Weird to think that Liza Minnelli and Dusty Springfield were respectively only 43 and 50 when they made their comeback records with the Pet Shop Boys. At the time they felt like ancient ghosts of showbiz past. The equivalents now (in age if not in stature) would be Cheryl Tweedy and Emma Bunton.

I do still love The Smiths but this tweet is my favourite piece of Morrissey-related media.

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own." (Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

the afternoon tea menu at Carton House is one of the funniest things i have ever seen in my life

Picture it. The kitchen of a remote farm house in the midlands. The adults chat away oblivious to the young town mouse kiddo in the corner. She sits mesmerised and terrified by Salems Lot playing muted on the telly that no one thought to turn off after the news

This is literally the only thing i have the bandwidth to read about today

Everybody to Kenmure Street is terrific. Worth seeing in the cinema if you’re able to

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

First time in Dún Laoghaire since I did this 4 yrs ago. New graffiti

I read this assuming Saxon was the baby he drags around the White House. This is Saxon. He's 20 years old.

In the latest Guardian Blind Date: OH MEIN GOTT! My review:

This morning just on the radio I’ve heard really desperate sounding ads for AI products (a phone optimised for this shit! Consultants threatening that even though no one wants it it’s happening!) And a former editor who lost his job because he used it for writing and it made up shit…

The research, which was commissioned by the Collison brothers, appears to support a position that having the “cold dead eyes of a shark” is the key driver of innovation

Is there a live stream of that Meath house being demolished please?

I tried to look up when the 2025 film Resurrection was showing in Dublin and Google showed me the date for Easter. Which is not bad these days tbf

35 quote reposts only one of which castigates OP because Elmo is three and a half (and has not been in the show 50 years)

Gentle reminder that the whole point of Paddy's Day is celebrating the memory of a refugee slave from outside Ireland who spoke up for Irish people being equal and not being treated as barbarian outsiders by others, and also articulated the earliest recorded collective Irish Identities...

Holy shit. I jut saw the price of a standard postage stamp in ireland.

The first LGBT float in a Patrick's Day parade anywhere in the world was in Cork in 1992. Happy queer Patrick's Day. @orlaegan1.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

Fucking hell. This is a really important one to read. Journalists getting death threats because their accurate story meant that gamblers lost money on a polymarket prediction bet.

In April 1992, Robert Altman's The Player was released, garnering lavish praise for its opening scene, a complicated ensemble tracking shot. In April 1990, Coronation Street was doing stuff like this, and nobody batted an eyelid.

Serious moment: I know at least one vast archive of incredible photos of East London's bus and tram history that are lost forever. Because the guy who lovingly took them over decades died without a will and no relatives. Whole collection lost to house clearance. Probably just binned.

That time Ronnie Drew was nearly driven mad by a parrot in Dublin zoo

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

Every time you see a fox it’s the best thing that happened to you that day.

I haven’t seen enough people taking the important position of disliking opera, ballet and the work of Chalamet. They are all very tiresome and overrated. The longer it’s been since I saw it the more I resent sitting through Uncut Pingpongs

‘These People Are So Stupid’: Live Nation Ticketing Directors Bragged About Charging High Fees in Slack Messages

I gave up on Vladimir early on but for a good fun campus show can I recommend Rooster. If you put Steve Carrell in a comedy that opens with New Order I’m already won over but I laughed several times and I’m not doing that very often lately tbqh. It’s good. Sky/Now

"Jennifer Schuessler has meticulously documented the destruction since the beginning... But there’s something about seeing a callow young man blank out when asked why he destroyed so much that really brings home the mindless destruction of this campaign." www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Trying to play a fun game called “read a book”. The hippo (currently at chapter 1) has to catch up with the lion (end notes). Will almost certainly end up playing “leave the book on the table for a few weeks and bring it back to the library” but sher lookit. The print is big at least

Fucking. Hell

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

When my kids were brand new, 14 years ago, the other moms I found myself online with were about 50% antivax. 3 moms in that group created a community to encourage vaccination with facts and compassion, and I watched a dozen women or more change their minds and get their kids on a catch-up schedule.

Came on here and scrolled through endless terrible news but hit my limit with English cops lifting Quakers *again* - this time for anti-poverty action. It’s not enough for things to be bad. We must also be hopeless

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

@garbageday.email hit the nail on the head with this one! If the comparing Meta Ray-Bans to a Cybertruck doesn't send the message it needs to about how these mass surveillance tools are a terrible idea, then what will actually get through to you?

Israel has just issued a demand that all of Beirut’s southern suburbs, an area roughly the size of central Berlin or lower Manhattan, run for their lives. Tens of thousands are forced to flee- again. Real fears that they will level much of southern Beirut- an area where more than 500,000 live.

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Years ago I wrote a piece for the NYT about how my 78yo dad and I bond over our shared love of Enya. I said he was occasionally brought to tears by her music, so THEY RANG MY OWN DAD TO CHECK. I could have saved them the long distance charges by saying he was forcibly transitioned by Enya's music.

Text-based social media sites are no longer popular. However screenshots of posts from text-based social media sites with a repeating 11 seconds of music are extremely popular.

this is something their plumber, Ed Moltano, did not comment on! the permitting was tricky tho www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xPoLPC/

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

He asks: "Why did you come with me?" the man said: "I thought you were an undercover guard." HE WAS TERRIFIED

Can't stop laughing at a story my friend told me yesterday about going to meet a work contact at the gates of Trinity. He went up to another waiting man and said "Are you Michael?" "Yes" "Will we go for a coffee?" "Sure." Over a coffee he realises it's not the Michael he's meant to be meeting.

My speculation is that the US wanted Israel to strike first for legal reasons - so that the US military could use UK bases. The UK previously voiced objections to using them in the case of a blatant war of aggression by the US. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It goes further - imagine a by-election contest between a working plumber from Manchester and a professor from Kent? The media lines write themselves, except that the party allegiances are not how our commentariat would like them to be.

Jack knocked off top spot in Ireland’s most popular baby names for first time since 2016 Why did people start calling their kids Rían all of a sudden? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...