Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?
3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”
Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”
The €505m package has been rejected by a leading organiser as “an insult.” Motorways are still blocked this morning. Whatever the blockades were about, they were never really about fuel. “The Blockade Is the Message” already said so. This morning just confirmed it. (1/4) #FuelFascists
100 years ago, the report of the Committee on Evil Literature was published, paving the way for the censorship of printed material from sex education manuals to renowned novels. Join Dr @aoifeb.bsky.social for the second talk in our lecture series to find out more! www.eventbrite.ie/e/manuals-of...
Linked in post that reads “I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Deceased at None!”
Very happy to say the kids are using "that looks like AI" as an insult
i'm continuing my ongoing boycott of sleeping in a bed shaped like a giant racecar
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
Using GenAI for your gig poster or your lil community meeting or whatever is probably very tempting; after all - you know nothing about graphic design, and now you can do for free something you’d have once relied on someone else for. But I want you to know that it is extremely ugly and I won’t come.
UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org
How about an adaptation of Ghost in the Throat, with Jessie as both the writer and Eibhlín Dhubh?
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*opens bluesky*
Dublin Zoo did WHAT to Mrs Brown?
Digital billboard that reads "This Valentine's Day, Buy Her a Gun" with graphics of a handgun and bouquet of flowers
Simpsons screenshot: Homer leaning out of his car and waving his hand, caption: Whatever you say, Mr. Billboard
Beautiful
Related gripe - twice now ads for gyms have caught my eye, I've clicked through and not ONCE is the location mentioned anywhere on the godforsaken page. Your ethos and trainer bios are useless if I don't know WHERE YOU ARE!!
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
idea i had
Had planned to attend @igsoc.bsky.social meeting in US this year. Guess I'll be joining online instead...
Meta/Instagram - long since compromised
TikTok - more recently compromised
Twitter - CSAM factory
Bluesky/Mastodon - basically methadone for recovering millennials until we get better
The future isn't new social media platforms it's getting off it. (Unhelpful as that is for independent creators)
Biiiiiig stretch
Someone I used to work with (and thought was a massive tit) has announced the (sad, obviously) death of her mother on LinkedIn (I know) with this sentence: "As a leader, an entrepreneur and human, I am having to grapple with a devastating rite of passage".
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."
The Sunfly karaoke guy
We love seeing this guy
🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔
hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"
[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
I suppose the good thing about having Patrick O'Donovan as Arts Minister is you could get funding for a show called "The Stupidest Minister Who Ever Lived", where the main character looks exactly like him and is called Patrick and does all the stupid stuff he's done, & he'd never make the connection
The person who brings it in will be promoted to Lead Innovation Synergist
People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.
