I don't know much about Curaçao but the volume of the German fans' celebration feels like a grown adult gloating about winning a kids' sports day race.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

I love when I can understand something without needing to translate it

From my experience watching gymnastics, I imagine that the broadcast of the World Cup will be a flashy intro naming off sponsors, 2 minutes of sports, then ad break, then a quick video of an athlete's family before going back to the live broadcast (which is zoomed in dramatically on players' faces).

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

Hi, Irish person here. That's the stupidest take on what's happening in Belfast I've seen, which is really, really impressive, so.

I regret to inform you that my "Brits and USians weighing in on Irish history with a lot of confidence and no understanding" meter has collapsed under the strain

The answer: a world so fucked up that THE POPE now ranks as one of the world's most compassionate and tolerant leaders. THE POPE.

Is it not extremely obvious that the "NFL wife" headline was an attempt at rage bait?

Oh no, I hope the pond is okay.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.

I will just note that Dublin's Congolese community were able to protest about the horrible killing of Yves Sakila without so much as breaking a window.

I've never heard shaky-voiced angry speeches in the chamber about these murders, let alone demands to shut down cities and international attention.

So many careful euphemisms for disability (like "challenged" or "special") have been deployed as ableist insults because the contempt didn't begin in the language. I'm not saying we go back to the crueller words, just that getting people to stop saying a particular word is a small part of the work.

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Seeing “you may not use facilities of your affirmed gender” in black and white really has me feeling an abject dread in my heart

So with some pretty fucking extreme racism in the mainstream now in UK politics im sure nothing untoward will come from the fact the EHRC just opened the door to “being uncomfortable with sharing a space with certain people” being a fine reason to segregate people

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

This Pride month I am once again begging Pride/CSD/LGBTQ+ groups in Germany to learn where the term "Pinkwashing" originated. (Spoiler: it wasn't about corporations using rainbow logos.)

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

As I've said before, I think it's farcical for the FAI not to boycott the game with Israel after moving to get them banned from UEFA competition It is also farcical, however, that we are having this conversation after a game against fucking QATAR

Noisy neighbour

two and a half years into israel's unrestrained attacks on the people of gaza, and i'm still not numb to videos of parents carrying shredded parts of their children killed by israeli bombs killing as many palestinians as possible, and starving or scaring the rest out of gaza, was always the plan

I have no idea why but I am so irritated by the German word "Biskuit".

Came to my head so i had to make it

Repeatedly punching the pilot in the head until he provides me with a single-sex toilet on the plane

Hear a lot that AI can be used to enhance learning rather than outsource but every day I get emails like this (subject:"Turn big ideas into A work") offering me 50% off Grammarly to generate my work with AI, check it to see if it sounds like AI, then rewrite it with AI to not sound like AI.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This cartoon is good, but it's a little hard to take from The Guardian which has - and continues to, esp via regular columnists - push for this exact thing

Bertie: Smithers, did she just call me a ****? Smithers: no sir, she said Euro Count-ry. Euro Count-ry.

i'll be at the protest outside the dáil tomorrow, against the killing of yves sakila if you're in dublin, come along 1pm

Pronouncing "wikipedia" like Pierce from Community.

Seems to be a controversial take that a bunch of Arnotts security guards shouldn’t be able to execute you in the street for potential shoplifting

have Gript started speculating as to the names and nationalities of the securities guards involved yet or do they only do that sometimes

Oh yeah this is definitely gonna happen at some point

Regarding Eurovision: looking at what's happening in sports, I get the feeling that soon enough Russia will be allowed back rather than Israel getting banned.

this would make a great exclamation

What a beautiful day to boycott Eurovision. ☀️

Interesting to see the majority of the Dáil still consider women to be hysterical creatures who can't be trusted to know their own minds.

Those random instagram "add yours" stories that are randomly specific like "something red" or "you holding something"... those are AI training swindles, right?

Luxembourg.

I imagine that moments before this was published, an editor ran into the room screaming "specify WITH THEIR LOVERS".

I know I've always been an uptight goody-two-shoes but jesus it really pisses me off when people don't just drive safely.

"So erstellst du Grafiken selbstständig und mit KI." Ja und ich bring dir gleich Kochen bei mit Lieferando. ✌️

Next steps: 2027: throwing rotten fruit 2028: throwing knives 2029: blank stares cos we thought we killed everyone who ever thought that. yknow with the knives.