An Coimisiún Pleanála has granted planning permission to Amazon Web Services for three data centre buildings with a combined power load of 73MW on a 65-acre site at Cruiserath Road, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. www.irishtimes.com/business/202... #DataCentres #Planning #Christmas

My dad wasn't well today so my mum and I did the cooking today. The turkey turned out very tasty. Traditional dinner as that's what they all like. A really lovely day today.

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Esme and Hammer should drive around in a van solving crimes #sewingbee

My absolute favourite Christmas image. Happy Christmas everyone and God bless.

Data poem: Air Real time air quality index from the world’s 100 largest cities. I had to look up Riyadh and Beijing to make sure the numbers were right, I was sure I had accidentally multiplied something.

babe wake up new rivals-to-lovers hallmark movie just dropped: they're calling it Ham For the Holidays

Some seasonal chills, courtesy of the BBC and the wonderful people at the Internet Archive. A complete drop of the BBC’s ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ specials. Including: - Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) - Complete series, 1971-78, 2005-13, 2018- archive.org/details/a-gh...

A #painting for you. "Mayo Trees" came out of a ridiculously happy day in the west of Ireland. I could tell you about that day, but I'll let the trees do the talking. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Commencing Christmas week on the blog with an assortment of appropriate Irish beers: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/12/chil...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings . 1. Giacomo Balla, 1912, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, oil on canvas, 89.8 x 109.8 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Just found my old collection of return tickets. They took me back.

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

Freedom fries 1917. The Windsor Royal family were the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Until gotha zeppelins bombed London

Nominative determinism at its finest.

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

An MKII card where Raiden and Johnny Cage slide toward each other when the card is opened.

My suggestion to number trees has finally been started

Finally I can get coffee roasted in Italty

I tried to convince the ten year old that we could become the microwave plate burglars. Stealing not to make money but just to mildly inconvenience people. He is not up for it

And as a digital preservation-adjacent person and ex-archivist, sure, there’s the Wayback Machine, but in an ideal world, there’s a lot more planning and redundancy.

I tried to convince the ten year old that we could become the microwave plate burglars. Stealing not to make money but just to mildly inconvenience people. He is not up for it

Happy Friday! Headed to the Cavs game! 🏀

Announcing my upcoming online workshop in #haiku and related forms @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It will run (in the evenings) for four weeks from Monday 12th January. All likes / shares / mentions much appreciated! 🙏🏻 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/japa...

🎄Ireland's 2025 Christmas number one is... 💿 'Killeagh' by Kingfishr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8cz... Chart data: www.irma.ie#chartTab1

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Helped a woman in the shop find a Christmas card for her godson. She said thanks and I tried to say “you’re welcome” and “no problem” at the same time but instead said… You Problem

Reminder, It is ok to be a chewy spicy and solid baby. Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated

Reminder, It is ok to be a chewy spicy and solid baby. Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated

Try to sell some beer reviews, though, and people think you're weird.

Bought a poetry book in the street to try keep Dublin the sort of place where mad yokes sell their poetry books on the street

In Aussie slang “do a Bradbury” describes a surprise / lucky victory. In 2002, Aussie skater Steven Bradbury got to the semis of the Winter Olympics because the world champion was disqualified. Bradbury then won the semi when everyone in front of him fell over (which then also happened in the final)

The stickmen in this car park are complete freaks

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h... "Historians Say This Rare Mosaic Found on a British Farm Depicts Scenes From a Long-Lost Account of the Trojan War"

Donkey Hottie was right there yet they named it warmy horsey

Reposing with alt text: Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Campbell's recent memoir)

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

A #painting I finished and sold earlier this year. "Pen Corner" is a mixed media painting that came out of loving a building in Dublin that everybody loved, just not enough. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Another Christmas card from the archives.

RIP Ken-chan: The Cat Whose Epic Battle with Museum Security Guard Captured Hearts Across Japan spoon-tamago.com/onomichi-mus...

When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks. The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up. But there is another risk- particularly acute for men. There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

I would like a box of your laudinum level recalled poppy seeds please

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

The seventh 10k of Christmas was one of the most miserable, cold and painful hours I’ve had in a long time. With 5 runs left I’m going to take a few days to heal some injuries… but it sure would be nice to have a few more donations to keep us on track for Carrickmacross Cancer! gofund.me/1a8a02f17

Galway city is 9°3′W The most westerly point of Norway, Høybergodden is further west at 9°4.6′W