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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 8h

How’s the bridge buying business going?

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 17h

Gill was Farage’s man at every point www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 17h

People in Ireland undervalue the success that is RTÉ. Given the audience and state resources at its disposal it’s a daily triumph and an important part of the national fabric. Don’t play ‘mini-Brexit’ by wrecking things that work because you are bored or frustrated.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 17h

Even the very worst people shouldn’t be murdered in prison. There, said it.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 17h

Since a substantial proportion of the administration are ideologically-driven shock jocks this is probably approaching transactional now: ‘what do you want or need me to be angry about this week?’

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

They were playing in the bogs back then too

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

There couldn’t be a bigger admission that you have nothing new to say or offer and have no serious ambitions for the country than this statement.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

I played the Godfather trailer earlier (dealing with the ennui of a Saturday afternoon in the international break) and it ends on a shocked Diane Keaton looking through a closing door. She looked so very young.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

is ever greater than it might seem today.

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Now well past the stage where most people - unlike me - have no first hand recollection of Apollo (I was 4 in 1969 and didn’t stay up but do remember it on TV the next day) but it still fascinates millions. The technology was primitive (barely been flying jets for 25 years) and so the achievement

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

When I worked as a software engineer I wrote an internal company blog on errors and bugs and referred to this case - I didn’t go big on it because I thought surely this is familiar to most of the engineers (especially as we worked in the same field - embedded devices) but had a lot of follow up.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

Dreary, innit?

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 1d

First Bus Trojan Point

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

I must watch First Man in the cinema if I ever get the chance

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

You say you are gaining 3000 members a day and then accuse Farage’s mob of being liars. So you will be hitting 200k members in roughly 35 days then? Shall we check back then? Happy to also go for your lower limit of 175k by then if you like.

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

Anybody using #Rstats with VS Code? I am struggling and would really appreciate some help: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

Solving R path problems when using VS Code

On the command line (Ubuntu Linux 24.04)... which R /usr/bin/R But when I use VS Code to attempt to debug my R, I get a dialog saying this: R path not working: /usr/bin/R (Can be changed in settin...

stackoverflow.com

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 2d

Says a man who wants to gift Putin the UK leaving NATO, abandoning our critical role supporting allies in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and others

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

A company has a falling rate of profit, yes.... that's not what constitutes as systemic falling rate of profit. Read some books.

Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever

a cartoon of a man with glasses and the words ackchyually

ALT: a cartoon of a man with glasses and the words ackchyually

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't switched from a discussion of UK politics to global politics. I was discussing the Marxist claim of a choice between socialism and barbarism. That's a global choice, isn't it, from a Marxist perspective? You jumped in and started talking about UK incomes, not me.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

I very obviously haven't said that. You haven't read any Marx, have you? Do you think we have human immiseration in the global capitalist system? Global median incomes have grown by about 6% since the 2008 crash.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

A calculation that doesn’t include socially supplied goods. Are you are Marxist or a follower of the Austrian school? You can do better than that, surely?

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

The creepy adjacency of his argument to Cultural Marxism vileness plays well with US funders no doubt, but I just don't think it is anything but negative over here.

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 2d

kermit the frog is drinking from a cup of tea

ALT: kermit the frog is drinking from a cup of tea

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