

US high-speed rail map shows proposed routeswww.newsweek.com The U.S. High Speed Rail Association advocacy group is proposing a new high-speed rail network linking major American cities.

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I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

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Do not obey in advance.

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Dipping back into Twitter to lurk on assassination stuff and truly, from the bottom of my heart, unless you have massively curated lists, no one in media or politics should be microwaving their neurons on there.

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Thanks to Violet Affleck’s public comment, pretty much every media outlet of note in the world is now writing about masks and Long COVID… even the New York Times!

A Daughter of Hollywood Royalty Appeals to Los Angeles: No Mask Banswww.nytimes.com Violet Affleck, the eldest child of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, called for greater access to masks in a short speech during which she revealed her own “post-viral condition.”

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It's damning of the state of healthcare that they are reinstating mask mandates at cycle races before they reinstate them in hospitals.

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concernswww.cyclingnews.com New measure follows spate of abandons due to coronavirus

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Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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Frankly I think the fact that our journalists and politicians still uncritically marinate in Twitter all day is having a meaningful impact on the trajectory of US politics. It’s really bad beyond belief. I keep waiting for people to wake up and notice but they’re just totally boiled frogs now

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who are his strategists? I just wanna know

I’m going to lose my mind.

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Who can end a months-long anti-immigrant blockade in Coolock. There doesn’t seem to be a plan. dublininquirer.com/2...

Who can end a months-long anti-immigrant blockade in Coolock? - Dublin Inquirerdublininquirer.com No one sounds certain about how to end the stand-off. Meanwhile, some people avoid the area, and the government continues to struggle to find space to shelter those who come seeking asylum.

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When you follow a lot of organizers and prison abolitionists and learn about the movement to abolish police, and finally see the copaganda, but you forget there are people who still believe “there are good people who are cops.”

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OpenAI is cracking and inside the widening gulf employees are ringing alarm bells to anyone who will listen. Once again telling us the company dumped Altman because he is a dangerous technocrat.

OpenAI is plagued by safety concernswww.theverge.com OpenAI claims to be developing artificial general intelligence, but growing safety concerns plague its progress.

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This month’s cover, by Harry Burton and Lois Kapila, "is inspired by Dublin’s ‘Fortress Grand Canal’, perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years”. dublininquirer.com/2...

Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #100 - Dublin Inquirerdublininquirer.com "This month’s cover is inspired by Dublin’s 'Fortress Grand Canal', perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years."

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‘Samantha Cookes (aka Samantha Jade Cooks; aka Carrie Jade Williams; aka God knows how many other aliases) charged over €59,000 social welfare fraud in Kerry.’ www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Samantha Cookes charged over €59,000 social welfare fraud in Kerrywww.independent.ie A woman has been remanded in custody after being charged with the alleged theft of €59,094 from the Department of Social Protection.

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billionaire wealth in the US hit 6 trillion today, an all time high, and that’s double what it was before trump-gop passed their tax bill in 2017 that accelerated the rich getting absurdly insanely richer

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The gulf between American country music & Irish country music is starkly illustrated by the Irish country star doing a gig in prison, but only for the screws.

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I know the takeaway is supposed to be “oh no crime” but a gang of thieves that exclusively steals rich people’s fancy watches at high-end restaurants both: 1. is not an issue most people need to worry about, and 2. sounds like the work of a Batman villain called Clockface or something

Moped-Riding Thieves Frighten Diners at Upscale N.Y.C. Restaurantswww.nytimes.com In Williamsburg and Manhattan, robbers have stolen watches worth tens of thousands of dollars before fleeing on motorbikes.

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How police will enforce a mask ban with a "health exception"

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very tired of majority positions being described by mainstream media as 'far-left', 'radical' etc