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The always brilliant Stephen Dillane as Hamlet's buddy Horatio, glorious of mullet
Glenn Close. Slay, Kween Gertrude.
Bright Irish bóithrín Grass growing down the middle Glorious springtime
A vertical close-up of a willow branch. Several catkins (small, oval-shaped flower clusters) are attached to a dark, slender twig that runs vertically through the center of the frame. They are light silvery grey. Each one is covered in tiny, fine hairs that grow outward from the center. The scene is backlit. The sun appears as a bright, white, blurry circle in the upper center of the image, positioned directly behind the top-most catkins. This lighting creates a rim light effect, making the fine hairs on the edges of the catkins appear as a bright, glowing white outline. The background is heavily blurred (bokeh effect). The bottom third consists of dark green, dense foliage. The upper two-thirds shows thin, bare branches of other trees set against a pale, bright blue sky.
A line of giant trebuchets illustrating a remarkably bad idea
An tsean-bhonn 50p Éireannach agus an creabhar uasal air
The headquarters of the Fascist Party in Italy in the 1940s, with Mussolini glowering down like something from a Jodorowsky film. Dumb tubby fascists love putting their faces on shit.
A single, rectangular block of cheese standing upright on a white plate, styled with a minimalist aesthetic. A thick, vertical slab of halloumi, three times as tall as it is wide. It has been heavily seared, showing a deep, dark and golden brown charred crust on its front and back faces, while the sides remain a creamy off-white. Resting horizontally across the very top of the cheese is a thin, bright green very thinly cut piece of spring onion, adding a sharp architectural element. The halloumi sits in the center of a clean white circular plate. It is surrounded by a scattered drizzle of vibrant orange-amber sweet chilli sauce and a light dusting of red Aleppo pepper flakes and black sesame seeds. The lighting is bright and focused, reflecting off the surface of the plate and the metallic kitchen counter in the background. The colors are high-contrast: the stark white of the plate against the deep charred browns of the cheese, the vivid orange oil, and the pop of green on top. It looks fucking delicious.
A screenshot from the congressional hearing where Pam Bondi is covering up Donald Trump and others' massive international child-rape-and-possibly-literal-cannibalism ring, showing ranking member Jamie Raskin and to his immediate left, his legal counsel, who is sending an intense beam of pure righteous hate and big I Would Happily Ivan Drago You Right Here And Now energy right through the smug, incompetent, hateful husk-body of the Attorney General, who deserves to be stabbed with frozen shards of her own sharpened shit.
A map of the Bluesky megaverse, showing my teeny weeny dot orbiting the Irish cluster with Liverpool and Arsenal looming magellanically on either side.
A photograph framed through thick black beams. This framing creates a "looking in" perspective onto a central disco ball. At the dead center of the frame hangs a large, silver mirror ball, the subject of the photo. It is caught in a moment of intense illumination. A powerful white light hits the ball from the upper left, causing a brilliant, almost blinding flare. Dozens of sharp, dramatic rays of white light explode outward in every direction, cutting through the darkness of the room. The background is a blur of motion and colour dominated by deep blacks and brilliant whites, punctuated by vibrant splashes of neon pink and electric blue light as people dance below. The contrast between the rigid, dark foreground beams and the chaotic, exploding light of the disco ball creates a sense of high energy, celebration, and "nightlife" grit.
Father Ted Crilly kicking Bishop Len Brennan up the arse, a seminal moment in Ireland's struggle to escape the malign influence of the Catholic Church.
The large town of Maynooth, as seen in a satellite photo courtesy of Google Earth.
A wide-angle landscape photograph of a beach under a dramatic, overcast sky. The image is divided into three distinct horizontal bands: Foreground: Overgrown, wind-swept dune grass in shades of olive green and brown occupies the bottom third, providing a textured, natural border. Midground: A dark sand beach meets a churning grey sea. White foam from breaking waves creates bright, horizontal lines across the water. Several small, distant figures of people are scattered along the shoreline, giving a sense of scale to the vast environment. A rugged headland is visible in the far distance on the right. Background: The sky is filled with heavy, layered clouds in shades of charcoal and deep blue. A bright break in the clouds on the left casts a pale, cold light across the horizon.
A landscape photograph of a coastal scene in West Cork, Ireland, on a bright, clear day, framed in the foreground by a silhouette of a bare, weathered tree. On the right side of the frame, the dark, leafless branches of a thin, skeletal tree reach upward and slightly left. Below the tree and across the bottom of the image is a rolling hillside covered in low-lying, dark brown and purplish scrubland, typical of coastal heath. The hill slopes down toward the Atlantic. A thin veil of sea spray clings to the base of the distant cliffs where the land meets the ocean. The water is a deep blue, with thundering waves and foamy white caps. In the far distance, a rugged coastline extends into the sea. On the highest point of the distant Galley Head. The lighthouse is visible against the horizon. The sky occupies the upper half of the image, transitioning from a pale, crisp blue near the horizon to a deeper azure at the top. The lighting is sharp and directional, coming from the side, which highlights the textures of the dry vegetation and the stark silhouette of the tree.
