MIRANDA: the AI bubble is popping, good riddance CHARLOTTE: I think Harry will have a lot of cases at his law firm about this SAMANTHA: it's been three weeks since I last had *my* bubble popped CARRIE: Big is in hospital after trying to fight Reacher

Irish Times recipe uncannily aware of my emotional fragility

Nick Cave's Train Dreams song was basically him watching the film and mumbling out whatever he saw on the screen. "Man with family... dog... river... tree falling... railroad... more trees..."

It is pleasant to have visitors, and it is pleasant when your visitors leave and you have a clean house and cake.

And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor’s “For Sale” sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.

You will not regret reading this.

I couldn't afford an AI companion, so I got a Magic 8 Ball to carry around with me and now we're in love.

❤️❤️❤️ thestretchmacgibbonshow.substack.com/p/the-top-75... @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social

one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen

Extremely depressing how many International Women’s Day posts, by individuals and large groups, are illustrated with AI slop.

Markdwayne the bathtub, I’m dwowning

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow ! Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Any excuse… this is mine.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

That time I saw yer dad in the Natural History Museum.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

WHAT: Simone Rocha (fall 2026) OCCASIONS: elevated hopscotch or after years of toil in your ancestral home you storm into the maths lab of your cruel advisor & write an equation on the board that changes everything IF IT WERE A SCENT: dowry chest (on fire) EMOTIONAL RANGE: 🌸/🔪 #MJMfashionGuide

Oh no!

Fun science fact for the day: alligators are voluntary breathers, meaning they have to consciously choose to breathe. This is why it's so hard to sedate them for treatment. A tranquilized gator can't breathe!

You know M.R. James would have had a field day with this.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

you don’t need ai to show you video of Smooth Operator as sung by Kermit the Frog. you can just use your imagination to do that. and you will use your imagination to do that. you’re doing it right now. you can hear his voice in your head. he’s hitting all the notes. diamond life, indeed.

@sylvialeatham.bsky.social I can’t reply to your comment so have to post at you: I have absolutely no memory of that but it certainly sounds like me because I’m finding it hilarious now!

same

dentist: count backwards from 10, please me: *nervous* 10, 9, 8, 7, … this is almost as fun as being at the dmv dentist: yeah my license is suspended me: 6, 5, 4, 3, … how’d you lose your driver’s license? dentist: driver’s license?

“Night does not show things, it suggests them.”—Brassaï

The morning so far

In 6 weeks, Minister O'Brien has fast-tracked LNG infrastructure, lifted the moratorium on data centres and the Dublin Airport passenger cap. All under the banner of 'strategic infrastructure'. Irresponsible moves that lock us into climate havoc and US dependency. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

It’s the 136th anniversary today of some highly prized artefacts from Ancient Egypt being auctioned in Liverpool. From there, the 180,000 mummified cats in question went to their splendid and dignified final resting place. A museum? No. They were ground up and used for fertiliser 🧵

Is there no hope that these clowns will ever wake up to what’s going on?

So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty

Oh you like eggs? Name three of their albumens.

Does the whole skiers injecting their penises with acid to fly further thing remind anyone else of the raccoons in Princess Mononoke spreading their scrotums to fly? It does now.

Is it "accidentally" or "by accident"? Anyway, I sawed my assistant in half

Magic Wand Micheál is the kind of nickname that could finish a politician if it really stuck.

Dance like people are watching and you’re trying to make them upset

"What we are seeing is not a ‘new normal’. In fact, it is just the beginning of a deterioration of our climate that will continue to worsen until we stop burning fossil fuels. In parallel, restoring ecosystems is the cheapest, quickest & most effective way that we can protect ourselves" 👏 #IrishPol

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

We all know that George Soros pays spectres to haunt Europe.

Very Accidental Partridge moment when he tries to throw off his jacket, fails, and laboriously removes one arm at a time

Apparently, it’s the most depressing day of the year so here’s something to immediately cheer you up - Willem Dafoe saying ‘it’s the creams’

Absolute chills

Instead of blaming Met Éireann, could politicians perhaps give a single moment's thought to the headlong rush to build more data centres?

Stations of the CrossFit: Jesus fails to do a pull up correctly for the second time.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

#SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland. Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.