I really wish I wasn't still ranting about this, ten years later - but the risk to Cork city is huge 🚨

For the 'Erotic Monster' catcher-uppers, here's the link from my Saturday show. Huge thanks once again to everyone who tuned in, it was a lot of fun! www.mixcloud.com/lwstd-fm/202...

very interesting to contrast interviews with the guy who ate the AI art exhibit and the guy who made it (hashtag team eater)

Good Morning #VinylRecords #Vinyl

🌿☕ Good morning🌞 I hope you enjoy another of my walking photos around Cheltenham. This is taken near The Suffolks at the back of Baker & Graze (great bread!) The origin of the word alley is late Middle English, from Old French alee "walking or passage" & aller "to go".. apt really! #architecrure

I know a few people on here are big fans of legendary Texan songwriter James McMurtry. For years, I've been hoping he might play some UK dates, and suddenly I discover there's just one due to happen. At St Mary's Church, Twyford. This has to be a mistake, right? (I mean, I've booked anyhow.)

Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."

Clinton scored a decisive win in federal court after a judge dismissed claims by the late Bernie Worrell’s estate that the Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder was owed co-ownership and royalties on hundreds of classic funk tracks

Some Bacharach for your Friday RS youtu.be/JW-VS52dWl0?...

Outside it's cold, grey and wet ☔ But inside it's warm 'n' wobbly sounds all the way 💖✨

During the massive storms last year I was in the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and some salty old dog at the bar told the barman that the wind was that strong "it'd tear a fiver from a Cavan man's hand".

Amazon’s Hard-to-Find #LEGO Section, Explained: Get Rare Sets Before They’re Gone The secret stock is a feast for collectors. www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movi... #toys

News you can use!

It depends on the data being collected. For example if there is a counter just saying “X number of hits on the menu webpage” then it might not involve personal data. On the other hand if, for eg, Google analytics was noting specific signed in accounts were in specific places at specific times…

“The award, which was made without a competitive process, follows a “strategic partnership” between Palantir and the MoD announced in September during President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K.”

This really made me laugh. youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?...

I think about this sometimes. I’ve got no practical skills to help anyone with anything. Comic relief?

The Philadelphia Inquirer: “The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President's House in Independence National Historical Park.” #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNRSeuRsw/

Would hope data protection prohibits this in EU… @tupped.bsky.social ?

Strange. (To me anyway) US Navy plane over Dublin enroute to Shannon. Image of screenshot of Flight-radar app. Feel as uncomfortable about this as I do random Russian ones now.

Thank goodness we have GenAI so we finally have easy access to the notoriously scarce genre of stock photography: Top down photos of food

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

when I see the latest proclamation from this courtier prick his photos always look like a target with frizzy gray hair, is that normal futurism.com/future-socie...

sure why not? who the fuck are we??

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking nurses in freezing temperatures Tuesday as the action entered a second week.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has received $4.7 million from the Medical Research Future Fund to study long COVID. Three Sydney-based projects will focus on: • Developing new diagnostic tools • Improving monitoring of long COVID • Testing therapies to enhance care and support

Good gods

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01.... Wishing all well in #NewZealand #News #Aus #NZ

“New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.” #FourthAmendment #ICE

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Novavax signs licensing agreement with Pfizer for vaccine development. Novavax signed a licensing deal giving Pfizer access to its vaccine technology to boost immune responses for up to two infectious diseases, sending Novavax shares up nearly 7%.

Goodnight. Moonlight by Emile Pierre Branchard.

Residents of Kyiv were forced to warm up in emergency tents. Iryna: “It is the hardest right now. We’ve never had such a situation, when at the same time there was no heating, no electricity and no water.

Have seen a red squirrel in Sligo for the first time last year, and have seen pine martens a couple of times. I think that deciduous trees are the major factor in that. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

This definitely doesn't sound like a euphemism for jizz.

Mother of god 🤦

Teasel is a winter bird magnet. If you’ve got a feeder, or just a decent view from the kettle, BirdWatch Ireland’s Garden Bird Survey is open. Count what you see, it’s simple, and it builds real data our #birds. @birdwatchireland.bsky.social birdwatchireland.ie/our-work/sur... #birds #Ireland

Put this on the speaker yoke. Felt immensely better. Art, music, literature… it’s the best of us and it doesn’t give a fuck about politicians and their opinions. youtu.be/MFww3fLhjl8?...

He walked away from his own tariff deal last summer. He could walk away from this one too. All prior agreements are collateral for the next one. Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania.

I was sold a better America than this as a kid, I want a refund

This one is sold. 🔴 But I will do a few to order for forthcoming Valentine’s Day if people would like them. Just DM me. #klimt #bunnies #bsnm #ukgiftam #mhhsbd #artforsale

"How COVID can affect heart, even after an infection is gone" Research shows COVID affects the heart in multiple ways, raising the risk of heart attacks, strokes, heart muscle damage, and arrhythmias. While risk is highest soon after infection, studies show it can remain elevated for up to 3 years.

It comes as Oxfam released a report Monday warning that the collective wealth of billionaires hit a record $18.3 trillion and that the total number of billionaires surpassed 3,000 for the first time in history last year.

Amitabh Behar: “But the real story is also about how these billionaires are not content enough with being super rich. Now they’re buying political power. So, they’re buying elections. They’re buying media houses.