Just one of those little coincidences that the BBC posted this *checks notes* two hours ago 🤔

New Monroe doctrine: the US regards all of the Americas as its sphere of influence, but also sticks its beak into Europe any time it feels like it.

This is a remarkable clip - all the more so if you’ve just watched season 2 of Deadloch (yes, yes I know, alligators/crocodiles)

Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. I haven’t seen this yellow plastic covering on shop windows since the 1970s, this is a real survivor.

It began because we found one that had got to the back of a kitchen cupboard, but it’s now a settled part of this household’s theology that we always save a Xmas pudding for Easter Sunday 😁 Happy Easter!!

so they can't log into their email, and the toilet is out of order. They didn't really need to go to space, you could get this experience on a train.

For many of us in Ireland, it's probably still The Burning of Bridget Cleary, by Angela Bourke. A remarkable book.

Rockford, Illinois. It was not only one of the circles of hell in itself, but then we got lost trying to escape and went round and round on endless highways of car dealerships and chain restaurants.

Storm Dave just took out our power, I’m off to bed 🙄 #speirgorm

This weekend 1926, Irish Destiny (Eppels: Ireland, 1926) had its premiere at Dublin's Corinthian. "It is but natural that the film should be such an attraction to Irishmen..The story deals with the troublous times during the Black-and-Tan era." Images: Evening Herald & IMDb. #EarlyIrishCinema

Maria Steen has opinions about the gender pay gap, illustrated with a photo I'm 99% sure is one with the handbag cropped out (the paywall is also cropped out of the link below, if you're feeling strong enough).

Meanwhile, on the moon...

Lecturer pictured below, busily on his way to another interview.

Others just can’t keep their god-shaped shut

I’m sorry, but how worried can I be about a storm called Dave?!

Shame on Jonathan, you expect more of a 400-yr-old tortoise.

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

To be fair to them, RTE news not putting a tooth in it.

Here are my top 10 WORST dogs!

I know everything seems beyond parody now, but...good lord.

The replies 🤣

"Son, some people like to call it insider trading, but when you think about it, it's just patriotic investment"

I love this for them.

I choose to believe this demand is from the chickens themselves 🐔

I'd only add that the same applies to lengthy/lyrical descriptions of landscape.

Mountain Forms Lawren Harris 1926

Signed.

Wait, I know the clocks changed, but have we moved to April 1 as well?

FOUR HOURS to draft a blog post, bloody hell. Seriously, this is one of the many reasons not to use LLMs for writing - I can do it much faster myself!

Houthis and the Blowfish

This!! I’ve come to the conclusion this is one of the unheralded benefits of getting older - based on previous occasions when you correctly identified bullshitty scams, you get a lot more confident in your ability to correctly identify new bullshitty scams.

Iran launches one-point ‘You’ll f**k off eventually’ plan for peace buff.ly/3tlPjQm

Every accusation is an admission, etc etc

“They hate us for our freedom”.

The colours and patterns of Seoul’s metro stations www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...

I just want it to happen really really soon. Right now would be ideal.

After seeing how well the war with Iran has been going for them, I'm putting my money on the Clangers if there's going to be a fight for the moon.

No, no everything’s going just fine, why do you ask??

They’re exhuming him? 😱

These are the first photos I’ve ever seen of female ICE agents, I’ve been wondering about it for a while. It’s clear they’re a v multiethnic group, but I’d love to know what the stats are on recruitment by gender.

I walk out of a lecture about the ways media companies are trying (and failing) to find a functioning business model for the digital age, and realise I missed a bullet point off my last slide:if all else fails, maybe we could be a drug cartel? 🤷‍♀️

PSA: season 2 of Deadloch is now on Amazon. I’m halfway thru the first episode and I genuinely didn’t think it was possible to use the word cunt that often in a script. It’s absolutely brilliant 🌟

Goodbye, Janette by Harrold Robbins, aged 12 or 13. I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section of the local library because I was such a keen reader, which was a good thing but even I think an adult ought to have double-checked some of what I was choosing 😳

encountering a podcast on a topic you know well really does give you pause about all those shows you enjoyed about other topics 🤔

It looks like a muppet version of Trump.

Teenage boy radicalised by Louis Theroux documentary buff.ly/R76oJ7D

And I wonder what the biggest threat to the environment is??