I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
Hit album "Great Drainage n' Road Frontage"
Well working class is a northerner in a coal mine, and also me, grandson of a baron, oxford grad 6 figure columnist, but not the barista who taunts me in my dreams or a nurse or anyone who isn't white
Memeing on Chinatown, "Forget it, Nate. It's Normal Island."
My wife is being dispatched to town for RnR tomorrow, and I'm planning a big day with 6yo. After her dance class, pizza lunch at her fave place, followed by a trip to the library, then to the park to muck about, an ice cream at some stage, then home for some arts & crafts. Balm for the soul.
Girl-dads unite✊
There's no joy quite like it.
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
Oh there was that too. And then there was the Mal/Inara dynamic, which is just yuckier with each passing year. And didn't Joss Whedon and Adam Baldwin turn out to be just fantastic human beings.
Put a stake through its heart to make sure it stays in its crypt, imho.
Uncancelling him to resurrect his Crypto-Confederate-Lost-Cause-in-Spaaace show and it's smooth-brained libertarianism, at that
irish people talking fondly about 'the west' is so pathetic. like, a chara, you're horny for a bunch of countries organised roughly around the core ideology that is the reason that our island still has fewer people now than in 1840!
The Govt must unequivocally condemn the US & Israel for their illegal war.
Govt must immediately stop all US war planes from using Shannon.
And should offer Ireland’s solidarity and support to Spain
The Occupied Territories Bill must be passed as a matter of urgency.
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With Israel continuing its genocide & blockading Gaza & bombing Iran and Lebanon, putting the lives of Irish peacekeepers in danger as well as thousands of citizens in the region, it’s inconceivable that the Ireland-Israel fixture would go ahead.
The Govt must support the FIA to boycott Israel
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A ticket to the big GW AOS event doohicky this year is like £170+. Before travel, before food, before hotels. Support independent event spaces, and maybe come and see the fellas at TSN instead.
tsnarena.com/events/categ...
Minister for Telling Lads, Ah, Lads, Here, Don't Be Putting Prices Up, Now
Render onto Caesar, I guess?
Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. In a field of long yellow grass a large outbuilding with rusted corrugated roof occupies left half of painting with very dark shadow side facing viewer. It extends beyond the left edge of the painting. Wooden posts holding a wire fence run diagonally through foreground. Tall yellow-flowered weeds stand out against the dark shadow side of the outbuilding while bright grey gable end with small windows is in sun. Behind into the right half of the picture is a smaller outbuilding and in the top left corner above the corrugated roof is green foliage of a tree-top. At the far end of the field, visible by the right edge, is a hedgerow of very dark green with brighter uneven top. Beyond it are pale turquoise and purple hills in front of pale blue mountains, the furthest one with a distinctive conical peak reaching up to near the top of the painting. Sky is light blue with large white soft clouds. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the long yellow grass, Liam Daly
Time for a #painting. From a few years ago, "Mayo Shed" came out of an idyllic day in the west of Ireland where I cycled from County Galway north and around the back of Croagh Patrick. This was an outbuilding I enjoyed seeing before coming in Louisburgh as I headed towards Clew Bay. #art #SpeirGhorm
My mother's father was, AFAIK, at Tourmakeady, but that was South Mayo Brigade under Tom Maguire.
Muslims voting for social democratic principles and solid anti-war policies = sectarianism
Sweaty pink freaks voting for repatriations and flags to be hung from every possible right-angle in the land = normal concerned citizens
Siri, what happened to Prussia?
Oh, okay - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboliti...
So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.
So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.
Shut it all down.
He's got my vote!
Years ago I wrote a piece for the NYT about how my 78yo dad and I bond over our shared love of Enya. I said he was occasionally brought to tears by her music, so THEY RANG MY OWN DAD TO CHECK.
I could have saved them the long distance charges by saying he was forcibly transitioned by Enya's music.
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Firing the starting gun for the price gougers to sprint to the big button marked 'gouge the absolute shite out of em'
Family opinion polling, innit
So the World Cup probably isn’t happening right? Like we can agree on that now?
