what are tom bombadill's special attacks what's his limit break

when the 6-year-old doesn't want to go to sleep she finds questions to ask, and is getting good at asking ones i can't resist answering tonight's was "how does the radiator know if the room is warm enough" so i gave her 5 minutes of thermostatic valve explanation, absolutely laser-targeted me

does anyone know if the access to grok's image-editing thing is limited to *paid* blueticks only, or is it also open to the others who get maybe 'legacy' blueticks (obama, nyt, etc)?

the irish times politics podcast had a bit on the stalled mercosur deal just before christmas, and framed it only as "free trade" vs "farmers' concerns" zero mention of the amazon rainforest, indigenous people's rights, or the risks to the health and environment of people in europe from imports

found out that someone has blocked me on linkedin for calling him a 'car dingus' on twitter 3 years ago

was wondering if you could do this in brussels with restaurants/bars from all the EU countries, and i don't think there's even a german one haha

this puts the powercuts in berlin into perspective a bit – the climate crisis makes storms like this more powerful and more frequent unlike targeted sabotage, the climate crisis is pretty indiscriminate, and the least well-off are the ones who get hurt the most

thirst posting

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a hello fresh subscription

It was a controversy when Catherine Connolly said she'd have to reflect on a hypothetical job applicant with a sexual assault conviction. Will the Táiniste face similar scrutiny for not already having a position on the CSAM website he actually uses?

if governments do nothing in the face of the climate crisis, and fossil fuel companies absolutely fleecing people on their bills, and ALSO criminalise peaceful protest, it's not surprising that people will take matters into their own hands

changing our transport system is also crucial for breaking some of the influence that arseholes like trump and putin have over us – the less oil we burn, the more free we are

yeehaw

Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.

So let's be clear and honest on the scope and scale of what has to be done here. This cannot only be about cracking down on a few porn apps; this has to be a large scale effort to bring the tech industry to heel. And I'm not sure advocacy groups have really internalised that

This is well intended etc but really undersells/misunderstands the core issue with the tech. This isn't a feature you can just block out like you're removing lines of code. We are so far behind on the abusive use cases for LLMs

nollaig na mban shona daoibh, a chairde

piloting one of the evangelion mechs but the fluid that fills it is delicious creamy stout

salting the footpaths in winter is good because it makes it safer in the snow and ice and ALSO keeps vampires away

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

add to that: the use of the dollar as the currency for global oil sales, to prop up the power of the dollar so not even *necessarily* looking for profits for US companies, or US control of the oil – venezuela selling oil to china without passing through the dollar was a problem for the US

ok let's go

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

mfw my fellow nato member can turn off all my fighter planes remotely and wants my critical minerals etc

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

She's gonna be pissed when she discovers that you forged another ring in secret thst rules the other 5

thinkin back on it, the 12 days of christmas "5 gold rings" is perfect comic timing your true love has probs gone from thinkin you're a bit kooky to thinkin you're a bird freak by day 4 the rings make it SEEM we're doin REAL presents, but it's back to birds til you start invitin all the guys round

amazing views of that full moon and jupiter right now if you're up where it's up

👏👏👏

It suits today the weak and base, Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place, To cringe before the rich man's frown, And haul the sacred emblem down.

in a sense, trump kinda is gettin that nobel peace prize isn't he

don't talk to me or my son ever again!

the EU would also like some of venezula's oil please

how's that rules-based world order treating yis

wild stuff happening, also in the coverage of this media describing the venezuelan government as "authoritarian" while giving no qualifiers for the US repeating the sanitised use of the word "capture" no mention yet that if the reports are true, it's highly illegal even by the US's own laws

I am getting sworn in at the mass grave of the 1916 leaders that’s overlooked by the sex offenders’ prison in Arbour Hill; and it’s got to be my own copy of Ulysses

the l&n supervalue in tipp town with scum manifesto

The alley between Nearys and the Gaiety, on a 1st edition of The Grey Goose of Kilnevin.

Getting sworn in in what was once The Catacombs (*) using a copy of Anthony Cronin's "Dead as Doornails". (*) www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

Down the SpArch (big bag of cans mandatory) with one of the best ACAB fantasy novels to ever do it

If I’m getting sworn in as mayor of Letterkenny, I have to get sworn in at our legendary Celtic Tiger emblem which fields the worst traffic in the country: Polestar Roundabout. And of course, on a copy of the two Donegal bibles.

congratulations! you have been elected mayor of your city where are you being sworn in, and what book are you swearing on? i'll go first: those weird electricity boxes on college green, and i'm swearing on a first edition of dracula

congratulations! you have been elected mayor of your city where are you being sworn in, and what book are you swearing on? i'll go first: those weird electricity boxes on college green, and i'm swearing on a first edition of dracula

Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life. And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.

getting sworn in at a metro station is pretty sharp messaging on what you care about

GO ON THE LADS!!

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

people in gaza are dying of hunger, sickness, exposure (as well as continued attacks from israeli military) – banning groups that are trying to stop this is just another phase in israel's genocide against the palestinian people western governments are still going along with this

they're called "bye-elections" because the politicians have said goodbye before their time was up ;__;

oh baby, christmas has come early!!