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Swedish cartoon 👇 published on the day of 🇸🇪 Chief of Defence visit to #Ukraine combat units.

"Green Party split from group at centre of trans row"

How lovely it is to see my party get such in-depth coverage on BBC News.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-675

COP summits are the ecumenical councils of the twenty-first century, complete with hand-wringing over angels dancing on the head of a pin.

Little good can come of them.

theguardian.com/environment/20

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if you ever come across someone who refers to themselves as a "free thinker" or "heterodox", it's time to buckle in and get ready to interact with the most boring motherfucker you've ever met

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“‘I Stand With Them:’ Famed Lesbian Swimmer Diana Nyad Reverses Stance on Trans Athletes”

“‘We are all sisters and siblings under the blue sky, and we should all have equal opportunities to play the sports we choose, the sports we love.’”

“‘I have come to understand that the science is far more complex than I thought, and there are clearly more educated experts than I who are creating policy to ensure that elite sports are both fair and inclusive of all women‘”

them.us/story/diana-nyad-trans

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@Peternimmo And everyone's afraid of the frog soon to emerge from the jungle. England is weird.

"Laura Kuenssberg: Ukraine in 'mortal danger' without aid, Olena Zelenska warns"

That aid and solidarity must be unconditional, and given out of love. We owe it to Ukraine. It's their battle, and we all benefit from a Ukrainian victory.

Slava Ukrainii!

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67

Good grief, there's talk here of Tory "Spartans" re-donning helmets and taking up spears in a plot to kill yet another party king. The undramatic reality is small-town whingeing bastards dressed in high street suits, armed with WhatsApp and phone numbers of Fleet Street political hacks.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/they

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I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

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Don't sleep on these first results from the world's largest universal basic income experiment ever. (23,000 cash recipients with 5,000 getting UBI for 12 years)

1. Entrepreneurship skyrocketed thanks to the UBI functioning as both startup capital and spending power for people to be customers at those businesses.

2. NO INFLATION!

npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/

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The video was taken by a female soldier of the 47th Brigade fighting in Avdiivka. Troops can be seen fighting near a trench as bullets whistle overhead.

A female Ukraine combat #medic fires back as four Russian tanks attack her trench and wound comrades. Intense first-person footage revealed the brutal reality of trench-fighting in Ukraine.

(WARNING - Contains Disturbing Scenes)

(5 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 youtu.be/wMYnzJoiYAA?si=xi3AIs

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

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We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we'd be seeing him again

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At least three companies based in Ireland supplying components to the Russian military, according to this site.
mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/1

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