Smoking becoming a signal of right wing cuntism might be what prevents it making a comeback… there’s definitely been an uptick in teens smoking the last couple of years.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thinking of selling the company daily Tokens in return for my pay, and then when the company uses up the Tokens I give it asking me stuff (usually by 11am), I can knock off for the rest of the day.

One thing you rarely see now is an apology and admission that someone was wrong. 99% of the time it’s double down and wail about being cancelled. So take it when it’s offered and move on to the real shitehawks - there’s loads of them.

It's important to remember that even the most divisive of people can bring a momentary smile to others. That can be an act of kindness or a soft word at a troubled time. It's only the merest glimpse of goodness but it's there nonetheless. Rod Liddle gave me a lot of pleasure today by dying.

If the likes of Rod here were suddenly overwhelmed by terror in their final moments at both their impending demise and their legacy after they were gone, that would make this news even better.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

I like how August managed to switchover to Autumn on the 1st this year.

🏁 Daniel 🏁@danielsexton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every year, August is a let down, a let down made worse by the knowledge that it is supposed to be ‘summer’ when it is often indistinguishable from October.

Rod Liddle? I'll tell you about Rod Liddle He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one and also he's Dead

My wife saved up for four counter stools from a well known influencer-led Irish furniture store. €300 each *on sale*. Arrived Friday flat pack, and flaws obvious as soon as I tried to put one together. Can’t even trust ‘you get what you pay for’, or previously respected brands anymore.

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d ago

But I didn’t want Cadburys to taste like shite, that’s been imposed on me. Mondolez made $2.4 billion last year they could have swallowed some of the higher cocoa costs, but didn’t, and more importantly, now costs are lower, they won’t reinstate the quality will they?

Even if there weren’t *the issues*, this is fucking nuts www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Public wake for Glen Hansard to be held in Kilmainham

A public wake will be held for singer-songwriter Glen Hansard in Dublin later ahead of his funeral tomorrow.

rte.ie

there's a well-worn joke about Gen Xers growing up with an unjustified fear of quicksand well, Annagassan Pier in County Louth has a surprise for you

Hope the braying mobs in the 3Arena had a good time last night watching lads punch each other’s lights out to the point one was removed from the ring on a stretcher.

Here we are, six years later, and the number of people who can’t grasp that the schools would have closed anyway in a much more haphazard and prolonged way because *the teachers would have all got sick* is astounding.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Covid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.

Starting about 2050, old folks homes are going to have to have retro consoles with the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog on them for the residents.

I talk to a lot of elderly people - comfortable debt free people with good pensions and access to the best healthcare this country has ever had - and they’re perpetually enraged. Crime, foreigners, kids today, welfare ‘fraud’. All the hits. These are the people who reliably vote, and vote right.

Welcome to August, the Sunday of the year.

Was about to say that someone had used AI to do this to Drogheda but no, it always looks like that.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

That’s probably where the family camping is if past experience is anything to go by.

Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 6d ago

From my son at All Together Now

Garda in Wexford town.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Have ‘glinner’ muted. Trying to work out what I’d miss if I muted ‘Graham’.

“Football's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return.” Replace ‘football’ with ‘housing’, ‘the environment’, ‘utilities provision’, ‘healthcare’… and ram that statement down the throat of the government.

Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social · 7d ago

Strongest possible statement from UEFA as they threaten boycott if Infantino presses ahead with his plan

I had become mostly immune to yank nonsense recently but today’s unhinged antivaxx, anti-science nonsense coming out of assorted American politicians has me in a rage.

My crowd use Fuse for IT support and it got a full AI-based revamp recently and it is now absolute dogshit. People started using direct messages to avoid it and telling the AI bot to fuck off when it pops up.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyone else getting this? Stuff that was relatively simple but now you have to click away a ton of spurious horseshit that you don’t want or need, just to get pretty straightforward tasks done.

“There won’t be a “ *BANG*

Time to all sign another Harpers’ letter about the terrifying threat of student totalitarianism, I reckon

My concert stalker has devised new methods…

*puts swimming togs away*

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox. Last seen boarding a Greyhound Bus to California to make it big in Hollywood.