Very good!

people have been harassing service industry workers for a while with these glasses. It should be legal to ring a bell when this is witnessed, and everyone is legally allowed to chase the glasses-nonce in a manner similar to invasion of the body snatchers

I broadly agree with the people saying it but I do think it's very difficult to not sound like a Victorian pervert when complaining about AI superseding "handcrafted erotica".

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Fógraí. Is cinníochas iad na focan fógraí sa linn snámha. A leithead de ráiméis.

I am so tired.

What a ghoul.

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian share.google/lsCMo7JOtUDs...

Heather Humphreys has really made contempt for the judicial system a hallmark of her campaign, for some reason

Oh, how terrible. Look at these people we're letting into Europe, those Yemenis and Somalis and Belarusians and Syrians. What is the Common European Asylum System even for, if not to help those people escape hell itself.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Just for that, we're keeping Cillian Murphy.

Connolly REFUSES to hire Enoch Burke despite CLAIMING to believe in rehabilitation.

My latest, *only* in tomorrow's Irish Times

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

So,

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

Thread!

YES

seeing as we're all talking about the proposed language requirement changes for visas: here's the email my wife was sent for her B1 test in 2018. imagine spending about £800 in total across 3 tests, and you're met with

"YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

Actually, pedantry can never be truly pure if it only applies to half of a reply. It needs to apply to the entire reply.

When a British kid speaks two languages well and a third passably they are considered gifted.

When a migrant kid speaks two languages and English passably, they are considered a threat.

IMAGINE if Brits retiring to Spain or Thailand were told to take a language test.

"do you want to see marilyn monroe in game of thrones?"

do you want to see me hit you with my shoe

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle