Watyr Festival

The poster for Three Men and a Baby

Listening to the Empire podcast about best movie quartets

Helen: obviously everyone's mind will go to the same quartet of three men and one woman

My mind:

Are we dumb or did anyone else struggle with the pace of the Klingons' speech in Star Trek Discovery 🤔

Listen to our full thoughts on Episode 2 of Season 1 here linktr.ee/podmeupscotty

#startrek #discovery #startrekdiscovery #klingon

Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)

It would be so funny if that choir arrives and Paddy pulls a Jimmy Kimmel and announces that unfortunately they're out of time #latelatetoyshow

Pope singing

Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, to the Vodka and the Stag,
To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, the bottled draught and keg.
As I sat lookin' up the Guinness ad I could never figure out
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after 14 pints of stout.

JK Rowling claims to want to protect women but let's not forget that she gave an invisibility cloak and a map that gives you live updates on where everyone is to a teenage boy.

Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.

Catching up with Big Picture draft episodes and Sean asking "is A Knight's Tale a good film" in the 2001 draft has irrationally pissed me off. He didn't even ask it a snarky way, it was a genuine question as though he hadn't seen it or didn't remember it which in a way makes it so much worse.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Another perfect performance from the Irish women

I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.

O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

A sign with a man with his hand out

Absolutely no high fives

The Simpsons Hit & Run

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

“Gagging”

horrible accident at the recap factory. no one can tell us what happened

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Peru's coastal birds face crisis as population drops 75% Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their ...

Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their survival.

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

The Fantastic Four ready for action with Mr Fantastic stretching into viewas though from a very far distance, his body snake like with his legs out of sight

Me getting ready for my picture with the Fantastic Four: Wait, where's Reed? Why is he standing all the way over there?

Sue, Johnny, and Ben: 🙄🙄🙄

I am NEVER going to understand y’all going to Twitter to see the terrible things they’re saying and sharing with people who left Twitter because of all the terrible things they’re saying.

If we wanted to see it, we would. You don’t have to report back Barbara Walters!

Killed by who 🤔

Palestinian accepted to Irish universities stranded in Gaza It's government policy to refuse to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on “official government scholarships”.

Reported with @dropsitenews.com

Palestinian scholarship students with places at Irish universities and processed visas remain trapped in Gaza as the Irish government refuses to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on 'official government scholarships'.

www.ontheditch.com/government-w...

Fine Gael presidential candidate is multi-property landlord Her rental income from these two Meath investment properties is additional to the €800,000 she claimed in EU expenses.

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness is a multi-property, mortgage-free landlord.

The former European Commissioner rents out two three-bedroom homes she bought mortgage-free over the past decade.

ontheditch.com/fine-gael-pr...

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs