Self-ID for left handed to be ended. Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists. Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet. NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases. Move praised by charity Right Matters

I've just had a meeting where I was unable to volunteer my solid solution to the problem being discussed. Might go and investigate ISBN code resolution for a bit.

Hahahahaha fucking hell, throwing AI at the housing crisis like petrol on a bonfire

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

i've never once been catcalled, harrassed, assaulted or abused by a trans person (woman) ask me how many times a straight man has catcalled, harrassed, assaulted or abused me though...

If you think that 'we' are not at war with Russia, you need to head out and tell Putin, because that's apparently not so clear to him

“And this empty void is the Gourmet kitchen!”

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

'Tis the season once again! Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."

It is Friday. Let’s have some fun with it. Send ideas for weekend wonders- outings, mini-projects, books, music or films. Dinner recipes. Cocktails to make. Let’s get ready for it.

A few years ago, my son installed a pihole on our home network. This captures and blocks ads on the whole network at the modem level and also prevents tracking and signalling from machines on the network. By far, by a mile, the most blocks are on our Samsung TV trying to snitch on us back to HQ.

I had the chance to do the funniest thing ever, but I didn't see it what it was, and the moment is now long gone. I could have been the undisputed king of opportunistic comedy, and I will always regret my obliviousness.

[very Ian Curtis voice] Portion control

I had the chance to do the funniest thing ever, but I didn't see it what it was, and the moment is now long gone. I could have been the undisputed king of opportunistic comedy, and I will always regret my obliviousness.

I just tried to read the opening paragraph of Fintan O'Toole's latest piece (I know, I know) and it is an unreadable mess.

Hey, I know this tune!

wordpress elementor is an israeli company. don't use it.

I'm having a lot of fun as a little time-filler designing routes on gpx.studio to not have time to cycle. Mind you, I'm even more motivated now that I actually read the damn manual for my bicycle computer (it has turn-based navigation). A fun part is that there are marked paths that are private.

I think if I worked in a production company and was allowed to commission a movie with a €70m budget was based on one tweet, it would be this one.

Mucky slog, slipping and sliding in the bad parts, cold, windy. Great to be back on the bike! Really enjoyed that. Also discovered that I have no idea how to operate my GPS cycling computer. 1/3

One my favourite recent discoveries is citric acid crystals (lemon salt) in hot soapy water for shifting rust off something. Magic.

Listen, I spent years telling you all that Substack was evil. *Now* do you believe me?

When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.

Anyone have any nice dating app stories since 2020 (not earlier)? Met a long-term partner, found their spouse-to-be, seduced and funnelled millions of dollars away from a witless American tech tycoon to be used in the revolution, that sort of thing

The cat has been utterly fascinated by my daily use of the shredder in my office. He sits and watches, eyes wide. Can't get enough of it. I've given it a break because it is full, so he came over to try it himself, but you need fingers to operate it.

From @thejournal.ie, regarding the order for Enoch Burke's commital:

I enabled 'Strict tracking protection' in Firefox (A Mozilla recommendation when they introduced it) but now they seem keen on getting me to dial it back a bit. Hmm...

Oh good, the housing crisis is at the stage where we can’t house the people that we need to come here in order to build the infrastructure that we need, which implies that we can’t house people that we need to come here in order to build the housing that we need.

If I was in charge of Ireland, I would simply print more money and give it to everyone, and then everyone could buy things again. It's very simple, really. [TikTok bloobloop]

I'm sorry, a fundraising campaign is needed for what?! What kind of fucking sick bastard society are we living in? How is there not money for a childrens fucking Hospice? If I ever hear how FF/FG care about children, I'll scream.

"The adverts are linked to professional scam centres, usually based in eastern Europe, that deceive individuals into making payments they believe are for legitimate financial investments." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

This app is also the Bad Place. Everywhere is the Bad Place now.

‘non market’ affordable housing is needed at scale, in a way that doesn’t directly compete & doesn’t crash the existing private market. We have the land, finance, labour, expertise etc ..but not the will or the vision

In the 8 and half years that I've been living here, I have never experienced the place getting smashed up by weather like it has in the past year, and specifically today. It is brutal.

Men will literally invade Venezuela instead of releasing the Epstein files

I was temporarily banned on Twitter for proposing a rhetorical violent act on two unidentifiable third parties (who likely didn't even exist) in a story on a different web site. Starting with 'I would'. Via @bikesnbukes.bsky.social

If twenty or even ten thousand people showed up to Merrion square and chanted 'We want housing now' for a few weekends in a row, and started talking about how to strategically vote against any Government party, we would see sudden changes to this plan

I need to lose some weight, and I am noting the various gravel cycling events coming up next year on my calendar (for some reason), and thinking that these things could come together somehow. By the end of next summer, I want to be able to do 120km off road.

An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️ The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Interested to know what people would who understand it more than me, think the bursting of the AI bubble will look like. Because I know don’t know anyone who in real life that is opposed to it. Which is just so 😳

I take back my negative remarks earlier. It is chaotic, which is dangerous, but it came together in the end. Could’ve been better communicated, I think.

Today is great, because all the cold and wet that I ordered was finally delivered

Welp. Just discovered that someone is putting out a paid collection --over 200 pages-- that looks to be a Spanish language history of Garfield parody comics that may contain some of my work. While part of me is flattered, my permission was never asked.

I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth

So we're now on the 'I don't have time for this, I'll just use the other side of the road and traffic needs to get out of my way' stage of Irish road use. Nearly got run over. There's no will or desire in this country to have rules or laws. It's just a libertarian free for all.