A black-and-white cinematic still from the film Schindler's List showing a crowded street during the liquidation of a ghetto. Amidst a sea of desaturated figures and Nazi soldiers, a small young girl walks alone, her double-breasted coat rendered in a striking, symbolic red—the only color in the image.
A vertical photograph of a mature, moss-covered deciduous tree standing beside a body of still water in Ireland. The primary subject is a large tree with a thick, textured trunk and heavy, sprawling branches that extend upward and outward across the frame. Almost the entire surface of the bark is covered in a vibrant, thick layer of green moss. Near the base of the trunk, several small clusters of dead, copper-colored leaves remain attached to lower twigs, providing a sharp color contrast to the green moss.
The northern lights glowing Minas Morgul green in the skies over West Cork
You Can't Have It All, 2022 Borosilicate glass and sand, by Lea Cetera. Cetera is interested in how the body is described in relation to machines. The image of a 'biological clock' was popularised in the late 1970s when career women were warned they risked missing their chance of motherhood. Human fertility is complex, and many of the reports that inspired the idea of a biological clock were based on bad data, but the metaphor still provokes great anxiety.
Darth Vader's flagship, the Executor, in an asteroid field, answering the question "what if a Terminator had a baby with great white and it was 12 miles long?"
France is committed to the sovereignty and independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere. This guides our choices. It underpins our commitment to the United Nations and to its Charter. It is on this basis that we support, and will continue to support Ukraine and that we have built a coalition of the willing for a robust and lasting peace, to defend these principles and our security. It is also on this basis that we decided to take part in the exercise organized by Denmark in Greenland. We fully assume this decision, because security in the Arctic and at the outer edges of our Europe is at stake. No intimidation or threat will influence us -neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations. Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context. Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner should they be confirmed. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld. It is in this spirit that I will engage with our European partners.
An insufferably smug cartoon monkey flipping you off.
An Austrian man who does indeed look exactly like that
Google Gemini replying to me with a double hallucination: While Sonnet 116 is not a standard knitting pattern, I found that patterns exist for cross-stitching or blackwork embroidery of the text of the sonnet, often for wedding gifts. Would you like to search for a knitting pattern for a specific item that uses an element from the sonnet, or perhaps a link to one of the Sonnet 116 cross-stitch patterns I found?
A wide, tranquil landscape image of the imposing, ruined Timoleague Friary in County Cork, Ireland, at dusk. The ancient stone structure is centered on the horizon, grey walls and gothic arched windows silhouetted against a pale autumn sky. The friary sits on the bank of a perfectly still body of water, the estuary of the Argideen (little silver river). The water acts as a mirror, creating a flawless, near-symmetrical reflection of the ruined walls and the bare trees along the shoreline.
A detailed, close-up photograph of an antique clock movement. The mechanism is made of brass and steel, mounted on a dark, rectangular base. The upper section shows several visible gears and an escapement mechanism. In the lower half, two large cylindrical drums are visible, around which thin, tightly wound wire or cord is spooled.
Indiana Jones repeatedly punching a Nazi in the face, which is the very least people should do to Nazis.
A profile as hypocritical as it is badly written, in which this hate-filled "antiques's"-loving crusader for law and order lauds Israel's enthusiastic "fuck you" to international law in spite of claiming to "believe in an America free from hate filled, crass, uneducated, humans that don't respect the rule of law and the Government. Support a woman's right to choose" and other such obvious lies. What an asshole.
Hoggle F Kennedy from the deeply wonderful Jim Henson film "Labyrinth" and also of the terrifyingly awful Donald Trump administration.
Oh, My Two Palestinians - Michael Davitt 18/9/82, after seeing a TV report on the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut I pushed the door That I might let in light from the top of the stairs: The bedclothes flung from them Lying askew As they had fallen: where they had fallen: Her nightdress thrown up over her midriff, blood on lace underwear, From a gash in the back of her head her chicken brain splattered on the pillow, guts oozing from her belly like seaweed on a rock, a liver on a sheet, one blood-soaked arm aloft, Oh, my two Palestinians rotting in the central heating.
Amazon thinks I'd like new table tennis equipment in spite of the fact I haven't even tried to play table tennis since the early 1990s
Famous child-rapist Donald Trump looking like a Spitting Image puppet of famous child-rapist Donald Trump. Those sunken cheeks, those dark baggy rings showing through the terracotta makeup, that hanging woggle, the pale lips, the uneven disheveled daubing, the desperate Botox, the constipated expression...yes indeed, this is truly the healthiest man ever elected to the US presidency and an inspiration to alpha males everywhere.
