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HD Comics, Cork City’s newest comic book shop opening late next week in the Market Parade.

It's honestly such a pain in the ass when one of your friends breaks up with the rest of their rat king. They're like "oh I'm going solo now, I'm so independent". Yeah right you'll be tangling up your tail with 10-20 other large rats in no time, I've known you since college dumbass

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

Photograph of chocolate chip cookies cooling on a rack.

My old friends.....

Photograph of a fridge with two pieces of paper on it, one printed and one handwritten, with two recipes. One is called "Red (Or Blue) Velvet cake", and the other is called "MK's chocolate chip cookies".

Baking!! These recipes by @mkwizard.bsky.social have pride of place in my house, they have been my favourite for years... they're from this webcomic!! cupcakewarmachine.thecomicseries.com

thank you for your hard work!

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent

‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”

“Why?”

“It saves time.”’

Species of the Week: Bog Moss
Irish name: Súsán
Scientific name: Sphagnum spp.
Celebrating St Brigid’s Day/Imbolc and World Wetlands Day ✨💧
@ramsar.org @tocharstories.bsky.social #Boglands #Imbolc #BrigidsDay #WorldWetlandsDay

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds.

Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

I'm studying to be an SNA right now and about half of my classmates have a "My loved one desperately needed assistance and didn't get it, so I'm doing this for them" reason for being there! Our tutor also says the night class is largely made up of parents with kids who need support too... It's mad

They're going to spin it like "the problem is lazy children refusing school and their parents not bothering", as though the onus falls onto the six-year-old to make schooling work in Ireland

Relatedly there's an SNA shortage and waiting lists for supports, special needs assistance and additional support is an absolute balls to try and get for your child if your school is underfunded or under pressure (they mostly are). Kids who would be able to attend school with help don't get it

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

So cool!! I especially like Foretress and Scizor!!

LATE daily pokemon doodle 168 - Ariados and the other gen 2 bugs as Hollow Knight charactors/enemies

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."

Oh! I've been mentally pronouncing it like Al-dern. Awl-deern is hard to say in my accent... maybe I'd have to start calling him Dearie...

Obviously it's not his fault, but every time I see this guy I'm like CAN YOU BE RIGHT ABOUT THE CRASH FASTER PLEASE

The great power behind the lies from government and assorted racists is imo that they appeal to our great national sense of begrudgery - someone out there is getting something for free and you aren't

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"No one claims taking on extreme wealth is easy. Battle begins with political parties spelling out this aim: Either they represent the great majority, or they represent the tiny minority: they cannot do both [@georgemonbiot.bsky.social nails it as usual!] www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Elon Musk just been labelled a 'creepy little slimeball' in the Dáil by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.

This is lovely, but I laughed that it crossed my dash today, when I had written this sentence earlier. It's one of the NPC profiles for DIE RPG.

Irish media reporting on this as if they haven't spent the past 18+ months encouraging rabid suspicion and hatred of immigrants coming to Ireland

Daggerheart also has a very similar "Galapo". I think it's a strange to reference such a recognizable real-world place in a fantasy world, myself!

Speed. Saw that triangle like "fast, cheap, good: pick two" and chose only one. I was put on this earth to thumbnail and, I sometimes suspect, go no further

I feel like I'm going crazy. Our leader just casually told us he can't stop illegal trade with another nation in case it impacts on the multinationals from another state that have set up residence here.
He can't enact the will of the Irish people because it will upset foreign billionaires #Spéirgorm