This is mostly for Yank shut ins and the Hard of Thinking here

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h ago

Over on X, the everything app, claims that Ireland has descended into "full-blown civil war", with people engaged in open warfare about migration and claims about the "New Irish Republican Army", mostly with old/unrelated videos/images. Absolute brain worms.

Gee! It's almost like being profitable by winning a broad audience is not what these guys are aiming for !

Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 3h ago

GB News have now run up losses of more than £141m, according to their annual accounts published this week. The channel relentlessly spreads hate and misinformation – and hate and misinformation should never be profitable. #stopfundinghate

One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.

The fact that this is even still up for debate is a kind of victory for Netanyahu and his backers

The majority of genocide scholars think it's genocide Why this and not other wars? Intent matters and (I admit) is debatable But the possibility of genocide should be entertained Solidarity to you against the pinheads and antisemites on this thread www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

This reminds me of the extremely understated footnote in a paper that referenced the mathematical work of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber)

Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 14h ago

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

Apart from everything else, why make this argument? Who in the name of God are you trying to win over? It's just deeply weird and you end up having to do acrobatics to justify/explain it

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h ago

Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

Another press release talking about Green Energy generation in Ireland in the abstract: "sustainable and good for squirrels blah blah.." My sell? 'Hey Dummy! d'ya kno the way we're crucified by power bills? How would you like to cut 'em in half and tell Trump and the Sheikhs to feck off?"

I genuinely thought "she became curious about raw milk after reading a post in her chiropractor's Facebook group" was going to be the worst sentence I read this week but I stand corrected

Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) Says Shut It Down!

ALT: Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) Says Shut It Down!

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 16h ago

An Arizona man's 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was imposed.

waking up every day in 2026 like:

They could start in the passport queue for Marbella ...

The Spanish version of Peter Benchley's Jaws is a beauty

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

Troy Parott's cousin is a rowdy rodeo rider out in Texas ....

This would only be important if travel and tourism contributed 3% of total US GDP and employed 15m Americans.... #MAGA

Semafor@semafor.com · 2d ago

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Very interesting piece that rips up practically every bit of wisdom on the rise of the Nazis

‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

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Seeing the Other Side throw a party like this while you sat there with your flat Orangina & Jaffa Cakes With The Exciting Bit Taken Out would really sting, if the Orange Order could appreciate music, craic, being alive etc

Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween.@brendanjharkin.bsky.social · yesterday

The Mary Wallopers are doing a live set at Garvaghy Road and all the OO get for entertainment is hearing Jamie Bryson address them all as "Men." like he's in a WW2 movie

This is a fun interview but about 8 or 9 min in she's asked very bluntly about the Ed Sheeran situation, and while she's carefully generous to him she's also very clear and plain spoken about it - not an easy thing to do live on such a big platform under studio lights

CMAT On Embodying Funeral Humor in “Euro-Country” | The Daily Show

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He's gone right up in my estimation

James Dart@jamesdart.bsky.social · yesterday

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Actual meaningful changes to roads and paths that would finally help wheelchair users only being brought in to make drone delivery more effective for big corporations would be very on-brand.

👻BOOryan BlessDEAd🎃@bryb.bsky.social · yesterday

Me and my friends would've killed the drunken Evri robot with hammers, I can tell you that much.

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

Took 21 years but @theonion.com once again predicted the future.

The Home Office has already refused to let Robbie's family join him in the UK

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · yesterday

Meet Robert the robot looking after Vera, 74, in her own home

Russia is a terrorist nation. Russia will be defeated. 📸: yosafata3

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

In the immortal words of WB Yeats: "Yeah? Well don't let the door hit ya on yer arse on the way out!"