Oh no Mary, not you too!!! Let some other lady exhibit! Someone else exhibit!!!

I must also retract my belief that Mrs Bennet should have a gun, a regrettable misreading of her character. I do, however, think it would be very funny if we gave Lydia a gun.

I think all other protagonists in her mold are just daughters of the manic pixies we couldn’t dream. Elizabeth holds up against any contemporary romance protagonist!

I went from “Wow Elizabeth Bennet kinda feels like a manic pick-me dream girl” to “I will take a blunt object to anybody’s car lights if they say a bad word about Liz.” Jane Austen. Is so good.

"I was in the circus for nine years. I didn't have an act but I was the only one who could get the tent back in the bag."

I've barely clue whats going on . But I feel @erislovesmovies.bsky.social would like this reference

There were no vapes in my day. We had to make do with speedballs of heroin and cocaine which we'd take while wrestling crocodiles. And there was a war on.

Take a bow, book title tsar Out August 18th

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Funny Graceland sendup but what makes this A+ is its spoof of broader trends: 80s boomer-pop's Scramble for Africa (Simon, Byrne et al) AND the Magical Negro theme that ran thru such period pieces as U2's Rattle & Hum, Billy Joel's "River of Dreams," &—of course, supremely—TOTO I bless the rains...

Climb through the window wearing black and carrying a box of chocolates

Well played Ray Foley, well played 😄 This is exactly how you respond to people complaining about absolutely nothing 🤣🤣🤣

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Strands #866 “Categorically speaking” 💡💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵

Saw a clip of Micheál Martin responding to Holly Cairns today, where she raised a moral issue, and says "you don't have a monopoly on empathy", which is a line I've seen him use about 800 times now. Also it's nuts how the way he responds to women isn't discussed more.

Cf. Síd/Shee placenames/mounds; Giants graves/Wedge Tombs; Diarmuid and Grainne's Beds/Portal Tombs; Plantations, Early Modern Landscape Enclosure, the Famine, all have large parts to play in people forgetting the social memory/landscape they used to live and travel within.

People to single women: You should go to singles events! The singles events:

Target acquired

Sooner or later, for everyone on the planet, Lego will release a set that’s irresistible for you personally

solomon in 1 Kings 3

Some people have no idea, like... *everything* smelled bad. Everything. We lived in a hazy, toxic, smelly public world where the furthest you could get from cigarette smoke in busy places was to be in the 'non-smoking' part of a café, which was the same room as the smoking part.

Morning

Never date a tennis player — love means nothing to them.

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lolll

I need a medicinal bag of chips

it’s smaller than envisaged, but ahern finally got it completed

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

Strands #865 “"Rerouting ..."” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵

I think they are having a fizzy pop party on Love Island

Do you think Harry will get another round of golf in with Trump before he goes home?

I’ve even changed my vpn to England to watch this on iplayer to revel in their misery on the bbc

My feed right now

In pub. Resisting impulse to yell "All national identities are fundamentally fictitious!"

eating fistfuls of dry chia seeds as my last solid food before colonoscopy prep bc I’m not a coward

A fun thing about how banks try to sell mortgages to you is that I'm getting the distinct impression that if I bought a house, I'd get a Handsome Man with it

Yes, I too am surprised that we are living in this alternative universe where a Christopher Nolan movie could be considered "woke" but here we are.

The absolute CHAOS of this Ballyer Tesco revamp. The signs, the liminal space.

Happy St Swithins Day

I must confess I thought that was just a sound people made and not an actual word 🤔 Wordle 1,852 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Firefighter/Paramedics from Kilbarrack recently attended a gorse fire #Portmarnock recently. Water supplies were augmented from the golf course irrigation system.

Discover the Museum after hours at #DublinByDusk for Evening Discovery Tours. Join us and explore remarkable objects, including the iconic Tara Brooch. 📍National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street 📅 Thursday, 30 July 🕔 Tours: 17:00 & 18:30 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/D... #TaraBrooch #Archaeology

“They’re in the sewers now Joe, it’s awful. On the e-scooters yeah. With bandanas. One of them said cowabunga to me”

There's only one way out of this heatwave guys... I'm gonna shoot the sun

I knew it was bad but holy God I just found out that those useless AI slop datacentres don't just need water but need DRINKING WATER

Reading Love Scene by Anna Carey the characters walk past an unnamed restaurant that's they hear is good. I think I know which restaurant based on the location and I wana say yes the food is good but it smells like damp and service is terrible. Friendly but terrible.

Colin From Accounts closes its books

Years ago, Peter McVerry noted to me the godsend e-scooters were to people trying to climb out of poverty. They were an accessible way to get to jobs that previously were out of their reach because they'd have to show up at ~4am. The class dynamics of government's response shouldn't be missed.

Today is the 11th anniversary of the Gender Recognition Act here in Ireland. I will always celebrate this day as the State finally recognized my gender. Decades of campaigning led to the Act. I owe a debt to those who went before me We were the 4th country in the world to bring in such legislation