The Big 40. Brussels is some spot. New capital of the free world; not a bad place to spend it.

I wonder if the Romans were perceived as dangerous idiots by the rest of their contemporaries..

If the US invades Greenland Americans are going to learn just how big - and dangerous - the rest of the world is. Your treatment of Denmark, a staunch ally, is disgusting, dishonourable and fundementally traitorous to the geopolitical system you yourselves created and benefitted from.

I have never watched Emily in Paris but this actresd was very gracious with her time after my wife ran into her on a stairwell in a pub in Meribel. ❤️

Blue Skies!

I think I speak for all Irish people when I say we're sure glad there's no oil here, otherwise Operation Soaring Emerald would have found us neck deep in fentanyl trafficking accusations real quick!

"Kidnapping is such a strong worrrd." US foreign policy would be far more transparent if they simply had Jeremy Irons narrate it.

Watching Pluribus and what's great is its applicability - is it about the dangers of hyper-convenience, the insidious way AI erodes our critical thinking or passivity in the face of a great evil? Perhaps all three! Great show, would recommend.

Happy New Year. I see we're running the '03 American playbook again. Fentanyl of Mass Destruction, was it? I'm sure randomly bombing Venezuelans will not have any long term consequences to US domestic security. Nope, none at all! (Sarcasm for the 1/5 of you fucks who simply can't read.)

Posting pictures of Claude napping until Trump dies, entry 2.

Hamilton in 2025 is like watching the Star Wars prequels knowing just how shite the sequel trilogy is - but my wife and my Mum had fun!

Claude presents: Plan B.

Raging Moderates withers my shite. Two Zionists - one a wealthy boomer, the other a witless nepo-baby (who worked for BoJo, of all fucking people)- hand-wringing over inequality whilst agreeing that yes, perhaps more neoliberalism is what the poors need. Absolute waste of space.

Out waiting for a fire engineer to show up at one of our buildings and out of nowhere the most ridiculously dapper gentleman strolls by and wanders into the French consulate. Ever see somebody so stylish you had to take a photo? Yep, that's where I'm at now. Photographing strangers like a wierdo. 😅

"Right lads, so here's the plan - we smash down the east wing, then get all the gold you can muster.."

Huge ambition. Questionable intelligence.

I cannot like this enough. Nevermind double speak - shaping and cultivating syntax is how the tech bros will render our respective tonalities into beige mush.

"You may have saved all of our lives.. but you are not a femboy."

ICE soon to rebrand as 'Cobra'; menace GI Joe. They do not, alas, possess a weather machine, as this would mean i) science and ii) acknowledgement of the Climate Crisis, which as we now all know is both 'woke' and 'gay', according to Secretary Hegseth, whose codename shall henceforth be Tailgate.

Friends is a dark satire of American late stage capitalism, in which a waitress and sous chef can supposedly afford the giddy prices of a loft apartment in Greenwich Village, Manhattan c. 1990. youtu.be/4H6Ux3l75Rc?...

No wait, there's been a critical update: we have move to The Official Bed.

Let's remember that the only good RE deal Trump ever did involved a tax break and the city of New York being effectively bankrupt; one thay only happened because of inherited wealth. Luck. His real estate empire since was a litany of failures, unpaid subbies and brand licensing to failed products.

Bedtime Grump.

youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?... It's the old analogy of the modern car vs the horse and cart - and we're the horse.

Hillbilly Effigy - the tale of how an unlikely figure emerged from rural Appalachia to (falsely) claim hillbilly status, sell himself to Peter Thiel's dark accelerationist vision and set fire to America's position as the leader of the free world. Whilst maintaining an arrogant-yet-sassy smokey eye.

POV: your owner has just discovered the bin's pressure based lid open and your once luxuriant coat smells faintly of intrepid bin-diver.

With the way the US is going we'll soon be having to speak in code before the big social media crackdown. Before that happens - know that I support Aunt Aoife. For those unfamiliar with the Irish name (which translates to "brilliant" or "joyful"); Aoife is pronounced ee-fah. Aunt Aoife.

Current mood.

A world where the term anti-fascist becomes a label for 'the other' for me is a dark place indeed: just what it you are FOR exactly, MAGA?

Ah, so The Rapture DID happen, and it seems "demographically Catholic" was not the right choice. 😅🤣

Wife returns from London. Claude immediately displeased as boy time / bin diving is at an end.

The self-satisfied look of a man who just got caught nose deep in the bin, like the smelly Bindiver he is.

Stephen Miller: *hurls his keyboard at the wall, slamming a balled fist against his desk as his eyes bulge in fury* "They're animals! ANIMALS!" 🦄🦝🐻🤣

I have to ask: to what end? Perhaps it's a failure of imagination on my part, but if all of these hyper inflated AI companies spend their time raising huge amounts of capital, and we are all becoming ever poorer under the system that feeds it; just who is this for? Trading cards for billionaires.

The myth of fascist regimes being efficient needs to die. The trains did not run on time in Italy under Mussolini, contrary to popular belief. Nor were the Nazis remotely compentent. It was then as it is now - the fascists silence dissent; and into that vaccum their own spiteful mythology seeps.

I'm just going to leave this here, and then retreat into my soundproof bunker with my Tool records. Looking forward to Taylor punching down on Peppa Pig of all people.

One of the greatest twists in comic book history. From The Incredibles to The Boys and the entire comics industry as a whole from the 90's onwards - Moore's Watchmen is a seminal work of fiction that everyone should read at least once - and ideally the physical copy so you can flip back and forth.

Mum once encountered a member of the Guinness family c. 2005 - in a clipped British accent Lady Guinness asked Mum "Do you keep horses?" Mum explained she was from Bray; her father was a publican. She did not, in fact, keep horses. "Fascinating. You're the first Irish person to not own horses!'

The push for Return To Office (RTO) by so many tech firms is a measure of soft-rolling out voluntary redundancies across the board. AI will be rolled out as a cost-saving measure; and society be damned. "Let them eat algorithms." And all the while America - an absent parent to dangerous tech.

Storm buddies 😄