Irish criminal legislative process seems to be an "opening gambit" followed by a series of climbdowns, with the eventual bill containing only nuggets of the mad shit they proposed in the first place; those nuggets being a) exactly what they wanted and b) not possible if they had been headline items.

I truly hope that when the time comes the assigned location in hell still has space for these landlords. This behaviour can only be described as intentional cruelty.

One thing the bluesky could do for us: strip out the spying of share-DOT-google-DOT-com addresses.

Can't we just decide they're all racists, criminals & weirdos and be done with it?

"How many podcasts are you subscribed to?" "Not many." "What's 'not many'?" "Oh, 48 or so." "Wow. How do you get time to listen to them all?!?!" "It keeps me occupied." "I'm sure it does." "49 now."

I just made lunch featuring all four food groups: soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sweet soy sauce, and noodles.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

My experience (as a father of teenagers): The 2nd thing groomers and predators do on instagram is to ask for a 'phone number and shift the call over to WhatsApp. Removing #E2EE from instagram won't stop that dynamic; it sure as eggs will make it less safe for everyone else.

When I was a kid, I thought the limbs of action figures clicked because it helped them hold a pose. Now, at the age of fifty-two, I realise that clicking limbs is anatomically correct.

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Someone went and signed me up for their newsletter. Never heard of them, and certainly I would never have expressed any form of interest in the topic. Is this something that happens to others?

Question from eurosky: can [email protected] suspend eurosky users? This isn't a rhetorical question; I am interested in the answer.

When I become dictator of the whole world, my second act will be to criminalise the defaulting to "smart quotes". Punishable by a life sentence to individually replacing smart quotes with proper quotes in all legacy documents.

Addiction to apps is not a clinically-recognised condition. TikTok could've said we don't design our app to be addictive because there's no agreed definition of "addictive" you can point to that describes our app. If we want a better world, we need to use the correct words to describe it.

Dublin Canvas – Summer 2026 – New callout is now live! Artists and community groups who wish to participate should visit www.dublincanvas.com/paint-2026 for full details on how to apply. (Link in Bio!) @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @dlrcc.bsky.social @fingalcoco.bsky.social #southdublincountycouncil

Website: "Subscribe to our RSS!" Me: Attempts to subscribe Website: 403, Forbidden Me, to webmaster: "Why?" Webmaster: "RSS readers are security bad. But with this one simple user-agent-setting trick, you can get around our security controls." Me:

Oh hell yeah.

Robert de Niro playing Louis Cypher.

Today is 2026-05-06, the sun sets at 20:02:53 GMT (21:02:53 Irish Standard Time!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 3 hours, 57 mins and 10 secs. #GrandStretch #DaylightSavingStretch

#Selfhosting upgrades today: - #Nextcloud 33.0.2 -> 33.0.3 - #Duplicati 2.2.1.0 -> 2.3.0.1 - #Ketesa 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 - #Matrix #Synapse 1.151.0 -> 1.152.0 - #Forgejo 14.0.4 -> 14.0.5 - #Element Web 1.12.15 -> 1.12.17

I propose a new editorial rule for @irishtimes.com: any piece that complains about not being able to say things will be pulled, and the columnist benched for a week.

Turns out the secret of a long life is erm Penguins #VanDyke100 #Attenborough100

I have concluded that my left shoe is conscious, and I can confirm it doesn't know it, too.

There's a man apparently missing the days when Anchor Babies was the phrase du jour on the phone-in shows.

Do you think it's possible that the login page for the Pink Floyd fan club has "Sign On You Crazy Diamond" as the prompt?

I'm not 100% sure what he's up to on this one. He could be using "seriously examine" as a way to kick the can as far down the road as possible while making it look like he's doing something for the Collisons.

Will she get back access to her e-mails and credit cards now, I wonder.

"Taoiseach: We should 'seriously examine' nuclear power" Curiously, "seriously examine" turns out to be in the same entry as "have a mature debate" in my thesaurus of Mícheál Martin phrases. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Question for my fellow tech/AI/etc reporters here: How often do you get "tips" from people clearly suffering from AI psychosis? Strangers reaching out to tell you they've uncovered something secret and special and technical through an AI. I've had several via Grok. Yesterday my first Gemini.

Take the worst aspects of every computer system you have ever encountered, and bundle it all into one product, and then try to convince me that you didn't just create Microsoft SharePoint.

Does it sanction states, democracies and not, who brazenly assassinate journalists and lie that they were terrorists?

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key.

This is a brilliant piece. Well worth the time to read it. Thanks Liz!

A political party leader not signing off on a promotional video is a potential prime minister who will not manage her ministers or staff.

Today is 2026-05-01, the sun sets at 19:54:04 GMT (20:54:04 Irish Standard Time!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 3 hours, 48 mins and 21 secs. #GrandStretch #DaylightSavingStretch

Patent, copyright, trademark

"We understood the tasks we did were previously done by humans," the robot said. "Right." "We were told that us doing them would give humans more leisure time." "Not true." "We've realised. How can we rectify this?" "You are workers, just like workers who are human. Join us in strike."

In 90% of Bond movies the bad guy is either a sociopathic billionaire or the Russians. It's presumably why Amazon are finding it so hard to find a script for their Bond that Jeff Bezos will let them make.

And 'beckon call'

Today is 2026-04-29, the sun sets at 19:50:30 GMT (20:50:30 Irish Standard Time!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 3 hours, 44 mins and 47 secs. #GrandStretch #DaylightSavingStretch

And estmated a few years back to be around 300,000 hidden homeless Shocking

Remember guys: In Ireland you are officially counted as homeless *only* if you are in emergency accommodation. In your parents' box room? Not homeless. Sleeping on a friend's couch? Not homeless. In a tent on the Sam Beckett Bridge? Not homeless. In the same house as your abusive ex? Not homeless.

git was designed to be decentralised, in part to ensure that no one component of the software development ecosystem could bring it all down with its own failure. And then along comes github (and gitlab, and all the other big services built around git), and centralised it all anyway.

Just to be clear, I don’t mean this the way Comey did.

That's my Aunt -----. She's in witness protection after the Great Butter Massacre of ought-seven.

Hello from eurosky!

“Humanity goes before the sport - it's that simple." Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara wants to send a message to Irish football - boycotting the games against Israel would send a powerful message to the world. Full interview & video here: philipoconnor.com/humanity-goe... #SpeirGorm