i just bought a vacuum and i'm panicking that maybe a better vacuum exists and could have been bought

if me and partner every break up can someone remind me that the way my mind works I really just need to stay single, thank you. if my brain didn't spend 24/7 telling me the person i love hates me, because i didn't love anyone, i'd be lonely but i'd be better off "what if he does hate me though"

who’s that diva

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Getting kind of tired of self-styled serious people confidently asserting that data centre water use is a made up issue.

i've always felt that if it wasn't for taboos and heterosexual normativity surely most people would be pan. Even if you aren't *super* into someone, can't you appreciate beauty and at least some level of [redacted] with them? I'm sorry I don't understand monosexuality, I've tried

it's wild we spend so much time learning to balance quadratic equations as 15 year olds but no one sat down and helped us understand, truly understand, how big a billion is that should have been on the test

I remember I was going to get maths grinds but then found out how much they cost and I said "holy shit, I'll study instead" and I went from an F to a B sounds great but that was more than 30 years ago and I still have nightmares about it every week www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

people who think Bluesky is boring compared to twitter are doing that thing you do when you get out of an abusive relationship and you start dating someone normal and you feel like "something's missing"

Partner: guess who wrote that music that's playing. Me: John Williams? Partner: HA! No! It's Moondog *we look it up, it's John Williams* He does be stealing #moondog #johnwilliams

Which one of the following statements are FALSE? Me: *read's first statement* That's correct! *click*

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

my brother printer is so great every time there's a problem it's my fault e.g. i just pulled a sock out of it now it's happily printing away again. this is the printer we were promised in the 90s

Stamping this down now: Netflix paid for the licensing rights! it's legit! Thanks bye bye! read greatures! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6v...

i cannot and will not ever understand why millions of people think information is better if it's faster and don't care about it being less accurate it's like drinking out of a broken glass with jagged edges because the in tact glasses are on the other side of the room

“The privacy risk is greater if doctors use A.I. scribes without a formal contract — for example, choosing a tool outside a hospital’s approved system… Dr. Lukac recommends asking your doctors if they have a HIPAA contract with the A.I. scribe company… before they start recording.”

definitely and completely got me for a long time.. I just got them both right in one go so I guess I'm cured. I'm the person other people ask how to spell things now, which is weird because I have dyslexia and failed every single spelling test I ever had. You just gotta read and type a lot, kids.

watching this very good show and very confused "why are the old people listening to Hot Chip?"* and then I googled how old the actors are.. I am old *maybe not in real life, but on TV people always listen to the music of their own generation, unless they are over 65

as a joke? funny, awesome grandma, so funny, warm feelings serious? not funny, bad grandma, emotional abuse, anger and sympathy

Hi, if anyone read the story of Bikram Lama, the bird man IT student from Nepal in Australia who died, does anyone know if anything is being done for his family?

when i saw teh trump Jesus picture I spent 2 minutes worrying that i'm in a coma and this is all a dream

dear everyone trying to get people to use search engines and wikipedia instead of chatgpt for information I spent years trying to get people to use online dictionaries instead of google translate to look up words we won't win

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of... 16 animals named after pokemon

Were Were those the only two options

Best way to do an April Fool's joke is by creating something that encourages people to be more skeptical on other days of the year and doesn't hurt anyone's feelings or frighten or disappoint anyone I spend months planning my 1 April to be educational and then I forget all my ideas and don't do any

hey suicidal or not suicidal but very depressed people, some day I'll die and you might think "why them and not me. that should have been me" and similar thoughts, especially if i die youngish Well let me say right now: No. That's your depression talking. It's my turn, feck off you can't have it.

It's heartbreaking that the UN is giving into this + previous murders and pulling peacekeepers out. What's the point in the UN if there's no effort to protect peacekeepers and the result of killing them is getting exactly what you wanted, for them to pull out www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

spent the last week thinking I'm the worst person alive, very ugly and scaly, of course drawing the conclusion that my meds aren't working anymore but also that no med ever will nor will any of my tools and I'm doomed and i forgot to check my period tracker. BAH If I'd realized it was temporary!!!

