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Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.

A letter from the newly elected president of Ireland, Catherine Connolly to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. While the greeting and the signoff are an Irish, the English text reads “I would like to extend my warmest wishes to all in the transgender community, your families and friends, as you gather this evening for this year's Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today we pause to honour those whose lives have been cut short by horrific acts of violence or hatred. Their memory calls on each of us to challenge prejudice wherever it arises and to build a society rooted in respect and understanding. This year's gathering carries particular significance too as we mark the tenth anniversary of Ireland's Gender Recognition Act. That milestone stands as a testament to the courage and perseverance of transgender people and their allies who worked tirelessly for recognition, equality, and the simple affirmation of identity. Yet it also reminds us that the work of safeguarding dignity and ensuring genuine inclusion remains ongoing.”

In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.

Pota Focal | Gluais 'Beo!' · 'Beo!' Glossary Foclóir neamhspleách Gaeilge. Independent Irish dictionary.

So, they’d need a bit of vocab for this, but it can be useful for practice. www.potafocal.com/beo/

Trump voting men rank having children as their highest priority in life, and rank having emotional stability dead last. Those poor children.

They are a thing of affordable wonder and joy.

My sister now has our Dalcassian Lineage ready to show him (Lonergans are antecedents of Brian Ború) and is prepared to explain to him she views him as. Norman invader 😂😂😂

In Ireland, more properties were bought this year by landlords than by people hoping to live in them. Mostly large landlords, not the sainted mom and pops of it all. People who already own tens or hundreds of properties bought even more of them. They're not fleeing the market, they're destroying it.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

True ally, offering it up for the greater good!

When Gmail came out, I was confused by “never have to delete anything”. Early tech users are memory-aware. Those working in graphics/media even more conscious of at least each KB. When clearing my inbox, I haven’t always had time to take the extra steps to delete, but my Archive is still quite tidy.

Hope this hasn’t exhausted you going into the week. Mondays are hard enough. Sounds like a good if sad thing in the long run, but that doesn’t make processing it any less work. Hope the day is kind.

The bus that’d get most people on the Kiltpper side of the 82 into town for 8am has been cancelled. If they were lucky to find out in time, like I was, they can be half an hour early. Else, they will be half an hour or more (cos traffic builds) late. Thank you Dublin Bus. You understand commuting.

Came here to make a comment about Brehon Law and glad you more informed comment was here first!

Someone send this paper to Mícheál Martin so he’s prepared! elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Honestly, it’s like everyone is constantly running for the next election rather than governing.

Should be in before Xmas, but close enough the turkey will be roasted in a relatively unknown oven 🤞

About to move house - new cooker, we’ll see what happens to my system 😂

My toaster has the perfect setting - when the water reaches a boil, I put down the toast, when the toast pops, it’s time to take the eggs off - 👍

It’s more you have to allow it hasn’t taken slow gentle heating to come to a boil, but reached boiling quicker. I’ve moved home a fair bit and usually it’s my third time boiling eggs on a new cooker before I get it perfect :) But I still don’t have to THINK about it. Was v hard to give instructions!

Yes! This was how I learned! Took a while to adjust the method to gas or even induction!

And vice versa! If I follow any cis women who don’t support trans women’s rights, let me know now so we can part company.

genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't

2/2 We were supposed to recognise that where you lived, the spaciousness of your home & opportunity for privacy, green areas near you, shops near you, the functionality of your family, the neighbourliness around you were key to how you experienced lockdown, so model best practice moving forward?

My sister’s brother-in-law was in Italy, watching an endless river of coffins pass under his apartment window. Lockdowns/restrictions could have been different, but I don’t think we could have avoided at least the initial one without killing thousands. We were supposed to learn from them… 1/2

Not that long ago, a friend of mine, trying to move from 100% take-outs to some simple cooking, rang me & asked how to boil an egg.
It took me ages to tell him, cos since I was about 10 I haven’t had to THINK about that as a process. Even something that straightforward is a thing you have to learn.

Population of Tehran: 10 million

Okay people, what's your recommendation for a GMail successor?
Ideally something EU or EEA based. ProtonMail isn't bad, but their CEO is a bit maga. GMX still has adverts, Tuta seems ok-ish? Self hosting leads to all sorts of issues with verification and spam.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Briefly dipped into X to verify that an image was of an actual post and not a fake. In passing noticed that Kathleen Stock is now fallacy-spoutingly anti-abortion. What feminism!