God, that bass driving this along. RIP Mani

"Chickadees! You Americans are so funny with the silly names you give birds." "Yeah, I guess. What do you guys call them?" "Er... tits"

Who'd have thought Curaçao and Advocaat would make a winning cocktail?

All that wealth, talent and influence, only to allow yourself to be an even richer man's plaything

1/2 As a journalist on the other side of the Atlantic, the feeling is of disbelief. Not at Trump - it's been obvious for a long time that he hasn't the manners of a faeces-flinging chimp - but at the absence of any semblance of solidarity or even self-respect among the White House hacks

"We can't remove it" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Isn't it ironic - don't you think?

Hopefully Troy Parrott's arc accelerates the trend of talented Irish youngsters looking for alternatives to England. Your development is far better served at a club with finite resources than a giant whose first doubt at your progression sends them to their bottomless pockets & global reach ##COYBIG

He goes apeshit if he as much as suspects a cat may be in the vicinity, but will allow squirrels and rabbits to do their thing within metres of him without so much as acknowledging them🤔

For the night that's in it

The calmness of the penalty, and the deftness of touch on the other two goals - up there with the great striker's performances by anyone. Troy Parrott, take a bow #coybig #ireland

Can you hear me, Viktor Orban? Your boys took a hell of a beating! #coybig #Ireland

Easy to forget that when this groundbreaking qualification happened, it was out of our hands, unlike now. Surreal watching the delayed broadcast as if live - no internet (wifi must have been down). Family had given up and I was alone, morbidly witnessing confirmation of the end of our hopes...

Sam Prendergast has such playmaking talent. It's infuriating that at 6'4" he's basically a turnstile in defence. At just 22, doesn't it make sense for Ireland and Leinster to prioritise adding tackling to his skillset? #IREvAUS #rugby

We need Ireland to qualify so we can get a rerun of the classic 1994 World Cup clash

Mitigation? Mostert did lower into the contact. But the people going "There was a wrap"? There was a halfhearted wrap with his left arm as he led with force with his right shoulder. Intent is clear as day #ITAvSA #rugby

Irish rugby tonight against an Australia side coming off 2 bad defeats - little credit for a win but potential brickbats for anything less. One eye on the looming Boks. Add the lingering feeling of the sunset of a generation that should have achieved more and no obvious wave coming through

Portugal are to appeal Ronaldo's red card based on their suspicions about the make-up of the VAR committee the referee consulted with

Serious lack of 'Troy Story' or 'Who's a pretty boy then?' headlines this morning. Even a pic of Ron with 'Sick as a Parrott' would have done the trick

I took this photo in the Showgrounds in May 2007 & posted it online describing him as "one of the brightest prospects in the league". Tonight, at 37 and surely at the tail end of a stellar career, he put in 98 minutes of pure class as Ireland beat Portugal. Seamie Coleman - stone cold legend

Love Devo. Love Neil. Love Rust Never Sleeps. How the hell was I unaware of this until now?

I am so annoyed at scare tactics as a dark pattern trying to get you to upgrade your SaaS subscription. This is Google Docs doing so. I am already a paying customer - and no, I don't have "sensitive files" shared externally. Such a cheap way to try to get more $$, Google

How is it not universally accepted that no individual needs or "deserves" a trillion (or even a measly billion) dollars? As long as this kind of money is tied up in the service of malignant narcissists, the idea that there's "no money" for programmes or aid that benefit thousands makes zero sense

That's just filth from de Jager - nothing other than a blatant attempt to nobble his opponent. Just why do you even do that? #FRAvSA #rugby

Oh goody - France are in one of those "let's just do whaterver crazy shit comes into our heads and trust our individual skills" moods. Could be a cracker. #FRAvSA #rugby

My son at 7 when he found out that there were people who hated or feared others because they were different: "What's wrong with them? Did they stop evolving or something?" Kids get it. Some are subsequently led astray by stupid/evil grown-ups

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Apparently the jury was unimpressed by the agent saying he was hit with a "club"

Not so sure about this White House tour - Press Secretary looks like she's had a rough one

For all the talk of Ireland's rugby academies, there seems to be no obvious flood of emerging talent. Coming into the team this weekend we have Nick Timoney (30), Caolin Blade (31) and Tom Farrell (32). The best player on the pitch against New Zealand was McCloskey (33). Where's the future?

"I could smell the onions and mustard..."

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

"Exododus, movement of Jah peopoople..."

The camouflage is uncanny (There's a dog in this picture)

Very often it's a case of putting something in place, despite the naysayers, and people then finding they actually like it

Phrases that were once uttered only by your American cousins visiting for the summer and would earn you a snort of contempt if you tried them on ("Listen to the yank"😁) but are now firmly embedded in Irish conversation: "You guys" "I guess"

I wonder if Beckett would have appreciated the irony of his powerful passage on the inevitability of failure and despair ending up as a bland motivational quote? #5amthoughts #failbetter

🥳🥳🥳 John Russell working miracles season after season - imagine what he could do with anything resembling resources

Could be a cracker. Very pleased for Crowley - without a doubt Ireland's best outhalf right now. I still have hope for Prendergast maturing into the player he should be and think it's a major failure of Leinster and Irish rugby - more than the player - if the necessary improvements don't come

Group of kids down in our yard keeping a safe distance and discussing whether they should approach the entrance of the building 😂

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

"Counter-narcotics is window dressing. The real instruments are gray zone coercion, the use of military force below the threshold of open war, and narrative generation"

When I got a Pixel phone I was genuinely surprised that Chrome crashed more often than it had on the Samsung I had before it. I've been using the @vivaldi.com browser on @grapheneos.org for over a year now and it's been a pretty flawless experience

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains (Whoever started this had some pretty limited musical horizons)

Maybe the Dodgers got some unstoppable momentum from that epic win, but anyone assuming that's a given must have forgotten 2018 #RedSox

Challenge: Reciting a bible verse once every hour while on the batter

I'm not religious, but really good food - like this simple Chitarra alla Gricia with lightly smoked guanciale - is pretty close to a spiritual experience

Why are all these guys got up as if they've been let into an armoury and told they have one minute to grab as much stuff as they can?

One of the things I find most difficult - but most satisfying - about travel photography is capturing a place not as it was, but as I remember it

Ryanair fanfare announcement when the flight lands on time...