Probably unGoogleable if you value your feed, but remember “rectal fiscitude”? I think it was a putdown of a Fine Gael (?) obsession with fiscal rectitude. It should have got a few more spins around the dancefloor in the age of austerity. Who came up with it?

Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.

say what you like about Rod Liddle

I never thought Rod Liddle would make me happy, but the man has surprised me today.

Would love to see Éamon Dunphy's whatsapp inbox

Do I know anyone who can somehow help me get into (the sold out) Dublin Comic Con this weekend?

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

inverse.com

here's a new bumper sticker design

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

“who has always understood the assignment” is starting to depress me.

Lil magic perk of physical media. When it’s done, you’re just left in the silence. There’s no recommending something similar, no autoplay. You just stuck with the silence until you change the CD or press play again.

“Careful, you don’t want to get Musked” is a thing billionaires should have to remind themselves of whenever they make a decision that affects other people.

“Disrupt” has joined weaponise and traitor and degenerate, for me, as the ineluctable badge of the asshole.

The Odyssey is good crack. Terrible dialogue (”Primal urges! Too much is not enough!”) but the monster-bashing Harryhausen of it all is good family fun. I was disappointed not to see one wee Trojan flee the conflagration with his dad on his back, but I guess Nolan is above such shenanigans.

This article has a depressing list of cis women harassed in toilets by the piss police. It’s worth noting that all of them were minding their own business. Even if they had been trans, they were doing nobody the slightest harm.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...

The EW fights are a frustrating read. The conversations are all aimed past each other. Should she be reviewing it? Is her review right? Is it mean? They’re all valid questions, they’re all different, and none of them depends on the others.

Whether Emily Wilson’s review is accurate or mean, is there any consensus on her assertion that the Odyssey was composed with the help of a written alphabet? I’d love to read the scholarship, if anyone can point me to it.

Thinking of becoming a Linda Ronstadt fan account.

Why are you still on Twitter? @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @rte.ie @news.rte.ie

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last wk.

Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.

Imagine waking up in Mayo today.

Hi, I'm the owner of some big tech companies. I know you're concerned about stock prices plummeting in several of those companies. To reassure you, I will spend an entire month conplaining online about The Odyssey.

and Johnny Depp, whose career was NOT revived

Ava Gardner Ava Photogrpher

Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 2w ago

Colm Meaney Colm Friendly

I asked someone to think of a card and guessed correctly that they were thinking of the three of hearts.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

Unexpected indexing question: Megan Thee Stallion. Should this be indexed- Stallion, Megan Thee 0r- Thee Stallion, Megan?

In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...

A montage of these robot collapses will embody our age for the future, the way that reel of early flight mishaps represented the 1910s.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

Say what you like about England, but they’re great at doing something stupidly unimportant.

Irish commentators leading with, “Maybe England are shite because their national anthem is so terrible .”