Brian Boyle

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

I've just been offered a dream job: doing exams in the nude while my teeth fall out.

Cartoon of a long dachshund. Caption: The Long Good Boy

A drawing of the bronze statue of Molly Malone wheeling a cart with the title "Electrify Molly Malone: saps get zapped. They deserve it!"

I have a proposal

Mr. Burns: Simpson. I need your help. I want to be loved.
Homer: I see. Well, I’ll need some beer.

Better Off Ted. It was written particularly well — punchlines every 30 seconds, like 30 Rock on double speed. Portia Di Rossi as the alpha Boss was brilliant.

I would second The Botanic Gardens especially given the weather. There’s a gate into the adjoining cemetery which is nice and peaceful and has interesting Victorian tombs. And from there a gate to Prospect Square and the exemplar pub, The Gravediggers.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Every American Romcom Set in Ireland feat. Sean Burke and Michael Fry

This charming romcom is your answer. The ever brilliant @eleanormorton.bsky.social and @seanburkeshow.bsky.social

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it’s important to find time in your day to just switch your mind off and do nothing. it might be first thing in the morning, it might be last thing at night, or - and this is surprisingly popular - it might be when you get to the ticket barriers at waterloo. just take care of yourself, guys.

Can’t watch Netflix anymore because my ex-girlfriend’s brother hasn’t paid his subscription. Sort your life out mate

Me turning around dramatically in a chair but it's a normal chair so it's a lot of furious scootching until I eventually fall over

Weirdly AI is making me a more productive writer because any time I get stuck, or run out of momentum on a document, I ask myself "What are you going to do, Richy? Ask the machine for help?" and then I'm suddenly fueled by sufficient spite to keep going.

A man with slicked back hair and one of those shaved round the back and sides haircuts. He’s wearing round glasses, and a stiff, rounded collar, and has a goatee. A wrong ’un if ever I saw one

Alas! It is the 83rd anniversary of the tragically early demise of John Romulus Brinkley, the man who became famous for his pioneering medical work: giving people implants of goats’ bollocks

Odd this day 10 May 1809

It’s the 216th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte firing cannonballs at Joseph Haydn. The composer survived, but died at the end of the month — at which point someone stole his head, and he was only reunited with it in 1954

An old article with a picture of a Pope and the headline RETURN OF THE POPE His Holiness the Pope has been returned safely to the Vatican following his escape from the Apostolic Palace late last week. God's representative on earth slipped away while being walked by a Cardinal last Thursday night and had been missing for six days. “His Holiness likes to have a shit last thing at night,” said Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. “We usually send Cardinal Vincenzo out with him, but he was a little under the weather, so he had to ask one of the new cardinals to go. Unfortunately, he wasn’t up to the job.” Pope Francis was last seen racing off through St Peter’s Square in pursuit of some pigeons, and led Vatican officials a merry dance in the following days, with reported sightings as far afield as Bologna and Sorrento. Cardinal Bertone spent the day after the disappearance pinning up photocopied ‘MISSING’ posters on lampposts around Rome, and sharing pictures of the missing pontiff on Facebook “It’s been really hard on the Cardinal,” said a Vatican source. “He’s not a young man, and this has really taken it out of him. Seeing him on the back step of St Peter’s Basilica last thing every night, rattling a fork inside a tin of communion wafers, it was heartbreaking.” It is believed that in desperation the Vatican called in professional trackers, who set a number of traps in and around the city state, each one baited with an unshriven soul. “We came down this morning and one of the traps was shut,” said Cardinal Bertone. “There was the most tremendous banging and scratching coming from inside it, so we knew immediately it was the Pope.” The bedraggled pontiff was immediately examined by top theologians, who reported that he was none the worse for his ordeal, although he appeared to have been in a few fights.

It's at times like these when you need to lean into the core of your national character.

Opinion | 10 Tips for Being Happily 85 Years Old (Like Me) (Gift Article) Ten rules for getting very, very old.

This is lovely.
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People love popes?

YouTube video by Metallica Rob & Kirk's Doodle: Jožin z Bažin (Prague, Czech Republic - April 2, 2018)

Like all brilliant art, it has inspired many. Including in this case, Metallica.

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There’s a job going now at the Vatican Eoin

Thank you! Never Change! Well, maybe change the usual stuff like underwear

One frame cartoon. Big heading reads: 'TEEN WOLF' A group of wolves in the mountains under a full moon. They're enthusiastically howling, big shadows cast by the moonlight. Another wolf, with a mop of greasy hair, has his back to the others, looking at his mobile. He is being addressed: "The Moon! The Moon! Look at the Moon!" and his reply is "meh"

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Today's sketch is now on YouTube. In ultra-widescreen, for some reason. I thought it would be more *cinematique*. If you watch it on YT, I might get a tiny fraction of a cent. Free money!
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Hat change routine by the popcorn cart on the White House Lawn at 9.15

Cabinet Member: I wish to discuss the tariff.

Firefly: Sit down, that's new business. No old business? Very well, we'll take up new business.

Cabinet Member: Now, about that tariff...

Firefly: Too late, that's old business already. Sit down.

Duck Soup, 1933

When it comes to buying books it’s important to adopt a disciplined approach, otherwise you quickly get overrun with them, so I have a strict policy of ‘ten in, none out’.

What happens when we die? Michael Séance speaks to the man responsible for bringing us to the Underworld

YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats The Minister's New Transport Job Spells Trouble | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

This interesting historical documentary (1980s Yes Minister) illustrates what likely happened.

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