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[11:11] Five arrested over abduction, torture of man in Dublin

Gardaí investigating an organised crime group in west Dublin have arrested five men following the abduction and torture of another man during the week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/0215/1496946-west-dublin/

#Dublin #five #theweek

[01:01] Cabinet to hear of plans for St Patrick's Day visit to US

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris and eight ministers will travel to the US during the week of St Patrick's Day, under plans Mr Harris will bring to the Cabinet today.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0212/1496196-cabinet-us-visits/

#MicheálMartin #TánaisteSimonHarris #eight #US #theweek #StPatrick's #Harris #Cabinet #today

[08:12] Thousands face third day without water, power

Follow latest weather updates, as Met Éireann says "extremely cold" conditions will last into the week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0107/1489424-weather-latest/

#Éireann #theweek

Anybody who has followed me at any great length, even on what was Twitter, knows I'm a fan of #KPop. I've decided to write a post about it as the result of watching #CNN 's #TheWholeStory whose focus was mainly an American man in S. Korea training teen girls for an idol group. Anybody besides me notice that there's never any mixed gender groups?

...and then I revisited an old issue of #TheWeek from last October which did did a small article about "emotional refugees" from S. Korea, titled "Why our youth are fleeing our country" (p.15, October 11 issue). It's easy for fans on this side of the globe to mistake KPop for what's going on in pop culture on that side of the globe, but taking this article together with the CNN report, which also reported that plastic surgery for girls is common, routine over there--the deal boils down to high competition and resulting burn-out. After working for Motorola Semiconductor Sector where competition ruled, I sure as hell can relate to that kind of environment.

I'm convinced that KPop is awesome because of the competition, I'll admit to that much, but I'll also say that it's a cash cow that is on an unsustainable track in the longer view. Over here, Psy was a one-hit wonder. Then BTS caught our eye and then vanished. What's unsustainable is the requirement that performers have to be teenagers. Boy bands break up when they reach the age of military service and girl bands that age out have to make way for the next batch of teen idol bands, and there's been signs that bulimia has started to surface in the industry's weight requirements designed to enforce an age limit--the girls that age out can't stop normal growth but go bulimic because they try and keep trying.

Blackpink in particular has found stellar success as a girl band but has grown into its own recording brand, and that's fine as far as that goes, but are they training more teens, which in turn age out then start their own training company to train more...
There's a term on this side of the globe for this sort of thing and that's "saturated market", and it's an all-girl-band market. Many apply, few are chosen, and if this all there is, you can't blame a girl for having the opinion that S. Korea is a place to escape from, like the article write-up said.

Paging @wlf_warren

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what if...
#socialmedia pages were publications

so far #twitter #x https://det.social/@mastomememakers/113539375542758710
and https://det.social/@mastomememakers/113539678453820198 #facebook have been parodied,

now is #mastodon​s turn.

#fediverse #meme #mamema #memes #scienceandnature #theweek #meta #musk #climate #mastodon

Has anyone on here done the 3 vid program that is offered by the non-profit "The Week" (theweek dot ooo)?

#intentionalcommunities
#climatecrisis
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[21:23] What is Bluesky and why are people leaving X to sign up?

Around one million users signed up for social media site Bluesky in the week following Donald Trump's election win - but what is it?

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1114/1481020-bluesky/

#Aroundonemillion #Bluesky #theweek #DonaldTrump's

Last Week Today! S2024E9

Was a busy (two) week(s) since the last one, so let’s catch up with happenings:

🎂 March 20th and 31st marks “Birthday Week” with the fam, as it’s BoyType and MonkeyGirl’s turns to celebrate getting one year older. And me and SuperWife’s time to be broke AF. BoyType wanted a miniPC for his birthday to tinker on so he combined all his loot and bought one on his own after making sure it could FortNight OK; he wanted to be able to play with his schoolmates. (Don’t tell him I was going to make sure he could play on my Xbox when he told me the first time, but this is a better way since I want him to learn to troubleshoot technology.) MonkeyGirl wanted cashola plain and simple. The big issue this time was me trying to pay lots of bills and have some cash left for our trip and then some foolishness happened that delayed me hooking her up with her gift for a few days, annoying the newly minted 11-year-old. I said, “get used to having deferred dreams for the sake of necessities, especially in this family,” which is a lesson she needs to understand as she learns how to manage money. In my own childhood, my parents were constantly using my allowance stash like a petty cash pot to cover bills and things that would come outta nowhere, so I got used to waiting well past my allowance days to “make a withdrawal;” at least until I was able to get a bank account. She’s got her own account we monitor, and a lot more scratch in it than I did when I was 11– I’m making sure it doesn’t burn a hole in her pocket now.

