And I am here for the downfall of David Walliams

Naomi misheard; it’s because she was shite

Quick reminder that actually dogs don’t have saliva; they have mlemonade

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Even apart from the catastrophic pedagogical & cognitive outcomes, it's completely psychotic that university administrators keep pushing this tech upon stressed & psychologically vulnerable students when its lack of safety standards make old Ford Pintos look like bumper cars at an amusement park.

I just want everyone to know that 15 years ago today, Stacey Solomon was in Colchester interviewing someone who made a pizza of Matt Cardle's face for the X Factor final. You're welcome

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

Snow Patrol! #xmasbands (not sure I'm doing this right)

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Absolutely heinous, criminally-negligent drivel.

The Complex Cultural and Arts space here in Dublin is facing eviction in January. Please sign and share to support this vital space. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

This is how I feel when my dog lies next to my desk.

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

'Oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation... Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.' www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

GenAI is the junk mail of the digital world: it elicits the same cries of 'I don't want this, I didn't ask for this, dear god just leave me alone' as it is relentlessly forced on us daily

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Every time I encounter this opinion I roll my eyes so hard I risk retinal detachment

Icons only please! I briefly met Olwen a few weeks ago at the Abbey after seeing her perform and she has a grace about her that is one in a million; the way she touched my shoulder as she moved past me felt like a benediction

@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.

For the first time in history it’s gonna start raining men who are eating other men

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

Yes Ireland has election security. We tie the pencils to the voting booth with string.

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I'm trying to be a collage artist because it brings me joy and fires up a part of my brain that inspires me to keep going, so I might try and post stuff here when I make it. This is called 'Unnecessary journeys'.

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL

Doctors I trust more than RFK, Jr.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

My absolute favourite thing about Melvyn Bragg is his singular attitude of No Mucking About. Literally every episode starts like “HELLO IN 1492 COLUMBUS SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE WITH ME ARE TWO EXPERTS OK TELL ME RIGHT NOW WHERE THE FUCK IS GENOA?”

Elton John bought his pet rabbit a gym (It's a little fit bunny)

In the same way that The Apprentice was the canary in a coal mine for capitalism, Love Is Blind is a warning about heterosexual monogamy. It is unintentional queer propaganda

Hi Bloomsbury - including Arden Bloomsbury - I will never be opting in to allow my work to be used by AI. Never, never, never, never, never. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @ardenpublisher.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

*C21st Shakespearean performance prediction: polyamory Macbeth* Double, double, toil and throuple

Shouldn't be a surprise: comic acting is one of the hardest skills for a performer to master.

Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles. Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood

Just realised that I’ve never really considered what a ‘widening gyre’ might be but my assumption is that a speculum is involved

“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was holy lost…” - Dante, the Divine Comedy (has there ever been a better line to encapsulate the internal drama of a midlife crisis?)

‘He was in great distress, kevin’ and howlin’’

BBC comedy producers today being like ‘I never thought the man known for doing terrible misjudged things would do a terrible misjudged thing on *my* show’