Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera

Cover of a book featuring sexy warrior ladies with big curly blonde hair and in sexy leather

The US covers are so wildly different!

Haha. I’m guessing you mean “mixed” thoughts!

Oh! Fun idea

They haven’t arrived yet but I’ll let you know!

Julian must love you!

The covers of Julian May’s four book series The Saga Of The Exiles, all painted in blues and grays and pinks, and featuring dramatic mountains with both vaguely spacey and vaguely prehistoric motifs

We had a discussion on here recently about my teenage sci-fi obsession, the now fairly little known The Saga Of The Exiles by Julian May. They are pretty hard to find these days but eBay eventually came through. Now to see if they still stand up…

Some of the details included here of the treatment of the flotilla abductees are appalling

So a former government minister, who was in the government when a bill passed, is now disavowing that bill? That's a problem.
That's it's people rights & existence she is throwing under the bus makes it sickening
#aras25 #speirgorm

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Oh I get that A LOT lol. Always in the same tone!

A letter that reads: Dublin 29/01/2014 Dear Rory, I saw your interview on Saturday Night Live and I have to say you made most of your points well and came across as articulate and reasonable. I particularly liked that you remained good humoured throughout. However you are incredibly naive if you think the image of you in drag and with the name Pantibliss is going to promote the cause of marriage equality. That image will be used again and again by the opponents of marriage equality to advance the argument that gay people are not suitable to be parents and that their relationships are not to be taken seriously. And no, straight people will not be able to separate your stage image from the very normal image of you we saw on Saturday Night Live. Back to your interview, I don't wish to hurt your feelings but one of the things I would strongly object to is your characterisation of gay people as "flaming queens". If you want to describe yourself as such off you go but, as a gay man that is as homophobic and offensive to me as anything "the usual suspects" have written about us. The opponents of gay marriage are very clever. The thought that you have gifted them compensation and given them a very good head start in this debate, makes me sick to my stomach. I know you are not to blame for that -RTE just got scared, apologised and paid up. But interventions in this debate have to be very carefully thought out because the opponents of marriage equality are far more organised, have lots of money, access to legal advisors, and supporters in powerful positions. So Rory I’m asking you please ditch the Panti image until after this referendum and if you’re going to make any more interventions in this debate do so carefully. No gay person will thank you if this referendum is defeated and you are mentioned as one of the people who helped the No campaign. Best of luck, John PS You might think of renaming your bar to advance the campaign (Equality ?... or something along those lines)

A letter to RTE that reads: Co Tyrone 3/11/2016. Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing this brief letter to tell you of my family's concerns and deep disappointment about a programme you broadcast on primetime radio on Bank Holiday Monday of this week. RTE is the station we always listen to and really enjoy the vast majority of programmes you present. On Monday afternoon we listened with increasing disbelief as we were assaulted on the airwaves by a "show-offy", arrogant, mean-spirited, unfunny, self-indulgent Pantisocracy who engaged in a relentless anti-Catholic diatribe which included slagging off his own mother to the point where we changed channels to get rid of him. We are not a hugely religious family, and have been deeply upset in recent years by the scandals which have involved the church, and we commend you on your part in revealing these issues. We also know many, many people, including some religious, who give their whole lives to unselfishly helping others, and they and the hundreds of thousands of people of good faith ( and good people of faith) deserve better than to have their values and beliefs sneered at and belittled by this individual. We have no problem whatsoever with his own life-style and profession- good luck to him- but please don't present him with a prime-time broadcasting opportunity to insult and belittle so many of your loyal listeners. Our confidence in RTE has been shaken by this. We hope that wiser counsels will prevail in future. Yours faithfully, The [redacted]family P.S. I'm sure his mother, despite his radio caricature of a tweeded, demented tea-maker, was a very decent, generous, hard-working woman who, like our own parents, came from the generation who had nothing but gave everything. An old phrase, not much heard anymore, seems entirely appropriate to Pantisocracy. He has "no manners". You should not be facilitating him, never mind encouraging him.

Was looking for something and came across these gems 🤣

The first is dripping with barely concealed disgust from someone who didn’t have the courage to give his address or presumably real name (John, Dublin 🙄)

And the second! I’d NEVER describe my mother like that except in affectionate good humour

You got any feelings about the Lotto numbers?

Here’s my uncle’s headstone and photo. He did not want to go, he signed up for the peace corp to avoid going, but he got got kicked out for being in an interracial relationship and was shipped out anyway.

We had to put our rent through a LETTERBOX IN THE KITCHEN WALL that went into the garage that he pretended he didn't live in. And if he thought everybody was gone he would start making noise and coughing and walking around loudly

If the landlord that lived in our garage and pretended he didn't and used to secretly sleep in one of the girls beds when she was away and used go through our bins and once fished out a pregnancy test amd brought it up ever runs for president I will be ready

Greta Thunberg

#JUST_IN | Israel deported 171 individuals today who were part of the Global Sumud flotilla.

Among those deported was Greta Thunberg.

This take being dug up by @miriamocal.bsky.social when I’m running for President

I assume the Daily Heil meant to diminish Nicole in people’s eyes with this, but it’s the first time I’ve found her likeable - and relatable!

Ugh

Or at the very least, short memories!

Listen, I’m enjoying the chaos and arguments and handbags and implosions as much as the next gender discombobulist, but once again it suggests that only The Virgin Mary or someone with unshakeable hubris and/or impenetrable self-belief would have the liathróidí (or ubhagáin!) to run for President

Dating? Yes, I also had a dream where I was “dating” Pedro vigorously and sweatily all night long

Netanyahu said that an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel would be like “10,000 tons of TNT falling on a country the size of New Jersey (22,610 km2).”

Israel has dropped 200,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza (365 km2) - the equivalent of 20 nukes on 1.6% the size of New Jersey.

Short but provocative and fascinating post about what it might be that caused extinction in a species extremely similar to our own:

Haha!! Changing lives and lighting fires since day one

Oh I would have self imploded in spectacular vivid flames and taken half of ye with me. It would have been glorious and highly (wonderfully) unpresidential. A fruitless run, but life altering fun

Debi Mazar is in The Walsh Sisters??

🇮🇹 For the fourth straight day, Rome was flooded with protests for Gaza. Organizers said one million people marched on Sunday, October 5, from Porta San Paolo by the Pyramid of Cestius to Piazza San Giovanni. La Repubblica described it as a “human tide” — an endless procession still streaming past...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...