It's forecast to be 31⁰ in West Mayo tomorrow. Nuts.

Even as night falls, the heat remains unrelenting across France. @ 9 pm local time, some towns are still recording humidex values up to 50°C (122°F) Even at 9 pm , Romilly-sur-Aigre in north-central France remains 35.6°C (96°F) with a dew point of 27.4°C (81.3°F) Extreme, even, lethal, heat

It's "bonfire night" here in West Mayo, so we've to close all our fucking windows and doors, during a fucking heatwave, to keep the toxic smoke out of the fucking house. Culture my bollocks. Some people are just burning rubbish.

If other news was reported like climate change:

A west of Ireland #painting "Clew Bay #3" is one of a series of miniature paintings I did. There were several views of the County Mayo bay in the series, because every view of it is ridiculous. Annoyingly though, people always want to tell you they know a better view. Ha. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Art

If you're looking for a sign that your spuds are going to be alright, this is it.

How to take your cargo bike in for a service, and get yourself home again without it:

Please Use AI

Ok well fuck them. Hope all their operators go bankrupt. And that corporate socialism doesn't bail them out.

Israel has issued an evacuation order to the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

Every single one of these "autonomous" machines should have big red "Emergency Power Off" buttons on them. And I don't care if people abuse those red buttons.

Cartoon by Steve Breen. Especially relevant to Ireland. #SpeirGorm

The AI graphics are everywhere locally, amongst businesses and community organisations. For a town with an arts festival, and which supposedly values artists, it's sickening to see how prevalent the AI slop has become here around Westport.

At some point the State decided it was going to stop building public housing. Nobody ever put that in a manifesto. The Ministers under whom the policy was implemented explicitly denied it was their policy. But it happened. And it has hobbled our society ever since.

The Hindenberg famously had a "mostly succesful" transatlantic flight.

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

In the 1920s, a New Jersey pathologist coined 'punch-drunk syndrome' to describe the tremors and slurred speech he kept seeing in career boxers. For decades we assumed it took boxing or American football to do that to a brain. Soccer players' brains tell a different story. 🧵

If it was me, these wouldn't be the headlines I would have taken from the @ccacireland.bsky.social 2026 Electricity Review, a 🧵

System working as designed. 💰🏠 jrnl.ie/7038694

My "Not going to run out of fuel" tshirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my tshirt. www.thejournal.ie/aer-lingus-i...

This beautiful whitethorn outside our back door is having a wonderful blossom this year.

It's not a recession unless it comes from the Récession region of France, otherwise it's just Sparkling Everyone's Broke. pagesix.com/2026/05/05/h...

I would like to humbly submit a new stock image for using with cruise ship-related illness outbreaks. 🦠🛳️

This feels like a distraction or diversion from the big issue of Ireland still planning an LNG terminal in the context of an imploding fossil fuel supply chain, i.e. How to talk about a big energy infrstructure project without mentioning fossil fuels. m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

turning my phone off do not disturb mode and into disturb mode

The cuckoo has arrived in West Mayo. (Sound on 🔊)

What if they've intentionally made predictive/swipe text really bad to force people into sending more voicenotes, to train their AI models?

YoU wOuLdn'T DoWnLoaD An OiL TaNkeR...

Still no front page obituary. Maybe tomorrow.

I am really hoping for some proper "Send the chopper, comrade!" energy in Budapest tonight.

- Call Mam - Allow it to ring 47 times - Hang up - Immediate callback "Mind for you'd give me a chance to answer!"

My body's innate threat-detection systems would like to speak to the manager please. We did not order an all-you-can-eat buffet.

My asking price is now €3,000. No timewasters please.

Another two-week reprieve on nuclear armageddon from our glorious overlords? Guess I'll plant some spuds so.

And some people gave us shit for Don’t Look Up being too over the top. Man oh man do I wish it was.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

Damage from climate change extensive across Ireland in 2025, advisory council says www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Pond life

You can dance on the breeze Over houses and trees With your fist holding tight To the string of your kite

Everyone should have a home Yet 17,308 human beings are now in emergency accommodation Yet the CSO announced this week there were over 70,000 homes vacant which could be compulsory rented This is a broken social contract This is down to government policy This is #DerelictIreland #speirghorm

I'm just surprised the Lotto results weren't presented live from Prague this evening.

RTÉ are never beating the allegations. Seems like half the staff have gone to Prague on a jolly.

I'm pretty sure all of Ireland's peacekeepers are (usually) positioned south of this river, in an area which looks like it is about to be completely annexed by Israel.

I mean, if I was his Russian handler and could see how quickly he was running out of road, I would also hit the Civil War Speedrun button at this point.

How are these off-grid gas-powered data centres looking now? Gas prices doing ok, yeah?

The preload ads on digital radio stations really boil my piss, especially on RTÉ stations. Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.

Fuel-free lawnmower for sale. €1,500. Serious offers only. (I know what I've got.)

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...