Epstein abuse survivor says Epstein's "biggest brag" was his connection to Donald Trump.
Epstein abuse survivor says Epstein's "biggest brag" was his connection to Donald Trump.
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
Cet été, la rue Charles Moureu dans le 13e s'est offert un tout nouveau visage avec plus de nature, des bancs, des fontaines et des brumisateurs. Devenue un jardin, elle assure désormais une continuité avec le parc de Choisy.
very few ppl are as talented and fortunate as bill cunningham. but i often think about how he was able to live an honest life doing what he loved because he lived simply. even at the height of his career, he slept on a cot. as he once said, "if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do."
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
“And on to the haters…”
Just checked on a book that I thought was problematic but kept me turning the pages. A 3.5, which is around what I would give it. I don’t generally look at that site, tbh.
This is insanely ahistorical. The Department of Defense was an all new creation in 1947, specially to bring together the disparate armed services. The “Department of War” was really just the army. I hate how stupid Trump’s most performative actions are.
Untitled or Radio Free Europe.
Sounds lovely but wouldn’t they do that on a day the markets were closed, like yesterday?
😂 I was half expecting “dé luain” or something.
We were just talking about this at dinner! 😂
That one is attributed to Swift!
Beware of one common euphemism-- Pu only wants a "friendly" Ukraine. To Ru, friendly has always meant fully subjugated and pliable. Just like the Soviet Bloc states were during the Cold War-- friendly meant lacking sovereignty. The only way Ru can achieve these goals is by occupying Ukraine.
I’ll know someone in about eight years. Bookmarking…
@darach.bsky.social Today I learnt that Tunisians use the expression “the wolf’s wedding” for a sun shower. Then I was sucked down a rabbit hole, finding that in India the wedding may be for foxes or jackals, in SA it’s a monkey’s wedding. Is there an expression for sunshower in Irish?
Lol in the UK it’s Xmas already
I’m seeing anti-immigrant accounts on bluesky, and people interacting with them. Come on, here we block and move on. No space here for Nazis.
September! Hooray, I survived another August. Bonne rentrée !
Just finished it, rattles along for a series of vignettes but I have far too many notes.
Indictment
The book already destroyed me
The Irish for champagne is seaimpéin.
Ok, my fave so far 😂
As one friend said, it’s nice to have a dry run!
A fortuneteller says: “You will die on a national holiday.” The tyrant asks: “How do you know?”
I bought a book mentioned in this thread!
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Don’t tell people how to run their social media accounts. I don’t know why this is so hard for people to figure out.
The Olympic balloon in the Tuileries
The lounge in Central Square, Cambridge?
Dutch and Swedish foreign ministers send joint letter to the EU foreign affairs chief urging tougher action on Gaza/Israel. Note penultimate bullet point: the Commission is supposed to have drawn up an analysis about whether the EU itself is in compliance with International Court of Justice opinion
Come on over! But not on or immediately after September 10th.
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1771-72, 📸 by 🔐
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Get Your Brits Out is a banger!
Folks, if you are planning to come to France on a plane or train on September 10th, maybe change that to the 9th. France might be a tiny bit stuck the 10th. #10septembre
À partir de 1er septembre ! Bonne rentrée
fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"
Me: Bertie is thinking about running for the Park. OH:… OH: Albert Reynolds would be a better candidate. Me: Isn’t Albert dead? OH: Don’t be excluding people just because they are dead.
The bit I don’t get is that their county lost a huge chunk of their national territory in the 20th century and it’s not discussed. In French education at least there is a mention of the Algerian war and the enormous loss of land.
On this day in 2021, on Dun Laoghaire pier.
"IN FAIRNESS TO Kneecap and Sally Rooney, if I had to embroil myself in a battle of wits with a world leader, I’d probably pick Keir Starmer too."
It looks wonderful already!
I haven’t been here in about 10 years but wow, the work is astonishing.
Congratulations to every Republican who voted for Reagan, Bush père et fils, and this wackjob. This is what you voted for.
Integrity is not important.
I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness
![How Boston became the safest big city in America Murder is declining across the country, but Boston has led the way [Graphic of a handgun with a shamrock protruding from the barrel]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreih27a6p73z6xhkujytlrou7o4dony5yqaio3bjl2jfaze3q2afa6a@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Couch fucker
think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working
have a seat in the coat chair. i'll get us a snack from my outfit cabinet
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Come on over!
Recommend Utrecht or Amsterdam as well as the usual places.
Turns out teens *still* hang out at the mall in Utrecht. Just saw a group of boy children whispering among themselves and a group of girl children doing same.
I mean, can’t they just shuffle off and leave? All those states that voted for a Russian puppet will be fine on their own. Bu-bye!
Destroy.
Previously, geopolitics-wise. Tomorrow is likely going to suck.
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
Whatever Trump tries to tell you, Pu saying that he agrees not to conquer places he has failed to conquer in exchange for receiving without fighting other places he cannot conquer is NOT a concession or compromise, it's a con. Use the right words.
Chat GPT.
"Luncheon in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin" The guy is a monster and a global pariah. They didn't have to slobber.
Ha! Missed him.
Et le prix des rêves sur le haut de la liste. Jamais possible.
Amsterdam doesn’t disappoint.
African Union joins call for true-to-size world map to replace Mercator version
In Alaska, people gathered for a rally in support of Ukraine on the eve of the meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage. "President Trump invited Vladimir Putin! We're here to tell Trump and Putin: Alaska opposes tyranny!" - the organizers said in a statement. 📷: ADN
Next week: 399% sanctions on Britain unless they come across with a knighthood.
Lads the HONK I just honked
After my last move 14 years ago, I said they can carry me out in a box rather than do that again. Still kinda there
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
Danziger
Wow! Thank you!
Written by Dublin City Council’s Historians in Residence, along with guest author and food historian Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, the new volume spans topics from religion and politics to food, fashion, and family memory. Edited by historian Elizabeth Kehoe and Dr Allison Galbari.
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
Letter of the day (in the Times)
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Isn’t this more of the “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” stupidity so that people stop asking questions about Epstein?
My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading
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Well said, Mo Salah. Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.
When you fire all the women and minorities from top jobs, and you will only hire white men who are willing to grovel to you on TV, turns out it's hard to fill out a government and you have to make your toadies take multiple jobs. A list: 1/4
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
He must have asked AI for the quote. Do we have to wait until November for the election?
I mean, I’m already meeting my mom in Montreal this fall. I’ll let her know about this!
N: Helsinki E: Osaka S: Bali W: Chicago
A reminder: Pu didn't stop the war when he got de facto control of Crimea and some of Donbas in 2014. He invaded further in 2022.
Two statements: 1) ICE has so much money headed its way people fear it will become so irresistible it will be turning applicants away at the door 2) The government currently has to threaten people to take ICE jobs on penalty of termination Given 2, perhaps 1 is less of a worry than we'd imagined
Ça va pas les Scouts.
The thing about most internment camps is that they're framed as exceptional, temporary, or emergency measures. This framing allows abuse to perpetuate. The new American concentrationary regime, however, is not: it is portrayed as part of a new lawless normal, and that is perhaps more terrifying
Top marks for holding a grudge! And I thought my family which will never darken the door of a shop in a small town in the west because they were treaty supporters was something.
