The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

My new work Redd is live on @Kickstarter It is a 7 year exploration of community interaction within inland waterways. Link for preorders here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gae... #35mmFilm #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #PhotobookCollector #PhotoBookCommunity #KickstarterPhotobook

If you think that an entire estate shouldn't be summarily evicted by absentee landlords, lend your voice to this petition in support of people in Killarney. chng.it/Mt4JsYgD5Q

"...the idea of a sportsperson being so infantilised as to hail the arrival of a politician onsite as something that might turn a match around is just so eye-bleedingly ludicrous. But this is seemingly where America is at now." www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2...

The great Phil Ochs came to mind recently youtu.be/gApvH1WDr_g?...

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

My column this week - on the WTF moment of seeing the British Army sponsoring Sky's Premier League coverage www.the42.ie/british-army...

"Some current stand-up comedians hit topical points and the audience greets them with applause, whoops and cheers. I didn’t want them to applaud, I wanted them to laugh. Irreverence is easy – wit is hard." - Tom Lehrer www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

"Simply by firing up Spotify and streaming... John and Yoko’s Give Peace a Chance, or Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, or Bob Dylan’s Masters of War – you can now do your bit to fund the arms industry." - @mrkocnnll.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The greatest man I have known died this week. He was there for me - and for others - during the darkest of days. I'm going to miss him. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t...

The greatest man I have known died this week. He was there for me - and for others - during the darkest of days. I'm going to miss him. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

This short video of mine tells the tale of how I received my first animation commission in January, and how it ended up turning into a 9-day speedrun for an entire music video.

Damien Duff and Juan Roman Riquelme in a 2006 adidas football TV ad.

As ever, excellent, but how did I miss the story of a big tech company booking AN ENTIRE STREET OF CITY CENTRE PUBS for a conference do? Are we a AirBnB-ifying our streets/locals now?

I made a mini video essay about being commissioned to make animation for a music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTA...

Discovering 'The Great Agnostic' in Rome, plus Ballymena, MrBeast and what I've been listening to this week ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/w...

Power, influence and Uefa's multi-club mess www.gobb.ie/p/power-infl...

“We rise by lifting others” Those glowing words popped in Piazza San Pantaleo and burned into my brain during a visit to Rome in early January 2024. I’ve thought about them ever since. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/w...

I wrote this about how to read and why. Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative. Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world. jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

BBC 6 Music News tells me Musk wants to set up a ‘centrist’ party. Is great replacement theory centrism now? Btw almost all stories on 6 Music heads were about immigration - Labour can’t get down asylum hotel costs; Pam Bondi clip. Barely a single story about an actual news of a real world event

Restaurants where slop is served can suffer excoriating reviews which impact business and tradesmen who carry out shoddy workmanship are derided as cowboys. Shouldn’t cavalier abuse of LLM tools inspire the same sort of revulsion and punishment? ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/c...

"Mullooly represents 1,224,888 Irish voters, by the way. Just on the off-chance any of them might happen to feel aggrieved that he’s in Belgium deciding what he’s going to say to Ursula von der Leyen by shaking a Magic 8 Ball." www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

I have been on a number of whale-watching tours with Colin Barnes. They were enjoyable, informative trips. Sorry to hear that he has "given it up in disgust". He says the overfishing of sprat has left "an empty, lifeless sea". www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

"This new reality...is to be detested. Where each new day brings a dozen clear examples of Big AI’s philosophical bankruptcy, societal danger, and financial fraudulence, alongside a dozen more articles offering breathless descriptions of its magical brilliance." www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

"...this is deeply antisocial behaviour... not just in the sense of the destruction of a shared environment (though it is certainly that), but in the sense that it reveals a deeper carelessness about, and disdain for, the experience of fellow citizens." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

A recent mishmash of notes and thoughts. I found myself agreeing with someone I don't normally see eye-to-eye with and musing on the horrifyingly absurd image of a polar bear leaning out the window of an abandoned house. Also some of what I'm listening to. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...