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Catching up with Big Picture draft episodes and Sean asking "is A Knight's Tale a good film" in the 2001 draft has irrationally pissed me off. He didn't even ask it a snarky way, it was a genuine question as though he hadn't seen it or didn't remember it which in a way makes it so much worse.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Another perfect performance from the Irish women

I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.

O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

A sign with a man with his hand out

Absolutely no high fives

The Simpsons Hit & Run

“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

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

“Gagging”

horrible accident at the recap factory. no one can tell us what happened

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Peru's coastal birds face crisis as population drops 75% Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their ...

Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their survival.

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

Me getting ready for my picture with the Fantastic Four: Wait, where's Reed? Why is he standing all the way over there?

Sue, Johnny, and Ben: 🙄🙄🙄

I am NEVER going to understand y’all going to Twitter to see the terrible things they’re saying and sharing with people who left Twitter because of all the terrible things they’re saying.

If we wanted to see it, we would. You don’t have to report back Barbara Walters!

Killed by who 🤔

Palestinian accepted to Irish universities stranded in Gaza It's government policy to refuse to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on “official government scholarships”.

Reported with @dropsitenews.com

Palestinian scholarship students with places at Irish universities and processed visas remain trapped in Gaza as the Irish government refuses to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on 'official government scholarships'.

www.ontheditch.com/government-w...

Fine Gael presidential candidate is multi-property landlord Her rental income from these two Meath investment properties is additional to the €800,000 she claimed in EU expenses.

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness is a multi-property, mortgage-free landlord.

The former European Commissioner rents out two three-bedroom homes she bought mortgage-free over the past decade.

ontheditch.com/fine-gael-pr...

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

"have you tried using chatGPT to do X" have you tried using your brain to do that

The one to watch for HB* Holes

*huge black

The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Which actor has the best roster of onscreen exes?

Hans: Palestine is the story. Not Glastonbury. Mass starvation is the story. Not Glastonbury. IOF members admitting to intentionally shooting civilians that pose no risk seeking aid is the story. Not Glastonbury. Addictive opiods in bags of flour to a starved population is the story. Not Glastonbury. Genocide is the story. Not Glastonbury. Palestine is the story. Not Glastonbury.

Hans Zimmer speaks out against the genocide of Palestinians