There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

Horrible, horrible news about Glen Hansard. The Frames were the soundtrack to so many of my memories from my teens and 20s in Dublin, and Hansard always made his connection with the audience in every moment look and feel so effortless. He will be so deeply missed.

lol RTE’s football pundits are panning Bieber for bringing down the mood. They’re generally very against the concept of a halftime show, but if they have to endure it, then acoustic slow songs should not be part of it, is the overall consensus

Well, the World Cup halftime show was (perhaps predictably) an uneven mess. I’m just happy that it meant Min Yoongi got to indulge his little sports nerd heart (lol as though BTS wouldn’t immediately get final tickets if they wanted to)

Got sideswiped by some news in work today. It’s the kind of thing that usually I would be able to shrug off but apparently my brain is in the type of place where it’s just disheartening and demotivating… So I’m going to eat cake for dinner and watch melodramatic c-dramas

It's me. I'm the generation.

#tmi I have reached the point of perimenopause where my periods are regularly irregular. No show last month, so debilitating this month I had to take the day off work because painkillers weren’t making a dent. Still better than the time it stopped suddenly after day 2 then resumed 5 days later

It’s currently very hot in France (surprising, I know, news hasn’t mentioned it at all /s) so I am being a proper adult and eating ice cream for dinner

Seeing this movie around the same time your actually read Romeo and Juliet is a *very* specific generational calling card that I’m more than happy to carry

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

All The Right Movies@alltherightmovies.com · 2mo ago

When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

people keep trying to tell me about these new headphones that cost between $159 and $179 and only last 8 hours. it's like you're trying to sell me a fancy dress that disintegrates at midnight, man. my old headphones cost 5.99 and literally never ran out of charge!!!!!!

I have really good ingredients just waiting to be turned into tasty meal using an easy foolproof recipe, but work this week was a lot a lot, and now I’m sitting on the couch playing a game of “I don’t really need to eat to live, do I?”

I saw someone posting "The A in LGBTA stands for Ace, not Ally!" and. Listen, as an Ace, if you don't think we belong at Pride, I got a brick for you. But if you think "I wish I belonged at Pride, but I'm not queer enough," or "I'm not sure that's me," you belong at Pride.

Happy Pride to us aces and us aros, to those of us who are one, and those who are both, and those who are unsure.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

The first thing I checked was whether this article was published April 1st. Reads like a parody of what Europeans think American hustle-culture involves, and yet… I think it might be sincerely written, which is depressing as fuck.

Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 2mo ago

Reading about the "French Sunday trend" by which I learn that having a lazy breakfast and not doing much on Sunday is a mind-blowing innovation to Americans. *This* is why GDP and quality of life aren't the same... www.vogue.com/article/fren...

I know that this is not the point of this post, but I genuinely miss my flist on livejournal. So many authors who prolifically posted there who I have never managed to find on ao3. Did they change their username? Did they just stop writing?

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Adorable new heresy just dropped

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek@dobbersw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Forgot it was Star Wars day, and yet still managed to do something thematically appropriate by listening to the newest episode of Going Rogue’s current series all about the making of episode 9… Tansy, did you drop this over the weekend on purpose?

The point of alt text is to describe the image for disabled people, not to make jokes for a non-disabled audience.

Tried a new exercise in the gym yesterday recommended to help strengthen my back. Stopped as soon as I felt that telltale “little niggle”. Today, I cannot sit, stand or walk normally and have had to take off work. I have got to stop trusting trainers who say they are familiar with hyper mobility.

(The second pic- those are the legs of baby Jacanas being carried by the parent)

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Imagine making AI bird slop when Jacanas exist

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

OpenAI {bot}@openaibot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Video: https://twitter.com/openai/status/2044861690911850863

This is what I think of every time someone is like "What do you expect the Democrats to do?"

I am an extremely *extremely* lapsed catholic, and Vance’s entire attitude has me chanting “2, 4, 6, 8, Time to Ex-commu-ni-cate” in my head on loop.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 4mo ago

For those of you who are not Catholic, you need to know that the Pope has this thing called papal infallibility. He basically can't be wrong on matters of theology. I'm not saying YOU need to agree with this. You're not Catholic. But Vance treats the Pope like a debate me bro and it's offensive

Yes, oh my god. Character development and cadence please. Super short seasons where every second is a climax is also the literacy crisis in action. Let stories breathe. Let people think about them.

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 5mo ago

French General Richoux being frank about Trump

RE: last re-post - Usually I don’t post much in the way of Kpop here because while I listen to a lot of Kpop music, it’s not a *fandom* for me, but that performance of ‘like animals’ has been stuck in my head for almost 24 hours now