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I really think you should google the origin of a phrase before you put it on your kitchen wall in neon cursive.

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

If I saw this in a film set in an awful dystopic future I'd call it unsubtle, ham-fisted, bad writing...

While we encourage writers to leave Substack, we also need to be aware that it’s engaging in yet another form of unethical behavior: punishing those who leave by continuing to charge subscribers, who then make a claim which they don’t realize will incur big fees on the writer who left Substack.

I have designed some new t-shirts for the sunny days ahead and as they are print on demand I don’t have to worry my head about printing them and getting my painted hands all over someone else’s garment! I can leave that bit to the professionals. www.leoboyd.com/product-cate...

Ladybird book in the spotlight. ‘Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten’ Artist: PB Hickling

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

This is the culture I grew up in and was, increasingly peripherally, part of until I left my first marriage* It is HORRIFICALLY abusive to women and girls. And it’s increasingly what Reform is preaching for the UK via ideologues like James Orr. #exvangelicals www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Calling @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social! THINK ABOUT why you when YOU FEEL LIKE STARTED QUITTING

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

going to be flogging things at Crumlin road gaol on Friday night at this market. I’ll be having my own cell as well, so plenty of cool things going into it. 7pm to 11pm, 2 quid on the door and kids go free.

I love when humans respect animals

When fascists call for unity, it means "you quit fighting back." Always. Every time.

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

I don't know what's going on, but half a dozen unmarked police cars flashing their blues just bombed along the wrong side of the A2 in a Carrickfergus direction. Followed 5 minutes later by another 2.

"let women speak"

Dozens of toys recalled in the UK after asbestos found in play sand

There's now a statue of a naked Terry Jones overlooking Colwyn Bay beach, and it's really rather lovely. If you're there, make sure you rub his arse for luck. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TIL there’s such a thing as “blouge” wine www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap... Anyone who knows me, won’t be surprised it’s making me think of Clairet.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

My name is Brendan McNally, and I am the brother of a woman murdered in Northern Ireland. Thank you to Rosa the socialist feminist movement, Unite and all the organisers for giving me the opportunity to speak this afternoon. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

IDEA: Heist where a young Trans man, a bisexual and a long-time-masking autistic person go around robbing the offices of the British national press & getting away with it because their heist targets refuse to believe they exist and therefore can't see them cartwheeling out with arms of cash

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

If the business you work for fails, & your job goes, or illness makes work impossible, know this - Reform will view you as the enemy. They will not support you, & they want to create a society that hates & punishes you too. Reform - the party of the hateful, picking on the vulnerable #neverreform

the chief executive of Cancer Research UK is neither a cancer patient nor a cancer researcher, and yet everyone seems to understand that that’s fine, because neither of those would be the correct experience for the job??

Fuel protests collapse in the North as the far-right expose themselves as organisers. Irish News reported last week that the Official Protestant Coalition page, the same page that called people to the streets for the August 2024 racist violence, was promoting the second round of fuel protests. [1/3]

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Congratulations on becoming the BlueSky alt-texter everyone wishes they could be :)

This is a very nice video.

A new strain of the Streisand Effect has been discovered...

Free now and she still doesn't realise SHE is THEY, “I thought that when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.”

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Doorknocking yesterday evening. I won't go on about how much support for Greens we're seeing, though it was nice that folks stopped us in the street to ask for window posters. What struck me most was how the fabric of the private rental sector disenfranchises folks who really need representation >

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.

if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit

𝟰𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. On this day in 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, triggering the most severe nuclear disaster in history. Four decades on, Chornobyl still forces us to confront an enduring reality. 👇🧵

Today’s poem is called ‘Billionaire in a Midlife Crisis’.

I hadn't realised that this is yet another Private Equity managed decline. When will we wake up?

Friday

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Complete bullshit from Fionola Meredith about raw milk in BelTel. Pasteurisation does NOT alter the flavour or health properties of milk; it does NOT affect the cream rising to the top; it DOES kill some very nasty bacteria that can make you VERY sick. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/raw-...

Start your Friday with this happy little thread

A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was arrested for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits, according to a person familiar with the matter. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.