any time she shows up flogging washing powder i bring that column up. "interned any muslims lately Vogue?" i'm a delight.

That Country is Fucked latest

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Very much into soup for lunch/ jumper-under-the-blazer/harder to get people on the phone season here at work. We're just one spiritual reckoning/incompetent bloody retribution for infidelity away from an Iris Murdoch novel breaking out around us.

doctor: are you sure? he will get bigger

mrs. cratchit: we’re naming him tiny tim

I heard yesterday of an in-person event that was chaired by Ivan Yates, and he had people genuinely coming up professing to being Big Fans. Imagine. A Big Fan of Ivan Yates.

the business news segment on Morning Ireland is so infuriating; I'd say 4 mornings out of 5 it's basically unpaid advertising for whoever they have on.

an ad for a slushy drink that reads THE BLUE THING IS BACK!

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Photo of CHRISTMAS by Low

Photo of SONGS FOR CHRISTMAS by Sufjan Stevens

Photo of CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS by Vince Guaraldi

Those nearest and dearest to me can look forward to a constant rotation between three flavours of tuneful melancholia for the next 25 days.

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

in the market for k-pop demon hunters merch, man if they made these in a Men's Large wild horses wouldn't stop me, they rule.

www.zara.com/ie/en/kpop-d...

excited to learn what this is in relation to, i'm a fiend for stories about local authorities making a balls of literally anything they can find.

what words do i have to mute On Here to never see Sam Altman's face again

From the Far Side collection

Not a jot of actual information being communicated. "This idea that...". "...doesn't work anymore." Have some self-respect, what the fuck are you talking about? What does that mean? Christ alive.

I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon!

Lol just heard George Hamilton's phone go off on Lyric. Marty would never; say what you will about the gentlest presence on Irish radio, the man is a professional.

Started buying those A4 crates of clementines/satsumas/mandarins and working my way through them in a week or even less. Nature's Bounty-maxxing. I'm a fruit-pilled seasonal produce-cel. In my Warding Off Colds and 'Flu era.

Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

Absolutely pissing down rain here in the Treaty City but did I shirk? Take a backwards step?

What do you think.

Minouche Shafik, the prime minister's newly appointed chief economic adviser, turned to Torsten Bell, the Treasury minister, and asked him to set the scene. Speaking fast and furiously, Bell embarked on a foul-mouthed tirade, laying bare the scale of the economic and political challenges facing the government. "It was 'fuck this, fuck that, we've got to fuck them all and then we've got to fuck them some more'," one source said. Lady Shafik, the courteous, well-spoken former deputy governor of the Bank of England and ex-president of the London School of Economics, looked "completely shocked", according to another senior figure who was present. "It was Torsten at his most excitable and pumped up. In the end, you did think: 'Please, just stop talking?"

Once again, a lobby hack’s thirst for a spicy quote leaves readers with absolutely no idea what people in an important meeting were actually talking about
observer.co.uk/news/politic...

These are the championship minutes of putting the bins out. The slightest misstep at this point in the season would spell disaster. This is what we train for: Recycling, Brown, Normal/Recycling, Brown, Normal. Do your job.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

One day I'll successfully recite the names of the main players in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER etc. without hesitation or any "Billy? Billy Something?"-ing and I'll just wink out of existence.

It’s really being used heavily these days as a call-and-response for shitty people; just a quick test to see if you’re dealing with someone who is equally fed up with the expectation that you treat human beings with basic courtesy.

Caoineadh Áirt Úi Laoghaire - Irish poem Caoineadh Áirt Úi Laoghaire is a moving poem written in Irish about a wife's heartbreak when her husband is killed. The poem was also translated into English by Thomas Kinsella.

ireland-calling.com/caoineadh-ai...

Now that's a poem

Queen A-A.R.T Elayra

modernist irish rapper called 'cré na killa' send skeet

Cutting around the Treaty City debuting the AN CLOGÁN tote. "Such panache!" "Is that the...?" "Who is he?"