My Disney+ subscription has been cancelled because fuck you Micky Mouse, you Fascist dipshit
My Disney+ cancellation confirmation. Fuck Disney, fuck Trump, fuck Carr and the FCC, and infinite fuckings upon the memory of that mouldering pile of rent assholes Charlie Kirk.
The worst head in the world, now somehow even worse
The worst head in the world.
Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov, a charisma-free, bumbling, self-important, unrespected gasbag in the absolutely hilarious Iannuci film The Death Of Stalin, trying to look statesmanlike in his girdle and faced with the impossible task of filling the vacuum left by the expiry of a psychotic but charismatic dictator
Tom Cruise as the cold-blooded, rageful, vicious, brutally efficient murderer Vincent in the absolutely brilliant 'Collateral'
The heartbreaking "girl in the red coat" scene from Schindler's list The image itself is a black and white frame in what remains of the ghetto. In the foreground, two figures, a man and a woman, are pulling a wooden cart. The man is wearing a dark coat and hat, while the woman is in a dark coat and headscarf. On the cart, a small, still figure is lying face down, partially covered, in one of the only instances of colour in the film. It's the body of the little girl in the red coat who Oskar Schindler saw running as the Nazis liquidated the ghetto and slaughtered her family. This scene plays out daily in real life in Gaza today, as the descendants of people who survived the Nazi holocaust perpetuate one of their own and desecrate the memories of the victims who came before them.
Me: I'm sure that's a fantastic summary of a completely different topic, but it's absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the instructions and source you were given. What went wrong? ChatGPT 5: Short version: I didn't open your example link, I guessed the topic, then shipped the wrong report with non-compliant sourcing and even invoked a disabled tool. That's the chain of failure.
Failure cause: Requirements triage error. I overrode your hierarchy. You prioritized completeness, structure, and verified citations. I prioritized speed. Research failure. I did not run a full web pass with reputable, current sources. I relied on assumptions and stale knowledge. Citation integrity breach. I output placeholder-style citations that are not publicly verifiable. Format noncompliance. I diverged from your exact sections and failed to deliver the event-by-event matrix with sufficient depth. Evidence coverage gap. I did not ingest enough primary reporting to reflect current events and institutional moves you referenced. Time mismanagement. I promised a timeline I cannot meet because I cannot work in the background. I then rushed a draft. QA lapse. I sent without a final checklist against your spec. No cross-check of claims, dates, or links. Tooling misuse. I did not fully parse your PDF or use live browsing rigorously for each claim.
A derelict building in the heart of Cork city that's going to kill someone soon. A band-course of bricks runs along between the first and second floors, snapping off to expose the rotten bricks beneath.
Two pictures of a door in the White House's famous Oval Office, one in one muted, respectful tones we're all familiar with and that we associate with the building under the stewardship of even the most grotesque of former US presidents, and the other after it got sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, with tacky-ass gold fuckware from Temu glued everywhere and gold paint on multiple surfaces. Think "palace of Versailles" if it had been decorated by a fucking moron.
A clear, modern glass jug sits on a rustic wooden picnic table. Inside, vibrant green fresh mint leaves are visible, steeped in light-been mint tea. The background is a soft-focus view of a lush green meadow with trees by the riverbank under a bright sky.
An Irish £20 note from the 1960s. Bright red on yellow with Lady Lavery gazing out like a wistful Irish Mona Lisa. A river deity glares out from the back.
Fairly shitty bank notes from 1993 to the euro. A yellow £5 with a nun on it and a school for blind children on the back, a green £10 with noted fart-addict James Joyce and a writer if his on he back, a weird purple and green £20 with Daniel O'Connell, the great liberator, and on the back his pledge not to accept blood money from slave owners in the US even for the cause of Irish emancipation (because obviously), President Dúbhglas de híde (Douglas Hyde) on the front of the bluish grey £50 with a piper on the back (de híde was instrumental, no pun intended, in preserving the Irish language and culture), and the uncommon red and blue and yellow (mawkish) £100 had Parnell on the front and back. All the notes are bilingual with some fairly crap typographic choices.
It isn't clear how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person. "Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything," the note began. Donald: Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret.
A cover of "Superman Spectacular" from 1982, featuring Terra Man (some people call him the space cowboy, some people call him Maurice) and his flying horse and super-science six-shooters, Lex Luthor in classic people and green waving some red kryptonite around, an all-blue Superman, as an all-red Superman. Shit got weird back in the day.
Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler before he was reincarnated as Curtis Yarvin, a weak-chinned, chub-cheeked, small-eyed geek with tiny ears and no discernable redeeming features.
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid (Ha Aretz) IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes Netanyahu, Katz reject claims, call them 'blood libels'
From Musk: Oh and some food for thought as they ponder this question: Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years ...