Ireland’s Finn Lynch on the first day of the Laser world championship in Barcelona, Spain

This afternoon.

The Laser Worlds/ILCA 7 Championships, Barcelona, Spain

Via Afloat:

After three gold fleet races, Ireland’s Finn Lynch has moved up to second overall, according to provisional results.

With one day of competition left tomorrow to decide the overall honours, the National Yacht Club ace is 14 points off the overall lead in a fleet of 139 entries drawn from 44 countries.

At lunchtime today, the fleet was signalled with ‘AP over H’ on the water and ‘AP’ displayed ashore for the Silver fleet bringing Tuesday racing to a conclusion.

The on-form Rio Olympian signalled his intentions of making good on his campaign for Paris 2024 after missing out on Tokyo with a seventh at the European Championships just a month ago.

Ireland’s Finn Lynch Moves up to Second Overall at Laser Worlds/ILCA 7 in Spain (Afloat)

Pic via International Laser Class Association

‘The Fun Palast’, Vienna, Austria

This afternoon.

Vienna, Austria.

Via Sky News:

A brothel in Vienna is providing COVID-19 vaccinations and giving those who take up the offer vouchers for a free visit.

Fun Palast is hoping to increase vaccination rates, as well as client numbers which have dropped because of the pandemic…

…In exchange for a jab, visitors get a free 30-minute session in a “sauna club” with the “lady of their choice”.

Vaccination uptake levels in Austria are among the worst in western Europe leading the government to introduce tighter restrictions.

COVID-19: Vienna brothel offers customers 30 minutes with ‘lady of their choice’ in exchange for coronavirus jab (Sky News)

Pic via MailOnline

Thanks Pooter

Psst.

Vax pass with your charlie?

Via Irish Times:

A prolific Irish drug dealer is selling fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates on the dark web for as much as €350 each.

…The seller operates on a well known dark web marketplace for illicit items which can only be accessed using specialist software.

The price includes a digital certificate containing a custom QR code, which will display the buyer’s name when scanned.

It also includes a realistic-looking, printed HSE vaccination card. “Full Irish vaccine passport, not recorded on data base,” customers are told, meaning the code could not easily be cancelled by health authorities. Other items on the site include cocaine, LSD and ketamine.

It’s a one stop shop to par-tay DEATH.

Fake Irish vaccine passports for sale on dark web for €350 (Irish Times)

Behold: the Cat’s Eye, aka NGC 6543 – one of brightest and most detailed planetary nebula known – composed of gas expelled in the brief, glorious death throes of a Sun-like star. To wit:

This nebula‘s dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. The formation of the beautiful, complex-yet-symmetric inner structures, however, is not well understood. The featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image with X-ray light captured by the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The exquisite floating space statue spans over half a light-year across. Of course, gazing into this Cat’s Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution … in about 5 billion years.

(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Chandra X-ray Obs.; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl)

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Shane Moore is running “a dick a day”, mapping out phallic-shaped routes in Dublin to raise money for Movember

Splutter!

This morning/afternoon.

Via Dublin Live:

Shane told Dublin Live: “I did a dick-shaped cycle back in March just for a laugh. On Strava, you can actually draw out your routes and one Clontarf shape caught my eye.

“On Halloween, I had planned on doing a run anyway after just moving to Clontarf. You can get creative on runs because it’s a lot of time by yourself. Sometimes the stupid ideas are the best ones.”

A dick a day?

Didn’t Fluffybiscuits try this last month?

Dublin lad running penis-shaped routes for genius Movember fundraiser (Dublin Live)

Thanks ESB

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