Siobhán McElduff

A handmade pottery mug made from white speckled clay that reads FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT. The mug is glazed blood red on the handle, rim, and interior and there are red drips down the sides.

“Are swear words okay?” is the most common question I get about custom message mugs. No need to explain. You can absolutely send your Nana a mug with the c-word on it.

My rules are simple: no slurs, no threats, and nothing that will get the secret service called on me. Otherwise go wild! 🩸 #pottery

this is my Roman Empire

He's one of my #SnackKids, and very serious. He's 14 going on 30, with an eye on tech for his education. He's been doing very well and he dreams of lifting them out of poverty, whether through sport or education. #HelpFolksLive #HelpSky

$5 - $10 would mean the world

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Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill.

Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines.

Just shut up about Churchill.

What would the Churchill book and statue industry do the?

Pulitzer prize heading to Cork this year.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

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a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

“Hey, ChatGPT here. A user has designated you as their emergency contact—and honestly? That’s brave. You’re not just an emergency contact, you’re a trusted confidant. So anyways, they think I’m god and you’re the devil.”

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

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On @virginmedianews.bsky.social today we look at the impact of climate change on communities.

Following a deadly flood - that saw more than 130 people killed - 1,000+ people were marked to leave the village their families lived in for generations.

The fabric of communities in Rwanda is being torn.

A Shot at Glory film poster.

For #BeyondFriday this week we pay tribute to the great Robert Duvall with one of his most curious films, Michael Corrente's bizarre sounding Scottish football film, A Shot at Glory. Brian Cox! Michael Keaton! ALLY MCCOIST! Join us on Friday for this masterpiece*

*May not be a masterpiece

Shawn Micallef: They’ve been a blight on Toronto streets for 20 years. Why those icky garbage bins might soon be trashed The city is running a survey to see what the public wants for street furniture after the 20-year contract with Astral Media ends next year.

I wrote a rubbish column in the @thestar.com today

We're still too busy uncovering horrors. Might take a bit longer to move up from fourth place for the praying. (And you'd wonder of most of those are of the St Antony type...)

Greg Davies: Impress your mother? Seems like a nice wholesome task for a Channel 4 light entertainment show. Surely nobody did something that can never be taken back?

Alex Horne: Let’s see how Oedipus did

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Hard to imagine a more inherently fascist food than rice pudding.

possibly because Scalzi is no longer available, I got my first scammy book club email today (for an academic book?! that book group is going to need a lot of wine). It's such a bizarre phenomenon.

Asylum: Inside Grangegorman is now available as an audiobook, narrated by the author, Brendan Kelly.

Listen now: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Asylum-Au...

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By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in 'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night, the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than double those in all our other institutions put together.

Is it 2,000 kilometres from other inhabited places? Or just Tokyo?

Nothing to see here just the Chancellor of the University of Limerick retweeting a post suggesting that those of us who campaigned for Catherine Connolly would have preferred Ayatollah Khomeini (though I think Shatter actually means Khameini) as a candidate... Outrageous stuff.

The Catholic Conference of Bishops, no less.

🩸Crassus and most of his soldiers died there
🩸Mark Antony had his ass wiped there
🩸Valerian and his army were captured there 3/

"Emergency break" is a horrendously dehumanizing way to describe what's happening.

It's a bit sad that you don't get the ritual public humiliation of an Irish vote count in these situations. You really can't beat it.

But Crassus is my favourite.

Or almost all the others...

Greg Davies: Walked out of the underworld. Didn't look back once. Job done!

Orpheus: Thanks

Alex Horne: We did want to show you one more clip of when he came out...