Think the pithy remark about managers 'needing a neck to choke' will actually be a very robust defence against total AI apocalypse. These people are just not going to shout at themselves when something breaks.

Surprised myself to admit this but I am getting very into Canadian folk music. Only takes one barren coast full of Gaels and you're away.

Trying to calculate the most desirable possible realistic equilibrium for the AI and it's this: 1. Zitron is right, the majors go under 2. the French AI thing becomes the world's biggest company somehow 3. I become good enough at prompting to create a functional RSS feed of Irish local news

These are Europe numbers, what's going on www.ft.com/content/93dd...

Favourite bit of the GQ Clavicular profile

lmaooooooo www.gq.com/story/inside...

You love to see a fada in the byline of a story about royals getting arrested www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Incredible pic. Truly elite through-the-windscreen technique

"Andrew is the first senior royal in modern history to be arrested" Depends on how you define modern!

Make. Philosophy. Peripatetic at the Agora. Again.

Basket-weaving also a joke CAO course in Ireland! Along with jam-making!

Incredible headlining.

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 me #Archaeology

Need a better nonsense folk derivation for Pancake Tuesday. How about: it commemorates the time the Cailleach Béara squashed flat a boastful warrior with the cast of a boulder. That boulder is now Achill Island.

Pleasant piece. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...

Bloom taking what must have been like a 15 minute longer route of his way in order to collect a sordid letter from Westland Row post office, which is completely unnecessary because it winds up at Westland Row anyway by definition and he immediately bumps into two lads he knows there: >>>

Idea: a third type of Olympics, neither sunny nor snowy but rainy.

Happy for this energy efficient fellow, but this is too hot for a house to be www.irishtimes.com/property/int...

tuairisc.ie/cees-nootebo... Found out Cees Nooteboom has died via Irish-language news

The anonymous colour on Starmer the past few weeks has been amazing. Particularly a fan of "he doesn't read" - i.e. he has no idea of the context of any of his positioning - and "he thinks his job is to look serious and say yes or no". A fascinating character

B'fhearr é seo ar an Árdteist seachas An Triail imo. Stór focal breá nua faoi dhomhantarraingt 7rl

Possible thing noticed: a reaver, in the sense of a medieval raider (or the bandits from Morrowind) might be from the same root as the Hiberno-English "reef", which I think is kind of rare now but I would have used as a young gurrier to mean "to pull back forcibly" or "to violently remove".

Philosophical question encountered while editing: is the sea in the Gaeltacht?

It finally happened. Despite me being a longtime advocate for the seagulls, saying things like "I don't mind the seagulls" and "it's to do with EU bycatch laws", I got divebombed by a seagull on Grafton Street for my M&S sandwich.

Let's check in on the post-redundancies Washington Post

Have these attempts at overlaying some kind of left-compatible theory over right-wing anti-immigration sentiment ever worked, or helped in any way? People either hate it because they think you're morally wrong or they hate it because they think you're factually wrong.

Keep forgetting to develop or learn a theory as to why so many pubs in Dublin have photos of Michael Collins. Ideas welcome.

Remain baffled by the level of resources in US gardening vs UK where they are often telling you to reuse a yoghurt container. Someone put an electric fence around their cherry tree to stop pests getting the fruit which, firstly squirrels can jump and birds can fly, and secondly cmon.

Shout out to the figure skater from Kazakhstan who appears to be skating to the Dune soundtrack

It is, you have to admit, class that Wes Streeting managed to leak texts with Peter Mandelson that outlined his policy differences with the current leadership

I used to leave my notes app ready to record ideas for drawings/tweets etc that’d barely be hanging on in my consciousness as I’d wake from dreams. One morning I reached for my phone immediately, knowing I’d typed something that seemed of great import during the night. It read: “Adult Hitler”

Chess police here: the number of squares on board remains the same through the opening, the middlegame and the endgame

Incredible rebrand. It is probably the case that Keir Starmer would beat Nigel Farage in a fight, and that is a strength Labour should absolutely highlight in the coming weeks and months.

One of my favourite Bernhard snaps...

The two things I have noticed Anas Sarwar do recently are: make an enormous fuss out of trans prisoners for what seemed like quite obviously political reasons and then call a press conference to express disloyalty to his party leader for what seemed like quite obviously political reasons.

"Deputy heads must roll"

Like to see Guehi centre backing.

You have to expect this when jestergooning I think. Can't embark on a period of jestergooning at the club without a strategy for something like this happening

Was it for this

Would once again like to invite Wales to join a union of equals with Ireland and potentially Scotland depending on how they are feeling.

One of the major issues with growing older is that you are no longer surprised by events in the Winter Olympics. Woman skiing slowly with a rifle on her shoulder? Seen it before. Skeleton? Seen it before.

Uncritically in favour of any megainfrastructure benefiting Ireland that Britain is willing to pay for.

Many years of practice booing a specific midfielder who left their club for a rival club as the ball gets passed to him over and over again during patient buildup play.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

Coincidentally I am reading a Saramago book at the moment that opens at a polling station in Portugal during heavy rain. Things only go south from there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

You can listen to the earliest recorded sean nós, from An Rinn in 1905 and captured on wax cylinders, online. www.itma.ie/playlists/he...

Someone pointed out that while everything else is down suddenly, WD40 is doing great. Never gonna not need WD40!

Má thuiginn tú Gaeilge agus tá tú ag lorg podchraoladh nach mothann cosúil le hobair bhaile, táim ag baint an-sult ar fad as Dúchas ó Raidio Rí-Rá. Ag plé leis an mbéaloideas go ndáiríre ach greannmhar freisin (actually greannmhar not Gaeilge-greannmhar)

Increasingly clear that there is a difference between a technocracy and an ascendancy of briefcase wankers. European technocrats go to college for 15 years before becoming fellows of things called like the Wiesenberg-Spontina Institute of Complex Tax Theory. They have theories.