Neat old idea that should still be a thing. A letter card with postage already paid. Seal it closed recipient can tear it open. Why aren’t postcards like this. Include postage and make it easier to send them and they might not die out.

This is fecked up lads.

Legacy Code: 1. Code written by devs that have moved on to other projects. Code that nobody understands. 2. Code that has evolved over a long period of time and seen its quality degrade. Code that nobody understands. 3. Code written by an AI/LLM 5 minutes ago. Code that nobody ever understood.

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A full article to say “If your system cost €10,000 and saves €1000 per year, it’ll take 10 years” Jesus Christ was journalism always this shit? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Went to an auction today and bought a load of stamps. I might have bought Billie Elliot’s Collection.

Become ungovernable

Stupid tech illiterate mother fuckers. Pissing around and doing more harm than good because they don’t know how to fix the problem of running the country, so they desperately try to tinker.

There's absolutely an audience out there who doesn't care what you did to who or what you sold out for how much. If you're someone who abuses others or sells out for a big bag, congratulations, that's your audience. Enjoy it or don't, but don't come bitching to your ex about who you're with now.

The one thing you could say about Is Johnny Cash cool? Is that there was a long period in the 70s and 80s when he definitely was waaaay outta fashion. But that was Fashion's problem - not Johnny's ...

If you're in Leicester, Northampton or Bristol I'm coming to see you next weekend and it would be great to see you there. They're all lovely venues and there are plenty of tickets available. Come along, have a laugh and meet some like-minded people! www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t... 2/2

I like Omid Djalili, but I don’t like his take here. Claiming that bringing comedy over there can help open it up. You went under the terms of their government. Don’t criticise or make fun of their government. That’s not showing Saudi how we do things. That’s confirming that their way is best.

See also people will stop sending their kids to fee paying schools if you charge them VAT. They didn’t. In fact. The current cohort had so much spare money they prepaid years of fees to beat the VAT deadline. Tackle wealth inequality and never apologise. They sure as shit never do.

So the Nobel Prize has gone to Machado. For her decades of work with Kimberly and Coconut Creams. It’s been a long time coming but very well deserved. The Ginger Nut will have to wait another year.

Human Rights Watch be like…

You that thing where you hear an album and the production is so clean, so perfect, that the album goes past good and back around to bad.

You’ve got to love a guy that uses crime watch cctv footage to promote his show.

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

I don’t want to use Instagram, never have. I signed up to follow ONE account. That’s all I want to do. Oh my god it’s so horrible. It’s the most aggressively horrible UI Ive ever seen. I can barely focus on the content I want I’m being hounded so bad to follow other people. Or look at other people.

It's impressive how quickly Paris has transformed car-dominant roads, prioritising more efficient modes of transportation. One lane for drivers on the right side, made to wallow in their own stop-and-start inefficiency, two giant lanes for bikes.

*sighs* open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...

Colleague has decided to say thanks but no thanks to this house. Which is a brave move when you’re desperate and you’ve been searching for a while, and you’ve managed to get a booking deposit in on a house. Developers prey on that desperation and more people need to say NO, FUCK OFF.

I was at a parent teacher meeting tonight. I don’t know if any of you noticed. But they have kids teaching in schools now.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

If there's anyone out there in their 20's thinking, I don't need to think about pensions, plenty of time later. You're right, you can start later, you'll probably be ok. Especially if you have a really good income. But let me show you something that might make you want to start NOW.

The framing of this measure as "costing €10 million" really pisses me off. It doesn't COST anything. In fact, anything the government does to reduce the payback on solar (like taxing exports) ultimately costs far more in fines for not reaching climate goals. #Budget2026

Back in the 90's I visited Washington DC and view times, and spent time in a lot of very big, very very nice houses. Drove around in nice cars. Ate in nice restaurants. Went to cool parties. It was an amazing life compared to pre-Celtic Tiger Rural Ireland.

Everything I've learned about Ireland's history tells me we took a lot from Britain and did shittier versions of it. So, I'm absolutely gobsmacked that by some accident we ended up with a vastly better voting system. AND, we rejected an attempt in 1968 to switch to first past the post.

A colleague is trying to buy a house in Dublin. New build, well north of €700k for a terrace house. On getting the contracts he discovered he would not be allowed to dry washing in his own garden. And.. Would not own the driveway outside his front door. Apparently increasingly common.

Anika Nile’s gets the call up from Rush. Saw her in Galway a year or two ago. She had a mix of different drum heads so someone ask how she had came up with it. “I just use whatever is around” In a room full of drummers obsessing over minutiae, it was *chefs kiss*. youtube.com/post/UgkxoUW...

Vicar Street is a fantastic venue for comedy. If you’ve never been, treat yourself. We went to to a standup show at the 3 Arena a while back and it was terrible. Never doing that again. But every show I’ve seen at Vicar Street was good.

Talking to a school principal last night about how “Voluntary” fees are Mandatory in Irish schools. I asked why anyone should trust a school that talks like that to teach kids. There is a very strong pattern of the Dept of Education AND Schools treating parents like idiots.

This is incredibly brave and principled coming from small-market journalists in Alaska who likely have limited options for finding a new job

Labour are hamstrung because they felt the need to promise no tax increases going into the general election. Reform lie about cutting taxes, go on to raise them and will go into the next election saying they can make the tough decisions.

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

The cost of Maria Steen’s hand bag was about 7-8 times the size of Jim Gavin’s rent mistake. But his mistake was long ago.

I think Jim Gavin is a basically decent guy with a strong sense of public service. I also feel incredibly happy to live in a country where not refunding 3k of overpaid rent to a tenant is enough to end a presidential run. The yanks must think we’re living in a Disney movie.

Let’s say hypothetically, if Labour got into government a year and a bit ago. Realised everything was totally fucked. Had no idea where to even start fixing anything. Decided, let’s just throw the next election, take our pensions and run. Is there ANYTHING they would they have done differently?

Tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of my favourite ever teacher. Apart from being an excellent teacher in class, he used to take us to debate competitions and table quizes. One evening in the car he mentioned that all the schools we were competing with wore uniforms. (Our school didn't).

A little bit of Irish (and world) history. youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Me looking at the stamp collections of dead people being sold cheap. So that some day after I'm gone, I'll leave an even bigger better stamp collection that can be sold off even cheaper.

I think both of these guys were being 100% honest in this clip. www.youtube.com/shorts/dwP8A...

No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.

He's 100% right and along with climate change - this will be the crucial issue of the next 20 years.

There would be a lot less bullshit online you had to buy a postage stamp for every online post.

As always claims the remarks were “taken out of context”, but fails to provide any context.

Legend.

Sting: So Richard congratulations on winning what kind of music do you like? Me: Have you heard of The Police? Sting: Yeah I uh I was in the Police Me: No Way! What did you play? Sting: Are you for real? Me: This is awesome. I win dinner with Trudy and a guy from the Police. Do you still play?