🎌 One of my BFFs came back home for a visit with his wife and kiddo. He’s from Atlanta, spent lots of time in Japan and both moved back at the same time in 2008. He’s still there in fact, settling down for the long haul and I had done the same until we came back in 2021 (but I’ll tell that story another day.) They wanted to know what it’s like to stay in a RV so we set BigHank up for a driveway camp for them. Other than the water pump being broken because stupid me didn’t winterize it well enough, it made a good guest house for them. So glad to see him again and catch up with everyone. Of the things I miss the most about JapanLife, kicking it with my friends is the biggest.

🤦🏾‍♂️ After our guests left, we had one day to prep for our spring break trip to Jacksonville. Thanks to the aforementioned water pump issue, we wanted to get it fixed before getting on the road, and in our haste SuperWife and I didn’t properly lock the cargo “basement” hatch. To make a long story short, our spare tire slid out of there along with a few items all just 300m up the road but by the time we noticed, of course it was gone. Who could pass up a perfectly good commercial grade tire & rim just lying on the corner of the road like that? I’ll be buying a replacement before we head on our next journey in May; until then, are there any Pick-A-Part specials for these things?

🏖 We made it to Jacksonville Beach without any troubles actually. I’ll be posting a more detailed trip report in the next few days, but here are some snaps for your consideration:

And that’s all I got, see ya next week! 👋🏾

https://starrwulfe.xyz/t/2Zr2

#theWeek

The Week magazine presented the cover of its new issue featuring a strong bear with a Russian tricolor hat and "waiter" Donald Trump serving Ukraine and NATO on a platter. #TheWeek #politicalsatire

@yorgos What’s staying with you from #TheWeek ? I haven’t watched yet. Am organizing it now.

Last Week Today!  S2024E1&2

In the tradition of those of us who can’t do the daily “my day be like” journaling posts, there’s the tradition of the weekly post that sums up what happened the week before. In my nod to one of my favorite TV shows, Last Week Tonight, I’m swashbuckling (🏴‍☠️) the hell out their title and using it on this blog series. Shiver me timbers! And, I’m ripping off my buddy James with the formatting here. Walk the plank!) Also I’m late AF as two whole weeks of January already passed. GyattDayum 2024 is already faster than ’23. OK, let’s dive in.

🎄So Xmas came and went with little fanfare other than the usual merriment of a Japanese/Afro-American family with very little time and money can make on such occasions. We exchanged gifts with each other, everyone got generally what they wanted but most of all just was glad to be able to enjoy time off with each other, my mom and oldest brother.

🛣️ Big Ass Hank (our RV) got some time on the road — we hustled down to Orlando for some R&R in a warmer place than metro Atlanta. We used our Boondockers Welcome privileges for a nice layover spot in Live Oak, FL when traffic got too much and continued on down the next day. Normally this is a 6 hour drive, but sometime between 2008 and now, about 5 million more people decided to move into the space between us and Central Florida, making I-75 look like a 320 mile urban expressway complete with crack-ups and speed traps every 20 miles. A train between ATL and ORL is needed.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Once in Orlando, we kinda didn’t do much except be in awe of our campsite on Lake Dora (a COUNTY park with cheap camping that blows some of the really expensive sites away) and Old Town Orlando’s Eola Park area. Orlando is a nice town even if you’re not visiting the theme parks; worth the visit just to hang out and chill for 2 days.

👨🏾‍💻 I actually only took a few days off for the holiday; my on-call shift usually has nothing going on this time of year and I work from home. But there were some bonkers edge cases coming into my queue and I really wish I could talk…vent about them here. I’m compiling them elsewhere, and someday dammit…someday I’m gonna sing like Dionne Warwick!

