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My girlfriend is eternally low balling people on Vinted. I keep warning her it’s going to bite her in the ass. Today she saw a pair of shoes she wanted that retail for about 300 quid . On sale for €79. She offered €70. Somebody else bought them. She’s been raging all day lmao

Irish twitter revival is what I needed the summer I do a thesis

@wednesdaysadums Quite possibly my favourite canon event

sorry but if you weren’t there for gay cafe with hormone injecting centre you just missed the boat

#IrishTwitter Revival for 2026

@ChySayeh @kroneavirus @peggingtonbear oh yeah. fully support pants tattoos (no tattoo ticket necessary just let it rip).

Me and my girl

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan. In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have. So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently. An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident. The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010. The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

The woman who inspired Before Sunrise never saw the movie. She died in a motorcycle accident seven weeks before filming even started. Richard Linklater met Amy Lehrhaupt in a toy shop in Philadelphia in 1989. They spent the whole night walking the city from midnight to 6am talking about everything, and he turned that one night into a script. Took him 11 days. The casting search lasted nine months. Jennifer Aniston auditioned before she ever got Friends, and Gwyneth Paltrow tried out too. The role went to Julie Delpy. Amy died on May 9, 1994. She was 24. Linklater kept waiting for her to show up at a screening, maybe tap him on the shoulder and say “Hey, that was our night.” He waited through the premiere. Waited through the sequel nine years later. Didn’t find out she was gone until 2010, when a friend of hers put the pieces together and wrote him a letter. He kept making the films. Brought Hawke and Delpy back every nine years, letting them age on screen in real time. Before Sunset (2004) was shot in 15 days for $2 million. Before Midnight (2013), same thing, 15 days, under $3 million. That last one is dedicated to Amy. All three films together cost $7.5 million to make and earned $61.5 million worldwide, and both sequels got nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The entire trilogy cost less than a single Janet Jackson music video that Kahn himself directed. The Library of Congress added Before Sunrise to the National Film Registry earlier this year. It’s now one of 925 films the government considers worth keeping forever. Linklater turned a single night with a woman he’d never see again into an 18-year trilogy. He just didn’t know the “never” part when he started.

Seeing a lot of people talk about summer penny loafers and recommending GH Bass. Although iconic, most Bass Weejuns are poorly made. You can see the difference in the two photos below. On the left, we have an old pair of GH Bass Weejuns. On the right, we have a similarly old pair of Aldens. The Weejuns are made from a type of material known as corrected grain leather, which is a lower-quality hide that arrives at the tannery with scars and marks that naturally developed over the animal's lifetime. Since you need an even surface for shoes, tanneries will sand the surface to remove blemishes, then apply a chemical coating. The problem is that the coating will age poorly over time. In the photo here, they've developed cloudy creases. In some cases, the coating can flake off. On the other hand, Alden uses full-grain leather, which means the leather retains its natural surface. They are also careful in how they place the pattern pieces onto the hide and subsequently cut the various pieces to produce a shoe. This way, the creases are finer and less pronounced. Of course, Alden is about 7x more expensive than Weejun, but they are not the only company that uses full-grain leather. A basic Bass Weejun will run you about $175. Meermin's full-grain leather loafers are $230 — just $55 more Why spend this extra money? Because after a year or two, you will grow dissatisfied with how your Weejuns look. Then you will throw them away and buy something new, only to repeat the process. On the other hand, if you buy loafers made from higher-quality materials, you will grow fond of the patina that they've developed. Thus, you will splurge on a resole, allowing you to grow ever fonder of your shoes, repairing them as needed, and keeping the same pair of shoes for many decades. IMO, it's always better to buy less, but buy better. Consider what you really need and then figure out how things are made. Use this information to identify reliable brands and retailers. This is a much better way to shop than to say "The Row is popular right now, so I should buy that" (using the "The Row" here as just a stand-in for whatever seems to be hot at the moment — no shade to them).

Laurence of dry labia and his harem of boy toys. He’s so far in the closet, he’s in fucking NARNIA.

Mega Church Pastors LOVE Money 😂😭

I love movies and I love stats. I love #LetterboxdWrapped !

Final two of the Wolfpack showed up. Their seats were taken by others. Gave them up without so much of a word said, let alone a fight. Disappointed. Wolf pups it seems

First two of the Wolfpack arrived. Normal young fellas, have brought food with them, expensive grilled cheese sandwich’s and soup

Seats around me on the train are all booked under the names “Wolfpack”

If I was Dublin matriarch Mrs Agnes Brown, I would simply not lose sight of the meaning/magic of Christmas in the early part of each of their last 15+ Christmas specials

🚨 JUST IN - CHILD: "I'm from Pennsylvania!" PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We WON Pennsylvania, actually, 3 TIMES! We won it in a LANDSLIDE. So, I love Pennsylvania!" He's on a freaking roll right now 😂😂