Michael Collins

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[Michael Collins @michaelcollinzz]

It has long been my belief that there is nothing more glorious than Donegal in the month of May - something I'm now certain of after the past few weeks.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

The blood-stained stole worn by Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel on this day 10 years ago, when he was murdered by Islamist terrorists during Mass in France, is displayed at the same church where he was killed

[Michael Collins @michaelcollinzz]

@ZakDaviesKhan Congrats!!!

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

It is literally insane simultaneously to think that 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to vote but not mature enough to look at Instagram at 8:30pm. This is comically absurd.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[Michael Collins @michaelcollinzz]

degaulle-maxxing

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

V interesting polling from YouGov - only 26% of Labour Party members want to adopt a more liberal immigration policy.

The poll finds 44% would like to see Shabana Mahmood’s current approach continued...

[Russell Langer @R_Langer]

"That synagogue has been turned into a mosque so I don't know why someone would petrol bomb it."

The antisemitism crisis in a nutshell

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

Modern Britain in a nutshell as a lanyarded crony tries to talk down a long term public servant who’s trying to say goodbye with dignity and then scrolls through her phone when he does so.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

This was Hibernofuturism btw

[Josh Fenton-Glynn MP @JoshFG]

If you can’t condemn someone who released a song called Heil Hitler without mentioning Palestine then you’re part of the problem.

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

Did you know that the oldest recorded poem in English is about Good Friday?

This is The Dream of the Rood - a poem where the cross of Christ talks to the poet about the crucifixion - read in Old English by Dr Alexandra Zhirnova, at @StPaulsLondon.

[Gɑelċló @Gaelchlo]

Mapa de Chontae Dhún na nGall. Is cuid é seo de mhapa den tír go léir a d'fhoilsigh 'Stát-Oifig na Léarscáilidheachta' in 1938.

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Of course if an architect today proposed, as Hawksmoor did here, a design so richly and shamelessly borrowing from the past, you could hear the howls of 'pastiche' from here to Hampstead. Fortunately our predecessors were wiser & allowed themselves to ...

[dan barker @danbarker]

Historic England run a lovely scheme helping people to clean some of these up.

Here are a couple of their before/after examples.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

For unity, not division.

Vote Labour.

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

I try to avoid being melodramatic about cultural decline.

Then I read that, when the BBC adapted Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels in 1974, the Radio Times published an *84* page illustrated special on its historical context.

Unimaginable today.

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Pancakes should be served with lemon and sugar not maple syrup or chocolate; that is an abominable Yankification,

[Michael Collins @michaelcollinzz]

Hurrah! More of this!

[Emmanuel Pernot-Leplay @PernotLeplay]

🚨🇫🇷France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio.

The data is hosted on @outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers.

The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

See more here https://t.co/0uNmaoYdkA by @LelloucheNico