Clodagh Tait

We need more research into why shitheads don’t realize that there is no reason to be a shithead.

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

@aoifeb.bsky.social

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

There's an article on 'Tom Lee: the posing peacemaker' by Hiram Morgan.
Don't say: Nice helmet there Tom.

I Draw Slow; Maija Sofia; SJ McArdle 'Hesperus' @bringyourownhammer.bsky.social @maijasofija.bsky.social

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

A photo of some mince pies with a notice underneath that says "Please wash your hands if you have touched a donkey."

Fair enough.

Between this and John Boyne it feels like we're being gaslit like it's 1999.

The money is in his cupboard

This is why students are set essays to write - the process teaches you how to think.

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

I have to say, this does not feel like it was a 'common thing'

So many questions. Esp about the birching.

Why does he think the GAA needs a new name?

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

My daughter was the greatest friends with a boy who went to the same childminder and was in her class. He came to all her birthday parties etc until age 10 and then the imposed gender segregation thing kicked in. I miss him!

Every time someone posts about the structural and inherent limitations of LLMs there are loads of people in the replies confidently asserting AI will overcome all its current limitations, and they remind me of the people in the 1960s who were confident we would have colonised the galaxy by 1999.

One like, one history of poverty opinion

'It's a long way to Tipperary' (postcard from 1916, Tipperary Studies Digital Archive, www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/5...)

'It's a long way to Tipperary' (postcard from 1916, Tipperary Studies Digital Archive, www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/5...)

Yikes
(Moyaliffe Castle, Bridie Fennessy collection, Tipperary Studies digital archive, www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/7...)

British History in the Long 18th Century Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns

Really pleased to see the Autumn programme for @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome - but please do register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This clipping is from the Economist, 25 November 1989, p. 61.

I came across this because a Mass Observer in 2007 talked about boycotting McDonald's for 'several months', until they became aware the rumour was false.

Who'd have thunk it?!

Holy moly, thought that was a pisstake. Some showman.

Lookin' a bit shook there Danny

Capel Street in the rare ould times (1800: Thomas Malton)

No AI on Daniel O'Connell stamp with TV aerial - An Post An Post has said AI software was not used to generate the artwork on a stamp, which appears to show a television aerial on a building behind the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell.

Forget the tv aerial, what about the harping elf and the one horse open sleigh?
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...