tae glas [siad/iad]

that’s incredible! 🤩💚 i’ll keep an eye out for pandan for sure!

Oh it could be! I’ve no idea about the origin of his name.

His name just coincidentally happens to be spelled the same way as two different Irish words like beach or fear, etc., so I jokingly pronounce his name as though they’re the Irish words :P

that whole page is wild, i’d no idea margarine was outright banned in some places for nearly a century, resulting in bootleg margarine, or that there were so many bans on colouring it yellow to rival butter. 🤯

some places forcing margarine to be pink (to make it seem unpalatable) wouldn’t have worked on me imo, foods need more whimsy

Shan ban.

His name’s made up of the words “old” (sean) and “woman” (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person’s name & gets pronounced more like “Shawn” for English speakers.)

it’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞

it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”

the article feels like whataboutery in itself, imo. gchq’s main thing is mass surveillance of uk citizens. if they didn’t steal & store people’s data, then that stolen data wouldn’t be stored in one convenient central location from which to steal it 🤷

edit: i do get that it’s not great that this has happened, of course. i just don’t think surveillance should be seen as inevitable in the first place.

until they have a problem with bringing in digital IDs, and the amount of data being stored by google/meta/amazon/apple/etc, this just feels like sinophobia & xenophobia. stealing & storing our data’s bad in general, not just when china or russia want to do it 🤷

land back! the sooner, the better

it’s from parks and recreation, the characters donna & tom have an annual day where they treat themselves to various pampering and nice things.

the date wasn’t mentioned “in world”, but that episode aired on the 13th of october 2011, hence that day being picked as the official treat yourself day!

quetzalcoatlus northropi!

or sky giraffes, either/or.

alas, i’ve already been cleared out by my ad-free driving & steering wheel subscriptions 🥀

it’s the onion, so it’s parody/satire.

(but it’s also way too close to our dystopian reality to be sure what’s satire these days 😮‍💨)