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@VK_HM on twitter, Val (or valondar) most places. Autistic. Trans woman. (she/her) Dublin, Ireland.
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
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As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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💭Sam Elliot at the Justified Yaoi Wall
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
💭Sam Elliot at the Justified Yaoi Wall
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
It’s not talked about much, but Lars von Trier’s Kingdom: Exodus was a great and well liked follow up to his 90s miniseries. It’s kind of the Danish Twin Peaks: The Return
Besides twin peaks what was the last well received revival/reboot
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It’s not talked about much, but Lars von Trier’s Kingdom: Exodus was a great and well liked follow up to his 90s miniseries. It’s kind of the Danish Twin Peaks: The Return
I was looking into what Fox’s programming is like these days and in case you ever wondered ‘do they wish it was still the nineties’ one of their upcoming TV dramas next year is a reboot of Baywatch
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I was looking into what Fox’s programming is like these days and in case you ever wondered ‘do they wish it was still the nineties’ one of their upcoming TV dramas next year is a reboot of Baywatch
Generally there’s a lot of hatred for whatever is new. I am old enough to remember the vitriolic contempt for Voyager and Enterprise, and the hatedoms for both shows are no longer what they once were. I think if Paramount does make a new Trek movie the Kelvin films will now be old ones. Then, well
Legitimately do not get the sheer hatred for the Kelvin movies within the Star Trek fandom, even the Star Wars fandom was able to move past the prequels but Star Trek's is just filled with some old farts.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Generally there’s a lot of hatred for whatever is new. I am old enough to remember the vitriolic contempt for Voyager and Enterprise, and the hatedoms for both shows are no longer what they once were. I think if Paramount does make a new Trek movie the Kelvin films will now be old ones. Then, well
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Why did they make the ancillary books look like a 2010s app store icon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why did they make the ancillary books look like a 2010s app store icon.
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
Had the great fortune to see him conduct his own music once.
Happy Birthday to the late, great Ennio Morricone, born 97 years ago today
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Had the great fortune to see him conduct his own music once.
Alright to wade into this the problem with the trade war aspect of the Phantom Menace is it is never exactly clear what is going on. The taxation of trade routes are in dispute which leads the Trade Federation to blockade and occupy Naboo. Is the Naboo route in dispute? Is that a major trade market?
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Alright to wade into this the problem with the trade war aspect of the Phantom Menace is it is never exactly clear what is going on. The taxation of trade routes are in dispute which leads the Trade Federation to blockade and occupy Naboo. Is the Naboo route in dispute? Is that a major trade market?
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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Shea Whigham is a good Roscoe Conkling, too. Real classic Shea Whigham in a period drama kind of thing cooking there
Why Death by Lightning is essential viewing: (1) the history is solid and accurate; (2) James A Garfield is a leader who deserves to be remembered; (3) the acting is consistently good to superior (especially Shannon, Macfadyen, Offerman and Witford); (4) very good presentation of the corrupt
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The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Shea Whigham is a good Roscoe Conkling, too. Real classic Shea Whigham in a period drama kind of thing cooking there
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After getting distracted by the mountain of Gex assets, in Disc 118 I stumbled upon some renders for "Dead Unity", a canceled RE-Clone, and now my brain is filled with whimsical fantasies of what a model name like "Mech Dad" could have entailed
(Some more info: www.unseen64.net/2025/01/04/d...)
(Some more info: www.unseen64.net/2025/01/04/d...)
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
After getting distracted by the mountain of Gex assets, in Disc 118 I stumbled upon some renders for "Dead Unity", a canceled RE-Clone, and now my brain is filled with whimsical fantasies of what a model name like "Mech Dad" could have entailed
(Some more info: www.unseen64.net/2025/01/04/d...)
(Some more info: www.unseen64.net/2025/01/04/d...)
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Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
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He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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While Frankenstein is unquestionably the better book, nothing comes even close to Dracula for sheer WTF intensity.
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
While Frankenstein is unquestionably the better book, nothing comes even close to Dracula for sheer WTF intensity.
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woah plot twist
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
woah plot twist
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I'm still being asked about it, so here goes:
I'm referring to mobile games by Fountainhead Entertainment/id Mobile between 2005 and 2010. All simple, but fun Dungeon Crawler-style games:
- Doom RPG
- Orcs & Elves
- Orcs & Elves II
- Wolfenstein RPG
- Doom II RPG
I'm referring to mobile games by Fountainhead Entertainment/id Mobile between 2005 and 2010. All simple, but fun Dungeon Crawler-style games:
- Doom RPG
- Orcs & Elves
- Orcs & Elves II
- Wolfenstein RPG
- Doom II RPG
Seriously, there need to be more of these Dungeon Crawler-lite games than the five titles John Carmack produced.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm still being asked about it, so here goes:
I'm referring to mobile games by Fountainhead Entertainment/id Mobile between 2005 and 2010. All simple, but fun Dungeon Crawler-style games:
- Doom RPG
- Orcs & Elves
- Orcs & Elves II
- Wolfenstein RPG
- Doom II RPG
I'm referring to mobile games by Fountainhead Entertainment/id Mobile between 2005 and 2010. All simple, but fun Dungeon Crawler-style games:
- Doom RPG
- Orcs & Elves
- Orcs & Elves II
- Wolfenstein RPG
- Doom II RPG
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Auto headlights provide the only illumination on 42nd Street as they try to leave the city during the Great Northeast Blackout, Nov. 9, 1965.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Auto headlights provide the only illumination on 42nd Street as they try to leave the city during the Great Northeast Blackout, Nov. 9, 1965.
Every primary there are a few DeSantises, usually governors who have been eyed by national media for years as likely serious Presidential candidates, who then immediately pratfall in the actual primary process. You never can tell
Something I try to force myself to remember is what the world looked like a year into Obama 2 and what the “smart picks” were for the 2016 GOP nomination. I think it’s fair to say most of us were a bit off in our guesses. Trying to have a degree of humility.
I too am a Pritzker fan. But we’ll see how it all pans out.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Every primary there are a few DeSantises, usually governors who have been eyed by national media for years as likely serious Presidential candidates, who then immediately pratfall in the actual primary process. You never can tell
It's mostly about the gang passing around rumours about what Star Trek IV is going to be about.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's mostly about the gang passing around rumours about what Star Trek IV is going to be about.
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About