Maria Power
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Three buildings collapsed in Gaza City due to heavy rain - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-buildings-collapsed-gaza-city-due-heavy-rain
Three buildings collapsed in Gaza City due to heavy rain
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Three buildings collapsed on its residents in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, due to the storm, Al Jazeera Arabic and local sources reported.</p>
<p>Gaza’s Civil Defence urged residents not to stay in buildings at risk of collapse and warned they could be brought down by the storm.</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#صورة</a>| انهيار شقة الصحفية ابتسام مهدي في حي تل الهوا جنوب غرب مدينة غزة. <a href="https://t.co/HmLV6FHuma">pic.twitter.com/HmLV6FHuma</a></p>
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December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Three buildings collapsed in Gaza City due to heavy rain - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-buildings-collapsed-gaza-city-due-heavy-rain
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Bubble can't pop fast enough
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bubble can't pop fast enough
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I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
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The centerpiece of the feast was a large cauldron of leek and bean soup. The Redwall Abbey cooks produced strawberry flans, apple cinnamon pies, quince tarts, and honey rhubarb crumbles. There was pennycress an' comfrey tea and a great deal of mint an' buttercup cordial.
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The centerpiece of the feast was a large cauldron of leek and bean soup. The Redwall Abbey cooks produced strawberry flans, apple cinnamon pies, quince tarts, and honey rhubarb crumbles. There was pennycress an' comfrey tea and a great deal of mint an' buttercup cordial.
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If you're neurodivergent and working in the library or info sector in the UK and Ireland, @nlisn.bsky.social is a peer support network that welcomes all neurodiverse individuals. They have resources on their website, a mailing list, run events and evidence representation and impact #CDGND
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you're neurodivergent and working in the library or info sector in the UK and Ireland, @nlisn.bsky.social is a peer support network that welcomes all neurodiverse individuals. They have resources on their website, a mailing list, run events and evidence representation and impact #CDGND
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Good point from Elaine. Neurodivergent staff are usually the best to support neurodivergent users because they themselves have likely had similar experiences #CDGND
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Good point from Elaine. Neurodivergent staff are usually the best to support neurodivergent users because they themselves have likely had similar experiences #CDGND
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A key point from Elaine: accessibility around recruitment and leadership progression is extremely important. To do this, managers may consider providing disabled candidates with additional accommodations in interview settings #CDGND
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A key point from Elaine: accessibility around recruitment and leadership progression is extremely important. To do this, managers may consider providing disabled candidates with additional accommodations in interview settings #CDGND
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Making this my 2026 motto:
yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'
yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'
So we thought, this is taking too long, let's check library records for the two different publishers' versions plus the one from which ours was abridged. Some helpful librarian will have recorded the attribution.
But of course librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources.
But of course librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Making this my 2026 motto:
yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'
yes we're helpful, but 'Librarians also do not have endless time and bandwidth and resources'
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
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December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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A really enjoyable read & great reporting from Orla O'Donnell. The judge schooled him in more ways than one. You know someone's serious when they break out a 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary for accuracy and remove the family from court before it even starts.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
Enoch Burke has 'something to hide' over income - judge
A High Court judge has said teacher Enoch Burke and his family could be using his court case to make money and that it was clear Mr Burke had "something to hide" about his income.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A really enjoyable read & great reporting from Orla O'Donnell. The judge schooled him in more ways than one. You know someone's serious when they break out a 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary for accuracy and remove the family from court before it even starts.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
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“Send him off! Send the dirty git off! Get him off the field! That were diabolical! Walk him, Campbell, if you’ve got any bottle! … He’s give ‘im a yellow card. I can’t spake. You bottless git, Campbell, you dick’ead. You bottless git. I can’t spake.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Send him off! Send the dirty git off! Get him off the field! That were diabolical! Walk him, Campbell, if you’ve got any bottle! … He’s give ‘im a yellow card. I can’t spake. You bottless git, Campbell, you dick’ead. You bottless git. I can’t spake.”
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Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
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A High Court judge has said it is clear Enoch Burke has something to hide regarding his finances, and that he and his family could be trying to make money from his campaign.
Mr Justice Brian Cregan also said Burke will not be released for Christmas unless he purges his contempt.
Mr Justice Brian Cregan also said Burke will not be released for Christmas unless he purges his contempt.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A High Court judge has said it is clear Enoch Burke has something to hide regarding his finances, and that he and his family could be trying to make money from his campaign.
Mr Justice Brian Cregan also said Burke will not be released for Christmas unless he purges his contempt.
Mr Justice Brian Cregan also said Burke will not be released for Christmas unless he purges his contempt.
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For dust you are, and to dust you will return
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For dust you are, and to dust you will return
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Senator Frances Black has said she is "really concerned" that questions about the timeline for the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill are being met with "vague answers and no detail" from government leaders. jrnl.ie/6896610
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December 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Senator Frances Black has said she is "really concerned" that questions about the timeline for the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill are being met with "vague answers and no detail" from government leaders. jrnl.ie/6896610