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Cabra West, Dublin, Ireland
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🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
Patrick Stewart is often remembered for his grandiose theater acting but was incredibly skilled at silence as well. One of my favorite moments of #StarTrek Picard between him and Gates McFadden where they sell 25 years of distance, hurt, shame and relief in total silence
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
One of the funniest scenes in the whole of Frasier
RIP Patrick Stewart
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
This scene was originally written for Jude Law, which, I think we can all agree, wouldn't have been nearly as good. For the joke to work, it has to be someone with inherent gravitas. It works so well because Stewart plays it so dead straight, which not many actors could pull off. – at Cardiff, Wales
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
Re: this week's strike,
it seems rational when you consider years of falling public sector wages versus private sector equivalents.
For example, a clerical officer in the civil service was once regarded as the "permanent and pensionable" fairly well-paid job that would enable you to raise four children and buy a house and a car, with a wage close to or exceeding the national median wage pre-2008.
Now it is a totally different story.
In 2008, a new clerical officer earned 39% more than a full-time minimum-wage worker. Today: 11%.
After 10 years' service: 97% more than the minimum wage, 53% now.
No wonder public servants are striking for the first time since 2009.
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
The replies to this are the funniest thing you will read today
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
There's a summer Olympics. A winter Olympics. But no fall Olympics.
The world nomad games are the closest thing to it.
Tug of war. Horse racing. Home building. Mounted archery. Belt wrestling. Falconry.
A Kyrgyz yurt can be assembled faster than many people can pitch a tent 🇰🇬
#WorldNomadGames
Source: Instagram @kaminarinoyume
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
this is what true scholarship looks like. if your academics do not discourse like that, it is a sign they are merely strivers wearing their diplomas and titles as a skinsuit. they have captured the academia and the research is suffering for it.
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
A train driver takes a peek inside Croke Park during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship final between Kerry and Mayo last weekend.
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
This mic situation is just insane and not serious
We’re sanctioning Russia at speed and scale.
Today’s measures, together with the upcoming 21st sanctions package, will add 250 individuals and entities to the Russia sanctions regime.
This is our biggest round of individual designations since Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion, and includes also the EU’s largest-ever cyber sanctions package.
The financial backbone of Russia’s war machine is the main target. Every measure weakens Moscow’s ability to wage war.
My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
this child beekeeper killing a bee at 45 seconds will never not make me die laughing
Honey production is undergoing a major revival as communities help save the threatened honey bee. Among the beekeepers is the country's youngest - Rian Somers - who is busily harvesting this year's crop at home in Rathcormac, Co Cork | bit.ly/31wQtWQ
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
The Tunguska event is a good example of how historical change is sometimes random.
This impact would be among the most significant events in modern times had it hit a major city. Instead, it hit one of the least populated bits of land on earth, so it's hardly remembered.
118 years ago today, an asteroid exploded over Siberia, flattening an estimated 80 million trees.
On June 30, 1908, an asteroid or comet roughly 30 meters (100 feet) across, entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded high above the remote Tunguska region of Siberia. The blast leveled approximately 80 million trees across 2,150 square kilometers (830 square miles).
The explosion is estimated to have released energy roughly 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Had it occurred over a major metropolitan area, an entire city could have been devastated. Fortunately, it happened in one of the most remote regions on Earth, and no confirmed fatalities are known.
Every year on June 30, the global space community marks Asteroid Day, commemorating the Tunguska event and reminding us that near-Earth objects (NEOs) pose a real, natural hazard. Detecting, tracking, and characterizing these objects is one of the best ways to protect our planet.
That’s why The Planetary Society funds astronomers searching for NEOs. Investing in planetary defense today helps safeguard our world for future generations. 🌎
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.
Watch the whole thing with the sound on
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
Sad to hear Anthony Head has passed away.
The Gold Blend “will they, won’t they” ad campaign was a cultural phenomenon, an ongoing saga that lasted for 6 years, captivating audiences of 30 million. The inevitable kiss even made front page news. A landmark TV moment.
RIP Anthony
🍁🌦️Paul Anthony Ward 🍂 retweeted
If I bought this on accident I would react in a way that would make the local news
