Babooshka by Kate Bush

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

How much more of all this are we supposed to take, genuinely?

So his great grandparents were immigrants into Canada, his mother and grandfather were immigrants into South Africa and he's an immigrant in the USA and he's *opposed* to immigration? 🤔

After the exuberance of Braydons and Keighleyshleys and such, I think the pendulum will turn toward short, brutalist names. The children of Gen Alpha will all have caveman names. Grog, Zub, Cronk, etc

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

Does anyone else ever think about that time Patrick Stewart publicly humiliated James Corden and then wonder what he had done that Patrick Stewart found out about?

The Simpsons should have aged the characters five years every seven years or so. Lisa’s Wedding showed there was meat on those bones and they just never followed up on it

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

Disabled people are more likely to live below the poverty line than able bodied people. Don't make people choose.

Gwen Stefani. From ska-tholicism to Catholicism.

pronouncing it "geee-yo-teen" to feel a little fancy as the heads bounce off the edge of the blood soaked platform and land in the mud with a wet thud

“I’m glad the Queen isn’t alive” “To see Andrew get arrested?” “… Andrew was arrested?!”

It's Brits drawing straight lines on maps again except the rich people doing it are in charge of companies, not kingdoms

“Men can’t help objectifying women, we’re just naturally visual.” Then why do you look like that? Why does your home look like that? 🤨

why didn't they ride the eagles into mordor

FAFO!! Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Although it’s interesting that he’s arrested for giving Epstein insider trade info and not for abusing women and girls! To the tower with him!

They severely underestimate the collective joy of Irish twitter when queen Elizabeth popped her royal clogs

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

"Stop playing politics!" admonishes man who gets paid 6 figures a year for playing politics

Omar El Akkad: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Bono: Have you heard my new EP

Always amazes me when lifelong politicians dismiss politics like it's a vapid hobby

It's possible that Jeffery Donaldson could finally achieve the dream of any DUP man and soon be living with a member of the royal family

Daily reminder that women have to suffer a “pause” - not for any recommended healthcare, moral or best practice reason. But because FG needed to convince one man. A man who is now irrelevant. Any argument for retaining the “pause” must address this fact first. m.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Disgraceful that Andrew has associated the name of Mountbatten with noncery.

Maybe I only know this because I'm a software engineer, but apps can't actually create taxis or drivers

Prince Andrew arrested on his birthday of all days. How dare they. Don't they have any idea who he was?

I live a trad life, living off the land simply, because living natural is the best way. If you want to know how to live off the land simply and without technology, please watch my TikTok videos and join the discord, I also stream on Twitch every Thursday where I scream at women who wear pants

Yes I listened to 'American Obituary', tis grand, they're well established musicians who after decades obviously know what works, and people will lap it up, they just give me the feicin ick. Especially the lead gobshite. He'll sing on behalf of victims but won't give them the mic.

Eternals My spouse and I are MCU big fans, between covid and having our first child we hadn't been to the cinema to see a marvel film together for nearly two years. And that was the one we saw. 🙄

This cannot be a sign of a healthy society.

every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around

I mean a sentence like "Data centres use 22 per cent of all electricity in the Republic (compared with 18 per cent used by urban households in 2024) and that is forecast to exceed 30 per cent early next decade" is objectively insane

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

"Immediate"

"Corporate needs you to find the differences between these pictures"

Pretty incredible that the left, concerned as it is with workers, has not wholly and uncritically embraced generative AI, the tool promoted by its billionaire owners as replacing all workers

Me: ChatGPT, are sagging jowls a requirement for the office of Taoiseach? ChatGPT:

👍

"The University is supportive and encouraging of our staff and students engaging with AI in their studies and research" AI:

Cork City, being cheerful in the rain

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

I know it's often mentioned but six prime ministers in 15 years is a wild statistic.