gooooood morning! I have rents between $1018 and $2030 available for adoption today. Let's keep on keeping people out of eviction court! You can dm me on signal asiniiwiikwe.72 if you would like to pay someone's rent.

As the years pass, the sea rises and nothing is built, some begin to doubt the council can defend Clontarf and Sandymount from the tides. “The current state structures cannot deliver,” said Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey. A council manager disagreed: “We can deliver and we will deliver." (2023)

"How can he have $717 billion and be that miserable?" Easy, he thinks more like a cancer cell than a person.

Normal people keep going "man if I had a billion dollars I'd be doing this and this and that, I'd get incredible kicks doing this" But it's impossible to become a billionaire if you are able to have those thoughts. The whole idea is as alien to a billionaire as art is to a cancer cell.

Yellow Weather warning issued by met.ie 🟡 ℹ️ Weather Advisory for Ireland From 05/02/2026 15:01 to 09/02/2026 00:00

If you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain you should move to Ireland. It rains all the time here and you can just buy a premixed bottle of Piña Colada at Tesco and walk around by the canal taking a swig between showers. Idk why anyone would wanna do that, but I didn't write the song.

BTW, in an Irish context, the "harassment" consists of @cnam-ie.bsky.social hosting DSA-mandated meetings with platforms ahead of the elections and the audacity to ask follow-up questions about Meta's Media Literacy programs.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Nature’s perfect predator ☺️

A very exciting find, but already seeing people throwing caution to the wind and reaching the foregone conclusion that these were definitely vikings. Just hang on a second for the osteology, folks - wanting them to be vikings doesn't automatically mean they are.

I don't have the focus to put in alt text but wow.

The government gutting free health care, education, arts and heritage: sorry lads, we need this money to preserve British values.

“Our zebra crossings are far from machine-readable; they are designed for micro-conversations between drivers and pedestrians.” And this is just one reason why self driving cars should not be given the time of day. TfL what’s the plan? If it’s taking out zebra crossings - that’s the wrong answer.

“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The quintessential internet experience: seeing a man steal your joke, tell it worse, and get 16000 likes for his trouble.

The commonsense reform to concentration camps is not having them.

Iconic…

This is a genAI company *doing its own research* to find that using its product reduces coding skills.

Fun fact: Bovril was created by a British company, at the request of the French Emperor Napoleon III, during the Franco-Prussian war. It was known as "Fluid Beef" and was for distribution to French troops. Unsurprisingly, they rebranded it pretty fast.

under different circumstances this is congressional-inquiry level scandal

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

Het is woensdag.

In fact eroticized exploitation, abuse, domination, and violence are in fact normative parts of male heterosexuality—they’re largely constitutive of how men define themselves as men. The big feminist and queer intervention in sexual politics has been to say that this is corrosive and unnecessary.

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

In a generation or two when the pension system has totally collapsed I hope someone remembers how FFG told people who were (highly) educated here and want to stay and work to fuck off #speirghorm

I’m passing Conor’s Law which is ‘enforce the actual laws that already exist that already make these things clearly illegal’

Performative bolloxology.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourv... Read the @irishexaminer.bsky.social view here: Tangle netting: Act now on this threat to our sea @whittledaway.bsky.social @fairseas.ie @gov.ie

Indiscriminate death traps. An estimated... - 1161 protected grey seals were caught. - 81 critically endangered angel sharks. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou... It is vitally important that the Dept for Ag, Fisheries & the Marine introduce byelaws to prohibit the use of tangle nets.

It looks like Wandlebury Hill near Cambridge might have been used as an execution site in the ninth century #medievalsky www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

ELEPHANT BONE FROM 2200 YEARS AGO.

The discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘

Míde Nic Fhionnlaoich has been selected as the Social Democrats’ candidate for the forthcoming Galway West by-election. "If elected, I will commit to fighting for a Galway that works for everyone," Míde said following her selection last night. @socialmide.bsky.social

There are no immigration crises, anywhere. There are governments deliberately under-planning for forecasted immigration and then using the strain to turn people against each other instead of against them.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

The bones require no intervention. They are able to rise through the earth all by themselves, and enjoy making their way to a premature resurrection.

can anyone recommend a handvac/similar that makes light work of dusting bookshelves?

This is about the propose LNG terminal at Shannon, and it is worth adding your voice to it. Spending a billion euro to import liquefied natural gas is a terrible idea - honestly, we'd be better off building a nuclear power plant, if the government want to have One Big Energy Infrastructure.

I just emailed the TDs and Senators on the climate committee asking them to stop Darragh O'Briens fossil fuel power grab. Can you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/em...

Periodic reminder that what's marketed as 'youth social media bans' actually amounts to requiring people to provide personally identifying information in order to access whatever content a given government disfavours.

Bloody hell, I'm really feeling burned-out and useless this week. Maybe it's been raining too long. I want to get on a boat and travel somewhere less soggy and grey.

It’s time for more scrutiny of swapping grass pitches for astroturfs, some councillors and academics say. The change may mean the pitches can withstand more use, but it also means they won’t absorb as much rain, or sustain as many creatures, they say.

It's not just that helmets and hi-vis won't by themselves make e-bike and e-scooter users safer: bumping this up to the top of the priority list also sucks up bandwidth from more important transport priorities like red light cameras, BusConnects rollout, demand management, etc

I don't normally interact with fanvids, but I came across this one for Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman, and it is excellent: archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Sometimes I think about the fact that Kemi Badenoch up and said 'yep, we deliberately put a bunch of bigots who hate trans people in positions of power to ram through our agenda' and Labour's response when it got into government was to just... pretend that never happened and leave them all in place.

We're hiring! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.