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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7h

I miss that little chancer

A photo of Cailín, a springer spaniel, standing on her hind legs with a paw on the kitchen table, looking into the camera.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7h

She would absolutely devour a bowl of food in under a minute and still manage to leave the absolutely tiny pill at the bottom of the bowl. It was frustrating but most impressive.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7h

If I did this with Cailín she would lick it off, somehow eat all the peanut butter and then spit out all of the perfectly intact pills.

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Betty. She prefers the creamy peanut butter, but supposes the extra crunchy kind is fine as well. 13/10 (TT: gaslightgatekeepgirldad)

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13h

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare.

Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23h

Greta Thunberg details her treatment in Israeli captivity.

Via Aftonbladet:

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 16

Honest question, (some of the most bad faith shit you've ever heard)

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 1d

Right up there with Homer imagining he could have anything he wanted, and deciding it was him strutting into a personal recording studio with a microphone (despite there already being one in the studio) and singing with his personal orchestra he hired to play fast food jingles.

Homer singing in a recording studio with a small orchestra behind him.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 1d

Side note: I fucking love this 8 second bit right here. The way he puts a clip-on tie (which he just happens to have next to him on the couch) over his pyjamas and then runs out the door gets funnier every time I see it.

SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · Sep 25

"Ah! I love these lazy saturdays."

"It's wednesday, homer."

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”

Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · Jan 23

right winger identifying fascism

A 3 panel comic featuring Right Wing Red Guy

Panel 1:
Purple Guy: The LGBTQ+ community?
Angry Red Guy: Nazis

Panel 2:
Purple Guy: The pride flag?
Angry Red Guy: Fascist propaganda

Panel 3:
Purple Guy gestures to a nazi doing a nazi salute: This nazi doing a nazi salute?
Red Guy: Awww. He’s pwobbably waving at his mommy

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

Go give blood

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has made an urgent appeal for blood donations as current supplies for most groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

Ahead of the upcoming bank holiday, the IBTS said it is struggling to stay on top of demand.jrnl.ie/6844970

Urgent appeal for blood donations as supplies for most groups run 'critically low'

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service said it needs 12,000 donations over the next four weeks to respond to patient need and meet hospital demand.

jrnl.ie

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demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 5d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 2d

Irish people everywhere are losing their tits over this and i am among them.

Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 3d

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 2d

Israel should have been removed from Eurovision long before 2023. Even if this ceasefire holds, the status quo was always reason enough for sanctions. Not to mention the state's blatant use of ESC for propoganda, something which has other countries have been sanctioned for.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 3d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

www.rte.ie

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 3d

I think many people, libs included just want a return to the status quo where they don’t have to see maimed children on their timeline anymore and it’s all fine as long as they don’t see it

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 3d

I can get behind this

Quite Interesting @qi.com · 3d

Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 3d

The last train back on Friday at 9pm? And it's not even an express? Wtf is that about?

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 3d

When I moved to Leipzig with the reasoningly that it would be cheaper to live here and occasionally get trains to/from Berlin, I falsely assumed that there would be, you know, trains.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4d

Domino toppling meme; the tiny one at the beginning says “accidentally only studying captive wolves” and the end one says “grown men losing their shit about eating soy”

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 5d

Catherine Connolly says it's "the way it's taught." #SmearTheBejaysis #SpeirGorm

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 5d

I can relate to this. Probably cos me area is full of migrants, so the racist white Germans deem it "dangerous" and stay away.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 6d

FIG just went "you're on your own" and left them hanging. Anyway ban genocidal apartheid states from internation sports ✌️

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 6d

This is so funny. It is the weakest possible statement they could have made 😭

The FIG takes note of the Indonesian government’s decision not to issue visas to the Israeli delegation registered for the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics, which will be held in Jakarta from 19-25 October, and recognizes the challenges that the host country has faced in organizing this event. The FIG hopes that an environment will be created as soon as possible where athletes around the world can enjoy sports safely and with peace of mind.

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