His handlers know that if heat delirium kicks in, nobody will be able to tell the difference between that and his regular senile ramblings.

Update from July 2026. Four years after GeoDirectory failed the most basic tests of any part of the GDPR (legal basis for processing data on everyone in the country, ability to answer a basic SAR request, knowing what a Data Controller is) the DPC still hasn’t actually acted on my complaint.

Big kudos to @gavreilly.com for going for the Aurora Borealis Simpsons reference🤣 rather than the solid - but far more trodden - path⬇️ when referencing a children’s hospital that may or may not ever be finished. Two roads diverged in a yellow universe, but he went for the funnier one.

Hello, boys and girls (and people who are neither) Limerick City And County Council, incorporating Whizzer & Chips, is having its AGM today. The election of a new Príomh Chomhairleoir (aka Priomh-Wotsit). 3pm start, feel free to follow along.🧵 #CouncilMeetingThread

The package with the assortment of much cheaper than inside the EU stuff reaching me just before Brussels and An Post would be chasing after it for the new Three Euros Per Line Item customs duty tariff: (don’t get too excited: it’s mainly stuff like hard drive cables)

There’s still a tiny part of me that thinks that the entire Trump presidency is an Andy Kaufman bit… … but Andy K wouldn’t just add a baptising tent to Trump’s shitty fair: he’d have people baptised in the reflecting pool, as Temu God clearly intended.

I see ribbon development of bungalows all the way to the sea, populated by people who insist that they need three cars because there are no shops, constantly complaining about the lack of services along their low-density tendrils of concrete… … but maybe that’s just me.

Meanwhile multiple phases of BusConnects, all four Luas extensions and various Dart+ projects go unfunded 🙄 Always money for cars and roads… never any for solutions to Irelands congestion problems

But data centres get electricity for half the price we pay.

This sounds like an amazing resource. #SpeirGorm

I just met you and this is crazy but I’m selling shoes that were for a baby

Kinda funny that Fox News still gave the packed crowds line the old college try, while being unable to hide that almost nobody bothered to turn up to this Great American TrumpFair, presumably due to it being the shittiest day out possible.

I'm a city centre business and I have said "Lol no organised gangs are not involved don't be be ridiculous"

HELL YEAH, HUP CORK

There are many decisions that are wrong, sometimes egregiously, as to a particular policy issue. But Slaughter belongs next to Trump v. United States as doing deep violence to the constitutional structure itself, profoundly incompatible with the very idea of power being subject to the rule of law.

Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.

We have always name-progressed our cats, often in the style of Brazilian footballers e.g. Arnold is regularly referred to as Arnaldo and Arnaldinho. This lead to the short form 'dinho and now just 'Dean' or ' The Dean'

Aunt Aoife is a great drag queen name/character name and I don't know what to do with this information 🤷

RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

"the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95." This is peak science publishing 😂

DUP politicians running to the press and announcing "we knew Donaldson was a wrong'un for years" is a phenomenal strategy. All you're doing is telling the world that your ardent evangelical Christian puritanism was, at best, a performative sham.

Well, this *reaches into far corners of memory* reminds me of that FHM Shakira cover in 2002 that had as its tagline… (maybe they meant coffee, but… no, they didn’t)

Kildare, it turns out… but maybe the key thing here is that, when This Sort Of Thing happens in Carlow, the Kildare Nationalist doesn’t pussyfoot around the location, unlike the Carlow Nationalist when stuff happens in Kildare. Straight for the jugular they go.

Also known as Enrage an Italian Day

Such an important point. Universities across regions are so important, especially in a housing crisis and with a more diverse student body.

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Climate change and the AC debate

“You shouldn’t politicise this” tends to be a line trotted out by people who have no reasonable answer and rely on faux-outrage deflections. Anyhoo, The Journal did a factcheck on this a few months ago and rated it, with some caveats, as mostly true. www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-ev...

You know the way the Government keep making housing decisions against the advice of all available experts and evidence, and then suddenly we have the highest number of evictions since the famine? They have another great chance here to ignore all the advice and evidence and I'm sure they'll take it

Iran unveils new Max Size for barrels of oil.

The heatwave is so bad, it's too hot to make baguettes at this boulangerie.

Just to explicitly say: The Minister has forced through a law which is in direct contravention with the AI Act, justifying it with a transparent piece of undergraduate sophistry, blustered out without any attempt to persuade. This is not an action any serious Justice Minister would take.

Lovely to see the Eoin Colfer-scribbled My Other Life get another v good production and tour. Belltable this evening: different actor (Garrett Lombard), different director (Heather Hadrill), just different - but good different - to the mid-2010s production, which I also liked very much.

Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.

I roll my eyes every time I see yet another lazy Only Have Three Adjectives headline like “Beloved local business goes broke” or “Everyone mad for <some tat in Penneys>”, “MAJOR chicken recall in some retailers”,everything being “CHAOS” shitype clickbait, but “Popular apples” made me laugh a little.

*looks at weather forecast for tomorrow *

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Today’s the 77th anniversary of the wide UK release of Kind Hearts And Coronets. It’s probably my favourite movie. Completely perfect. Basically, just that and Paddington 2. I’m just reminding y’all that it exists. youtu.be/lTOeAGSV5Ro

Every autistic person staring at this and thinking “no, no, wtf, ffs, that’s not how humans work”

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

I mean, I dunno, maybe it's a good time to call it

Well, that’s one fewer phone box rented out this year as an Ard Fheis venue.

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

There’s a sizeable chunk of me that’d find it hilarious if Andy Burnham came second in the leadership contest, despite the months of machinations. Alec Douglas-Home waited until after becoming PM to disclaim his peerage and run in the safe af Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election.

Morning all. The AGM of Limerick Council's Metro District is this morning at 9:45am. Should be quick and procedural. You'd hope. Feel free to follow along. Other entertainment is available. #CouncilMeetingThread