Does no one in the UK remember how UKIP gained 25% (ish) of seats in the 2012 local elections, and basically imploded because their newly elected councillors were all completely useless?

#fuckai #aiisfascist

Ireland 🤝 Iceland Being a modern secular island nation (in the North Atlantic Ocean) but still rerouting public works so as not to disturb the fey, just in case.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I knew there was something behind it. No elected Irish representatives suggest something like removing a ban on nuclear fission for no reason. It's always a very *specific* reason. We need into enquiries into this to find out what promises were made to lobbyists and if money changed hands. 👇

Jackdaw. Loki of the bird world. Corvids in general, they’re always up to something. #pencil

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#StreetArt #WallMural #Graffiti

The OPW spends €1.2m of our money each year on car parking for civil servants. If a bike shed costing €127,000 stands for 20 years, the OPW will have, in that time, spent €24,000,000 of our money to rent car parking for well-paid office workers. www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...

I genuinely felt my heart in my mouth when I saw the top two lines of the headline. "Nooooo! He can't be de....THANK FUCK it's it's birthday." #davidattenborough

Your dose of north Belfast cuteness, right here.

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Traffic cameras popping up everywhere Aren't police cameras It's a private co What's the purpose? www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

Feel like if there were jackets or bags being sold with discrete cameras in them that can be used to film whoever and wherever you like there'd probably be a bit of fuss, but because they're in glasses it's fine for some reason?

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow artist, Bilquis Evely, has created official Supergirl (2026) art.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

by Aman Daharwal #art

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

Same energy:

I can taste this image.

Babe, wake up, new anti surveillance tech just dropped…

Code clearly, the most likely person who will have to read this mess is you in a few years. Turns out the same goes for names of folders ...

FWIW: ‘parsec’ is a measure of distance, not time, but that doesn’t make the Millennium Falcon’s Kessel Run any less impressive.

Slightly diminish a book: A Tale of One City.

Found myself listening to the dawn chorus this morning (thank you, needy [indoor] cat) and the thrush was absolutely belting it out. Glorious unpredictability.

[disco sounde] Make a litel tea Reade a litel Woolf Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte!

I think about this all the time.

Unsorted #comics for Sunday #funnies. #TankGirl FTW.

Our garden bird identification guide.

Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0?... 🎧

Jaws is a good movie but Spielberg blew it by not ending it with Fin

My Dad used to bang on about how beautiful cathedrals were, how inspiring they were. To me they were just stones piled high. It wasn't until I discovered transmission towers as temporary temples that I understood the connective power of awe. - Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

Good morning & welcome to #Caturday Your feelings are like passing visitor, they arrive, they linger, and then they move on Welcome the ones that bring you peace, and gently show the heavier ones the door when it’s time.

Taking joy from observing the world around us. We are not broken, we are alive.

Stuff is fucking awesome.

"A growing community of states & experts is urging recognition of #ecocide as one of the most serious crimes" A new article for CBC/Radio-Canada explores the movement for #EcocideLaw 🔗ici.radio-canada.ca/... #ecocide#EcocideLaw#StopEcocide

This is Ethel. She is vast. She contains multitudes. #birds

To stick your head out the window and feel this much joy. #oilpainting #art #sketchbook

I don't have a subscription so haven't read the article. Off to find some other review of the reissue.

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Happy Lá Bealtaine - the swallows have arrived and summer's on the way 🔥 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

The public has been advised not to feed garden birds during the summer months because of the threat of disease.