Culchii

*opens bluesky*
Dublin Zoo did WHAT to Mrs Brown?

Digital billboard that reads "This Valentine's Day, Buy Her a Gun" with graphics of a handgun and bouquet of flowers

Simpsons screenshot: Homer leaning out of his car and waving his hand, caption: Whatever you say, Mr. Billboard

Beautiful

Related gripe - twice now ads for gyms have caught my eye, I've clicked through and not ONCE is the location mentioned anywhere on the godforsaken page. Your ethos and trainer bios are useless if I don't know WHERE YOU ARE!!

A deep dive on two key figures in the Irish far right.
hopeandcourage.ie/plastic-pay-...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

idea i had

Had planned to attend @igsoc.bsky.social meeting in US this year. Guess I'll be joining online instead...

Meta/Instagram - long since compromised
TikTok - more recently compromised
Twitter - CSAM factory
Bluesky/Mastodon - basically methadone for recovering millennials until we get better

The future isn't new social media platforms it's getting off it. (Unhelpful as that is for independent creators)

Biiiiiig stretch

Someone I used to work with (and thought was a massive tit) has announced the (sad, obviously) death of her mother on LinkedIn (I know) with this sentence: "As a leader, an entrepreneur and human, I am having to grapple with a devastating rite of passage".

visiting man said Mickey Mouse "is no longer a concept" following a recent visit to Disneyland. "He has a house" and "is in a parade and everything."

The Sunfly karaoke guy

We love seeing this guy

🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔

hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

I suppose the good thing about having Patrick O'Donovan as Arts Minister is you could get funding for a show called "The Stupidest Minister Who Ever Lived", where the main character looks exactly like him and is called Patrick and does all the stupid stuff he's done, & he'd never make the connection

The person who brings it in will be promoted to Lead Innovation Synergist

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

rip jeffrey epstein, you would have loved grok

No new pictures where you at mentally?

Exactly what you would expect. It's David Hyde Pierce as a satyr playing a pan flute, depicted on a white mug.

A day like this calls for the Niles Crane satyr mug.

Peggy Hill is an all time top 5 sitcom character for me. She has at least one line in each episode, delivered with such clueless overconfidence, that it couldn't come from any other character on TV

RTÉ Radio 1 marks 100 years in service tomorrow morning.

RTÉ 2XM, Radio 1 Extra, Pulse and Junior all close tonight at midnight.

Here's to grand endurers, and futures past.

#spéirghorm #ireland

As American moves towards eliminating jus soli citizenship, a reminder that the people of Ireland voted to do the same

This resulted in precisely 0 benefits or opportunities accruing to existing Irish citizens

But it did let us be cruel to a bunch of kids, so who is to say if it was good or bad

Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Pfft...I guess