Every time I see Ireland pop up on these lists I think "I wish" and also, "does any country actually have universal healthcare if *we're* being included on the list?"

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

They really don't do explosions in movies like they used to.

Donut Pillow Shit For Smothering

Because of woke, you can't say happy new year these days. Next week, those days, that's when you can say it.

People driving the "car" on the right will say bike lanes take up too much of the road.

Xmas dinner contribution for tomorrow sorted, cider glazed ham

If you like gaming or pokemon he's also done some really cool tattoo designs in the past! I follow his Instagram it's class.

happy christmas eve!

Author friends, my little brother is a very talented illustrator who will design book covers, here's a selection of his work and a link to some of his other work, please take a look and hire him to design your book cover! evanconnolly.cargo.site

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

one of my most popular designs

Coincidence?

There are times where an external, naive eye can help. The Malcolm Gladwells et al of the world VASTLY overestimate how often and how much this external eye can help. Especially if the external eye is in the head of an MBA.

The towering Lerch-san, mascot for Niigata Prefecture, is based on Theodor Von Lerch, an Austro-Hungarian who introduced skiing to Japan in 1911.

Buy it now because I promise this will be the most popular Christmas gift of 2026

me in 2850BC watching a play set in 2950BC: nah I'm not buying it, that's a face that's seen cuneiform

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

Only way this is plausible is if they're taking about an RTG, which were used to fairly good effect by the soviets for remote locations that needed power and basically zero maintenance. It will not be fission, if it does in fact happen.

Something that goes unsaid in Jingle All The Way (1996) is that if Arnold's character wanted to spend more time with his kid he could probably sacrifice the at least 6 hours a day he's clearly spending in the gym on top of his demanding office job.

Dudes Rock

Prosecutor: "And now, to drive home the impact of this crime, we've asked ChatGPT to review her decades of youtube videos in order to accurately reanimate the victim, Rebecca Watson." My ChatGPT ghost: "Jury nullification isn't just legal, it's an important tool in your arsenal to defend democ..."

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

caught a law and order svu episode last night with an absolute murderer’s row of featured players. in the space of one hour you get Alfred Molina, Bradley Cooper as his lawyer, and the most iconic piece of wardrobe to ever come out of that show, the sex crimes softball team shirt

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

If A Christmas Carol was set in Glasgow...

My bag of meat labeled "non-human" is generating a lot of questions, most of which are answered by the label.

another new deogie here! tinyview.com/deogie/2025/...

Everytime I put on the SAD lamp Koschka knocks it down and sits on it like some norse cat god of darkness who doesnt approve of summer sun in midwinter, and I love this for her. #cat #sun #catsofbluesky #evil #catgod #midwinter

What happens if a NATO country attacks a NATO country? Asking for the small island lying between the US and NATO’s biggest European members.

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Society is failing these children.

Ok last update on this for a while please god. Vet was very frank with me and said that there's no way of knowing how far along things are. 6 weeks from now another test can tell more. Just going to keep spoiling him for the moment anyway.

Really weird that road deaths went up in 2020 in the US but down everywhere else. I'd be interested to know what caused that.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

He is in good spirits tonight, and I'm hoping that I'm wrong about all this stuff. He's sleeping on top of me now and all he's wanted to do is be right beside me all night. I do still have a feeling our time together may be limited, but maybe not as limited as I thought initially ❤️

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles. The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way. LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...