The pain is hitting.

“Today’s explosion and ongoing fire are a stark reminder that what they’re selling is highly combustible methane gas - a volatile fossil fuel.” Contact climate committee members via the link below before 9 February to #KeepIrelandLNGFree action.uplift.ie/campaigns/em...

Happy Sixmass!

Well, I am very angry. I have been bingeing 'Bridgerton' for hours only to find that there's a bloody second part in like nearly a month. ARGGHHHHHHHH. Loving Violet's arc, I must say. She does a heaving bosom almost as well as Penelope.

It is genuinely mad what you encounter on the Luas. Mostly in languages I don't understand at a deafening volume. Tonight it was a tech bro/bore on his phone. Full chest scattering company secrets. I wasn't paying the remotest attention cos I was trying to read my book, but fraud could happen!

The other day I e-mailed Comisiun na Mean about Twitter and its nasty AI thing that is generating images of CSA and SA. I got back a word salad of nonsense about how they could do nothing. If more people contacted them maybe (unlikely, but worth a try) they could change their tune.

I am so cold. Like call her an ambulance cold. TBF I generally have a temperature that frogs would reject. I am actually grand and healthy within the parameters of me. I would just really like someone to stick a shawl over my frozen shoulders. The youngest cat keeps eyeing me up and wandering off.

WTF? www.thejournal.ie/transgender-...

Hey, FFFG, have you considered improving the old public transport at all? www.thejournal.ie/dublin-traff...

Israel has demolished structures inside the UN Palestinian refugee agency's east Jerusalem compound after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as a violation of international law

Trump's new European tariffs over Greenland are almost as stupid as the ones he hit penguin Island with. #Greenland #Trump #Penguins

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

"The goal is to scare ordinary people into giving up and hiding in their homes, afraid they will be the next to be shot or taken away in a van to be tortured." www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...

WTAF, Mc Entee? You saw this with your own eyes and you still won't pass the bill?? You may well be a monster. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-occu...

Minister plans to make it much tougher for Ukrainian refugees to become Irish citizens. Andrii Stepanov says some people don’t want to return to what was once their home, and is now Russian territory. “Why are they pushing us to Russia?” More here www.dublininquirer.com/minister-pla...

Most Irish article of all time? www.thejournal.ie/gardai-inves...

Has anyone seen a cuter picture? I defy you.

The sinister night birds are at it. I am going back to bed. What is their plan at five in the morning? Creepy.

Internet: I am awake at an ungodly, can anyone manifest a pic of a cute otter, please?

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.

O'Donovan demonstrating the dangers of technological illiteracy. It is *chilling* to me that someone with this poor a grasp of the issues is in charge of anything.

The plumber, whose name I will not reveal for GDPR purposes once competed against a-ha in a sort of pre reality TV show situation in front of record execs. a-ha won, obviously enough. I have now met someone that once met a-ha!!! I now feel better about having to reveal my dietary issues to him.

I am unsure if I can use the loo because a plumber is doing his thing upstairs. Unfortunately I have IBS. I am going to have to explain my medical history to the fecking plumber in about five minutes.

Oy

Speaking of #Greenland and #adoption never forget when Denmark kidnapped 22 inuit children and sent them to Denmark in order to make them "cultured" and Danish, so they could go back and modernise Greenland. 🥚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

The men are coming about our leak.I am up about an hour before I should be. Can't find my glasses, typing this out pure blind. I hope they can sort the leak and also that I can go back to bed.

Awake in the middle of the night, which sucks. I often wake up to an earworm. The last two days it has been Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas', which I don't care for. Tonight it is 'I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)'. A refreshing surprise.

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Sinister night birds are early this year. It's not even January.

AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT: ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!! Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text. Translators translate, of course. But!