"New Zealand Labour Party: Stop! Labour guarantees security of tenure as long as you live." (1946) Before my time, clearly. Ref Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-1946-02, National Library of New Zealand.

Just in my own area, this will fracture and damage Irish Studies as a discipline in the US because it will mean absolutely zero new hires from Ireland (or elsewhere). So no trans-Atlantic interaction within the discipline, and a closing off of American universities. And that’s just one tiny example.

Even aside from that name 😱 note that they’re only for “working adults”, so as not to annoy the permanently outraged pensioners. Also, if they introduce this then without one I’ll end up relying more immediately on my Irish citizenship when I’m visiting the UK than I do when I’m at home in Ireland.

We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)

Face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle. Now I’m safe in the knowledge she’s out, I almost regret the savaging she’d get in an actual campaign and what a terrible surprise it would be to her.

Looking very displeased that the grubby heathen hoi polloi stymied her immaculate ascension, but if she needs a tissue to dab away a perfect tear, I’m sure she’s got some in that €20K Hermes bag she’s got there

Steen, Sheridan, McGregor et al had YEARS to do the work but they didn't, preferring instead to hurl from the ditch and then blame the referee. They are not serious political people. They are a bunch of staggeringly entitled pick-mes, and the system worked as it should to weed them out. #speirgorm

What a relief to finish a class and see this news on my phone. I still think Gavin is effectively a novelty candidate but on the whole, the system works and we’re spared the fever dream of UK/US-style candidates.

That’s one way to describe her 😬

The king watching over his kingdom! 👀 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals

And to look at him you'd never think he was the type.

I presume he wouldn’t mind us pointing out that he had a good innings. RIP Dickie, who I’ll always associate with childhood summers when cricket commentary hummed the background and he seemed to umpire every match.

“There is a cohort that you know, their behaviour is very difficult, and I think we need to look at things like exclusions or curfews”. Do tell, will this be a curfew on boys, all teenagers, everyone from the northside? What time will it start, what area will it cover and who’s going to enforce it?

The reason I'm concerned about Maria Steen being on the ballot isn't that she will win (she won't). My worry is that if she is nominated, it will mean a month of national airtime for a hate campaign against vulnerable groups, carried by a media too scared of being sued to call it what it is

I’m entirely confident that even if the Rapture did happen today I wouldn’t hear about it for hours because not a single person I know would get taken.

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind. Now if Oireachtas members would stop nominating that Iona Institute Shill, we'll all be happier for it.

Ok, I'm not one to peddle misinformation but I'm gonna need every heathen on the planet to start posting about the many family members we miss because they got raptured. I for one will be missing about 8 brothers, 3 grandmothers, and 17 friends.

Live scenes from my first class of the new academic year. As you can see, the students were delighted.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Mr Honey Bear in a lift with a group of children. Christchurch Star, Thursday, 7 September 1972.

Tsurumaru is a red-crowned crane from the wetlands of Kushiro, Hokkaido. He’s an eternally 5-year-old spoiled boy.

If things weren’t already bad enough, now I’m in agreement with Ted Cruz. Ffs.

📷 Sanaa, #Yemen, 1900s

Why, why would he tell us this?! It’s mortifying for him - or would be, if Bertie had the capacity to feel shame.

Another article to keep from our cats

JESUS: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani CHATGPT: you’re completely right. And I want to thank you for holding me accountable. It looks like you’ve somehow got nailed to a cross

This is a classic case of someone using their wealth to attempt to manipulate the legal system against an opponent. But I take comfort from the fact it’s also a massive tell that it’s eating him alive that we can all just call him the rapist he is.

The double-act we didn’t realise we needed 😁

"That thing on your head looks ridiculous." "I thought Palace Guards weren't supposed to talk."

I hope the European Research Council is paying attention

RIP Robert Redford. Coincidentally, we watched The Sting at the weekend. It’s great fun, and he and Newman are mesmerising to watch.

They’re just ROOKing (looking!) for work.

I think we owe Dublin councillors a debt of thanks, they (and other councils) genuinely took one for the team yesterday, sitting thru a few hours of this nuttiness so that the rest of us don’t have to. Not you, Kerry - you know what you did.

Anyone who complains about working from home because they don't get enough human interaction should get a hobby rather than making the rest of us suffer for their lack of social life. Go do morris dancing or something.

It takes a certain brass neck to go out in public wearing those glasses and then make snarky comments about other people’s cognitive abilities.

Avoids making a holy show of himself (and us)

I learned about this today because one of my local pharmacies has a sign up declaring their “Teva-last” prescription policy. This link also has a form you can use to request Teva-last prescriptions for yourself as an individual.

A trillion dollars for this guy? Surely there must be cheaper Nazis out there?

A serious sunrise this morning 🌅

Oh dear. It’s practically a Freudian slip, it’s so unintentionally revealing!

This particular text would have more chance of being effective on me if I had either an AIB or a Paddy Power account. But PSA for others out there, this one is 100% a scam.

@mrmooshoo.bsky.social I know this doesn’t actually feature Cap’n Tom, but i think it still fits the spirit of our collection!

My personal tin-foil hat theory is that a) the EBU retains Israel because their main sponsor is Moroccan Oil (which is Israeli), but also that b) there’s no way that brand can afford to sponsor the biggest TV audience in the world, so it’s actually a front for Israeli propaganda/Hasbara cash.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

This, this, this, times infinity this.

I support the national broadcaster.

I reckon I could get a full semester-long module out of this clip I wanted to (I very much don’t want to)

I’ve just got a Covid booster 😎 if any Dublin folks here are having difficulty finding a willing pharmacist, DM me and I might be able to help.

This is so important in any professional work. Write every email as if it’s going to be read out in court, and follow up any meaningful verbal decisions with a recap email.