Dermot

Back in Belfast via Dublin, joker, engineer, once @goingoutni, dodger of dogma, likes valves, seriously worried about #climatebreakdown

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

Gonna do this book thread to follow my reading, I think. Feral was class, very interesting, presents a different way forward for the future, bring back the wolves!! #sheepwrecked

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

@BooRadAllie Feral by @GeorgeMonbiot is fascinating!

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

@MatthewOToole2 @timmckane @fionamce @BBCNolan Does that mean something is being or will be done about it? It's been a debacle for a long time, stoking division and platforming extremists.

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

This does not seem to be well managed/operated based on the ongoing delays here today. Definitely going to be some backlash against it @LizKimminsSF @BBCNewsNI

[Department for Infrastructure @deptinfra]

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has announced that a £340,000 carriageway resurfacing scheme on the A6 Glenshane Road, Maghera will commence on Monday 1 June 2026.

More details here: https://t.co/rme5X8ZHKi

@MidUlster_DC @TrafficwatchNI

[Department for Infrastructure @deptinfra]

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has announced that a £340,000 carriageway resurfacing scheme on the A6 Glenshane Road, Maghera will commence on Monday 1 June 2026.

More details here: https://t.co/rme5X8ZHKi

@MidUlster_DC @TrafficwatchNI

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

So did the Coney road from Culmore park to Muff pretty much stay as is? That's a disaster of a section, crazy bit of death road there, didn't even realise it was part of the Greenway recently when driving it

[Wee Greenway Initiative @GreenwayPlease]

@KartinMing @NWGreenway @deptinfra @ThornhillDerry @dcsdcouncil @SEUPB @donegalcouncil @INTERREGTweets @derrycityfc @M_AndersonSF @DttasIrl @Gary_Middleton @MarkHDurkan @SMcLaughlinmla @k_mullan The rationale is explained here: https://t.co/mwYHouQgTe. We would support the route selected because it connects 1000s of people. Our main concern relates to junctions (meant to be raised) and how Coney Road will be treated.

[Wee Greenway Initiative @GreenwayPlease]

@KartinMing @NWGreenway @deptinfra @ThornhillDerry @dcsdcouncil @SEUPB @donegalcouncil @INTERREGTweets @derrycityfc @M_AndersonSF @DttasIrl @Gary_Middleton @MarkHDurkan @SMcLaughlinmla @k_mullan The rationale is explained here: https://t.co/mwYHouQgTe. We would support the route selected because it connects 1000s of people. Our main concern relates to junctions (meant to be raised) and how Coney Road will be treated.

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

What a great thread. Hope exists, Sorcha, @AOC, @ZackPolanski, etc are just some looking to unite behind decency and against oligarchy and the politics of division currently shaping the world. Keep the faith.

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

It's a cliche, but it's true. Evil only thrives when good men do nothing. Look the other way. Turn a profit. The system is broken and I don't have all the answers. But I know that we need to organise and challenge this better in our democracies. We need to keep alive our democracies. But the game has changed and so must we. We need to think fast and hard about how to deal with the changing picture. 11/

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

It's a cliche, but it's true. Evil only thrives when good men do nothing. Look the other way. Turn a profit. The system is broken and I don't have all the answers. But I know that we need to organise and challenge this better in our democracies. We need to keep alive our democracies. But the game has changed and so must we. We need to think fast and hard about how to deal with the changing picture. 11/

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

Eugh, this is really bad, AI reinforcing delusions and encouraging them, going to be a lot of this happening now and in the future.

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away?

Then I read a paper by Anthropic and the University of Toronto which has strangely received very little attention

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away?

Then I read a paper by Anthropic and the University of Toronto which has strangely received very little attention

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

Maher Tarabishi, age 62, was taken by ICE last October when he exited his immigration check-in appointment in Texas. He was the primary caregiver for his 30 year old son Wael, who suffers from a chronic muscular condition called Pompe disease. His father provided 24 hour care for many years.

Wael died today, his family told me. Wael’s heath had been declining ever since his father’s detention. He never got to say goodbye to his father. Maher will never see his son again.

Maher came to the United States in 1994. He is not a criminal. He paid taxes. He raised a family. He was attending his immigration check ins reliably. Now that family is destroyed. For what?

If our government has any compassion, Maher Tarabishi should be released from detention now. He should be allowed to attend his son’s funeral. May Wael rest in peace.

Is this what America has become? Is this what we want America to be? Spread the word: #FreeMaherTarabishi

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

As a key deadline approaches in the United Nations General Assembly, a little-used UN mechanism, immune from the US veto, could bring military protection to the Palestinian people - if we demand it. https://t.co/8YzSwa6EAF

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There’s more media coverage of the Israeli military being offended by a chant than the fact that the Israeli military is STARVING BABIES.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Every day Israel starves 2 million people in Gaza.

Every day it massacres dozens after luring them to its "aid hubs" with the promise of food.

Every day the media treats this as an entirely routine story, barely worth reporting.

[Dermot @Dermiemac]

This is vile. I am disgusted with the world that this is allowed to keep happening. I despair for humanity.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Read this detailed account of the “aid traps” Israel has set up. The procedure seems to be: station a truck carrying flour, wait for a crowd to assemble, shoot tank shells to disperse crowd. Repeat

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Read this detailed account of the “aid traps” Israel has set up. The procedure seems to be: station a truck carrying flour, wait for a crowd to assemble, shoot tank shells to disperse crowd. Repeat

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

The last time we saw evil on this scale, dozens of nations moved heaven and earth to stop it.

Now, we fund its continuation.
We arm and fête the monsters responsible.
We excuse their atrocities and indulge their crocodile tears.
We blacklist and jail and deport those who object.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Govt says it will take 'concrete action' if Israel does not stop its attack on Gaza and end restrictions on aid.

The time for action is now. The UN has warned that 14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours.

End arms sales. Impose sanctions. Recognise Palestine.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Today marked 77 years since the Nakba — when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes.

It never ended. Genocide in Gaza and land theft in the West Bank continue.

We stand for Palestinian freedom, return and dignity — and demand that the UK stops arming genocide.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Not content with starving millions of people to death, Israel has now bombed a humanitarian aid ship in international waters to stop aid getting to Palestinians

Zionism makes Nazism look tame

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Haaretz Editorial https://t.co/XYT1JUvBeH