John Looney

If they could read, they would be very annoyed.

Could it be used without offence ? I didn't come to Bluesky to be thoued at by thee!

This was the plot of Love Island; Skelligs edition. Unfortunately, a number of women died of exposure on the first night due to confusion over appropriate attire for Atlantic islands.

The rest succumbed to embarrassment on the second.

It's said the men are still there, reverting to Kerry Feral.

This is the future liberals want.

Or maybe a bishop, to make sure it doesn't get too sexy, with all that lycra.

They probably eat them afterwards.

I'm reminded of a nurse, whose 15 year old sister was pregnant in the 1960s. She was able to ask around and find which mother & baby home had the lowest death rate, to find the best outcome for them both.

That many of these homes killed children was not a secret. It was the whole point.

Weird that the main photo is of a datacenters, which is covered by EU cap & trade, so has nothing to do with Ireland's own emissions.

It's the future Bladerunner warned us about. Eternal darkness and loads of people freaking out that AI is not doing what it's told.

Yeah, still weird that people voted against accountability on that one. I think a lot of people thought it might be used against them.

A huge amount of this is the creation of a Chinese middle class from a billion in massive poverty. Not a massive fan of Chinese political life, but wow did it deliver on getting people out of poverty.

The dart doesn't go to the port, though. It's still a hard sell. If it went upriver a bit...maybe.

Oh, that is a LARGE storm system. I was trying to identify county borders, then went "wait..that's Italy".

Indeed. They are accusing the people who built it that its being used for illegal activity. Same as running a CSAM website.

Dodder Road Dublin

Loved the stand up show we did at Dad's funeral. Five kids, all trying to upstand each other with jokes and funny stories. I think the session lasted until 02:00. Bar staff never kick out a funeral party if they knew the deceased.

Hope your day will be closer to that, than a typical English one.

"I'll change the locks changed and all your stuff ready to collect when you get back".

And definitely. Some get lost and never make it home. I think some cyclists are taken by the sídhe.

I think it's that people's partners realise "huh, the person I thought I would spend the rest of my life with prefers spending eight hours every weekend with strangers".

Which..uh...used to be golf. And one they, they get told "yeah, no problem, do your cycle from Paris to Brest next weekend."

Keep that up, and you might win that chamber of commerce prize that's eluded you to date.

Cycling has also overtaken golf as the number one cited reason for divorce, which is an accomplishment.

And tired, i suppose. He's getting ready for retirement. Don't rock the boat. Don't mess with the legacy.

It's stunning that this government has passed less legislation per year than any government since the foundation of the state.

Wow. This is fantastic.

Is it because he can't admit a mistake ? A Jim Gavin sized mistake.

Brave man. What's the jail time for having X cache CSAM on your phone for you ? He probably reckons its worth it for the likes.

I like William Wallace's idea. A human skin makes an exquisite scabbard for your double handed sword. Especially if it's that of an English Lord who was mean to you.

Threads the movie was inspiring to some, I'm sure. Terrifying to the timid.

Love this idea. Neal Stephenson's "Baroque" showed you could have 2000 pages of joy without an arc, following a character who learned nothing. But the reader was left changed, because you learned so much about how society's perceptions changed.

Isn't the ideology that sees the good of the state to be more important than the good of the citizens of that state to be literally fascism ? Actually described in the founding document for Fine Gael, where they described the importance of letting people starve if it resulted in economic growth?

To be fair, you can have a rubbish teacher, and it kills the love for the subject.

I thought I was bad at maths. Got 22% in honours maths for the leaving. Ma bullied me into grinds. Maybe 30 hours total with a good teacher. Must have cost her a fortune back then. Ended up with an A of some sort.

I'm reminded of the Frankie Boyle skit where he talks about American war movies, and the soldiers blow an unsuspecting country to pieces....and 20 years later they realise how sad it made them.