Brendan Halpin

Sociologist in Limerick

Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes

Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python

Linux on the desktop since about 1997

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Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

"Ce n'est pas le chemin de l'annexe où le mourant l'attend." ("It was not the way to the annex where the dying man was waiting for him.")

Veiller sur elle, Jean-Baptiste Andrea

#page42
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a
comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the
closest.

November 27, 2024
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

Election violence in Ireland? Surely not! (Not again, at any rate.)

Maybe nothing actionable happened, but the extensible baton is a weapon, and means he was premeditating violence.

(A number of asides in the article suggest a lot of people, journo included IMHO, think the Gardaí are pretty close to useless.)

#mastodaoine

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/27/far-right-candidate-accused-of-assaulting-relative-of-political-rival-in-bray/

November 27, 2024