Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

besties someone buy my jamie muscato concert tickets for london 😅

It strikes me that one reason AI slop is so infuriating to engage with is because we recognize it as the sort of pro forma grey goo we feed into machine for mind-numbing busy work, but now the machines are feeding it into us.

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I highly recommend “sound on” for this new angle

i don't want it

(i need it)

even though i really don't wanna pay dublin rental prices, i will absolutely have to consider that because there's no fucking way i will be able to buy a house.

which is also ridiculous btw, as someone with a fairly decent salary, i can't buy. it's a nightmare. the market is grim. i wanna cry.

i am not one for new year resolutions, but here's one i really HAVE to stick to this year, and the sooner the better:

move out of this fucking kip of a house.

it's been getting progressively worse for my mental and physical health over the past few years, and i just can't anymore.

like a few weeks ago it literally took me longer to get from my house to heuston st than it then took me from heuston to fucking cork.

it's always been bad but the last year or so it's been unbearably horrible.

one day i will send dublin bus my therapy bill for all the emotional damage their unreliable shit service has caused me bc once again i left the house with almost an hour buffer and WILL STILL BE FUCKING LATE because one bus didn't show up, one got cancelled, one had drivers yapping for ages etc 😡😭

hmm i can't find anything for non members on their site but might email and ask :)

i just like theatre and being efficient with my paid time off ok 😆😆

10 days 😆😆😆

aw yesss!! i am sure you're all have a great time 💛

well i am ready to be in new york!! 🥰 are they ready for me? 🤭

(also i just love geri and alex so much!!)

so fair!!

ok shows that i have planned:
-maybe happy ending
-hadestown (OBVIOUSLY)
-just in time
-anna christie
-outsiders
-two strangers
-ragtime
-mincemeat
-chess
-the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee
-death becomes her
(and maybe hamilton if lottery gods favour us)

omg so many

yes!!

ohh yes i heard this before and completely forgot, thank you!!

new york friends, any recommendations for horseback riding in nyc/easily accessible from nyc? 👀

would love a little hack while i'm over, especially since i got back into it now and don't wanna completely leave out two weeks 🤭

thrilled to inform you that in the proud populist tradition of opera, the family production of magic flute at the met includes papageno counting 1, 2, … 6-7… 3

uproarious applause and laughter

I am sitting on a back of a dark seal brown horse with a white blaze, I am leaning back slightly and laughing with my eyes closed (pre-disaster lol). It's a beautiful day with blue skies and we're walking on a beach.

the annoying thing about getting back to horse riding at the ripe old age of almost 40 is that, when you fall off, you don't immediately recover like you did when you were 15 😆

(i am sore all over but it's worth it. look at this baby angel who accidentally bucked me off!)

ok the wicked double bill was a good idea and i enjoyed it enough that i would maybe even be convinced to see the stage show again at some point.

like, not soon, but at some point.

but also will never forgive the creators for not letting e+g+f form a throuple. they'd be perfect. for each other.

i will never be done

i can't wait to finish this book so i don't ever have to think about it ever again lol

i read one book like this last year and it irritated me to no end throughout the whole book. i finished it, but won't be reading the sequels.

currently reading another one that does it and i have never been this tempted to straight out dnf a book.

this might be my first one.

it's nice that authors now do content warnings before the book starts, but can they pls start doing that for the thing where they insist on referring to people who are not human as "males" and "females" because i fucking LOATHE that.

you can tell it's almost midnight because all the ryanair planes start flying low real close to our house

Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.

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