Just a reminder that Bernhard Lang's 'Stahlwerk' series is one of the most astounding aerial photography projects I have ever seen

His post on Facebook last night. My late son Brendan's spinal x-ray. He promised 4 months waiting. My son waited 17 months on the 'urgent' list for a spinal fusion, the inhumane wait caused permanent damage. #JusticeForAll #Scoliosis #JusticeForHarvey

Good Morning from #Germany, which is trailing badly in the global growth race. Since 2017, the economy has barely grown at all, while US GDP has surged more than 19%, Spain 13%, and France 8%.

Of the European leaders representing the continent in Washington today, Finland is the only small country present. Despite Ireland's historically close relations with the US (eg recall the 'real' special relationship during Brexit) there was no question of the Taoiseach joining.

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“The environments set up by different media are not just containers for people; they are the processes which shape people. Such influence is deterministic only if ignored.” Marshall McLuhan quoted by John Culkin 1967

AI made this video. Zuck vs Sam -> fight

GPT-5 just casually did new mathematics. Sebastien Bubeck gave it an open problem from convex optimization, something humans had only partially solved. GPT-5-Pro sat down, reasoned for 17 minutes, and produced a correct proof improving the known bound from 1/L all the way to

This video shows how Europe is falling

Europe is falling: A pro-Pali activist physically attacked a Swedish parliamentarian in broad daylight, and the Swedish police stood and did nothing. If the police freezes when a politician is attacked, how on earth are they going to protect Swedes, Jews, and other minorities?

🇮🇪 is turning itself into finger wagger in chief. Finn McRedmond is writing in todays The Irish Times. Well worth a read.

A Ukrainian civilian woman was hit by Russian small arms fire as she was heading down a road near Kupyansk. She managed to crawl down into a ditch after being hit. Not satisfied, the Russian Army sent an FPV drone to finish her off.

Found in a 1922 issue of Bell Telephone Magazine. Diagrams turned into design — surreal, modern, almost like glitch art.

Everyone: China will copy SpaceX. China: Hold my baijiu

US Currency concept by Raymund Ramirez

Worth adding a little context: there has been a major war raging on our continent for more than three years and the aggressor, Russia, has explicitly said that Ireland faces a 'day of reckoning' for its (non-lethal) support for the victim of its aggression, Ukraine.

Went to Dublin City for the first time in ages. Immediately got a traffic cone throw at me by a local dirtbird. Tent on Westland Row spontaneously combusted. Non local chap walks past, totally naked, screaming at the sky. Totally normal.

Bauhaus #design is everywhere. But its roots were never just about aesthetics – they were political. The #Bauhaus stood for change, for the belief that design could transform everyday life and #society itself. A #vision of function, form, and progress that still challenges us

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.” Sir Martin Amis, born 25th August 1949