“Saying that a border poll could cause a rift in Northern Ireland is sort of like saying that an ordnance survey of the Grand Canyon might cause a rift in the landscape of northwestern Arizona.” Here’s this week’s Surrealing!

Border poll risks ‘rift’ in Northern Ireland, where everything has been fine until now

Those in the north famously love to be told what’s what by Westminster.

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I'm perfectly happy to be automated out of a job. Jobs suck shit. It's the part where I also lose my living that's worrisome.

I'm just gonna throw out there: I have lost work, not because the people who would normally hire me are using gAI, but because Google forced it into search, completely cannibalizing the audience for my work you don't have to be in a position to hire someone to reject using gAI in favor of humans

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 7d ago

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

Dolly Parton did a huge amount of good with wealth she largely worked to earn. 9 to 5 is a Marxist text & permeant karaoke banger. She stood with queer & trans people throughout her life & the world was a better place for having her stay a while.

cis people please read this: www.sydney-bauer.com/just-call-me...

Just call me a man already and get it over with

I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get t...

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Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 2w ago

I wrote about how angry I feel watching people write columns about trans women in sports.

If you're incensed by @channel4.bsky.social's "The Great ADHD myth," they also made "Trans Kids: Time To Talk" in 2018, and the host of that shitshow subsequently founded Genspect, an org that recommends removing your kid from their friends, school and even moving house if they are trans. 1/

Is James White actually a cunt

James & Bryan Repost Account@jamesgottlieb.bsky.social · 3w ago

#fabtcg

Hey kids wanna see a dead body?

i didn't have killing myself as part of the my bank holiday plans but hey it's always fun to get surprises

Da Bears@chicagobearsx.bsky.social · last mo.

Adam Hoge: Not good. Coby Bryant just went down grabbing his left knee during a 1-on-1 rep vs Cole Kmet. He was clearly emotional as he got on a cart under his own power. I’ll caution you that they are on the far fields so a cart is not unusual, but the fact that he was so emotional is concerning.

Apropos to nothing, dead men can't sue you for coming forward about the sexual harassment you experienced from them. #speirghorm

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

Every so often I think about deactivating this bot to use the service for something else, and then I get a reminder that no, we do need to keep seeing how fucking expensive a generic 0 for 4 dreact is

How F-ing Expensive Is Shelter Today?@shelterfromthecost.bsky.social · last mo.

It is Tuesday, July 28, 2026, and the cheapest Shelter of the Storm on Card Trader costs $116.41

how im feeling looking at good mastery pack cards #fabtcg

This was a really good podcast I listened to last year about the Mayo Curse. 3 parts of investigation into the truth of the curse, and views from the families of the players from 75 years ago. #SpeirGorm www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

BBC Audio | Amazing Sport Stories | The Curse of County Mayo: Ep 1

Is County Mayo’s Gaelic football team cursed?

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Mayo 4 Sam AND Grand Theft Auto 6 in the same year. There’s a lad in Crossmolina with a PS5, a genie lamp, and one wish left.

Really honestly just beyond sick and tired of hearing about working on it. Just fucking do it. Stop being stupid fuckers about it.

💜winry🖤@w1nry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we should maybe not "work on it" for 2 years and maybe just use the pronouns people tell you on the biggest streams in the game. this continues to be an embarrassment

flesh and blood having a 100% nonbinary player population at the pro tour is really something surely, we wouldn't put people's pronouns on stream and then just...not use them, right?

Something to put into your calendars… In the evening of the 12th August, there will be a partial solar eclipse visible from everywhere in Ireland (weather permitting). It will start at about 10 past 6 in the evening, and end at about a 5 past eight. 1/13

At the very least the lineout looked good #NZLvIRE

Yeah, if the guy goes from Menace II Society and legit voice of the downtrodden to a national laughing stock overnight, just because the national press decide they’ve had enough of his bullshit and it’s time to put him back in his box: does that not kind of give the whole game away

When booking a holiday as a gay person, wife and kids in tow, there's no hiding and the world is VERY small. Most of Europe is fine. Africa, large parts east of Asia, the US, west Asia, a lot of south America, Carribbean etc all a no go. Straight privileged people are unaware or don't care.

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ah, if only people cared about LGBT people enough to not holiday in places where they’re oppressed. Just look at how popular Dubai is as a holiday destination for Brits.

I had a phenomenal weekend at nats this year and I have a lot of things to say but for now all I can say is that i am my own personal sapphic terrorist

Just a reminder that you don't ever have to give this family your money ever again. The tomato relish isn't that fuckin nice.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo ago

Joshua Allen appeared before a court in Co Cork in connection with charges which include assaulting two gardaí, failing to stop at a garda checkpoint and proceeding to drive at a garda at speed jrnl.ie/7089291

they're right and they should say it

before I go out and get absolutely rat arsed in a room full of dykes this pride weekend know that I, an almost 30yo out and proud trans woman, has to tip toe out of the house and hide around the corner of the bus stop because i am STILL fearful of the power straight people (mostly men) hold

#inshallah

Three knife-edge ties and a rekindling of a classic rivalry. A cracking Championship.

Hey look! A reminder that Discord still plans on doing this! Raise the alarm bells again!

Monique Barrow@moniquebarrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As early as next month, Discord could enable their global age verification measures. #privacy #ageverification theprivacycloud.substack.com/p/discord-wi...

So after openly deadnaming all our trans folks last week, leadership apologized, but then did not update employee's names for the vote today. This means our trans employees are being forced to openly deadname themselves in order to vote in today's union election. This is deeply fucked.