The writing room in the final season of Earth: "Trump claims that (throws dart) Paracetamol (throws dart) causes (throws dart) autism".
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The writing room in the final season of Earth: "Trump claims that (throws dart) Paracetamol (throws dart) causes (throws dart) autism".
Are all the Dragon's Den chancers not trying to get nominated this time around? #áras2025
Ah, now I understand that Courtney Barnett lyric!
It was when we stopped being able to degauss the monitor. All these problems, too much gauss.
Glad to see my Audiogalaxy download queue from the early 2000s getting a second airing as the needle drops for Alien Earth. If the pattern remains consistent expect some Snot, Green Jelly and Ministry.
Michael Moore told me that Canadians don't lock their doors... surely Kneecap can just walk on in if they want?
When I was a younger man we'd never heard of exoplanets. The first I heard of such a thing was in 1992 and it was only one of them. Now there's 6000 of them and another 8000 "waiting to be confirmed". I don't know what's causing this phenomenon but it needs to be looked at. Is it a lack of vitamins?
Because of the melting ice caps?
AI is a big part of the problem!
Just look at this thing. The purest shittiest plastic, the most annoying noises... and it cost more than the family car. I would have sold a sibling into indentured servitude to have one www.rte.ie/archives/201...
80s kids will remember the day we discovered our parents didn't love us: the day we were told we weren't getting a Raleigh Vektar.
Both Chopped and Sprout existed pre-pandemic and they were both fairly popular work lunch options when I was in the office (with a 3:1 day ratio favouring Sprout, Fridays were for Boojum).
The DVD regioning system we were denied.
HAS ANYONE SAID ROBERT DEA.... oh wait a bunch of you apparently.
Oh, so Microsoft is in the process of massive job cuts and it has insisted on RTO. What a coincidence.
#boycottworldcup (except if Ireland gets in obviously, that just goes without saying.)
Don't mind me, just going to pause my calling out US Fascism and Israeli Genocide for the next 100 mins to post about a qualifying match in a competition hosted in the former and allowing the latter to compete.
I just made a nice sandwich for lunch and I am currently in the "I will eat this forever!" phase. I give it until Thursday before I am bored of it and I begin the search for perfection once more.
Ok, I've definetly chucked one of these at a Shy Guy in Super Mario Bros 2.
To be clear, I'm the middle-aged man holding everyone up. I'm also now the proud owner of a jar of 'nduja I didn't need.
The Dunnes self checkouts should have a feature that advises shoppers which products would bring them to €25 so they can use their €5 off voucher, so the self checkouts aren't held up by middle-aged men trying to do the maths to get the optimal value out of the voucher.
Those of us from the Cablelink days remember the overview channel they had where you could see all the channels at once, including the unblurred movie channels.
My handwriting is so bad that people read it in RFK Jr.'s voice.
So much for the lunar eclipse.
Star Trek has basically gone the way of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. Something I loved as a teenager that is now an incomprehensible pastiche of the originals that scares and confuses me, yet they still churn them out
Also, they'll lob in a few slices of cucumber into just about anything if you take your eyes off them.
After what happened with Dragon's Den, you can't convince me that any subsequent Irish takes on reality TV formats aren't just going to turn out to be springboards for a wave of future right-wing political candidates.
"A lifelong advocate for dialogue" eh? Doesn't seem to be doing that here youtu.be/wM8m4mzAxFY?...
What the actual fuck?
"The recall pertains to a batch of Gillot cru Petit Camembert, 150g, with the best before date of 26/08/2025." SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO CLICK THROUGH FOR URGENT INFO FFS.
Babies (under 4-7 months) 🤝 Me (when traveling): Assuming something has ceased to exist after it leaves our cone of vision.
They all got very rained on, so we got our revenge.
Me (checking in on the Scrabble set): "R U O K?"
No support on Saturday as well?
Today has a "the arse falling out of AI" vibe to it.
I've long taken to sacrificing surprise for efficiency and getting a current setlist playlist for whoever I am seeing and just studying that. The "finding the exam paper in the teacher's desk" life hack.
Considering Oasis themselves touted the tickets with dynamic pricing, it feels like a free-for-all for these tickets right now. Stupid prices being asked for already stupid priced tickets.
This pigeon for president. This other pigeon straight to jail.
Oasis are due to play 150 minutes. Depending on what you paid for your ticket that'll cost you between 1 and 4 euro a minute. Wonderwall could cost you 16 quid! 3 songs in you'll be through the soft ceiling of 50ish quid people would have had for a single gig ticket only 10 years ago. Enjoy!
Look, I don't want to wish misfortune on anyone, but if someone could slip on some spilled beer at an Oasis concert so I can make a "Today is going to be the day that you throw out your back and sue" joke... that would be swell.
It's going to be a great few hours of schadenfreude when the belly finally falls out of all the grift in the market, right before it takes the rest of the market down with it and we all get hit with the consequences of that.
AIB does something similar. I flat-out broke it by disabling some sort of Chrome/webapp Android integration. I needed a full system wipe down to fix it, as I never found exactly what I did that upset it, and their support had no clue.
Could I setup a giant rotating signpost on the Northern Irish border that said: "Palestine action", constructed in such a way the whole phrase never exists on the UK side, or does the ban extend to light rays that display the message too? Legal scholars please hit me up.
I am all out of insightful quips, and I don't own a cat. I will not be contributing to the Internet until one of these two things is resolved.
Shocking. I could have done it in 2.
So 2/3rds are happy?
"it seems inconceivable that AI will not be involved in managing and operating them." Depends what you qualify as "AI". Traditional computing will do this task just fine.
