Part of the shame of Berman stamping on Robinson's portrayal of Garak is that "guy expelled from a fascist society that fetishizes the traditional family, and for reasons everyone involved seems unwilling to talk about" is like 90% of the way to a queer story already.

Leaving aside the obvious "no they're not," why would you want that? So you can pay to ship the stuff you make back to Earth?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 15h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Dubliners: be aware that these restaurants are forcing their staff to live in appalling conditions. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

Inspectors find 34 beds crammed into south Dublin bungalow rented for staff of Chinese restaurants

Company claimed the most the house accommodated is 26, but space available for 34

independent.ie

kelly@earley.bsky.social · 13h ago

for those who are also looking, what i've found so far is: - biang biang (mary st little) - bullet (mary st little) - little dumpling (mary st little) - hakkahan (stoneybatter) - china hunan (ranelagh) - chongqing hotpot (ranelagh) - china song (monkstown) - little canton (stephen street)

I am begging election reporters to find another way of saying this

There are like a hundred reasons why it's not hypocrisy to like Data (fictional character played by a charming actor) and not LLMs (chatbots that can usually manage drawing Garfield with boobs if you tweak the prompt enough times) but I do like the idea of getting so mad about it that you throw up

Earl Grey Memes Club@earlgreymemes.club · 2d ago

no one is actually afraid of AI taking our jobs 🤣 we're afraid of worker exploitation and environmental impact

Please stop putting the Mario Lopez niece thing on my TL. It is morning here, I haven't even had coffee yet.

Mother Askani wearing a shirt that says "I'm not the stepsister, I'm the sister that stepped up"

Marriage is hearing your wife ask who's the Elliot who played Spider-Man and needing to intuit that she's mixing up Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood and also mixing up the names Elliot and Elijah

(whispering to date) that's the wrath of Khan

Random Star Trek Lines@trek-lines-bot.bsky.social · 4d ago

KHAN: Time's up, Admiral. -Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Trying to look up some weed-killing solutions that won't also kill the neighborhood dogs, and finding a hundred Reddit posts where someone asks if salt water will work and some jag replies "oh so you don't want chemicals but you'll use sodium chloride, a chemical? Interesting."

Took my daughter to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Early in the movie Jon Bernthal calls Spider-Man "dumb dumb" in a way that made me imagine Dean Winters as The Punisher and I couldn't shake the image the whole movie. 5/5 stars.

Thinking of going into Gym + Coffee and asking for a latte then chuckling. They've probably never heard that one before. I wonder if they'll declare me their king.

Sometimes it feels like Ireland carries around a 3 x 5 card that says "always do the opposite of what the Brits say" and honestly there are worse guiding principles for a society

Wendy Lyon@wendylyon.eurosky.social · 5d ago

Talking to a very non-activist non-online Dub in the pub tonight and the “trans issue” comes up and he just lets out a RANT about who is this ENGLISH woman JKR trying to dictate who can take part in an Irish festival They just don’t understand Ireland at all and that will be their downfall here

WIFE: Who's Bucky Barnes? ME: How much backstory do you want? WIFE: Enough to know why this woman online has a crush on Bucky Barnes. ME: Sebastian Stan's character in Avengers movies. Handsome and brooding. WIFE: Thanks.

Never do an Office Jim to the camera that your butt can't cover

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

Mahershala Ali has confirmed his Blade movie is dead and he has officially moved on from the troubled Marvel project. https://bit.ly/4wDl0Qg

One of the better jokes Mad ever did was having Jack Davis spoof his own poster

What train has Huey Lewis been riding that exclusively caters to the famous

THE ODYSSEY (2026)

Without arguing any of this, I occasionally wonder how many Democrats at every level of US government are afraid to tell law enforcement to do certain things in case the answer is no, because then they'd have to deal with the implications of that.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last wk.

If Biden had thrown Trump in the slammer we wouldn't be here. You can piss and moan all you want but J6 was history books shit and history books shit requires the President to do President shit. And he didn't. And now the guy who saved millions has to eat shit from a penis like Ron Johnson

Do children actually stand in the corner when they're in trouble, or is that just an easy visual and non-abusive punishment for fiction to use? I genuinely don't know. My siblings and I never had to, and my kid doesn't. We got sent to our rooms a lot?

Found myself mentally referring to my 30+-year-old report at work as "a good kid." Guess I'll just dry up and turn to dust, then waft away on the morning breeze.

I don't think Boy George is running a Producers-like scheme, but if he was, "using AI to make a song in support of Israel in 2026" would be a pretty respectable effort.

And look, little has changed when you think about it. Until recently this was the person of the highest status in the country:

Louise@selkies.bsky.social · last wk.

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

An ongoing drought has killed all the grass in my neighborhood, and somehow the weeds growing up between my driveway stones have only gotten stronger. They have evolved to live without water. I think one of them might be fucking around with an abacus.

When a villain is angry about "the system" and doesn't elaborate, it's time to strap in buddy, because you're about to read the dumbest Captain America story you ever saw

(nodding) yes I also knew who Emily Wilson was yesterday

The celebrations have so far interrupted no fewer than three funerals

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.

The party has started in Castlebar well before the champions arrive as supporters wait to welcome home the winning team. Our reporter Andrew Walsh is in McHale Park to chat to fans: jrnl.ie/7114968

Eating lunch at a comically high counter with comically short chairs. Is this what life is like for short people? I'm walking a mile in your tiny shoes.