😷 Of course in the middle of all this, my entire household got sick! It wasn’t COVID but, that didn’t stop my doctor from probing my schnoz…

🎌 There’s lots of Japanese related stores around our part of Atlanta, and we kinda never visit them… So since the kiddos had their Xmas/お年玉 money burning holes in their pockets, we decided to check out Tokyo Kuma (which seemingly got TikTok’d and Instagrammed to death in the last 4 months) and Kinokuniya Atlanta (which has been a 20 year pipe dream ’til now because I swear they were 6 months from opening a location in Buckhead in 1999, but it didn’t happen. Were those just rumors?) Needless to say, I’m glad these are a little out of the way for me, else I’d be treating it like the Daiso or DonKi I so miss and desparately want over here.

🚊 I’ve decided to try my best to advocate officially for bringing a good transport solution to at least my part of Atlanta and Northern Georgia. The ATLTrains concept along with Beltline Lightrail and I-285 BRT concepts need to be combined somehow. Going down to central Florida and seeing Brightline along with SunRail, Lynx and the fledgling but strong grassroots changes in THAT area makes me think we still have a fighting chance up here. And Atlanta ain’t doing nothing but getting bigger. It’s high time we all started thinking regionally and collectively about solutions not just involving 2 ton machines on asphalt all the time.

And that kinda catches us up! If you read this far, you’ve got stamina. Or you’re just really bored. Either way, thank you and see ya next week!

https://starrwulfe.xyz/b/1Z16

#theWeek

@Jens_van_der_Kreet @LeilahLilienruh ich hab das was geklaut und könnte das jetzt versuchen es hier zu posten, aber vielleicht kann man auch einfach damit anfangen sich #TheWeek anzusehen und sich danach die Materialen durchzulesen (oder das gleich zu machen).

https://app.theweek.ooo

Man soll sich das als Gruppe ansehen und sich nicht vom ersten Teil deprimieren lassen. Wer schon aktiv ist, wird vllt. weniger geflasht sein.

Das war wieder eine richtig gute Darmstädter #Klimarunde. Mit 2 neuen Gruppen, guten Breakouts und Updates, inklusive meinem Update zu "THE WEEK".

▶️ Wer ins Video-Link-Protokoll schauen möchte, hier entlang: https://www.loom.com/share/a00e07cf6cb944d3b3a2059bd317d501

📺 Wer sich #theweek mit Freunden, Familie, Kolleg*innen oder Mitstudierenden anschauen möchte, hier entlang: https://www.theweek.ooo/

Ich war übrigens erstaunt, dass nur eine von 12 Personen in der heutigen Klimarunde von THE WEEK gehört hat.

#darmstadt

Gestartet wurde #TheWeek von Frederic Laloux und Helene Gerin , die sich mit Freund*innen zur Zukunft des Planeten ausgetauscht haben.

Und vor Kurzem haben Mitarbeitende des Team Green der Vodafone, der Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft und @wetell gemeinsam die drei Video-Sessions von "The Week" geschaut und diskutiert. Dabei geht es nicht darum andere zu überzeugen, sondern für sich zu verstehen, wie man selbst handeln oder nicht handeln möchte.

Wenn ihr Interesse habt, probiert es auch und teilt gerne hier in den Kommentaren eure Erfahrungen. Vielleicht kennt ihr "The Week" ja auch schon. Dann erzählt uns: wie ging es euch damit? Hat sich für euch nach den Videos und der Diskussion etwas verändert? Habt ihr z.B. aus den Beispielen neue Hoffnung geschöpft? Wir freuen uns auf eure Rückmeldungen! Und wir freuen uns, dass so starke Mitstreiter*innen auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Welt zu haben!

The new project of Frédéric Laloux (Reinventing Organisations): #TheWeek. Watching 3 documentaries of 1 hour, followed by a guided conversation, to make sense of and start acting on the #ClimateEmergency.
https://www.theweek.ooo

"The dire consequences of the world's 'relentless' warming oceans" by Devika Rao for #TheWeek: https://theweek.com/climate-change/1020051/the-dire-consequences-of-the-worlds-relentless-warming-oceans

Hahahahaha.

A great political cartoon featured in The Week newsletter today.

#twittermigration #twitter #ElonMusk #Tesla #humor #meme #memes #theweek

Fun cartoons about the bird site from #TheWeek

https://theweek.com/political-satire/1018686/5-scathingly-funny-cartoons-about-elon-musks-twitter-disaster