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A digital illustration of a star going supernova, surrounded by a gaseous disc in orange and red tones. The star is seen exploding in an olive shape, directed above and below the star.

For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.

Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/

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Ar an nguthán le mo mham aréir agus d'aontaigh sí liom go bhfuil an deis ag Catherine Connolly an rud is greannmhar a dhéanamh -
ráiteas a chur amach maidir le tógáil seomra damhsa nua in Áras an Uachtaráin...

beannacht but it's written as ban plus numeral 8

a colophon asking for blessings to be spoken for the scribe but the word beannacht is written as bann with a numeral 8

Connacht but it's written as Con + n-stroke + numeral 8

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition

"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"

a pixelated image of a man making a face Alt: a pixelated image of a man making a face

"i bhfeidhm" leis an f beag...

zohran mamdani sign generatior: OH FOR fuck's sake

Ham and Cheezus bento consisting of some rice covered in a heart shaped ham slice and a cheese cross. She said that the cross used to be made from nori but nori apparently got really expensive lately. I’m glad my kids are off the taste of nori. They only ate the ajitsuke kind that was super expensive and was basically candy.

My very Christian mamatomo calls this bento design “Jesus in my heart.” Or at least she did, until I convinced that it must instead be called ハムアンドチーザス. You’re welcome, world.

NOW
That's What I Call
Cool Irish!
2025

(samhlaigh go bhfuil sé seo déanta snazzy agam i bPaint)

*Dubhghlas de h-Íde, Eoin MacNeill agus Pádraig Pearse ar chlúdach Life Magazine*

“Are these the new ‘Gaeilgeoir influencers’?”

Check Out These Hot Revolutionaries Making Irish Cool For The First And Only Time In All Of History

uhh why don't you make like my preferred form of combat and turn based

“Irish is having such a resurgence right now” a scríobhann Béarleoir eile, don mhíliú uair ar feadh 10 mbliana nuair a chasann sé ar duine atá beo ag úsáid an Ghaeilge amach sa saol.

A story that I will tell until I'm blue in the face, that I will ensure is carried down from one generation to the next, is of the sex education class my mother got at school. It's the 1970s in Ireland, so naturally they're being taught by a nun.

R-phost ó OnaG ag iarraidh cinntiú go bhfuil mo chuid sonraí teagmhála suas chun dáta. Nuair a leanaim an nasc, tagaim chuig cuid den suíomh idirlíne socraithe mar cineál sraith téacsanna eadrainn ('sfuath liom é)
ach ní ach suirbhé google an rogha Ghaeilge, agus b'fhéidir go bhfuil sin níos measa

Sometimes we don’t need a miracle… just kind hearts.
If only 5 people donate £25 each, we can cover our daily needs — food, supplies, and dignity.
Your help today, no matter how small, makes a real difference in our day.
Be one of the five who keep life possible for us.❤️

T-Rex: Ah yes, time for a nice cup of tea. God: TEA STAINS YOUR TEETH T-REX T-Rex: What?! T-Rex: Is God a DENTIST now??

God: I MEAN I'M THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA THE BEGINNING AND THE END AND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THOSE TWO POINTS ARE DENTISTS SO YEAH T-Rex: Okay, well, instead of tea I'll just have some stupid coffee. Is THAT okay? God: COFFEE ALSO STAINS YOUR TEETH T-REX T-Rex: Dang it!!

Utahraptor: What's up, bud? T-Rex: Oh, God's a dentist now. Utahraptor: Oof. T-Rex: Right? EVERYTHING I propose to use my teeth for, HE'S against. What if I drink coffee or tea, AND alternate each sip with a rinse of water to prevent staining, AND brush my teeth immediately afterwards? Utahraptor: No-one could object to that!

God: WELL ACTUALLY YOU SHOULD WAIT AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR BEFORE BRUSHING AFTER FOOD SINCE ACIDS IN MANY FOODS CAN SOFTEN YOUR ENAMEL T-Rex: TEETH T-Rex: are BARELY WORTH IT

okay teeth are probably worth it but COME ON

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'Seeking materials' -- Japan city looks abroad for clues to restore Matsuyama Castle palace - The Mainichi MATSUYAMA -- This west Japan city is on the hunt for documents containing information on Matsuyama Castle's structures lost in the years after the end

Can you help rebuild the parts of Matsumoto Castle's palace destroyed after the Meiji restoration? Families, colleges and museums in the West may have photos and drawings made by foreign visitors to the Castle. Please share widely, deadline end March 2027. More info: mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Tallied a box in Dublin Central where spoiled votes came out ahead of Catherine Connolly and the constant refrain of the maddest things you see on Twitter was notable and distressing

There was no conceivable world in which the British justice system would find one of their own guilty of war crimes when they're enthusiastically supporting a genocide. But even still, the Bloody Sunday verdict is a slap in the face for all Irish people.

Great now the Americans are scrapping me because they don't know what a buzzard looks like

Caithfimid suaitheantas nó rud éigin a dhéanamh cosúil leis an 🔞 ach le brat Meiriceánach sa lár in áit an 18. ADNI.

Feicim go bhfuil Enoch ag moladh vótáil do Humphreys anois, má raibh amhras ar bith ar aon duine fós cén rogha is fearr...

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

i mo ré “gael beag le rá”

やさしい朝日新聞 やさしい日本語でニュースを紹介します

The Asahi has a new simplified Japanese news site, to help language learners, children and the elderly. Around 3 articles a day are written with easy vocabulary and grammar. There are also options to toggle furigana, and spacing between words. yasashii.asahi.com

Pretty please do not repost AI slop. Thank you!

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