I can only imagine rich men are against public transport projects because they're terrified they'll be made to ride on one in the future.
I can't vouch for ASUS but BDS priority targets also include Intel and Microsoft so you'll have to go for an AMD model and preferably one without Windows installed, which might not be available.
Put CMAT in the big font like she deserves!
I want to do an edit of this map but include this map of Australia in it... with itself in it... with itself in it...
Keep forgetting the name of the Belfast "tram". This morning I've called it "The Growler", "The Grouter" and "The Glinner". "The Glider", apparently.
I asked a priest and he told me anyone alive during the years when Mrs Brown's Boys was being broadcast wouldn't go to heaven.
"Name one football".
Overhead outside the Leonardo Hotel, Belfast: "Is everything in this city Titanic themed? They've named a hotel after DiCaprio!"
Editor: You get those photos of a lump of coal? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
You know you are up early when you are the first person to put an Irish Times article into archive.is.
Just bought tickets to see And So I Watch You From Afar play Belfast. The last time I tried to do this a global pandemic kicked off... so buckle in folks.
In fairness now Woodo, that Wispa is way worse for the environment than the receipt. (This is my audition for The Louvre of Bluesky)
Got to love a website called Sustainability Times illustrating its article on the impending destruction of the world due to climate change with an AI image. Could you not have used any of the thousands of stock volcano images already in existence? Get in the bin.
Just going to randomly repost this every now and then to fuck with the crypto bros.
Reminds me of this Black Mirror-esque short story, presented in the form of a Wikipedia entry, about the first person to have their brain copied, and how that is abused when the copy is pirated on the Internet. qntm.org/mmacevedo
You want to link to that my guy because I went to verify it, can't find it and now have to pour bleach in my eyes from reading the rest of the demented output from that account.
Got kicked out of a French bakery for taking a paracetamol and making all the bread disappear.
There's been an odd shift in the tone of the emails I've been getting. I am fairly sure it is because people are just letting AI do the emailing. I can't show examples but imagine emails that make you wonder if the person on the other end has hit their head. For really simple basic emails too!
Living for the thrill of when I get to be the first person to put a paywalled article into archive.is.
Ordered cabinet from Ikea. Cabinet delivered. Big dent in cabinet. Returned cabinet to Ikea. No replacement in stock. Couple days later... back in stock. Ordered cabinet from Ikea. Cabinet delivered. SAME BIG DENT! Feckers put the returned damaged item back into their ordering system. FFS!
Your app doesnt appear to exist on the play store. The link is broken from your site.
Major sporting events are a great time to get the shopping in. You'll be watching a ball being battered around... I'm getting the pick of the finest produce at Lidl. We're not the same. #allirelandhurlingfootballidontactuallyknowwhichitisimthatdisinterested
Is it because she likes Coldplay?
Some people wanted to not be in Kansas anymore Toto... I mean Jimmer.
consequence.net/2025/07/meta... there's something odd about a Metal band helping an EDM festival. Like when Bill Gates showed up at the Apple conference, or when Sonic and Mario show up on the same game.
Confirmation that their sniffers dogs, are indeed, shite.
If I were a strong, manly president, I'd just choose to have sufficient veins.
People say this sort of stuff but they'd never give up their social media, streaming, gaming, robot vacuums, or even their impressively overengineered juice squishers.
775k asking means it closes 900k. I was going to say maybe it had some work done on it.. but that BER rating says otherwise.
If your tap water is that colour you should probably call an exorcist!
Ok wow...This was just a silly Club Orange joke... but I didn't expect it to get additional depth by you know who making it about himself.
Next time set up a Ferris Bueller-style sleeping dummy and stream that 24/7x14 while away.
Is Club World Cup like the World Cup but with orange bits in it?
Rain is coming... How long before we all memory hole the burning heat, return to lamenting that "Summer is over" and start griping about the wet? I'd be amazed if we make it 24hrs.
I don't get on with this squirrel (she keeps chewing through the mesh of the bird feeders), but she can be a photogenic little fleabag when she wants to be. #squirrel
If you told me the family with the skull in the incinerator in The Burbs were called The Grackles... I'd believe you.
United Healthcare stooges posting in Discord saying you can get free healthcare by pressing alt+f4.
That A BER rated house wasn't such a good idea today was it?
It's been over a half a year since Cherry Tomato Bridge. Surely we're overdue Dublin embarrassing itself again?
That has to be one of these "platinum" tickets. Basically touting by the Artist/Promoter (enabled by Ticketmaster). They give you nothing extra other than a smaller bank balance.
Me (a conscientious hunter): Pump 'em full o' lead-free bird-safe ammunition.
It doesn't even have Internet Explorer on it.
Could Old Defunct Phone Boxes Be The Solution To Smaller, More Affordable Apartments? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/07/07/could-old-defunct-phone-boxes-be-the-solution-to-smaller-more-affordable-apartments/
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...
The Old Guard 2 is half a movie and they've not even confirmed if they'll make a third one.
I have a name you know!
After a certain age it becomes harder for a white man to do certain things. Such as pick up some Dutch Gouda without singing "if it's Gouda nuff for me, it's Gouda nuff for you".
Springing from the business maxim "sell shovels when there's a gold rush", my next business venture will be a chain of shops specialising in pitchforks and torches.
I continue to spend time acquiring media to consume, rather than actually spending time on consuming the media I already have. The great content famine that was growing up as a child of the 80's really did a number on me.
Well of course not. Firstly Michael J Fox wouldn't be all that believable as a teenager considering he's 64, and also the movie already exists.
Annnnd... looks like Bsky still hasn't implemented animated gif support.
This juvenile starling had no problem chilling out right beside me. #birdsky
