Best thing about the other place since the coup is the arrival of autotranslated Japanese tweets into the main feed. There's loads of them and they're in the replies saying things like "beef is delicious huh" and also this:

Cartoon against Children going to Liverpool during the 1913 Lockout.

No crisis a jellyfish can't turn into an opportunity www.ft.com/content/28c8...

tbf it's almost always Leaders' Questions in the Dáil. In a whipped parliamentary system where the Government wins everything you kind of just need to give your various mid-sized opposition parties the chance to call things a disgrace, to which the leader replies "that's just typical of you lot"

Not a fan of the word vótáil. What's wrong with the humble rogha.

The Gaels were notorious (among, admittedly, the English) for pissing about all day, first because they just subsisted on milk products and didn't bother with cultivation and later because there's only a few days work in digging and fertilising and planting a potato ridge to feed you for the year.

Can someone just make like a Bluesky of Google so I can continue to search for specific web pages, I need to do this about 150 times a day for work

Tokarczuk discourse on to whether she is aware that LLMs are unreliable for fact-checking. This woman included potentially poisonous mushroom recipes in a book written before Google was invented.

This is surprisingly densely offensive for a post ostensibly supportive of the Celtic languages!

Obviously have a dog in the fight but revising on pitch results for off pitch offences sets an absolutely insane precedent

Olga Tokarczuk gets a pass imo. She just does. Like how Helen DeWitt shouldn't be forced to find internet.

AI slop has turned me off short pithy final sentences, which is annoying because I used to love those.

reminder that I keep a list of original fantasy and science fiction for adults published in Celtic languages, and I am always looking to expand it: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/ficsean-speu... if you know of anything that's missing, please let me know!

Watched the Rainmaker last night and I think it's clear to me at this stage that "Deck Shifflet" is the best character name in the history of cinema.

Apparently they don't have blackcurrants or blackcurrant-flavoured stuff in America because the plants spread some kind of disease to local pine trees - so they never got a taste for it in more locavore days and there's no demand for the fake stuff now. Actually think that is quite good localism.

Mixed feelings. Though a perfect novel, it is not the best novel in the English language - but I kind of like the idea of the UK building an outpost for it in the discourse. Champion your own champions.

Makes you wonder why you would pay someone else for their AI generated reports in the future if you can just get your computer to pretend to be EY and do it itself giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

There's a fella on Instagram who goes around the Isle of Man explaining the derivation of various placenames (it's usually Old Norse for 'steep hill' although sometimes it's Gaelic). In one video he appears to be standing in a hole, which in itself is very Gaelic.

Yeah this is maybe the worst part of otherwise now semi-ok quays imo. I tend to wait for a red and reposition. You float back left at some point after the Millennium Bridge too but there are filter lights and it's bus corridor already at that stage so not as rough.

I would absolutely love to see an Irish politician declare that we live in "comfortable, leisurely, pleasant stagnation and it's not enough". They'd tie him to the tractor.

Is there an outcome here where this becomes an accidental soft left coup because the Wesleyans throw themselves out of government but the challenge doesn't stack up?

To be honest I would be pleased if I only went over budget almost one third of the time. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Very fun to voxpop people at a place called the Temple of Heaven. www.ft.com/content/127e...

[Fixing my hair, doing up my tie] I for one respect the mods

Sky News splitscreening the House of Lords, the House of Commons and what seems to just be a slow zoom-out of the throne.

I'm happy for the nice-smelling slim people but I'm doubling down on looking prosperous like a medieval king coming back into fashion. Opening the door for pleasures including venison and stewed plums.

It was a good day of Westminster nonsense but it's day four or whatever tomorrow so they need to introduce a new development like the DUP, or when Rehman Chishti attempted to run for the Tory leadership, or the formation of a soft left 'star chamber'. Also helicopter coverage of Burnham pls.

Cannot believe it's the list of ships. The endless list of ships, famously tedious to the modern reader! Brought to the afterlife!

Is Rayner all in on the Burnham plan? Could she not manouevre a bit?

You forget, sometimes, how much more parlous the state of the Gaelic is compared to Irish or Welsh. There are loads of more or less fluent Irish speakers in the Dáil and quite a developed mechanism to turn non-fluent speakers into fluent speakers once they reach the Dáil.

(at my absolute political and personal nadir) Ah, a delegation of my most loyal ministers request an audience? Delightful - certainly, they would bring only good news

Starmer, with no diagnosis for either his personal political woes or for What Ails Britain, fails once again to prescribe a cure.

Revisionism of Brad Pitt's Troy going on in the wake of this new Odyssey. Brad Pitt's Troy was shite. However, Colin Farrell's Alexander was good.

Every time I take up running again (I think they call it 'spring') I think, well I am probably naturally very fit now due to cycling to work and all the vegetables I eat, and it turns out not to be the case. In fact it gets worse every time with no relation to external factors.

Imagine being from Richmond, catching some snatches of election news on the radio as you put on your gilet and load your large dog into your large car. Reform in? Labour out? Green wave? Not for me thanks: the Liberal Democrats are the ideal solution to all political questions.

One of Macron's tactical cordon-sanitaire tools (and ways to make parliament do his agenda) is the snap election, which can force people to divide into "I actually want the far right" and "I am annoyed but fine give me more Macron" camps. But Starmer can't do that cos he'd lose his own seat.

The thing is though that if we don't build a nuclear plant it won't generate any electricity in 2067 either.

Not sure Britain is emotionally ready for a rainbow coalition, especially if it resolves into "centre-left government afraid to do much other than ban some stuff and try save money" (again) and Reform are the largest single party.

Another victory for Ireland - can't depopulate your rural districts from 1960-2024 if you already depopulated them before! correctiv.org/aktuelles/20...

"I was thinking about big beautiful pop music – the feelings of euphoria or heartbreak that a key change or a bridge can bestow on you..." Ana Kinsella shared a playlist for her debut novel Frida Slattery As Herself largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/05/a...

How is CNN publishing a 2,500w obituary of Ted Turner and not mentioning the Monday Night Wars at all edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/u...

Re-reading White Noise and while it is certainly more unfashionable in style than it was when I first read it, he is still maybe the greatest phrase stylist alive. "California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

On the other place there appears to be a developing Gen Z belief that they have created or discovered "Irish Twitter", possibly downstream of stan accounts being shocked that other stan accounts are sometimes from Tallaght.

The Kiwi integration of Maōri words and concepts into wider anglo life is really interesting. There are many words for a whānau in Irish, but you're never going to get Aer Lingus welcoming you to Sliocht Aer or Fine Aer or even Clann Aer

Used to fly to Dublin from Birmingham when I lived in London because it was generally cheaper and some kind of regionalist hex kept everyone from noticing it's basically the same commute time as most of the "London" airports

Reading a book in which the phrase "torrid limerence" features. I'm way past the torrid limerence now but periodically I remember the book previously featured the phrase "torrid limerence" and I think "c'mon".

One for the omen-followers here www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Discovered a Neapolitan with a theory that southern Italian languages/dialects are more 'like Italian' than the current official Italian language, which is sullied by Germanic. 2,000 word reply to an essentially unrelated Quora query about Maltese.

Baile Átha Cliath 🤝 Baile Átha Luain www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I cannot see how there is political percentage in this. A huge number of people in Ireland will know one or more people with autism that they know with certainty are not the simply victim of some kind of discursive idea of medicalising normal life struggles.