Well, I guess I've now had my 'company that helps neurodivergent people is a shitty employer for neurodivergent people' rite of passage... Interviewed for a major provider of supports for disabled and ND people in higher education (something I have a lot of experience of!)... (1)

Today I scoured the charity shops for a sugar bowl and was blessed with this find. It was £2. I'm obsessed with it ❤️

This is something I've seen in a couple of games lately that I think should become standard: separate difficulty settings for combat and puzzles.

I bought and played this last week and had SO much fun. Irish mythology and history, investigating a mystery, and exploring a spooky haunted manor in 1897 Connemara. It's like it was tailor-made to my interests! The story and characters are great, I was so invested I couldn't stop playing.

As well as all the other important reasons to go out and vote for Catherine Connolly today, you will get to enjoy the feeling of seeing your candidate win and knowing you helped it happen. That doesn't happen very often for most of us in FF/FG constituencies, so take advantage of it!

If you're wondering about the state of public transport in the West of Ireland, the bus that stops at Knock Airport was cancelled and they only run every 3 hours, so I had to spend €83 on a taxi. Honestly ridiculous that there isn't a dedicated airport bus. #SpeirGorm

Does anyone else's mouth make things taste like other things randomly? The first few sips of the iced coffee I'm drinking tasted like cold raw tomato, and a specific brand of tofu I buy sometimes tastes like disinfectant to me. Is this an autism/sensory issues thing or did covid break my tastebuds?

"a little higher" 🫠

A rent of €800 a month probably seems enviable to many, but as you can see the HAP cap is ridiculously low here, and I'm on disability allowance. I will owe almost half of my already barely sufficient income in rent. Missed the new RPZ regulations by a month. 🙃 #SpeirGorm

There are two goth girls on a date in the Costa where I'm writing my dissertation today. I'm subtly encouraging them by listening to The Cure on my headphones while I work.

New glasses day has arrived! Although I can't decide which frames I like better as my 'everyday' pair - the girl in the shop preferred the gold ones 🤔

This is what it's like outside of Rent Pressure Zones. Your landlord can suddenly decide to increase your rent by 25%.

This headline reads like an entry from the Annals of the Four Masters

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| It benefits the far-right if Nazi Germany is viewed as an anomalous outlier rather than an ethno-nationalist model |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ #HistorianSignBunny

Endless cycle of disengaging from Online because The Internet is too depressing, then going back Online because The Real World is too depressing.

*Pink Floyd voice* So So you think you can tell Kenan from Kel…

we got this new line of lingerie at work and my boss pointed out that it looks like Marge Simpson had to keep tailoring her Chanel suit into sluttier and sluttier outfits and it's all I can think about

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

Just learning that the managing director of Shoe Zone was named Peter Foot and was replaced by a fella called Terry Boot

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

No amount of woke scolding from the most annoying people imaginable has ever made me consider abandoning my core principle of seeing all people as equal human beings

Implying that the fascist overlords are gay/trans as a form of ridicule is not actually helping, funny or lefty at all. It's fucked up actually.

The map of all illegal evictions in the past decade is also incredibly helpful. Only one in my small town, but now I know to avoid that particular landlord!

Her most perverse fantasies include having a roof over her head, not becoming another unemployment statistic and surviving long enough to claim a pension that will allow her to die with a shred of dignity.

Oh god it's happening

"Priced out of the housing market? Try living in a hut in your parents backyard" is now the official government stance We are so fucking cooked man

I am furious that decent people are embarrassed by their substandard housing, as if they made bad life choices instead of being victims of an exploitative system. This is EXACTLY how FFG wants us to feel because it deflects from their repeated failures. This failure is 100% theirs, not ours.

Atsuko Sato today.

You can also order a book from any library in the country to your local library! At least one library somewhere in Ireland usually has the book you want.

"You're not my surreal Dad!"

If ur not in New York you may not know that the stonewall inn is still like a normal divey bar with fairly cheap drinks that supports local queer artists as a performance space, when it could have easily cashed in on being a cynical replica of itself. big ups to the owners

The solution to all sorts lady ups and downs

So much rhetoric against trans people starts with “imagine if this happened…” That’s the entire ideology of the “gender critical” set. Sitting around imagining things and then acting like it’s evidence.

Every dentist has the formative childhood memory of being awake when the tooth fairy visited, and just that brief encounter traumatized them (if they survived) enough into changing the entire trajectory of their life.

Commit the sin of empathy. This counts as political but it really shouldn’t be.

And Ireland are now the 3rd country in the EU to support this petition. Good work, all of you.

Beans in chili are woke. What a great bit

They’ve DerryLondonDerried the Gulf of Mexico

GREENS: We stopped FF/FG from going off the rails. THE ELECTORATE: That seems unlikely. FF/FG: We're going to cut down all the trees. THE ELECTORATE: ... OK the speed at which that happened was pretty funny. #irishpol #spéirghorm

So, as someone who lives outside of a rent pressure zone: if you don't live in one, landlords can and do raise rents by double-digit percentages whenever they feel like it. There have been calls to get rid of them for that reason. Unfortunately I doubt that's the govt's reasoning.

‘Remove trees that are within approximately 30 metres of roads, power lines or communication lines’?!?! There are barely any trees left in Ireland as is. What an absolute bonkers suggestion.