I love this idea

Graph I made of where the most used words in English come from.

Blogpost on how, if you automate one of your companies main process with AI you should check that the process makes sense watson-tricks.blogspot.com/2025/11/recr...

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Blogpost on how, if you automate one of your companies main process with AI you should check that the process makes sense watson-tricks.blogspot.com/2025/11/recr...

the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

A Dublin woman who has crocheted thousands of 'Michael Tea Higgins' tea cosies is preparing for a new presidency

I applied for a job in June. They replied today, for the first time, saying PFO. With a chatgpt email asking to stay in touch from a no-reply email address

Make no mistake, this excavation wouldn’t be happening if Catherine Corless hadn’t stuck her neck out and defied people telling her to leave it alone. But the scale of this is unimaginable. It’s not just M&B homes, it’s laundries, it’s industrial schools, it’s giant psych hospitals.

This isn't dear

I was literally just telling someone on Wednesday that this had died down and then this airs last night. Poor Tommy.

my favorite tech is ruining everything book is the 1879 Wired love that has chat rooms, online dating, cat fishing etc amongst telegraph operators. Free audiobook librivox.org/wired-love-b... The text www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353

Note to self: don't ever get on Derek's bad side.

For the next three weekends, you can find my latest work in Coburg House Gallery Shop Spotlight display. The basis for this work is an agar pattern in Conway's Game of Life. It was the subject of new research in 2022. It's all knitted in Aran-weight lambswoolspun and dyed in Scotland.

If you are in Dublin on Sunday, get yourself along to this... it will be wild. dublinbookfestival.com/event/immers...

NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.

The new Rosalia album is great music.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTe...

If someone you know wrote an Irish history book they want to publicise. Let's have a chat we can arrange an AMA on www.reddit.com/r/IrishHisto...

I have 2 small bets that electricity production from coal has started to decline. And 9 months into the bets I am winning.

1 million disposable vapes a day are used in the UK at 1.8wh each is 0.66GWh per year in storage capacity we could add. That is about 3 minutes of the gap between peak uk and normal UK electricity usage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-w...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I got two books in the @princetonupress.bsky.social sale. Now to hide them away until Christmas

What a queen

Fake Gnus!

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

Watch the most unplugged @clppng.bsky.social live session ever, courtesy of NPR's Tiny Desk (of nonsense) www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...

As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well

What if - and this is a very big IF - they were early Warhammer figures?

I made some graphs of when planes crash. Code and data up at gist.github.com/cavedave/69b...

I gave a friend a map of Leitrim

Dick Cheney had no pulse for the last 15 years gizmodo.com/dick-cheney-...

One of my neighbors has a roller outside his house. Do you think if I asked they'd give me a go of it?

Instead of watching the fumble that's #TheGameOfWool, you should watch the 26 episodes of the delightful and quirky Great Danish Knit Off on YouTube (English subtitles!) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

These infernal beverage cloacas are a crime against hydration

Eyelash vending machine Liverpool #marketsineverything

Very sad to hear of this incident in Tyrrelstown www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

My post on the ea-Nasir subreddit has gone viral #brandnewsentence

The main engine failed on the journey to Venus in 2010 and it seemed the mission was lost. Mission scientists calculated a 5 year orbital trajectory around the Sun and executed a complex orbital insertion at Venus using the vehicle's manoeuvring thrusters in 2015. www.space.com/space-explor...

Does anywhere in the UK or Ireland have a Luba lukasa memory board on display? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

World museum Liverpool has top notch little guys

The slides and code from my talk about running a local LLM last night at Dublin Data science github.com/cavedave/LLM...

Trick or treat!

Dracula - listen to the classic RTÉ Players production www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

goddammit i have to work late in the lab tonight

Little late, but here's my plot for this week's #tidytuesday data about British literary prizes. Both shortlists and awardees are getting more diverse, but not in the same way... You can find my code here: github.com/josefinabern... #rstats #dataviz #rladies #tidyverse #ggplot2