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Point Nemo, The space cemetery named for the fictional captain in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, is where the International Space Station is likely to end up

International boffins have said
That Point Nemo, down on the seabed
Is where we should crash
All our tired old space trash
Or it might just come down on your head

John Moynes

ISS

The All-Ireland sandwich contains 32 ingredients, one from every county

In a curious culinary feat
They took fish and some veggies and meat
From all over this land
Then stacked it up and
Made something that I wouldn’t eat

John Moynes

All plastic packaging waste, including soft plastics, can now be placed in household recycling bins

It can be confusing: which bin
Should you put your soft plastic in?
If it’s dry, loose and clean
Then aim for the green
As making more landfill’s a sin

John Moynes

RollingNews

By deleting texts relating to his official duties, Simon Coveney (above) may have breached the Freedom of Information act

In politics some can’t see why
The usual rules should apply
To those at the top
And that’s why they stop
Believing in our FoI

John Moynes

RollingNews

Vaccine critic Joe Rogan says he tested positive for COVID-19

An overpaid podcaster, Joe
Who believes that he is in the know
Badmouthed the vaccine
Then said that he’d been
Infected, which just goes to show

John Moynes

Instagram

The Quadroin is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to mimic a penguin

Now boffins admit they do not
Know what happens at sea so they’ve got
A new plastic bird
Which seems quite absurd
A new-fangled self-propelled bot

John Moynes

Hereon/Florian Büttner

New Zealand MP Carmel Sepuloni’s son crashed a live interview his mother was having via Zoom to show her a deformed carrot ‘shaped like a male body part’

A minister got quite a shock
Her son came in without a knock
Thinking it would be fun
To show everyone
A carrot that’s shaped like a cock

John Moynes

Anti-monarchy group Republic is erecting billboards in Scotland

In Britain some folk want to wean
Their country away from the Queen
Though not many, they choose
To be buoyed by the news
Of the royals, which has not been too clean

John Moynes

Pic: Republic

Construction to stop San Francisco’s Millennium Tower from sinking further into the earth has been halted after the building suddenly sank another inch within a few weeks

It’s not controversial to think
That skyscrapers just shouldn’t sink
But out by the bay
One does, so they say
And the residents kicked up a stink

John Moynes

Getty

“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing

Predators like a streetlight
When going out hunting at night
Because they’re aware
Of moths everywhere
So ecologists say they’re a blight

John Moynes

AFP