This is so cute!

Competition over, we have a winner

It's not often at all that I miss American snacks, but I would give almost anything for the chaos of my childhood's ice cream truck today. I'd start with a fudgsicle, see how I feel, then maybe get a rocket pop or Push-Up.

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Sounds like AI is a huge liability and billionaires are mega-crybaby about it as per. "established studios with a positive track record see a "catastrophic" 40% to 60% drop in sales when they use AI"

digital artists! if I may pick your brains... I would REALLY like a mobile set-up that enables me to mirror my laptop so I can use full-fledged photoshop for inking and colouring. do any of you know if this is possible with any of Wacom's smaller tablets?

Oh no, an earworm

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social new song of the summer just dropped.

“Turn around, go back to the place where you belong, and we’ll all forget this ever happened.”

Mom played Mac Davis, Linda Ronstadt, and Rick Springfield. Stepdad initially liked Linda, Barbara Streisand, and Kenny Rogers. Then they got religion and it was just Christian music from then on. They were delighted when I started opera, convinced I'd be the next Sandi Patty.

My grandfather had a Reader's Digest subscription from the age of 15 and in his twenties started working out the pattern by which the "Laughter Is The Best Medicine" jokes were repeated. He said it wasn't a simple nine month recycle pattern, the page placement had something to do with it.

You ever read something that's just perfect, and then get irrationally angry that you didn't write it? This whole article just did that to me. The last line of this particular bit caused a spike in my blood pressure.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

Remarkable how many cuts of meat sound like veteran news anchors facing multiple accusations of workplace harassment: Chuck Brisket Rib Silverside Rump Foreshank Plate Centreloin Flank Saddleback

A BOOKSHOP BOAT!

This Mists of Avalon remake is going to be amazing.

Viking dogs: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/le...

I have done the errands and I have had a nice lunch at the pub with Himself. I am now sprawled on my bed, in pj shorts, to read and enjoy the slight breeze through the window. Nobody’s getting anything else from me today.

We can only guess as to why there is a potato on a stick. We think it is there pour encourager les autres. There’s a much longer version of this post on FB, if you do FB. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

APILN GREATEST HITS: Gravesend couple sleep in garden to “protect their property” after thieves steal their gate What lifts this above and beyond your run-of-the-mill compo face is la pièce de résistance, the potato on a stick. www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/ne...

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

We have the absolute coolest cat, Crews. Turn up the volume and wait for the delivery.

"It’s no longer far-fetched or hyperbolic to say that at any given moment...individual works of fiction—including fanworks—could be criminalized for being queer, or pornographic, or generally deviant." In our latest, @bookshop.bsky.social goes deep on growing creative censorship around the world:

One of my favourite downpipes…not sure I had a particular thing for rainwater goods, until I saw this! 🤩 😂 One of the many excellent new(ish) interventions at Caernarfon Castle.

A neighbour lady is out playing kicky ball with a boy. Sweet enough, but she just called him a superstar and I could hear his little heart fill up with happiness. 🥹

This is just to say I have taken Those plums Out of the icebox And climbed in Fuck yes

Does anyone know anyone with Hindi and Irish, even a bit of Irish? Have been speaking to a family who recently moved from India, and while the kid is entitled to an exemption they would like to learn some Irish. No comfortable in English yet, so someone to intro it with Hindi would be ideal.

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Election posters should be triangular to remind voters of their duty to the Holy Trinity and also to buy some Toblerone on the way home.

WELL HELLO LADIES

Right. Yesterday's "fend for yourselves, you heat-sogged animals" didn't really work as a family dinner idea. I went through the terrors watching them assemble meals. It'll be warmer today and I still don't feel like cooking, but I'm going to toughen up and use the Instant Pot like the hero I am.

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on saturday i was waiting for a bus home at midnight. person on a scooter rolled up and folded it to join the queue...and they had a tiny dog wearing a helmet strapped to them. two other strangers and i were absolutely losing it

Obviously not ideal for school to close at 1pm all this week, but Alice is currently sat in front of a BBC show in which someone is farting the Blue Danube waltz, so education does continue.

This article turned me into the joker several times over. What do you *mean* Homeland Security detained a dude because he had doujinshi on his phone. What do you *mean* Canada forced a guy into the sex offender registry because there was anime-style art on the box his totally legal sex dolls came in

Settle in with me for today's @fansplaining.bsky.social longread and have your brain broken several times over by regressive, overreaching, and occasionally just bonkers attempts to criminalize creative expression--everything from chibi art to Stray Kids fanfic. fansplaining.com/the-global-c...

Oldest and I waddled down to Tesco to see if anything sounded good for supper. Everything requires the oven, or standing at the stovetop, and I am just not interested in that today. So, leftovers and ice cream. I'm not even *trying*. The walk through our big, leafy park was nice, though.

I once overheard a posh lady on the phone in Waitrose saying with a sense of horrified emergency "well we've run right out of quinoa in *both* houses".

You’ll never guess what this is in response to.

In PJs (including fuzzy slippers), holding a tennis racquet sort of flyswatter, standing in the middle of the kitchen and cussing. Husband walked in just as I delivered a Steffi Graf backhand that sent TWO FLIES AT ONCE to their Maker. I didn't know he was there until I heard him laugh.

the one pride billboard in southern manitoba (rural bible belt region, one of the towns only just had their first-ever pride march last week) was vandalized a few days ago, so they made tshirts of it. lmfao gettem

I'm having trouble getting thejournal.ie to load. Anybody else? The main page is fine, but each article leads to an error message and an invitation to look instead at their FB and Twitter accounts. 👀 Uhh. How about 'no'?

In a pleasing turn of events, I actually got to spend some time planning my next TTRPG project this morning. So, apropos of nothing at all... Who amongst you likes to write UK-flavoured stuff in the vein of Forteana, folklore, strange horrors, etc., and might be open to a small future commission?

Rather wonderful photos by Mike Jefferies of the dramatic storm that swept over Glastonbury last night.

If you're in the Bay Area, my sister and brother in law are fostering these tiny kittens and they need an adopter - is it you?! Info here (they are bonded and should be adopted as a pair): www.svpetproject.org/availablecat... www.svpetproject.org/availablecat...

I have loved this movie ever since it came out. I've seen it eight times and I think about it quite often, decades later. Please read this essay.

A few days ago, I ordered this thing for the 5 young adults living in the house to soak their feet in over the coming days. It arrived a little bit ago & I've blown it up. It's been 20 years since I've done that, and I feel like I may never recover. How on earth did I survive parenting small ones?

Me: *opens window* Flies: GREETINGS NEW ROOMMATE