working at a university

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

Painting a gobbo riding a squig beats the pants off working on a Monday morning

english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

When the Assyrian Chicago Pope gave the Catholic Chicago Pope a cubs jersey was a great moment in ecumenical sports history

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains

How some of you sound this morning lol

Catherine Connolly: Becomes president in 2025 by winning the biggest single personal mandate in the history of the state. @irishtimes.com : The politician of the year is absolutely the guy who keeps doing racisms.

Another time, a guy who had kids long before the rest of us gave us a warning we didn't appreciate at the time: "the reason kids can and will outnegotiate you is because you have plans and they don't". Once you become a teenager you start having plans and become vulnerable.

listen to @bloodwork.show

Listen to @bloodwork.show

When I mooned my grandfather he paused a beat and said impassively “Do you ever shave that yoke?”

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Finally, the grand unifying theory of everything.

As someone who is atheist-adjacent I’ve no time for anyone telling me Christmas is a lie. Take the day off and have fun, it’s miserable and dark out enough as it is! I’m glad we’re insulated from such bores on this app

nice of the Taoiseach to just openly say he sees European "rearmament" as a business opportunity for Irish companies, saves me the trouble of having to persuade people that he wants to dismantle our neutrality so Irish companies can get a slice of the war racket

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

I painted this mounted vampire for a discord secret santa and enjoyed it so much I want to paint more vampires. Looking forward to next year! #nerdlings #jhbackdrops #warhammer #warhammercommunity

"We need a debate" "Ok let's have a debate" "Actually this debate is too squeamish" Paul Murphy did a good job exposing this tactic a few weeks ago on the tonight show, where some FG rep was saying we need a debate on immigration, Paul said "ok let's have one", & the fella had no idea what to do

"we need a debate where I win and everyone thinks I'm cool"

Probably worth noting that the British government allowed so many Irish people to die on hunger strikes at various times that it has its own Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Their drift to the far right is becoming more and more visible … and dangerous! No Taoiseach, it’s the polices of FF/FG governments that created this crisis #speirgorm

I left the UK in 2018. There were a number of reasons. One was that I knew enough history to see that the UK was in a Germany-in-the-early-1920s situation and it was going to get a lot worse, possibly full fascist worse. If this is Labour, the place is cooked when the other lot get back in.

God they’re such weaselly little shits. We don’t misunderstand, we’re not immature or insufficiently grown up, we’re not squeamish or afraid, we know exactly what you’re doing and we disagree with it. They constantly talk about the debate itself being wrong somehow because they can’t win it

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These things will be hanging around all Xmas

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

"You have to feel for Man United," Sue Smith said on the radio at the end of today's game. Let me just stop you there, Sue

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

We've done some boxing by mistake

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

Yaaas Newgrange do your thing up yours Stonehenge you're only an IKEA job

The same people who "love Christmas" so much that they put up a tree in November also take it down on Boxing Day *the actual literal second day of Christmas*. They also then complain about how much the hate January. Well folks, you did it to yourselves! We invented Christmas observence for this!

I have never had this issue before, and even weirder everyone was acting like *I* was unusual. My good dudes, I am just trying to observe in the most usual manner possible. I am, quite literally, attempting to observe Christmas Time. I hate how we have moved Christmas into advent and even autumn!

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

"Real centrism has never been tried"

A new report shows that Russian oligarchs are exploiting ISDS courts to resist the sanctions that have been imposed on them. So on the one hand the Irish Government talk a lot about their support for Ukraine while on the other hand, they want to lock us into these insidious courts through #CETA

I remember being astonished when a million people turned up to protest in London - 10 million worldwide - and thinking they cannot possibly ignore this. And when they did was the moment most of us realised that our govts no longer account to their citizens, but to other interests elsewhere.

In the broad sense, yes: and for the following specific reason

I really think this is not as big a story as it should be. We are in kick-them-out-of-the-UN territory

Labour to end up with less MPs than Sinn Fein would be pretty flippin funny

Bluesky: releasing a "find your contacts" feature. Me: making god damn sure not a single aspect of my stored contact information here is connected to anyone I know IRL.

DFA argued that releasing feedback on plan to label Algeria as “safe” would hurt diplomatic relations. “It’s probably fair to assume that if the DFA said anything positive about Algeria’s human rights record, they wouldn’t be so determined to withhold it". www.dublininquirer.com/dfa-argued-t...