Donkeys at my local animal sanctuary having a party to celebrate one of them living there for 20 years.

You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.

Ken Campbell once used a medium to contact the ghost of Laurence Olivier. He asked the spirit who was the greatest actor in the world right now, and received the answer “Jackie Chan”. So Campbell rented as much Chan on VHS as possible and watched the lot. “And do you know, the man was RIGHT!”

Kingsley Amis used to demand complete silence during episodes of The Bill. He’d sit a couple of feet from the screen, enraptured, then at the end stand up and declare, “Marvellous! Wouldn’t change a word.”

Thank god Maria Steen didn’t get the signatures, trying to not be an over thinker but I really suspect that the bag was selected to make people as predictably cross as it has and keep her in the conversation. The campaign would have been full of that, catnip to the media and debated endlessly

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

Lough Neagh eel among species found with algae-linked toxin in flesh for first time #environment #pollution #bluegreenalgae #TheEarthsCorr open.substack.com/pub/theearth...

After all this time, Casablanca continues to provide astonishing facts.

Someone has managed to drop a Palestinian flag at the very top of the Spire. Fair fucks. Gonna be comical watching Dublin City council trying to figure out how to get that down :) #Speirgorm

She admits she deliberately flaunted the handbag to rub in her wealth but also confuses how much something costs with how good it looks: the more money you spend, the better looking you are.

Might not have made UK news. The stats are awful for a population less than a small city in UK. NI is labelled the most dangerous place in UK for women in this article. www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Morning all. Photographer Sirkka - Liisa Konttinen. W.H. Douglas - Gents Hairdresser (Byker) 1974.

[July 18th, 1980] English post-punk band Echo and the Bunnymen release their debut album "Crocodiles"

The Morecambe & Wise Show (24th September 1980). With Eric safely out the way, Little Ern and Deryck Guyler are free to indulge their musical fancies ...

Here are my top 10 dog sneezes!

I have blocked the commentator that was posting on Bluesky and who is probably none the wiser Forgive me they were posting about sports too much

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

#Mournes from Rossglass Beach. Cloud, sea, and shore #Lecale #LeathCathail #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

‘Tea Time.’ #Painting by David Denby (1991) #art

When someone shows you who they are the first time... She and Simmons can fuck off as far as it's possible to fuck off.

Rapture's off. Sorry.

Male? ✅ White? ✅ Local? ✅

“we know we made you mad so you left but — hear us out — we’d like to invite you to come back and pay more”

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

Our Archive TV series continues this Thursday night but you can watch it here too:

Missouri woman sentenced to prison over scheme to sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland

22.9.81 I was back to school today. Madness had a new record out – Shut Up (!!). I went up to Davies for a Twix and on the way down I met Fintan. We had a good old talk. First time we've met since this day last week.

I'm writing The Times's obit this week for Conor Gearty – an Irish barrister who was a founding member of Matrix Chambers, and as a professor at the LSE, one of the world's leading scholars of human rights. If by chance you knew him, and you've a moment, I'd be very grateful for a quick chat.

Almost got raptured but couldn't achieve escape velocity because my drag coefficient was too high.

"Belfast Harbour has ‘once-in-a-generation’ £200m plan to transform docks into 450 homes and public spaces" They're 100% going to sink that area

This year’s Irish presidential campaign is wonderfully bonkers, and at last I’m getting full value from my Irish citizenship 🇮🇪

Picked up my 3 yr old from nursery today, she looked very tired and weary as i buckled her into her seat, as we drove off I asked had she a good day, she sighed deeply as if she had the worries of the world on her shoulders and said flatly “just put on enya please”

Delighted that a programme I don't watch on a channel I don't get in a country I don't live in is coming back after not being on for a bit. Truly all my Christmasses have come at once.

Okay Kimmel's back on the air good very good decision all around DO NOT RESUBSCRIBE TO DISNEY PLUS they're on the BDS List you've all proven to me you are more than capable of boycotting going back now only tells me you do not give a fuck about Gaza

Yes! The Hu are amazing! And this thread is full of other great music.

i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines

Already, "Disney is a great American company that royally screwed up. They corrected their error. They deserve to see there is a way back." Y'all doing truth and reconciliation theatre with corporations that would sue you for infringement for a nursery mural but show you fine print for homicide

We can all joke about the insanity that is blaming Tylenol but this is right on the money — it isn’t about that — it is about blaming WOMEN. Religious fanatics see God’s plan as infallible and if something bad happens, it is human failure. And when it comes to children, they always blame women.

Who knew? Turns out the real existential threat to American children wasn’t guns or poverty after all. It was Paracetamol.

“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken." — Carl Sagan

For those of you who've left Facebook but miss the ridiculousness of local groups... behold what turned up on our local freebies page today

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

The thing that is so insane about this is, these books are entirely unpolitical in content. They’re just about a little black girl doing things like going to the library or visiting a beekeeper and learning about bees. Swap it for a white face and nobody could come up with a reason to ban them.

I am calling for a moratorium on new tote bags. We all have more than enough tote bags already. Stop giving me tote bags at conferences. I do not want or need any more tote bags.

Jay Vine should sue the Guardian for libel.

YES I’LL JUMP TO RECIPE

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Am I late to this? It's fantastic! A wormhole of all the genres of music that just takes you deeper and deeper into collections of amazing creativity.