Claudia Porcel

"sorry for your loss"

An early version of the Kavanagh poem we now know as "Raglan Road". The widely disliked line about the Queen of Hearts still making tarts is not here.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers

Trifluoronitrosomethane gas, blue-green in color, in a spherical glass container

Wikipedia HERO

A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:

Just heard an australian loudly reassuring her boyfriend "chat gpt told me it's platform 14"

That is neither the format used by this station for platforms nor a platform number it has

These suggestions could be called a list of fondues and fondon'ts.

Darach doing God's work here.

Someone just figured out that Irish text used in 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' is about a bus lane opening in Dublin We can safely file this under WTF?'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' will always remain with us as the reason why we never got into the 'Twilight' franchise. Vampire...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dublin Bus. What could possibly link them?

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Hands across the border

Classifieds

The evil that men do lives after them

The BBC news headlines tonight led with the state of the king’s relationship with his son, followed by news of riots on the streets of Paris motivated by rising inequality and the failings of the political class. It’s possible that the eighteenth century is back.

As a 40 year old man I know that buying nunchucks as a self defense weapon wasn't a smart idea but as a 40 year old man with a concussion I also know that they will do their job.

Eheheh.

Puppy, the flower statue of a dog, in Bilbao.

What's up, big dawg?

VAMOOO. ¡Enhorabuena!

I'm so sorry. Sending hugs.

I said this when it came out but the plot of 28 YEARS LATER really should have been that the rage virus was eradicated two decades ago but then a bunch of dipshits bring it back because of something they heard on a health and wellness podcast.

I'd buy a big ass patch of land and rewild it.

You only see ‘glom’ with ‘onto.’

If you see ‘fro,’ there’s probably a ‘to’ before it.

If you’re ‘wreaking,’ 99% of the time it’s ‘havoc.’

If you want to ‘ebb,’ you will probably ‘flow’ immediately after.

You only see ‘lop’ with ‘off.’

You only see ‘beck,’ with ‘and call.’

People think the hardest part of singlehood is how much more expensive things like rent and holidays are, or no go-to partner to do life with, but they're wrong. It's not having someone to compare your wealth with in bed so that you've an excuse to steal a big bull and wage war on the men of Ulster

At the wedding for my ill-fated first marriage I was casting around for a gender neutral equivalent of "maid of honour" or "best man" and went for "second" (a la duelling) instead. My second did make clear to me that she refused to marry the other groom if I didn't turn up, but would duel him...

Quina setmana, no?

Well it's Sunday. And you know what happens on Sunday? Show-and-tell happens on Sunday! So show us something you made or found, somewhere you've been, something you're proud of, family, pets... anything neat, really! Go on! Show us!

Mt. Hood. Dark conifer trees, close up shot of snow covered mountain with some rock exposed, pale blue sky with two thick layers of gray-white clouds.

Evening shot of Mt. Hood. May 9. 🤍🩵☁️

A statement published August 31st, 1997 by the National Enquirer. It reads "We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline "Di Goes Sex Mad", which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: "A Farewell To The Princess We All Loved""

Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate

Reminds me of that Reddit user who asked if it was ok to cut down a fairy tree and never posted again after that.

a person named @magicaljonson.bsky.social is pitting "your trans daughter" (who is still "a real boy") against his "organic daughter"

wake up babe a new slur just dropped

Seamus Heaney's last words noli timere (don't be afraid) texted to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died (August 30, 2013).

“Let's go," says I to the ILT librarian feeding him the usual Friday night line.
"We can't," says he with a straight face.
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for Godot.”
[Pause]
"I fired him last week."
"What did you do that for?" as he suppresses a giggle.
"Sure he was never at work on time."
"Ba dum tss!"