Vincent Coller

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@melvinwpeters Did I just watch the pacer flatten a handful of racers in his way to get to the front? 😮

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@UpshotTowers The best tribute to him
https://t.co/wPQ3gZae4t

[Donal Fallon @fallon_donal]

Delighted with the talk of a Harry Clarke museum for Dublin. Beyond stained glass, he was a fantastic illustrator, including for work by Poe.

This illustration, The Last Hour of the Night, shows the realities of Dublin in 1922. Destroyed landmarks and a rickety tenement block.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@Paul_GreyKnight @dieworkwear You laugh, but they’re the one who have been immortalised in statue

[European Athletics @EuroAthletics]

That sprint finish! 🔥

Sophie O’Sullivan 🇮🇪 leads an Irish 1-2 in the 1500m and wins Ireland’s first gold medal in European U23 Championships! 🥇

And a lifetime best of 4:07.18 as well! 💫

#Espoo2023

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@ZapPiglet @IrishTimes It’s the American college system. She can’t represent the university once she starts racing professionally.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@CapelLofft @theUL Those pesky Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 liberals impinging on your masculinity again

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

We're all familiar with the Motte and Bailey.

Nick Shackel described and named it in a 2005 paper entitled "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology".

But did you know he also named four other rhetorical maneuvers?

Let's go through them!

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@duncancampbell @Noahpinion Almost, he’s arguing for a carbon and AND a free market without a carbon tax.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@Redeyes1878 @BelTel @SteveBakerHW Unfortunately this is the result of the self fulfilling prophecy of NI party politics existing wholly outside of UK party politics. The UK government is the Tories, NI constituents have had a century to engage with them; scorn them they scorn you.

[Christopher Smets @CWSmets]

I think about this Tom Waits story all the time.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@CapelLofft Hard to classify saying “one of the main benefits of organised religion is the strengthening and maintaining of community bonds through weekly social gatherings” as sneering & elitist.
Most don’t go to church for the praying bit, they go for the talking outside afterwards bit.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@fionerss Have pity on them, they know not what they do

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@tomaspueyo https://t.co/ZkrMAHbkcY

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@tomaspueyo 2. Sabine Hossenfelder’s little pop science video looked at this last year;
Pumped hydro is the best but there’s nowhere to put it…
Other options are either more expensive, inefficient or higher environmental footprint.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@TheAtlantic @jdkstern13 To quote @dieworkwear

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@DrAaronEdwards Boris making promises from Downing St is one thing but when’s the last time a Tory MP (the ones with actual power) was ✊ on doors in Belfast making promises before an election?
When’s the last time an MP from NI sat on government the front benches?

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@DrAaronEdwards The greatest failure (and a significant factor here) of unionist parties is that they have completely isolated their constituents from mainstream UK politics. The Tories and Labour are the ones in control of the purse strings and over a century they will prioritise investment 1/2

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@DrAaronEdwards and resources where they will get votes in return. NI is the only place in the democratic world where the ruling parties have absolutely no votes. If that remains NI in its current state can never develop. It’s against any parties own interest to throw money but get no votes.

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@dmcbfs Whoever runs a government decides where the money goes, and the money goes where it will win the most seats next election.
If you want a factor in why NI is in an economic hole ask how many of the cabinet ministers have been from NI in the last century…..

[Vincent Coller @CollerVincent]

@dmcbfs NI can never develop with the current setup because the people have no representation by the parties who actually call the shots; Tories and Labour.
This is the actual advantage of a UI. Ironically the PUL will be a block with clout in Dublin rather than irrelevant backbench MPs