Ok at this point I can only conclude that the Netflix algorithm is creating TV on a per person basis

I’m in a family whatsapp group of more than 70 members, and the use of memes, gifs, emojis and “stickers” by septuagenarian cousins is a constant facepalming hilarity. But there has yet to be a gen-AI image in a post.

As always, with incel shit, the point is not that these guys can't get laid. They very likely can. The point is that having sex with real women involves having to deal with another human being, with desires and opinions, and they prefer having a toy that exists purely to cater to their fantasies.

The exquisite agony of wondering do I need to call a taxi, or should I just stand here for another 5 minutes in case that bus that just disappeared off the real time actually does turn up

Going to start invoicing the government for my taxi costs until they fix the public transport in Dublin

The Irish neutrality discourse over on Twitter is putrid

An Irish man of a certain age will think nothing of putting on his Ireland jersey and popping down to the pub to have a few pints of Guinness and watch Scotland vs New Zealand on his own. And I think that’s great

Before BlueSky I never would have predicted there would be such a big correlation between “adults who still watch Doctor Who” and “Englishmen who are good to follow on social media”

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

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Had a Hungarian taxi driver who is very sad about the Treaty of Trianon (1920)

just learned that the scale used to measure skin-cancer risk by skin colour is called the "Fitzpatrick Scale" Not very subtle. Why not just call it the Darby O'Grill Scale and be done with it

“Well there certainly won’t be any more tea cosies lmao” I confidently predicted about 6 months ago

Jesus I just looked in on Irish Twitter and it is absolutely insane over there. Wall to wall conspiracies, lies, Ireland is being poisoned by refugees, “Mamdani is Jewish”, Enoch is right… And it’s not just the underground men, it’s all sorts

Guys like this all wear cutaway collars

Given the stuff he gets away with, “a photo with a couple of teenagers” never seemed a plausible explanation for the extreme aversion to releasing the files

The only way to deal with this is to ban X in Ireland. There’s no amount of imploring that will persuade them to adjust the algorithm or moderate content.

Begging people to think through the implications of “Irishness is sth you can possess to a greater or lesser degree depending on your politics”

I got @alomshaha.bsky.social’s new book for the 7yo for his birthday. (Though of course, when he gets it he’ll be “the 8yo”. Time!)

Musk’s term “the woke mind virus” is an example of “every accusation is a confession”. He sees ideology as akin to a virus and he’s turned Twitter into a germ bomb, delivering viral load into people’s minds.

The richest man in history is a world-historical evil monster, it’s just too on the nose

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles

Daily Mail front page today is a picture of Mamdani…….’s wife Just her!

Conversation at the lights between three Irish people around uni student age. “Did you vote?” “Yeah.” “Who did you vote for?” “Who do you think?!!” [All laugh] “Did you vote?” “Nah, you?” “Nah.”

6 November and it’s 17 degrees Celsius in Dublin, Ireland

Jane Mitchell is one of the best novelists in Ireland and this book is unfortunately relevant right now

Men in their 20s in Louth – what are the odds this is dissident republican related? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Have said this before, but once when I had surgery the ICU nurse had learned English as a second language & kept using "perv" to mean "look" eg "my colleagues and I will need a quick perv under those bandages" "let's have a perv how you're healing" etc

You may recall the news story about an Irish silversmith whose studio was broken into. Séamus Gill is one of the most respected craftspeople in Ireland and he’s trying to rebuild his business after the robbery by selling these silver pendants: www.seamusgill.com

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

This sort of thing is why arts organisations should be absolutely unapologetic about seeking and getting public funding. Massive companies demand state largesse all the time, and they don’t even acknowledge it.

“The urethral syringe contained mercury” And we think we have it bad

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

RTÉ's in-house TV documentary unit is to cease production next year as part of changes at the broadcaster. The broadcaster maintains this will not lessen its output and these staff will be re-assigned across RTÉ. www.thejournal.ie/rte-document...

Big dusty clouds thousands of miles across, being beautiful with nobody there to see. The dinner goes in the oven, and some way above it, or below (which obviously amounts to exactly the same thing in this context), unmeasurable beauty explodes, again and again and again

Oh christ, just had that awful realisation, you know the one. All that weird shit that's always happening in space is happening right now, isn't it.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

My 7yo is very pro-Guy Fawkes. Thinks parliament had it coming. Life with a Horrible Histories kid is like this

NEWS: Emma Dabiri joins as our new non-fiction editor. Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning broadcaster & bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies. Emma will be reading for the current open submission round. stingingfly.org/news/announc...

This might sound simplistic but I think part of the issue here is that reading and writing are related to talking, and everyone talks. There’s a sense that anything language-based should be democratic and universal and when it starts to feel elitist it’s like a betrayal of that. Whereas right…

both of these notions are flat out wrong. if we actually taught humanities classes with the same rigor we do with STEM, a lot of people would actually fail. if you've ever had a kind of "literary version of insane ballet instructor" teacher, you understand this

Got to tell you a dirty little secret. I kinda love Sliwa too.

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

Publishing is a manufacturing industry that wants to be a service industry