Horsey Matilda writes:
Veteran Labour TD] Emmet Stagg exposes the lie at the heart of Labour’s OPFP [lone parent] cuts.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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UK based artist Lee Joh Phillips has embarked on a project to draw and document every single item in his late grandfather’s (eclectically stocked) toolshed.
Respect.
He estimates the project will take five years and involve more that 100,000 drawings.
An extraordinary timelapse (shot at one second intervals) of a stationary supercell thunderstorm over the Black Hills of South Dakota near Rapid City on June 1, 2015 filmed by landscape photographer Nicolaus Wegner.
Go full screen for optimum effect.
‘sup?
Doug W writes:
In the mid-90s, before Sony designed the original Playstation they were developing a successor to the SNES with Nintendo. Apparently (see link below) 200 prototypes were built, but when the deal went sour, they were all destroyed – except for one (above) , which showed up in a dusty old box of bits recently. I’m still not entirely convinced this isn’t a fake, but if it’s not, it’s a really interesting piece of tech history.
Artist Danae Stratou and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Monday
Meanwhile, in the Seanad:
Um.
(Getty)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUZETq1QpBw
The Liberties festival 2015.
In YOUR jewel and darlin’ Dublin.
A celebration of “many cultures in one community” from this Monday July 13-18. The video above shows off highlights from the 2013 festival.
There may be coddle.
Also: 80 per cent of the events are FREE!
Thanks John Gallen and Kiora