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• Oireachtas to spend €400k on its own brand of red and white wine for the Dáil

  THE HOUSES OF the Oireachtas [Irish Parliament] Commission is set to splash out €400,000 to keep Leinster House stocked with its own brand of mid-range red and white wine. The bespoke-labelled booze has proven to be a big hit in the Dáil [House of Commons] bar since it was launched at the end of 2013, accounting for 17% of all drinks revenue at the venue last year. A total of 4,851 glasses and 1,063 bottles were sold in the bar, as well as two whole cases at a cost of €180 each. Employees at...

• Trump offers running commentary on his predecessors while reading children’s book

  US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump joined second lady Usha Vance on her podcast where guests read picture books to children but Trump, who is notorious for veering off script, offered a running commentary on his predecessors, his physique and how he is spending his time in the White House. In Trump’s appearance on Vance’s Storytime With The Second Lady podcast, which was posted online on Friday, the president read Presidents Play!, a children’s book from the White House Historical Association that feat...

• A bash script to automatically burn LLM tokens, thus dramatically increasing your productivity and hireability

  Because nothing gets you promoted faster than a six-figure token bill A bash one-liner that burns Claude Code or Codex tokens on purpose.

• Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

  Department of Public Works employee Eric Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag flying outside the department’s Alhambra, California, headquarters during the month of June effectively forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin” in conflict with his sincerely held Christian religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed in March by anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical nonprofit the Liberty Counsel.

• Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00

  "The 9[am] to 5[pm]" is a common term for one's regular job, on the basis that normal people start work at 09:00 and finish at 17:00. I've worked a few jobs and closest I've ever gotten to this is 08:00 to 17:00, which I gather is standard. Are there real jobs where people actually start at 9 and finish at 5?

• Russia’s foreign affairs minister says Eurovision participation requires ‘outright Satanism’

  Sergei Lavrov made the remarks when asked about the possibility of Russia returning to the song contest.

• 'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell | CBC Radio

  A city councillor in Cork, Ireland is advocating to erect a public statue of a mosquito. It wouldn’t be a statue of just any mosquito , but the pest that some — at least in Cork–believe bit the English invader, Oliver Cromwell — sending him home to die of what was once known as 'Cork fever,' an old name for malaria.

• Saudi liquor store runs short because of Iran war bottleneck

  Saudi Arabia's only official alcohol shop has run short of supplies ranging from beer and wine to tequila, as the disruption caused by the Iran war has delayed shipments, visitors to the store said. Situated in Riyadh's diplomatic district, the shop, which has no name and no sign, opened in 2024 to serve non-Muslim diplomats and last year expanded to cater for wealthy non-Muslim foreign residents.

• Post #2397148

  The phrases "This shit is dope!" and "This dope is shit!" have exact opposite meanings.

• Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

  Archive link The Trump administration is planning to evict 950 bison from their grazing pastures on federal lands in Montana. The Department of the Interior, which has a bison as its logo, has revoked the licence of a rewilding charity trying to restore the natural splendour of the “American Serengeti”, the eco-diverse range of grasslands home to wolves, pronghorns, grizzly bears and mountain lions.

• Post #455642

  Mr. Powers, everybody says that nudity and cursing aren't Internet-safe. How much poem could there possibly be?

• Post #454911

  The one with naked people on it.

• Post #454869

  I agree. This doesn't seem any more egregious than clicking a button on a website that says "I am over 18".

• Post #384555

  Family Guy should never have been uncancelled.

• Post #149567

  Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German. -ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have: buachaill (boy) → buachaillín (little boy) bóthair (road) → bóithrín (small road; this one has undergone some mutation because it's such a common word) smidir (fragment) → smidirín (small fragment, hence the English word smithereens) Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill...

• Post #147569

  Do you have just a few minutes to discuss our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

• Post #141451

  Here's the original I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? It wasn’t hustle culture. No 5:30am wakeups, cold showers, or productivity hacks. What got me there was a relentless focus on impact. Every project I touched, every deck I built, every presentation I gave MOVED THE NEEDLE. Always, I asked myself: what is the single most valuable contribution I can make to the company right now? And I did that....