You don't run them for a profit you run them because people who live places need to be able to get places 😭 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... how do people in #waterford get to #DublinAirport now? #speirghorm

be annoyed at my coworker with me: A fully grown adult on his phone and when you suggest he could do xyz he's like "the boss isn't here"... well we get paid a day rate and we don't get to go home till we're done.. Saying a nicer version of this leads to his running joke about me being in a hurry

#speirghorm the idea that every taxpayer should have to subsidize people's car journeys when *most* private car journeys are both optional and harmful to everyone is just so silly when petrol prices go up you should do things to make food and electric cars cheaper! help *everyone*

i'm very late to the party but why didn't they build this fecking thing in athlone one hour by train from dublin one hour by train from galway affordable accommodation for healthcare workers parking and hotels (vs Dublin) for families of sick children www.rte.ie/news/health/... #speirghorm

The bar for children's authors ethics is so low I feel glad that Jack London was just an anti-women's suffrage man who admired a eugenicist (Herbert Spenser) but didn't seem to be one and died of alcoholism (he thought women's suffrage would lead to prohibition and he was against prohibition)

is there a name for Chidi's level of being highly principled? The sort of.. *am i a terrible person because I use washing powder and a machine when it would be better for the enviornment to simply put my clothes in the rain* ? #thegoodplace #goodplace #isthisthebadplace #thisisthebadplace

using the calculator in advanced mode because the kids tell me basic is an insult now

i have to do this addition task that takes about 10 minutes and i've been putting it off for 3 months

i don't think we should call them "hacking groups" because that makes them sound cool. I think we should call them unpaid coders or something.. wait some of them are paid by governments and similar... emmm.. unnamed coders .. ehh.. insurgent coders ha ha

this would be great! but otherwise.. can we ban klarna? paying for something that you don't need rn in installments is a recipe for disaster and ruin (not to mention inflation). can't believe that app is legal toaster, washing machine, etc: great idea clothes, smartphone etc: disaster #speirghorm

it's so weird that people nowadays (what made me think of this is Mel Robbins) can just like.. say things.. with zero qualifications or study... ok obviously on her podcast and social media BUT IN NEWSPAPERS!?

I hope they keep making this forever. I want to watch the middle-aged offenders trying to rein in their kids. I want to watch the elderly offenders getting up to no good www.rte.ie/entertainmen... #theyoungoffenders

Watched a great horror film called A Dark Song last night I love how most horror now explores... what do you call it.. feelings we aren't allowed have or talk about This one is about traumatic bereavement there is of course, no satisfying ending possible

Sometimes I wonder if the people designing those waist-slimming "illusion" dresses are aware that they're employing the exact same technique as ant-mimic bugs. I see someone wearing this and just think that's not going to fool me I know you're not an ant.

Better tax credits for electric and hybrid cars? Improve public transport and cycling infrastructure? No? Surely not giving more taxpayer money to fossil fuel companies companies and telling us you're doing us a favour? www.rte.ie/news/politic... #speirghorm

we are decades behind the Japanese in the field of cat science

Admire someone you know in real life: I know a few retired ladies who spend 40+ hours a week rescuing animals and taking care of them I know a 30 year old guy who is nice and chill with everyone he meets and just tries to live a good life and leave the world a little better than he found it

I strongly believe that both "we're all doomed, there's nothing we can do" and "individual action doesn't make a difference" are campaigns from big oil they ultimately get all their money from us, of course we make a difference

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

In Irish people are afraid of the Modh Coinníollach while people learning English in Ireland just can't figure out why the feck we keep saying "though", seemingly randomly I couldn't even figure out what they meant and then they started pointing out to me every time i said "though" #speirghorm

If you'd like my advice? Rather than say "you're wrong, here's a bunch of cases which show that" you should say "we have a problem right now where people do not have the choice to ride a bike because of road design. We need to allow people to make choices so they can live the way they want to."

teach your parents how to do ctrl+z and they will finally love you like you've always wished they would