My favourite part of cycling these days is going on gpx.studio and designing or redesigning routes and generating GPX files with points of interest and whatnot. I should really just go and cycle, there’s not a lot of ways I can get cycling along a canal wrong.

Me: I'll name Meadow's kittens after English flowers English flowers: Biting Stonecrop. Bladder Campion. Borage. Agrimony. Toadflax. Devil's Bit Scabious. Woundwort. Goat's Beard. Me: Uh Flowers: Hoary Plantain. Kidney Vetch. Pendulous Sedge Me: I GET IT Flowers: Skullcap Flowers: Sneezewort

What the absolute fuck? Next week, read about the fantastic adventures of Zippy the Zebra Mussel as he destroys nasty native habitats!

Here is my new superhero: WOMBAT. She is bestowed with all the powers and abilities of a wombat including glowing in ultraviolet light.

Holy shit!

And a hearty fuck you indeed to the gobshites cutting hedges during nesting season. May your tea always be lukewarm and your socks too loose at the ankle.

I mean, the canonical example...

Scheduling and rescheduling my appointments like a pro here. Come on, throw something at me, I'll do it the week after and then later on the same week when I discover that I've double-booked. You won't know what's hit you.

Anybody who has been to Achill Island, worth the trip? Do you need a car to get around or is it doable with public transport (I can probably guess). Any advice welcome.

This is a much more eloquent description of what I put in meme format.

[Protesters] Yeah, we're creating fuel and food shortages unless we get a big price cut on fuel. Some of us owe massive amounts of tax [Irish State] Oh no, here's a massive and illegal at EU level fuel subsidy for half a billion euro, please stop [Protesters] Yeah no, lol

I know that a lot of you are dismissive about political horseshoe theory, but Paul Murphy TD is out here proving you wrong

My Hungarian colleague is delighted. They’re celebrating on the streets there. At last! Hopefully this will be the start of rolling back the corruption.

I bought us a Krups electric coffee grinder today. It’s good stuff. Turns beans to dust.

Solid piece, worth your time to read. I’m going to try smuggling it out of the echo chamber.

Here we go again @galwaycycle east bound If I look tired, I'm running on 2 hours of sleep, but we struggle on 😭😬😁 At least the wind is behind us 196km to Maynooth Doin' it for the cancer kiddos 💪

What is the mood in Dublin City centre tonight? Are people steering clear this weekend?

Phone your local TD today and ask him where's your home heating fuel and car rebate.

I had someone give out to me and block me after the Dublin riots because I said that it was a demonstration or dry-run and they could see how to do something much bigger and get away with it. They accused me of being right-adjacent or some such. Here we are.

And actually, only about 8km of that atmosphere is dense enough to sustain life. Everything that has ever lived on Earth has been within that 8km-thick skin or in the ocean which, at its deepest point, is 11km. That’s our entire liveable world. On your average globe, it’s a matter of millimetres.

We made it! It was extremely grim, weather wise, and we had to divert because of yellow wind warning, so lost a few kms, but we made it

The protestors have demanded that McDonalds in Ireland be made to stock banana flavour milkshake

An interesting report today on the Garda response to an attept by a pro-Palestinian group to march to Dublin Port. Just by way of a compare and contrast. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I love you my sweet sweet echo chamber

The protest now has me considering that maybe there is no actual fuel shortage in the Mad Max movies. Instead, all the big car owners went weird.

Ireland has been defeated in two days by racist, neo fascist knuckle-draggers in tractors. For anyone following me who is not in Ireland/Irish-adjacent, Ireland has been crippled - with fuel shortages, transport at a standstill - by clowns blockading major roads, fuel plants, other infrastructure.

For anyone into railways, and particularly the railways of the past in Ireland and the UK, this might be interesting (especially if you're on a train and you suspect that you've spotted an old and long disused branching line): www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php

I enjoy the days when I'm all 'I'm not neurodivergent, why would anyone think that' and then a human interaction goes wrong and I spend hours wrestling with containing a meltdown and even my sandboxing ability struggles, and I just want to curl up in a dark room with food. Or cycle. Great stuff.

Booking dot com showing me an imperial mining facility in the outer rim

Will be blocking the Snugborough Road extension until banana-flavoured drink products are legalised in Ireland

Anyone know what the situation with Dublin buses is? Just heard from someone who was in town that everything has been cancelled. Not sure if that just means everything going through the city, but that would be basically most buses.

Excellent, our Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) has swung into action on the crippling protests by agitators and found their actions unacceptable. That's going to move the game on. The part that fascinates me is that they're blocking the fuel depots too, and there are no consequences.

The stupidest timeline. But we’re still here, so there’s that.

Does anyone else not know any farmers who can be off from their farm with their tractor for more than a day? Like who is looking after their livestock? It's lambing season. Who are these people?

I will not stand with the violently oppressive Iranian state. But I will stand with the Iranian people.

From yesterday (cross posting app failed): A False Widow, the size of my finger! Legitimately scary. I mean, look at her! Absolute unit.

In all seriousness, I really hope our mad king doesn’t kill 93 million people today.

I pay @thejournal.ie a small amount monthly and subscribe to @dublininquirer.com - these two because I trust their daily and investigative reporting, fact checks and long reads, and they still make trusted news available for free to those who can’t afford to subscribe.

Do you think those Oirish Facebook comedians just keep a spreadsheet of references so that when a news event happens they can scroll through and figure out whether The Strait of Hormuz is best compared to a chicken fillet roll or going to your debs or the emersion or the leaving cert listening test

Short softroad spin around the park Just a quick one around the park to keep moving and work off the Easter bonanza. They can’t all be epics! Although that would be great. Mucking about in the higher gears of the cassette today with the small chainring to see if I can wean myself off needless > 1/2

This should be a criminal offence

An Cháisc versus Y Pasg Although Irish and Welsh are both Celtic languages they are from two distinct groups: the Goidelic group that comprises Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic; and the Brythonic group that comprises Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These are sometimes referred to as q-Celtic and…

I decided to bake Easter cakes this weekend, even though Orthodox Easter is in a week. Was too lazy to go out for icing sugar, so this year it's only eggwash and sprinkles. Happy Easter! (Might bake again next week).

I think people were too harsh on Scrooge. The man was confronted by a tortured ghost in the dead of night and still had the mental fortitude to come up with a zinger like "more of gravy than of grave". Incredible performance under pressure.

‘Supergirls of the Galaxy’ ‘Guardians of the Supergirl’ I can keep doing this, or

It’ll be cool when Artemis arrives on the moon and makes a huge discovery about it that would’ve been discovered in 1969 if that landing were real

You wouldn’t know this country, it goes to a different Europe. Not the one with the state-funded healthcare systems. Via @ealadubh.bsky.social

The cat generally behaves as if he can barely muster a brain cell. He gets lost in an open room. And then we need him to do something or not be in a place where we don’t want him, and suddenly he’s a 5D chess strategic genius.

A problem with social media is that in a sense I outsource getting angry to many of you. You get angry about the same things I get angry about, so… I don’t post about it. You already have (sometimes, a lot). ‘Touch grass’ time for me, perhaps.

Just heard David McWilliams describe this current government as 'the most ineffectual' of his lifetime. And that they are terrified to upset anyone. And this feels so spot on