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[Offaly Express @Offaly_Express]

Disabled access to Roscrea Castle needs improvement says campaigner https://t.co/pUIj6StCbA

[DK @eirejournalist]

@autosport Your first time seeing the big bikes go through at the TT is an amazing experience - the camera can’t do it justice, you just have to experience it!

[Tullamore Tribune @TullamoreTrib]

BREAKING: Truck overturns in Offaly tourist village https://t.co/VqKlY8CNN7

[Midland Tribune @MidlandTrib]

BREAKING: Tipperary County Council will not purchase closed Roscrea hotel https://t.co/CawxcKpj7J

[DK @eirejournalist]

@DToecutter @Emilio2763 It’s not green motorcycles - there is a superstition in motor racing that green is unlucky

Kawasaki motorcycles are iconically green, like Suzuki are iconically blue, Yamaha is yellow

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

We are living through a moment where a group of people do not just disagree, they do not even acknowledge a shared fundamental reality.

There is no common frame of reference, no mutual set of facts from which discourse can even begin. They can watch the same video, from multiple angles, and walk away convinced they saw a completely different event.

They exist inside a narrative so deeply entrenched that to question it, to even acknowledge a contradiction, is to commit some sort of ideological treason.

This is a deliberate, conditioned immunity to contradiction. It is a cultivated resistance to evidence. They have developed a mind so thoroughly welded to its chosen reality that it will alter, discard, or fabricate whatever it must to maintain coherence.

They can be shown, in real time, the unraveling of their worldview, and they will patch over the holes with fantasy rather than face any doubt whatsoever.

Politics has turned knowledge itself into a partisan weapon. The expectation is no longer to seek truth, but to defend your team at all costs.

There is a lingering obligation to have an opinion on everything, to be informed at all times, to adopt the correct stance. And so, they improvise. They adopt prefabricated opinions handed down by their faction. They fill in the gaps with instinctive loyalty rather than demonstrating any semblance of independent thought.

The game is rigged, and they know it. Two parties, two choices, two sides that everyone is herded into, and neither is worth the loyalty demanded of them.

But to acknowledge this would be to admit powerlessness, to admit that they are trapped in an illusion of choice. So they cope. They retroactively justify their allegiance by turning their side into something righteous, infallible, and necessary. The alternative is too terrifying.

It is a coping mechanism turned mass psychosis. And it is escalating. When reality itself is dictated by allegiance, when loyalty outranks reason, when every fact must be bent into submission to fit the tribe’s chosen narrative, the outcome is inevitable: war.

When factions exist in separate realities, they cannot coexist. They cannot negotiate, they cannot reason, they cannot even comprehend the other side as anything but a threat.

This is irreconcilable. We cannot function like this. A society cannot sustain itself when its people are no longer individuals but ideological husks, possessed by abstractions, fighting battles for masters who do not even know their names.

You are not your faction. You are not your party. You are not an extension of a collective mind.

The moment you outsource your thinking, the moment you allow yourself to believe that your side must be right because the alternative is unbearable, you have ceased to be an individual. You have become another interchangeable pawn in a game that does not need you to think, only to obey.

Wake up. This war for reality is not one you want to be drafted into.

[Midland Tribune @MidlandTrib]

Roscrea mourns loss of former teacher and community leader https://t.co/KUseT5AB44

[DK @eirejournalist]

@Lyla_lilas The drones and explosives must be so terrifying for all the animals and wildlife, bless that man for his kindness to the beautiful dog

[DK @eirejournalist]

@AnnaOdesitka God bless the Ukrainian people, the bravest people in the world. You are legendary and your bravery will be remembered forever and rewarded in the end.

[DK @eirejournalist]

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin

[DK @eirejournalist]

@tom_rambles It’s called Busherstown tower locally - it used to be possible climb to the top on a rusty old steel staircase inside and a great view from the top

[DK @eirejournalist]

@TheSuiteLifeNow @ttracesofficial Get out the spanners 😁

[DK @eirejournalist]

@ReaRepairs No fairings - currently on bst36ss that are 750f originally but basically like less refined mk1 b12 carbs. I almost have her right after years of messing around with them, just the pilot circuit is never quite spot on

[DK @eirejournalist]

@Jim_Hunter_MGP Looks like rear shock settings are too hard - soon as he puts down power she steps out

[DK @eirejournalist]

@RTESunMisc @RTERadio1 Really enjoyed this moving story

[DK @eirejournalist]

@LandRover Get back to making proper Land Rovers

[DK @eirejournalist]

@ReaRepairs Lovely thanks 👍

[DK @eirejournalist]

@ReaRepairs Yes thanks I know the brands but is it the impact driver with 1/2 or 3/8 inch drive that you use - or is the impact driver the right one?