Could any Irish followers help me with the pronunciation of Carrigrohanebeg? It crops up constantly in my family records and I'm sure I'm reading/saying it wrong, so if anyone could provide a phonetic spelling to help me, I'd be very grateful!!
No, but to be fair, I did manage to get banned from Musk's Twitter which most people believe is impossible.
Kevmarmol@kevmarmol.bsky.social · 2h ago@rich-bryant.uk gets banned once a week doesn’t he?
I don't know what it is to be woman and you, provided you're male, don't either. Surgery, hormones, therapy - they won't tell you either. If you don't like being a man then not-man is the best you can do. But not-man == woman is the most binary thing ever.
Jeyzoos. Bono looks like he'd dig in his purse for 20p for you and send you home with a Lidl choc ice.
Well, quite a bit of it is that there are crimes which shouldn't be crimes and also every time the papers get their knickers in a twist, you raise the minimum sentences.
UK Prime Minister Updates@downingstreet.bsky.social · yesterday🗣️ PM @andy-burnham.bsky.social: "Britain’s prisons crisis has its roots in a failure to add sufficient new places between 2010 and 2024. Just 500 places were added and 23 prisons were closed. As a result, the system is now dangerously close to capacity and we are running the risk of...
Muting the words "boots" and "Pratchett" because good lord people, shut up.
This is easy, it's any five by HP Lovecraft.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
The weather app predicted 60% chance of rain two hours ago here on the North Wiltshire plain but there was no rain. Still, there's a 20% chance at midnight!
Almost tempted to read this review until I remembered that it's American and therefore inevitably rubbish with no steering and trim nicked from a 2002 Fiat Berlingo.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · yesterday'oo member Aaron Bastani wanking himself raw over this
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is the story of the most powerful non-nuclear explosion in modern times: the Beirut Port explosion in 🇱🇧 on Aug. 4, 2020. On that day, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate destroyed the port of Beirut, killing at least 235 people, devastating a third of the Lebanese capital. youtu.be/rajrDAxD6cY?...
Just stepped out of an argument because it's down to ideology and woo beliefs now and I can't go on without unleashing my inner complete shithouse. I try not to do that, it just makes people believe nonsense even more strongly.
Next you'll have that lad who put his mum in the freezer for three years claiming discrimination against people "assigned dead".
I have quite a lot of beef with some of Bluesky's madder knit-your-own moderation stuff, but the "detach quote" function is fantastic.
As I get old, I realize that mody right-wing policies are stupid and also that most left-wing policies are equally stupid in a different way leaving the poor voter to determine which side is, not less stupid, but less likely overall to damage more things.
Given that Bluesky Scolds have become endemic, people argue with jokes and that thing you like is always, ALWAYS bad actually, I suspect this platform to secretly be an old style forum hosted by the Guardian.
Rafferty@rafferty-bs.bsky.social · yesterdayThere are people on here that don't believe this place is a left leaning bubble? That's an amazing claim, obviously there is a small number of people on here with right of centre views, but there are far more communists. It should be obvious that's this place is a bubble
Disgusting, imagine wearing mixed fibres in the locker room
The Halfway Post@halfwaypost.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: A brand new “Christian men’s gym” in Georgia that bans women so pious men can have “lust-free workouts” lasted just 6 days before three men were caught “violating Leviticus in the locker room.”
If only that Jason Aday lad had remembered to blame everything on "zionists and transphobes" he'd be laughing now.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · yesterdayA party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.
