brussels has a city sewer museum IN THE SEWERS where you can learn all about how sewers work, how they evolved over time, the people who work in them, all the crazy crap people flush and how it jepordises one of the most important pieces of infrastructure we have it rules sewermuseum.brussels/en/

having a cup of tea. anyone else? #teatime

Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are the last two fragments left of the internet that we were promised in the 1990s.

with all the charlie kirk stuff, i forgot the most important part of the 11th of september – checking if politico included assad on their birthday list (they did) (downgraded from "president" to "former dictator")

that EU-US trade deal in full

when will @catherinegalway.bsky.social take a position on putting the animals back on the coins?

This is appalling from the Irish Times. Anyone who walks or cycles around Dublin city regularly will be only too acutely aware of the risk from drivers accelerating through amber and red lights. This is not an issue to be joked about.

remember to use ALL your preferences you might not like baked or boiled, i don't agree with them either, but giving them a preference is the only way to really put steamed at the bottom

celtic tiger 2.0 need to get on this

don't think a member of a local council or the oireachtas should help put someone on the ballot for the presidency if they don't think they would be a good president if i thought a type of ice-cream would make people sick i wouldn't put it on the menu even if i thought *some* people might eat it!!

Eva Braun stuns with striking hat on state visit are you listening to yourselves

this level

wonderful

Remember the international response when there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

*very* retro i remember the vice-principal congratulating us circa 2002 for our restraint because no-one had posted an envelope with some flour in it to the school in an attempt to get the day off

enjoying the 5-year-old learning to spell, and realising i need to enunciate better

hang on is he saying it or is the horse

"how morally acceptable is it to say: 'we are seeking to influence those who are responsible for this'? those who are responsible must be stopped" Michael D Higgins is one of the best to ever do it

The UN's inquiry commission has said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza The EU and national governments must do everything they can to stop this slaughter Stop sending weapons to Israel, stop the killing, ensure that aid gets to the people who need it #StopTheGenocide

content aside, getting a birthday book sounds nice

Resentment-driven assaults on civil society are not just the domain of extremist trolls in the US. They are happening in Brussels too, led by the so-called ‘sensible centrists’ of the EPP. Different words, same tactics. Piece from February, but nothing changed. euobserver.com/green-econom...

israel is going to kill thousands, maybe tens of thousands, more people, most of them children the US, UK and german governments have backed this, they could have pulled the plug on it any time over the last 2 years. the EU dithered instead they've criminalised the people protesting this slaughter

"Our situation with the tricolour is deeply worrying, but it’s a mere symptom of a much larger sickness caused by greed and policy decisions." @earley.bsky.social 🎯💯 as usual

my parents used to drive me past this house pretty regularly as a child, and it looked abandoned and moldering over 30 years ago we used to call it the 'bedtime rhymes' house, i guess because i thought it resembled the house on the 1977(!) kids book even as a kid i thought it was super sad

Earlier this year, McGregor lost his appeal against a civil jury's finding in favour of Dublin woman Nikita Hand, who accused him of rape.

look who pissed himself and tapped out

hands up if you already interpret the british or english flags as symbols of violence

bought Black Mesa to scratch the Half Life itch off the back of these articles god it's SO GOOD, they really don't make enough games like this anymore don't have time for every game to have a million menus, skill trees, inventory management, side quests sometimes I just want smart run-and-gun

Oop.

"my messages over the next six weeks were completely ignored, as were messages from my agent" wonder if it's anything to do with likening cis women who support trans rights to the evil wives in A Handmaid's Tale "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her"

valhalla??

guess kirk was wrong that you don't need gun control as long as you have 'fathers in the home' huh

they've done it again!! this time for an email newsletter this time it appears to be a pre-generated image they found on freepik (maybe via google image search) but even still it's (a) marked as ai and (b) looks absolutely bananas??

this was really lovely and interesting! can't help but think that a brewery is better use of that space than some of those who frequent the parliament

they're yassifying the shooter pics

got a water flosser (feels great, v clean) but does anyone know how you're supposed to use it without spraying it all over your (a) face; (b) clothes; (c) bathroom

should have pulled out of the competition in 2024 and 2025, but better late than never! UEFA/FIFA would also want to be taking a good look at themselves

my heart is breaking for waldo

I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Kill it!

you see the wonderful thing about *my* petard is that it's used exclusively to hoist only *other people* allow me to demonstrate

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

is the bullet ok

can't fully explain it, but they're both irish

one of these things will save people's lives in heatwaves, the other is being used to vomit out ai garbage and trade the digital versions of pokemon cards

(genuinely) ...he was in?

neutrality is vvv popular in Ireland, if this is the fight he wants to pick then Connolly might be delighted to have it as a stick to beat him with