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ctry21

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  • FIFA Worldcup Ad in FireFox on Android

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  • The Firefox AI controls got pushed out with the latest update, everything's on by default but can be disabled in the settings

  • FIFA Worldcup Ad in FireFox on Android

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  • Yep, came with the AI update yesterday for me on Fennec. Wish they would leave Fennec as the no-bullshit version as it should be.

  • I really don't understand how people have 200+ guests at their weddings.

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  • We had less than 25 people at ours, city hall wedding with a late lunch afterwards and everyone home by 6pm. Spent the money we saved on buying a house instead, and the small number of people kept the day feeling really chill. We had a long engagement and kept putting it off because we were dreading having an expensive ceremony with everyone we've ever met in attendance...and then one day we just realised we can do whatever we want.

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    A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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  • It has the tone of a fifteen year old that's just read V for Vendetta which is so irritating. Maybe it would be more worrying if I used a less private browser like chrome but I'm not concerned about a website knowing I need it to load in English or what my IP address is since that's kind of fundamental for transferring data here. The EFF one at least gives more useful information on what to fix and doesn't condescend the reader in the process.

  • Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ

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  • I still don't want to touch it unless they remove Denuvo and the forced 2K launcher. Feels like with each entry it becomes less about the game and more about extracting as much money as they can through DLC while ramping up the anti-features.

  • Stop. Hammer Time.

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  • There's a pretty good video on the whole sixpenceeee situation here, for anyone that likes mini YouTube documentaries about tumblr drama

  • Bully keeping weirdos in check

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  • "Bullying works" is one of those really nasty, regressive takes that always shocks me when it appears in otherwise progressive spaces

  • Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing

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  • I have a sighthound and although mine isn't ex-racer since he's not a purebred greyhound I know a lot of greyhound adopters whose dogs were found dumped in ditches left to die after getting injured racing, or abandoned because they were too slow, or even with scars from having cigarettes stubbed out on them as a punishment for losing a race. It's a disgusting industry and it's shameful that Labour want to act as though it's something all working class people support. There's a great documentary by the Irish public broadcaster RTÉ about the industry there but the same principles apply everywhere else. Sighthounds are such sensitive and sweet dogs that are usually far happier sleeping all day than racing.

  • TIL One of the two brothers who founded the Guinness Book of World Records was assassinated by the IRA

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  • It was one of the most controversial parts of the Good Friday Agreement to pardon people on both sides of the fence, but deemed a sort of necessary evil to obtain peace. A lot of ex-paramilitaries ended up as taxi drivers doing tours of Belfast and a lot of our older politicians in Northern Ireland are well known to have killed people. It sucks but it's the price of peace. Derry Girls' final episode dealt with it really well. I'm from the post-GFA generation so it was hard to get my head around it growing up but the alternative is far worse.

  • Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job

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  • Can't sabotage what's already broken. The rare time I've been asked to use it for a piece of work, the output is so shit and full of errors that it would be easier to have done it by hand as a human.

  • It's a European tradition to traumatize kids.

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  • It was fun growing up in the countryside and things like banshees and fairies being taken as a fact of life. I had a childhood friend that would come in to school saying she heard the banshees howling during the night and then woke up to find out a relative had died.

    There was a news report that resurfaced a few years back, accessible here, about the Housing Executive in Newry trying to get a fairy tree chopped down to build houses, and even after trying to bribe the workers with £200 no one would touch it and they had to build around it instead. And another where some builders halted work in the Mournes once they realised they were inside a fairy ring, 3 of them went on to suffer accidents that they attributed to revenge by the fairies, the foreman apologised to the fairies, and even the reporter was too worried to step inside the ring. We were told the legends too, like Tír na nÓg or Finn McCool, but I think it's amazing how much of the superstition and old mythology has persisted through the years, even after the country becoming Christian and even now as it becomes more secular.

  • Some cheeses are luminescent.

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  • Unfortunately it's very real. The author Naomi Klein has a great book about Naomi Wolf called Doppelganger, based on the fact that people keep getting the two of them confused. Her descent into the right-wing conspiracy world is quite a thing.

    Quite funny to see someone call Belfast calm and peaceful though. I'm in it quite regularly and usually just want to get out as soon as I can.

  • The contents of a jar of Nutella

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  • Same in Europe in the late 00s/early 10s anyway - the ads here boasted about it being a good source of slow-release energy to keep you going til lunch

  • My bee hotel is well frequented

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  • How deep is it? I bought a cheap pre-made one from a bargain shop before learning they need to be about 15cm deep to help them avoid predators, else it's very unlikely anything will want to visit

  • It's Sunday, how are your pets doing?

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  • It was daylight savings here, so he's confused why his breakfast and dinner were early and ended up eating them really late this evening instead. He's been busy scaring off cold callers and junk mailers today as well between his naps.

  • [StBeals] Unhelpful

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  • There is a bank in the UK that used employee bank balances to prove they didn't need a pay rise last year, which they were able to do because banking with them was a condition of employment

    When I was in school they once checked everyone's phones to make sure we had installed Twitter and followed the school's accounts for each department. That was about a decade ago so it's probably TikTok or something by now.

  • What mundane things excite you?

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  • I think it's just sold on privately here unfortunately, the council collects food and garden waste but doesn't allow residents to collect the end product. I'm in Ireland but I believe the same advice applies here, it's just we moved so late in the winter that autumn sowing wasn't a possibility. But yes I'm trying to be patient and remember this isn't a temporary rental, I'm here for the long haul and it doesn't need to look perfect right away.

  • What mundane things excite you?

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  • Nice! I've had no luck germinating my native seeds yet but it is only early Spring and the last frost here isn't for another few weeks, but there is at least some campanula and primrose out the front that early bumblebees have been feeding on. We bought this house off an ex-landlord so the garden hasn't been looked after at all - it's taken me ages finding and digging up all the plastic plants, and there's glitter in the soil from cheap garden decor that should never have been sold in the first place. Next big project is to build this greenhouse since my home office is so filled up with seed starters I can no longer work in there, then by the summer I should have some usable compost to replenish the plastic contaminated border.

  • Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans

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  • Nothing better than him being scolded on RTÉ a few years back for saying "up the ra" for £87

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    Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me

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    Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards
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    Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards
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    The Tim Traveller — We Tried To Climb Monaco's Highest Point Using Only Elevators

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    Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
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    Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter

    www.theguardian.com /business/2025/aug/15/iceland-pay-customers-1-report-shoplifter