Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

This article is just excellent. And spot on in a bunch of ways. I've been working in Silicon Valley for just shy of 30y and this place is unrecognizable. Nothing gets made here anymore except money for the oligarchs at the top of VC firms. Thanks @anildash.com for your honesty.

8 top locations for long exposure photography in Northern ireland www.davidcleland.com/long-exposur...

The Knockagh looking resplendent this morning. There's a small Irish temperate rainforest up there too :-)

It would be fab to see more projects like this across Ireland - so much unused or marginal 'farm land' - best time to start would be 10 years ago.

"Whether we realise it or not, we depend totally on natural ecosystems for our very survival". "By removing them and repressing their return, we're threatening our own future survival." I was interviewed for this BBC piece on Irish rainforests. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Restoring Ireland's temperate rainforests - vital work, both where they're gone, or where small pockets cling on. Planting is important, but (as in the Middle East) so is keeping out sheep & goats to let the land do its thing. @irishrainforest.bsky.social featured too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some fine fluffy clouds at Dooey beach, Co Donegal today.

I have quite a nice view in the evenings across the fields from the back garden :-) #Knockagh #NorthernIreland

This is my ancient Giant bike - nothing fancy, cost me £200 several years ago, hasn't needed much fixed (just a few tweaks), but of all my bikes, it's second only to my Brompton. It's a superb bike for distance, fast, comfy to ride, smooth & balanced & light & strong enough (aluminium).

Big fire at Belfast Harbour :-(

What an amazing day! Lovely wee ride out over the hills behind Carrick. This is the life. #Strava: strava.app.link/UcNhuvPZo3b

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

Trusty steed

The most intimidating place I have ever been www.davidcleland.com/cloghan-poin...

This feels oddly personal... 🤪

Gentle Loughshore 5k - Strava: strava.app.link/Q9NQsAEZm3b

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

OK, Joseph, interpret this - I dreamt last night that my dog had grabbed a small furry animal; I tried to get it to let it go, but it swallowed it whole. Then Don Henley started singing "This is the end... This is the end... of the ocelot"

It's perhaps ironic (but not really) that Itamar Ben Gvir literally *is* an Arab. He is considerably more closely related to the Palestinian victims of his terrorism than to Europeans like Netanyahu and Smotreich. Not that it matters of course.

When I first read Dune, I felt like the Butlerian Jihad was a bad thing but now idk

My old pal Rick just reminded me of this amazing day in the desert of the West Bank in Palestine, when we whooshed down on our bikes from Jerusalem to Mar Saba, Nabi Musa and Jericho. An incredible ride!

Symbian what? I hear you say. It’s here. Smartphones years before the iPhone… 🙂 stevelitchfield.com/classic-symb...

Flying out from Belfast to Bristol, ultimately Cardiff, and my little Psion 5mx companion is the compute I need 😍

Time to crack open this bad boy.

I can't help but feel that the most important thing AI has revealed so far is how incredibly stupid and manipulable human beings are as "consumers". This is clearly a novel finding, and will come as a massive surprise to anyone who knows any human beings, but there you are.

We need a Kinder Mass Trespass, except for digital. They can't sue everyone.

I may not be able to make peptides, but I’m smart enough to know how to not name my product “neuro-bollocks”.

Google, would you ever feck away off

Should citations (as they currently exist) even be allowed at all? Perhaps they should all have ALT-sized meta-text associated with them[Bloggs et al, 2026: Authors argue that meta-text associated with citations improves relevance and reliability of inference, reducing fake references]

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

New judgy beagle just dropped

I'm not sure why it isn't more of a remarked-upon thing that Psion invented the perfect #cyberdeck keyboard almost 30 years ago, and none of the more recent projects that you see come anywhere close...

I'm insanely proud of my wee brother Rick, who has completed the Bob Graham challenge in <24h! www.facebook.com/share/v/18Xc...

This, and indeed pretty much everything by Cory, is very well worth a read. USA has driven itself into the iceberg and is sailing on - the world needs to distance itself from the dollartech suction vortex that it's creating in its sink-wake.

Not watching it.

Charlee Beagle is buoyed by her latest find on Greenisland Secret Beach...

Reminder: councillors from different parties can and do work together for the benefit of their communities. Peter Johnston (DUP) and Aaron Skinner (Alliance) are working with local people to reopen the stunning walk up from Greenisland to Knockagh, currently overgrown and impassable. Well done!

Having replaced all the leaky batteries in my old pocket computers, I do need to make sure they're charged every couple of months or so and it's always good to give the plotter a bit of a workout.

Donegal, 1984. Those were the days!

Love the S7 & nB. Also enjoy the full screen app paradigm. It can do windowing (eg the MP3 player) but there's something much more *organised* about this UX.

The genius thing about the Psion Series 7 computer is you can hold it like this and type with the other hand - really good when you're on the move. @thelastpsion.com

An evening walk along Novally Road in Ballycastle, with beautiful views of Fairhead and Knocklayde. 📸 Cathy Clark

Am I right in thinking that Angela has been brought in as the trump-card Wes-killer? (This is exhausting, folks, just change the voting system to STV/AV, rejoin EU and get on with it)

I was reminded of this wee 360 degree immersive VR video my friends here at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children put together to help kids undergoing MRI scans. It's super-good in a VR headset! youtu.be/dmGOVAHZk-k?...

Belfast, back in the day.

I really need one of these. 😂

Thought I had killed this #Psion Series 7, but it's just the screen that is whited out - main board is actually OK (and I fixed the fuse and power inlet). Now... how to fix that screen..?

Keir, just announce STV/AV and Rejoin EU, and people will be happy. Two big Vision pieces, both obviously correct and legacy-defining.