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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 5m

My favourite is Wolf Hall, I'm on record about this already

Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 5m

My least favourite television programme is the infinite loop of 3 second clips of decontextualised football, rugby and hurling they show on loop on upright advertising TVs in pubs now. Show something actually happening not just the idea of sport!

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 4h

She presumably doesn't know this, coming from a columnist background, but when you're doing the news you have to spend a good amount of time and effort finding out the news before you write it up, you can't just put "woke nonsense has gone too far"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 5h

I spent 10 years in England and relatively good pension systems (i.e. 'choose from these 200 funds' rather than 'do you want Risk 1, Risk 2 or Risk 3, we recommend Risk 1) exposed me a bit to the ETF concept, so I do find deemed disposal a bad idea, but I'd be more for grumbling than wildcat strikes

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 9h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 7h

This was really stark watching the Irish Traitors a few weeks ago - it's sort of standard that they weed out by class and intelligence in the UK one for some reason so it was slightly disorienting when they didn't do that immediately in Ireland. We had more interpersonal bitterness though.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

That line in particular makes me suspicious that this is a very finely tuned social satire, but then I guess who else is going to storm the halls of power on behalf of tax-free ETFs other than a Gen Z accountant

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

The first revolution in history where the Young Turks are a grad scheme cohort at Deloitte.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

A fella on Irish personal finance Reddit is trying to foment a general strike over the way investment profits are taxed

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

President Xi another fella authentic in his desire to kick a ball when available

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't normally be one to hand it to the Princess of Wales but she loves having a go at sports when the opportunity arises.

Kate Middleton celebrating swinging a hurley

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 1d

Was trying to think if doing keepie uppies is always a positive in a political campaign. Think you need to seem like you like doing them, rather than doing them to send a message. Could be a negative if you seem like you're only pretending to love football like David Cameron or Aaron Bastani.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Interviewed Lyse Doucet there a while ago about Afghanistan and being a foreign correspondent these days
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Lyse Doucet, foreign correspondent: ‘You have to keep returning to the heat and the dust. Really feel the story’

Veteran BBC journalist still gets `the pang’ to be at the heart of big stories

www.irishtimes.com

Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Considering he had a literally daily column for about 20 years this is an above-and-beyond commitment to providing copy

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Feel like what's happening here proximately is that she hasn't read a book since she was 15

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Very funny to claim Americans eat 50 billion burgers daily. 147 burgers per person per day

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

Well I guess in the maternal line. And also potentially the paternal line on the Norse side I suppose.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 2d

The line for me is whether your family was in Ireland for the Battle of Clontarf, which of course mine wasn't

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

www.theatlantic.com

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

The cartoonishly high and screwily targeted vape tax does feel a bit like they're thinking "we need to get tax revenue from this addictive substance" rather than "we need to discourage this harmful practice". But on a certain level: fair enough.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

It will be interesting to see what kind of vote he pulls. He might get some of what would otherwise be spoils, and presumably some proportion of the nation will somehow have missed the news. And maybe a few thousand landlords and true blue Hillgoing Dubs who think he was hard done by?

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

The quota is defined according to the number of seats and the number of valid votes in a way that boils down to "50% +1" in a 1v1 race, so the quota will be met in all cases other than a draw

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

No because nobody can be elected or eliminated without the election being over, and therefore nobody's transfers can be allocated. It becomes FPTP in a 1v1. However in this case because Gavin is still on the ballot paper, there will be transfers.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

Once again the two cats have been away being catsat (together) for a while and one has forgotten who the other is despite, once again, being littermates who have never been apart. As a result, the larger one has spent 36 hours hiding while the smaller one shows up about three times a day to hiss.

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 4d

Good movie, and also one of the great early 'are you seriously asking me to believe this guy is a college student' moments of cinema as a very obviously 40-something Olivier expresses his angst

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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 5d

Ireland has objectively worse infrastructure than the UK but it also has a kind of "we're still working on getting to our end state" type of development vibe that brings a sunnier mood than being in England where it's getting to be a bit like Saxons building mud huts behind Roman walls.

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