Ciaran McGrath

I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.

"The US has its arse lined with noodles"

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.

I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

This war's main mudflap is Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, a man who achieves the rare feat of being both eager to show off his hard muscles and yet somehow also personifying erectile dysfunction.

Getting an early start on tomorrow’s Gist.

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Delighted to see Stockdale get that try. Been a long time coming.

Enjoy the game! Got off my plane an hour ago and will make it back home just in time for the game.

Well, an overly positive friend is better than one who thinks you’ve developed the ability to teleport.

GPS blip somewhere along the way? Runkeeper used to throw up abnormally good runs for me that became boring and normal when I manually fixed them.

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Tonight, Painted Kingdoms made its debut at Les Pégases ✨
The demo is live on Steam right now, free to play.
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We'd love to know what you think 🔥

Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks?

It Is a Real mystery alright.

Kristi Noem 15 minutes from now after she comes off stage from giving a speech at a law enforcement association

Always good to see another Saturn gamer in the wild (with bonus ONI).

Brother is reputed to be the best brand. I’m silently willing my Canon inkjet to die so I can switch.

If we want to close the gender pay gap in Ireland, this is where we need to start. The motherhood penalty continues to be a significant contributor to the pay gap, and it is completely solvable.

If we stop penalising mothers, the motherhood penalty disappears. It's that simple.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Holy shit, just hook it to my veins

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Save 50% on A Highland Song on Steam Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.

Psst btw everyone but A Highland Song is on sale right now with proceeds going to @gamesaid.bsky.social

Find out why this game hit number 28 in the Steam chart in Japan on launch. Seriously. We’d love to know

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

saying "there's a lot of really smart writers and narrative designers talking craft" isn't enough

I need you to buy this 🌟affordable book🌟 so I can tell my parents "I wrote an essay about how AAA games should be boring" and they'll focus on "omg emma wrote a book" (they are wrong. I wrote an essay)

a man in a suit and tie says i 'd just like to make the point in a video made with flixier ALT: a man in a suit and tie says i 'd just like to make the point in a video made with flixier

The front fell off?

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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

HEY, Y'ALL! I'm losing housing this summer and this month has been super, super terrible for me re: gigs, donations, stream tips, etc. I lost my gig in September & it has been immensely hard. I'd really appreciate sharing this, there's more info in the replies of the quoted post. 👽🌸🐺💫

As someone who played a lot with HyperCard back in the black and white days, there’s a strange branch of the trousers of time where Apple leant into the potential of what it had…

Bloody hell

A shaded relief map of iran

Find it funny we have our betters talking boots on the ground in Iran. Look at it! Its literally the geographical equivalent of fucking Mordor! They can go for decades fighting on their own turf. This is how insane the Western leadership has become.