A random holiday you can apply as you need it?
Or you go into work and find you’re the only one there cos everyone else saw the midnight announcement of this year’s Eris Day?

Well, they are talking about a new Public Holiday….

a man with a beard is standing in front of a shelf with bottles on it Alt: a man with a beard is standing in front of a shelf with bottles on it. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) points at someone out of frame and says “That’s what heroes do”

It is now canon that you were blocked in resistance to illogical peevishness!

It’s a while back tbh, and I haven’t thought of it or her since, hence I remember the shape of the event but not the detail!

She was self-pitying and plain wrong while attacking (in that context) an innocent - I could see you having no patience with that kind of behaviour, whoever the person responsible for it was, so maybe you were blocked for agreeing she was out of order!

Is fuath liom an impleacht go bhfuil an rialtas ag súgradh leis an airgead, amhail is nach bhfuil aon seirbhísí íoctha ag na cánacha ná geallúintí (ró-bheaga) le coinneáil maidir le hathrú aeráide. Ná sraonadh an milleán, inis an scéal iomlán.

#SpéirGhorm #Dublin anyone any experience of The Meath Dental Clinic, Camden St? Like Pam Ayres, I wish I’d looked after me teeth. poetryarchive.org/poem/oh-i-wi...

And the MEP is Ciaran- tanks on the streets- Mullooly
And it was not an honest mistake. He's an Irish MEP and a journalist. He knew to check his sources and chose not to and say in Europe that the Irish gov. had turned the (we don't actually have any) tanks on its own people.

I can’t fully remember what I disagreed with her on but it was a passing article, op ed or such, not an important issue like terfery, AI, Palestine. I’d had my doubts about her, but was giving her the benefit of them at the time. I was not in anyway rude or snarky. Her LENGTHY response was deranged.

I politely disagreed with her. She went on a mahoosive rant that unfoundedly inferred all sorts of things about “the kind of person” I am. I told her she was wrong in both substance & tone. Many agreed with me. She apologised. A week later I went looking for a phrase I used & found I was blocked!

She’s blocked me too, but I know why :)

😂 Just your block lists 😂

And?

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The one that most amuses and least offends me is, I’m on the “no porn” list 😂 It is simply true that I am of no use or interest to people who come to social media solely for porn.
I checked to see what current fuss is about, self-esteem boosted by results in fact! But unlikely to ever check again.

A look at Dublin Inquirer's finances We ask people to subscribe to help us do what we do, so it feels fair to tell you all where we are financially, and what we'd spend that subscription income on.

Here's a look at Dublin Inquirer's finances. We ask people to subscribe to help us do what we do, so it feels fair to tell you all where we are financially, and what we'd spend that subscription income on.

Resolution: if I see something on Bluesky that cheers me, when my next thought is a grim reflection on the contrasting state of the rest of the world, I will NOT post gloom (nor even poignancy) in reply/quote, I’ll simply enjoy the Good. None of us are unaware and all could use a break from the bad.

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#GoodNews

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The odd time it happens I find it very stressful and really not at all “social” - I checked back to see why, though, Guy, and that is a stunning picture. Folk are definitely hungering for a bit of beauty and peace at the mo!

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address:

williamgibsonauthor@gmail.com.

Pal of mine who had a stoke is completely done with medics saying “but you don’t fit the profile?”

Step On YouTube video by Happy Mondays - Topic

Preparing for the gig tomorrow night.... youtu.be/_1e5dQnoYVQ?...

The "everything must be as normal as possible within my understanding" people are always wrong.

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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I had a second look there, and most of my blocks are from the A Very British Bigotry list (I don't subscribe to many blocklists, but I trust that one), which blocks transphobes.

I’ve quite a few blocked already which, considering this list is based on UK politics I don’t really engage with or comment on, as I don’t feel qualified, means they must be generally wrong about lots of stuff!

If people can't earn, they can't spend.

Where do the tech bros imagine their revenue will come from?

Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.

so I just read the whole thing and it as clear a distillation of fascism as you can get

www.engadget.com/big-tech/pal...