Black and white Newfoundland dog, standing outdoors, playful stance. Good boy. Hills in the background.
‘Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.’
📚 Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
🖼️ Edwin Landseer, Portrait of Neptune
#BookWormSat #LandseerPaintings
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
Once again, the “sovereigntists” suffer from being strapped to the foreign policy of not one but two other powers.
If this woman hating son of a bitch EVER enters government I'm off to Scandinavia.
Here I thought nothing could make me forsake Ireland
I'll believe AI has gained consciousness when it starts creating pithy posts On Here as a thinly veiled cry for help and NOT A MOMENT SOONER
'Patchflow was obviously visited overnight by the three ghosts of Everyone Finds Your Behaviour Despicable, had a change of heart and withdrew the eviction notices on Friday evening.'
This week's column is on Iran, oil prices, evictions, the St Paddy's Day visit, and the end of days.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Greed
Greed
thegist.ie I said CJEU judgments were succinct. But one of the ways they manage this is to be very information dense. To expand on that paragraph a little- where a person has a right covered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights or any other provision of EU law and access to those legal entitlements is being blocked by a failure to correctly record their gender (in line with the definition at paragraph 32 above as being defined by "lived gender identity, and not to the identity assigned to them at birth") then whatever national law that is causing that impediment is to just be set aside. It is a dead letter. Every_court, every. state body, every individual official has to behave as it it didn't exist. That's the consequence of incompatibility with EU law.
On discourse about trans people’s right to access to accurate ID, I’d like to remind that the EU’s top court, using data protection’s most fundamental principles, has declared that someone’s “lived gender identity” is what must be recorded to describe them.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
On the enshittification of the term "working class": my personal preference is precariat, comfortable (a vanishing class), scum-sucking avaricious evil bastards.
I also dislike calling regressives "R*ght". They're wrong & they're sinister (pun deliberate)
It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".
This is just wrong.
I don’t mind grammar checks and basic writing feedback, but impersonating the writing advice of living and dead people is just gross.
Let’s keep our editors *human* please.
A small piece of hope here: These people don't completely agree on who to target. Some have Jews living rent-free in their addled minds; some are nominally Jewish. All espouse the man who acts like a Stalin wannabe
Basically, though, prepare for monetised gulags
Donnie & his bois throwing a tantrum after being told "No" is pathetic. Sympathy with the devil is a good song but a crap modus vivendi. Anthrophic didn't suddenly become saintly because they did the bare minimum
Trump=evil, Anthropic=evil. Hope they BOTH lose
Black and white photo of four kittens spilling out of a basket that seems to be partially full of sticks or vines or something. They’re all short haired, and there is a black haired tuxedo, two tabbies, and what looks like a white and calico. Two of them look remarkably grumpy, and the other two seemed kind of blank and possibly confused.
Historians agree that the real Pandora’s Box was likely a basket of grumpy kittens. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1904.
Do Gytha & Esmé count as literature or nerd culture?
Despite what a lot of people feel about fantasy, & what they also say about humour, I'm going with literature. Sir Terry will outlast a great many of the more pretentious literary types & remain beloved for centuries. GNU
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
The cover of my book : nature’s acre: an Irish garden memoir of making a place where life grows.
I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow.
If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful.
🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm
gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre
Meta glasses are beyond creepy. It seems like every idea Zuckerberg gets enthusiastic about is straight from loser central
This isn't an oversight.
Someone looked at the settings, and deliberately and intentionally flipped a switch.
FFG, the party of landlords and developers.
www.dublininquirer.com/rtb-still-ca...
A lovely day! Still a long way to rent (we pay on Wednesday) so all shares appreciated!
Friday night is a fine night to browse our webshop why not
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Team France!
These 2 chancers flew a kite. The tenants responded with a flamethrower, so they backed down. Great!
However, where the landlord only has 1 or 2 properties the media isn't interested. What happens to the people impacted by those evictions? The immiseration continues largely unabated
You can put up with a certain amount of stupid. You can grit your teeth & suffer the self-righteous. You can smile & nod at the hypocrite. But a stupid, self-righteous hypocrite is unbearable. THAT'S why Evangelicals are excluded from power. No one sane &/or intelligent can stand them
I'll honestly laugh my arse off if they get him first
Yeshua ben Yusef would have flipped the desk then bashed them all with the bits. He notoriously had no time for ostentatiously religious hypocrites - and a very bad temper
Trump thinks he's King of the World! Which works if you have an uneducated society to dominate. An educated society, however, will resist & *knows how to resist*. I'm not saying that's why they have worked so hard to undermine the humanities, but...
Tired: The return of geopolitics.
Wired: The return of Schism.
Inspired: The return of geopolitical schisms.
Lord, I love Ireland! We forget how lucky we are to live in such a spectacularly beautiful country. Says the woman who lives with 500m of TWO castles & never really bothers herself to appreciate them.
'S Morse Code, innit? dot dot dash
Joking aside, this is fascinating. I haven't the expertise to evaluate the arguments, but I do think "These people were mere hunter-gathers, not organised enough to develop writing" is a bit patronising. Memory has always been important to all humans
