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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
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I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far
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"If you're looking for a hunky young doctor who wants to give back to his hometown, we don't have one unless you count Clint, a misogynist physician older than Methuselah who won't prescribe birth control to unmarried women."
Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time
Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the hol...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"If you're looking for a hunky young doctor who wants to give back to his hometown, we don't have one unless you count Clint, a misogynist physician older than Methuselah who won't prescribe birth control to unmarried women."
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My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
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Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
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A shout out...The next Rare Earth on @bbcsounds.bsky.social is all about nature in our cities. Please reply with any surprising examples of creating living space for nature amongst living space for us - roundabout rainforest, skip salad plot, alley arboretum?
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A shout out...The next Rare Earth on @bbcsounds.bsky.social is all about nature in our cities. Please reply with any surprising examples of creating living space for nature amongst living space for us - roundabout rainforest, skip salad plot, alley arboretum?
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
via Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
via Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
via Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
via Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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I only like one bit of long preachy Aaron Sorkin dialogue, so it's aggravating how right he got missile defense. youtu.be/oQP52M_0tcE
The West Wing - Missile Defense
YouTube video by cloudbear
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October 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I only like one bit of long preachy Aaron Sorkin dialogue, so it's aggravating how right he got missile defense. youtu.be/oQP52M_0tcE
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In France, we pride ourselves on enjoying life’s simple pleasures: food, drink, and the occasional grand larceny. To rush through these things would not just disrupt our leisurely schedule; it would be a sin. One must savor the moment, not run from robbery to robbery like a buffoon.
I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning
“Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday morning, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless object...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In France, we pride ourselves on enjoying life’s simple pleasures: food, drink, and the occasional grand larceny. To rush through these things would not just disrupt our leisurely schedule; it would be a sin. One must savor the moment, not run from robbery to robbery like a buffoon.
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Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
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Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.
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Worth noting that
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
Books Upstairs | Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
booksupstairs.ie
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Worth noting that
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
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Spreadsheets
September 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Spreadsheets
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Let's just be clear on this.
600 billion dollars is enough money to decarbonize the entire US power grid.
But somehow our species is spending that money on trying to build a machine which pretty nobody wants, except like the 5 richest guys in the world.
www.nrel.gov/analysis/100...
600 billion dollars is enough money to decarbonize the entire US power grid.
But somehow our species is spending that money on trying to build a machine which pretty nobody wants, except like the 5 richest guys in the world.
www.nrel.gov/analysis/100...
ZUCKERBERG: “If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously. .. But what I’d say is I actually think the risk is higher on the other side.”
$META
youtu.be/23FyskyFoP8?...
$META
youtu.be/23FyskyFoP8?...
September 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Let's just be clear on this.
600 billion dollars is enough money to decarbonize the entire US power grid.
But somehow our species is spending that money on trying to build a machine which pretty nobody wants, except like the 5 richest guys in the world.
www.nrel.gov/analysis/100...
600 billion dollars is enough money to decarbonize the entire US power grid.
But somehow our species is spending that money on trying to build a machine which pretty nobody wants, except like the 5 richest guys in the world.
www.nrel.gov/analysis/100...
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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BUT NOT LIKE THAT, DIANE
January 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
BUT NOT LIKE THAT, DIANE
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They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.
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I don't trust it when the UK has a Bank Holiday weekend that we don't. What are they getting up to with all that free time?
Colonialism probably.
Colonialism probably.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I don't trust it when the UK has a Bank Holiday weekend that we don't. What are they getting up to with all that free time?
Colonialism probably.
Colonialism probably.
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.
August 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.
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One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.