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Here's Lady Gregory in the #1926Census. Her occupation - playwright and author.

My new default response when someone returns to the US is “welcome back/I’m so sorry”

(Turns to Yuko who says neutrally to the audience.) YUKO Arigata-meiwaku. IRIS She says it neutrally, as though she were naming a species of a migrating bird. YUKO It's the feeling you have when someone does you a favor you didn't want them to do, which has caused you trouble, but you have to act grateful anyway. Unwelcome kindness. IRIS

There is! In Japanese! (This is a section of a play in progress that I’m dramaturging)

OMG! どうもありがとうございます！

There has to be a word for people who think they're helping you but are actually royally screwing things up for you

Damn Mrs Pierce, damn the printer, and damn you

Apologies to the neighbors because I'm actually screaming now

NICK: [puts in clean, flat paper]
PRINTER: [sucks up 60 sheets of paper]
PRINTER: I have a jam
PRINTER: I need more paper

NICK: refills paper
PRINTER: I’m out of paper
NICK: no you’re not
PRINTER: [sucks up one piece of paper. Stops.]
PRINTER: I need more paper

Screaming YOU DONT NEED MORE PAPER, I JUST GAVE YOU PAPER at the printer just to feel something

Statement from MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber on the Federal Government Restoring Funding for Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 “It shouldn’t have taken seven months and a lawsuit to get here, but with the federal government’s concession today on the courthouse steps, the MTA can now confidently forge ahead with Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. The billion-dollar contract approved at our March Board meeting is being awarded and contractors are mobilizing right away. “Today’s MTA is determined to expand our network and give riders more and better service. Long-awaited transit justice for East Harlem is just the beginning.”

Meta AI suggests you search for “Dee Reaven Hansen’s [sic] story of [overcoming adversity]”

Never passing on an opportunity to mock robot morons

Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobar’s invasive ‘cocaine hippos’ After attempts at relocation and sterilization have failed, invasive hippos introduced by the infamous drug lord will be culled, the country announced

I feel like there’s an untapped symbiosis here www.scientificamerican.com/article/colo...

I hate that people bet on everything but

The president has used a loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to get away with mass warrantless surveillance of Americans — and this week Congress will vote on whether to expand this power.

Tell Congress to vote NO at 833-946-2258.

Wondering about the etymology of pósta/bainis in Irish in relation to posting/banns in Shakespeare

Makes you relax
Like a big tax
Rebate

is a real feeling but a terrible lyric for a musical comedy

I want to pay my taxes even less than usual this year

The long-term solution to the fossil fuel crisis is *not* more fossil fuels.

That man would not survive an afternoon with the nun who ran the school library

a man in a suit is standing next to a woman in a purple dress who is sitting in a chair Alt: Three cardinals jump out, quite unexpectedly, to confront a middle class couple in their sitting room. They are about to deliver a catch phrase.

Ah yes famously the permissive Roman Catholic Church

I can't wait for JD V*nce to campaign in tossup districts in the midterms

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Hurrá! 🇭🇺 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

(Táim an-tuirseach den amhrán sin ó KP*P DEM*N H*NTERS)

An bhfuilim in ann mo chlár Gaeilge a chríochnú an deireadh seachtaine seo?? Tá trí chaibidil agam fós

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

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teolaí | cosy
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#focalanlae #gaeilge #irish #ireland