Pól Ó Súilleabháin™

Retired Geography/US Politics teacher & sports coach. Lifelong Red. Owner of a very handsome black spaniel. Occasionally sweary.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@robertsmale Our Murphy sends hugs and kisses. K

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@GBNEWS Retired history teacher knowing precisely FA about Singapore's climate. Who'd have thought it?

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

Brilliant as always....

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄

Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇

So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves

Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage

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[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@CarlsbergCo I've been trying to buy our favourite lager, Brooklyn Pilsner. No longer available in Tesco, Asda or via Amazon. Have you stopped production? Will it be back in the shops soon?

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

Brilliant thread as always....

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@GJMarshy Loads of contributary factors but wind direction & pollution certainly a big part.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@GJMarshy We used to teach about Sheffield for a long- gone A Level specification. Big SW-NE socio economic split in the 90s.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@Cantona_Collars Ellery had pictures of him sending off famous players all over his office wall at Harrow School. Had the misfortune to have to meet him on several occasions. Arrogant twat.

[JPC @jpxan71]

Don’t judge him by his words, judge him b…..
No wait…. Words will do and he’s a fucking cunt….

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

No he effing didn't. Lying shitbag.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book."

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

When historians look back at this period, and they study Trump's America, you have to assume that they won't believe it.

It's unbelievable now, and we're watching it in real time.

WHY is he allowed to just sit in front of global news media and make crazy shit up?

Why are we allowing this insane madman, the airtime to tell the world lies? Every minute of every day.

Those future historians will see these clips and read posts and articles about Trump, then they'll discount them as works of fiction.

Rightly so because that's what they are.

But the psychology behind this is troubling. The gravitational pull of a certified delusional person is keeping the world watching — and nobody calls it out to his face.

He's started a global war to distract from his appearance in the Epstein Files. There has been ZERO planning, only a knee-jerk reaction that is resulting in human beings dying.

But the broadcast and news media, let him tell the world that they are witnessing something he made up.

If he had known the Strait of Hormuz would have been closed, he would not have done this. He did not predict 9/11.

Mainstream media has failed the world. By allowing this insanity to be broadcast daily, without checks and balances, the US has fallen to a fascist dictator.

That's not hyperbole.

Wake up America.

The rest of the world are finally turning on him. You guys need to step up now. End this insanity. Please.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

Misleading bollocks from Honest Bob as usual.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

It is economic lunacy to ignore our rich energy reserves.

Reform will unapologetically drill in the North Sea for oil and gas.

We’ll get bills down and bring back good jobs.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@LeeAndersonMP_ Who to believe, the founder of fracking company Cuadrilla or a gobshite Reform politician?
https://t.co/wSHyzIcvfN

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Well done today Worcester.

Handful of knuckle dragging racist hotel shouters way outnumbered and out shouted by counter demonstrators.

Thanks to our local police who kept the peace with great skill and patience.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

@nigelmp Nigel, Swansea University was better than this. You were an opinionated gobshite in tutorials in the 70s, please don't show yourself up to a wider audience.

[Pól Ó Súilleabháin™ @OSulls]

Binge watching "Dirty Business". The water companies are bastards, utter bastards. Rot in hell.

[Stewart Wood @StewartWood]

Brexit’s tragedy: we gambled on free trade just as the world turned protectionist; we dismissed European continental solidarity as the platform for our security just as events made it more important than ever; and we bet the farm on the Special Relationship just as Trump arrived.