Somebody high up in Dunnes is more excited about meringue than I've ever been about anything. It's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling meringue nests and pavlova bases. Every gap in every shelf? meringue. The limbo area that usually has cereal bowls and tupperware? meringue.

The best description that I've seen about GenAI images and data is 'digital asbestos'. There are fake 'historical photos, data, citations, and even journals. It is poison and taints everything that it touches.

os cionn 70 trácht fágtha faoin bhfíseán náireach seo de chuid an Údaráis agus gach ceann acu diúltach agus cáinteach duine sinsearach amháin ag tarraingt míchlú ar an Údarás agus ag tabhairt neamhaird ar thoil agus ar mhianta an phobail

Absolute pig-ignorant bollocks from údarás na gaeltachta. Shameful.

According to a "Santa stop here" sign, one of my neighbours has a child called Níl, and that child is going to hate every Irish teacher he ever has.

Possible use case for AI: Piss out a hundred Christmas songs so I don't have to keep hearing the same 8 songs again and again and again. Thoughts and prayers with people who work in shops 🙏

A new episode of Sesame Street just had a little animated segment where a cat got stuck in quicksand. Quicksand is back, lads!

Absolute banger of a panel by Satoshi Kitamura

Muppets Christmas Carol is not a Christmas film. I'll fight anybody on this.

Old El Paso taco kit. Just add: 99% of the things you would need to make a dinner.

Having a child has really exposed some alarming gaps in my parents' animal knowledge. Baffled by the sight of a narwhal like 17th century sailors.

Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing

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@profanity.accountant do me

My "we are not Enron" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

tonewood? More like TÓIN wood. Hahaha Now then.. in guitar-making, there is the "tonewood debate" in which some people (guitar company marketing dept's and complete rubes) believe certain species of wood make an electric guitar sound good. It's demonstrably bollocks. The Irish word "tóin".. 1/17

Hey folks! I just opened a Ko-fi shop to do a Winter Oil Painting Sale! Check it out ko-fi.com/pameqa/shop #oilpainting #painting #paintingsale

I'd give Frankenstein a solid 'I completely forgot I watched it' out of ten 👍

god, I hate not living beside the sea. Can we not terraform the country so it's all coast, like those brownie baking trays that are all edge..

People with leaf-blowers; what's your problem with leaves?

Hey. HEY. Just look at these pencils a mate of mine found in a pound shop earlier.

Omg, I could form a posse 😮

A man whose parents were clearly hoping for a clay pigeon.

The RTÉ player froze as Parrott ran into the box. Unfroze amid the celebrations. Magic. Great job, RTÉ 👏

I'm convinced this sneaky cat peeking over the fence is a reference to the grassy knoll and some Very Important Pig is about to get offed.

Blueshirts always side with the fash. It's the entire foundation of the party.

Four presidents

Wouldn’t expect to make €800 in 24 hours but any sales at all help reduce our debt! We pay rent tomorrow, and even if the Rent-O-Meter doesn’t reach its goal we’ll still pay rent. Just a combination of help from family and taking on more debt.

I want to grab the internet by the shoulders, look it right in the eye and say I. DO. NOT. CARE what Americans think of British snacks or Irish names. I don't care what British people think of American building practices. PLEASE stop putting this shit in front of me.

Art buds; Are any of ye using Procreate for work?

I don't mean to be glib about peoples gender and identity but it's stuff like this that really makes me wish I was something else. Like, straight middle-aged man, but not THIS. Not this. Anything but this.

I've had to do some Photoshop work recently and I hadn't realised just how shite the painting tools are compared to Procreate. Frustratingly bad.

Look, we know that there’s thousands of homes left intentionally vacant by investment funds to inflate the market. We know that we’ve rejected the advice of every report/research since the 2008 crash. But have you considered that it might be refugees?

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

The Emmerdale titles looks like somebody's slapped it in on with a label-maker.

My daughter had a dream in which there was a lion who "was doing", but then she shouted at the lion to "stop doing!" and it did. It stopped doing. That's efficient story-telling.

Watching the latest episode of Grand Designs and I haven't despised the "client" this much for a long time. Hoping it all falls apart disastrously in the second half 🤞

I went to France once and was disgusted at the them and us situation they created by talking French.

Meas tú cé mhéad tírghráthóir a chaill amach ar an Oireachtas nó seirbhís Mhancháin in Uisneach toisc gur eagraíodh Mise Éire ag an am céanna?

There's a fierce annoying strain of language YouTubers who do this 'speak from day 1' bollocks which is basically just 'harass native speakers of that language into being your teacher by weaponising their politeness against them'. eg. any "locals shocked when polyglot speaks their language" video.

Poor November. The only month utterly devoid of personality. Just a gap. Just killing time, like that bit in the evening where it's too early to go to bed but too late to start doing anything, so you just .....

One of the reasons some people spoiled their votes is because they are racist and antisemitic, and they even went as far as to write that on the ballot paper. Haven't seen that discussed too much, I wonder why ...

I don't need to be faster than a Burke; I only need to be faster than you.

A little similar to the demolishing of various houses & buildings in the village of Ballinahown for the creation of the Poulaphouca Reservoir/Blessington Lakes in the mid-1930s to 40. Although, obviously not a Gaeltacht area. www.leinsterleader.ie/gallery/news...

This is fucking wild. I've only just found out about the Tryweryn flooding; when a Cymraeg-only community was displaced and flooded to provide water for Liverpool. Not centuries ago. 1965. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trywery...

If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my

Can you imagine TDs scrambling to change the Constitution or commentators hand-wringing in the media if it was leftists who behaved the way the spoiled vote crew did, in the same (minority) numbers, after several bigoted riots. Not so much forced to pander to them as willingly taking a running leap.

Sexy Ho Chi Minh

Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly. A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision. #Aras25