If you’re verified or thinking of getting verified on LinkedIn please read this. LinkedIn is a VLOP. HT @simonelinke.com

A further discovery when clearing stuff. I’m willing to bet that a high enough proportion of #spéirghorm users are a.) the right age and b.) quiz nerds that they may also have had one of these.

When I hear lovely birdsong in the morning, I remember this comic and laugh

Mood

Sharing this again from a story I did a few years ago as a new court ruling has unleashed a torrent of false narratives about asylum-seekers being treated better than Irish citizens on the right to accommodation:

Me: I don't like American exceptionalism. Americans: HOW DARE YOU. WE ARE VERY EXCEPTIONAL.

ah the always noble voters www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Joscha Bach Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a good thing for the species".. 1/2

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

Quite the sky this morning. Even better it’s not raining (yet …)

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Mountmellick embroidery 200 year anniversary Free event February 14th #Spéirgorm #MountmellickEmbroidery mountmellickdevelopment.com/blog/post/mo...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Not being able to afford bitcoin has turned out to be even more profitable than not being able to afford an apartment in Bulgaria. Any publishers interested in Investment Strategies for Poets?

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Can we talk about the software industry's weird refusal to use the word "no"? DELETE EVERY FILE YOU'VE EVER CREATED? "YES / NOT NOW" DO YOU WANT US TO SEND RUDE EMAILS TO YOUR MUM? "YES / MAYBE LATER" THERE'S A MAN BEHIND YOU WITH A RED-HOT POKER "GOT IT"

So much rage.

Overhead an older lady telling her friend that she has "no faith in St. Martin" and I think more saints should be subject to user reviews

There’s a lot of talk about #craftivism right now. Good thing I wrote a whole book about it and how to use it to organize community and create change. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

70 years ago white America was listening to "Don't be Cruel" (Elvis), "Que Sera, Sera" (Doris Day) & "I Almost Lost My Mind" (Pat Boone). Meanwhile, Bo Diddley was singing, I walk 47 miles of barbwire Use a cobra snake for a necktie Got a brand new house on the roadside Made from rattlesnake hide

Happy Imbolc 🌱 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

The Dead will be available on the IFI website from tomorrow (Joyce's birthday) www.ifihome.ie/film/the-dead/

Another one: She said, “I’m going to dig a hole in the ground and fill it with water.” I thought, she means well.

Stitching the names of the martyrs in October ‘24, Israel had already wiped out 902 entire Palestinian families. At that point the Al-Astal family had lost 225 family members, three of whom I stitched on this panel.

The Rest is Invoicing

A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

Can't resist revisiting this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

Should anyone want an exhibit or talk over the coming months, do get in touch. I'm currently putting together a presentation on 100 years of Fianna Fáil, focusing on material produced by the party, should you be interested. Thanks Alan

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

go.bsky.app/4naJbid Here's a list of Dublin City Council accounts on Blue Sky

This place every two months:

The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.

"This is awful," said Arthur unnecessarily in the pause which followed. "That's what I said," confirmed Marvin.

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

“From the planet: Moon”

Friendly outreach? Why are Palestinian accounts always getting suspended on bluesky? We all wonder about that.

Autocorrect it's just so vitally important to me that you do not change "and I love you lots" to "and I love you less" when I'm texting my partner please I'm dying here

Two Americans were on the bus and one of them said "I think that's the sweet stretch" "No, I think they call it the grand stretch" (Pause) "What exactly is stretching?" "I dunno I think like, the daytime?"

US Government Official on Mufasa's Death

Inspiring

"Do ouija boards work? We asked a ouija board and it said 'maybe'."

this is a vast universe. your mind only sees a mere glance, a flashlight in the dark, illuminating a tiny spot of an endless matrix of possibility. we can't always control what comes into our experience but we can work to cultivate it. so, you don't need to think about or read finn mcredmond. ever.

Good morning #Dublin Taken just now in Arbour Hill cemetery. #Ireland

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

A €50 fine per podcast episode would generate enough money to retrofit every home to A+ rated. Even ones with a Keylex boiler.

Labour defends Trump.

gotta be some use for this at some point