Headline in every other newspaper for the last year: AI IS GOING TO REPLACE MOST MIDDLE-INCOME WORKERS, STARTING WITH YOU, OUR READERS

FFS

It’s just like 1916, when Patrick Pearse drove his giant tractor to the GPO

The genre of “ostentatio genitalium” (the display of the genitals) relates to a controversial theory in art history, that numerous religious artworks from the Renaissance purposively allude to and draw attention to the penis of Jesus www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...

Which romantic Irish train station venue would you choose? Drogheda (MacBride)? Limerick Junction?

Today would have been the 116th birthday of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who grew up in a Tibetan monastery, had a hole drilled in his forehead to activate his third eye and give him mystical insight, and encountered both yetis and his own mummified body. Well, so he said... 🧵

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Freedom itself is at stake in Hungary

Had a look at one of the speakers' social media, and it's all I love Charlie Kirk/And Enoch Burke Too/Climate Change Is A hoax/English Has Fallen stuff. This has little to do with tax and is more a get-together for the dads who went nuts post-COVID.

The last few weeks have shown us that some countries should not have nuclear weapons. But have we left it too late to stop uranium enrichment in the US and Israel?

Every Middle Easterner who knows anything is going to be warning the world that you cannot trust Israel while we get ignored while Israel triggers another war and fucks it all up again. Understand this if nothing else: Israeli politics needs war. That’s how they resolve tensions between them.

I'm a bit unsure about the timeline here: do the US midterms come before or after the armageddon?

This never stopped anyone going on a cruise

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

New Monroe doctrine: the US regards all of the Americas as its sphere of influence, but also sticks its beak into Europe any time it feels like it.

We seem to have gotten very quickly to the “sometimes you have to destroy the civilization to save it” phase. I am starting to have my doubts about the Board of Peace.

The world must demand regime change…in the United States.

“Fiery” seems to be the new euphemism for “unhinged”

Put a f***in' straitjacket on him, you crazy bastards, or we'll all be living in hell

Put a f***in' straitjacket on him, you crazy bastards, or we'll all be living in hell

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

Unstable war criminal escapes from his minders and goes on expletive-laden and deranged rant on social media. Another day in Droolitania.

Owltruism.

Happy “Harrowing of Hell” day to those who celebrate

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/

If there is something more tedious than 12-bar Bluesky discourse about Bluesky I would like to see it. No, wait, I would NOT like to see it.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

Happy “Harrowing of Hell” day to those who celebrate

There is so much Maria Steenery on here today that I feel moved to repost this not-so-startling piece: www.unlv.edu/news/release...

I’m not reading this jibber-jabber

This really happened. My granny had an old photograph of a Beef Wellington that had once been her great uncle. They say he was eaten by Queen Victoria in 1847

Maria Steen has opinions about the gender pay gap, illustrated with a photo I'm 99% sure is one with the handbag cropped out (the paywall is also cropped out of the link below, if you're feeling strong enough).

Oh dear. Oh my.

I’m not reading this jibber-jabber

Ferrero Rocher now have a QR code on the bottom. It leads you to a website that says "KILL THE AMBASSADOR"

Nobody reads a book any more

Quietly livid. My school's careers officer never once suggested that 'Swedish Pop Provocateur' was a job opportunity.

It’s hard to argue with this

Others just can’t keep their god-shaped shut

Bondi beached

Bondi beached

Shocked, I tell ya

“Call me Storm Dave — Storm David is my dad’s name”

He’s alive!

You can have any president you like, as long as the US approves of them aje.news/nxb6re

Maybe somebody could phone Hegseth's broker and ask when the "war" is going to end

I suppose there is nothing in the Bible that _explicitly_ denounces insider trading?