This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

Maine American Cream Soda in a special edition made with sugar and no sweeteners. The taste I remember with no artifical sweetener aftertaste. Brilliant.

Muttley gets a medal. youtu.be/jACHaMkwdpI?...

Do you think Watts would make a cassock in it?

Bizarre dream where a well-known star who may be a quote searcher had a festival at their ancestral home with fringe events starring them. Their main event was hubristic and elaborate, and @magstheobscure.bsky.social was there casting a skeptical eye while uncritical fans of an age adored them.

No YOU are periodically wiping your eyes... #LateLateToyShow

Roy Keane helping a kid with Tourette's suspended in the air to grab toys for children in hospital. I fucking love this country #LateLateToyShow

'There is a perfectly respectable case for staying out of NATO, for maintaining some distance from American geopolitical clusterfucks, for preferring the blue helmet... But that case only holds if neutrality is backed by something other than naivety' open.substack.com/pub/tull/p/i...

Did Leopold II write this speech?

Holy Trinity Rathmines, Dublin 6, in Advent array. ⚓️

This week in the Porvoo Communion cycle of prayer, we pray for the Diocese of Porvoo: an appropriate time to give thanks for the Porvoo Common Statement and the full communion it established.

Performative erasure of Dublin's Jewish history. www.thetimes.com/article/0f98...

Fifth Sundays of the month are one of the mysteries of the Church of Ireland. I'm not in Donegal this weekend but it is a total mystery as to what my local church's arrangements are for this Sunday. It has good social media but assumes anyone who wants to come to Church will know already ⚓️

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

A few years back, we created an Advent Calendar to pray for peace. This year, we felt prompted to focus our prayers on regions not covered by TV or newspapers but suffering from violence and conflict. The countries were chosen based on the Institute for Economics & Peace's Global Peace Index 2025.

Enormously proud of this series. If history is your thing, do give it a listen, like and/or share!

Texas almost executed an innocent man last month, who has been on the death row for the last 22 years based on a junk theory. He still maintains his innocence and his supporters are demanding a fresh trial in his case. Read Robert’s story in @thenation.com: bit.ly/4plV6wm

Why does Irish Rail keep everyone waiting til the last minute for trains at Heuston? #speirgorm

Opaque and unaccountable, the Presbyterian Church on Ireland continues in its well trodden path of mysterious decision making. From RTE news : Presbyterian Church under real pressure over safeguarding www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

The frustrating experience of dealing with buses in the Greater Dublin Area on a filthy dirty night #spéirghorm #DublinBus

Progress!! 😃

The BBC we need. 👍

If you'd like to see me debating a united Ireland with Fintan O'Toole, bringing our book to life on the stage, there are just a few tickets left for the National Concert Hall in Dublin on 30 November. 🎟️Get them here:

Donegal: The gift that keeps on giving. To be fair I wouldn't want to spend a night in Letterkenny either. www.donegaldaily.com/2025/11/07/m...

From the Barnabas Aid prayer diary for this day - a sobering reminder of the realities of IS persecution of Christians in this region. The lack of outrage at and condemnation of this ongoing violence is a profound failure on the part of Churches in the West.

Them: Look at them with their wheelchairs and scooters. Living the life of luxury Me: Googling if badly maintained cutdowns can give you haemorrhoids

Have to cost how much making a cushion of this would cost and how much I could then sell it to you nutters for?

I’m disappointed no one has thought to do a mark of the beast thing about this. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark … that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev 13:16-17

If Transdiffusion put up a series of recreations or recordings of Thames and LWT handovers from 1968 to 1992 on its Subscribers YouTube that would be fabulous.

And, especially in the case of public transport, they listened far too readily to pundits and consultants who hadn't a clue that Ireland's growing population would need infrastructure.

Better to face reality than to mimsily skulk in its shadow.

Strongly recommended. As an old history teacher of mine once remarked, context is everything.

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This evening on the way home from work has been a masterclass in why I need my headphones with me #wibble

Not much of a surprise here.

Who is this for? The DOJ should be enabling the Gardaí to deploy water cannons against fascists, not attempting to placate them.

Therein lies a mystery.

You wouldn't put a cat out in that weather.

This is wholesome and commendable. If you aren't watching A Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve up to now, please do so this year and now on.

Richard Moore is extraordinary. Blinded by a soldier in Derry when he was 10, Richard went on to found Children In Crossfire, an international body tackling trauma and poverty in conflict zones and An Crann a project to help people safely share experiences of the Troubles. This piece is very moving.

1850. The Public Libraries Act means councils in England & Wales can now spend local taxes on libraries. Some London regions are VERY slow to adopt the act. St Pancras rate-payers object to “wasting” money on “showy luxuries”. Fifty years pass before a free library opens in the district #PubLibs 💙📚

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

They weren't kidding.

If people want a sense of what video and DVD rental used to be like, they should try using Prime Video where all the new releases are unavailable and you end up watching an old comedy with Rodney Dangerfield in it.

More of this please!

Ireland here with a civilised approach to voting