I defy anyone to claim they haven’t considered this at some point.

Saving this screenshot for whenever anyone shows up in the comments with facts and figures

People warning about this kinda thing weren't just ignored, they were ridiculed. By the same people who talk about it now with their big serious heads on. Anyway, none of this will stop the likes of Simon Harris getting all racist to distract from how disliked he is.

Must've been waiting literally years to make this joke, keeping that announcment picture in his phone all this time. Fair play.

2 disappointments, 2 bangers

Immense meme / reply applications here.

Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?

Critics are really having a whine anemone about this film.

(Springsteen voice) "Rich man wanna be king/ Poor man wanna be rich/ You dropped us in the meat grinder/ Dylan you son of a bitch"

This is a good, clear headed article. Attacking trans people isn't just immoral, it also loses elections.

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Yeah, I'm sure he'll get right on that

90% of the anti-Mamdani remarks today think this is a documentary:

lol

“Would this have been a story had they used the new iPhone?” Meta asked us. "Unlike the iPhone and other smartphones, one of the most widely adopted electronics in human history, only a tiny portion of the population has any idea what the fuck these glasses are," @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social writes.

YES

The new Predator film is getting better reviews than the new Daniel Day Lewis film.

Stay in school, kids!

Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory

I had a day off, so I watched the film Uprising on Netflix. And friends, to say that this was time well spend is a gross understatement. This film is absolute fire, and is also appropriate viewing in a week that a socialist just got elected mayor of New York. letterboxd.com/thejoegriffi...

Yes… Ha Ha Ha… YES.

The annual poppies/paddies discourse is underway over the water.

I used to love John Cleese. There was a time when he wouldn't put a foot wrong.

I've waited my whole life to hear a New York mayor say things like this

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Every now and then I get a spam email with an American rightwing theme ("Patriot, President Trump needs your help!" etc). And I think it's kinda poignant, how people are being rinsed by actual public representatives, which shows that they're vulnerable to being rinsed by pretend ones.

I like a lot of the left/anti-Zionism podcasters in the U.S. but the one thing y'all don't do enough is invite Palestinians on your show & let them talk. Another thing Irish folks do without having to pressure them into it. Go listen to @tonygroves.bsky.social's podcast and check out his guest list

Today is my birthday. 48. Is that old? Well, it's the oldest I've ever been. Have I learnt anything worth sharing in that time? Let's see.

A eulogy for Dick Cheney, who, unlike his victims, will at least be dead when they stuff him into a coffin: open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

if you’re a famous person and are normal, your Instagram stories should not look like this

I often look up parents' guides for films, and you would be surprised how many parents object to the presence of naked statues in films. If a film has an art gallery scene, somewhere online there's a parental warning about it.

This is good. "People vote for parties that speak to their hopes, not their fears."

I think in general I have a fairly high “politician forgiveness” threshold because I understand they face a firehose of shit everyday and also in a democracy they have to comprise all the time, but Simon Harris not standing up for immigrants in this moment feels like one that crosses that threshold

I don't think we should depend on the afterlife to punish those currently in power

If I had known Geena Davis spent so much of Cutthroat Island with a monkey on her shoulder, I would've watched it years ago.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Fuck he's good

If you want to use your phone less, I've two tips that work: 1. Buy a watch (not a smart one) so you're not taking your phone out to check the time, which often leads to checking socials. 2. Have an entertaining, light book on the go, which you can dip into during downtime (in queues etc).

A real leader with courage & backbone and would have been out on the plinth at Dáil Eireann at 1000 this morning saying that this has gone too far and has to stop. They would have called out the tech giants & the liars who use their platforms to spread hate. Ireland clearly has no such leaders.

It takes a strange sort of worldview to watch the Irish public elect a socialist, with the largest mandate in the history of the state, and conclude that what they really want is a tougher line on immigration.

The older I get, the more interested I become in watching this whole interview.

Just don’t think you can disconnect the government taking an increasingly hostile rhetorical line to migrants this week with that horrific attack on the IPAS centre in Drogheda. If you tell these people they have a point, they will escalate their violence.

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These cuff links are so sick. Lisa right to kick that Brit to the curb