Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally? I am in Germany. Downloading anything new is not necessary to relate my geographical location.

Hey, folks, I'm going to be presenting at Northwest Folklife festival, and they are in need of volunteers to keep the weekend going. Here's more info about the festival and how to get involved: nwfolklife.org/support/volu...

Miggeldy kicks it way over the cross bar and out of Pearse Stadium. The ball is eventually found floating off Salthill.

Wild Strawberry Hip Joint

Al fresco reggae.

Gig tonight. There might be video. First gig in 6 or 7 years. And for some stupid reason I’m on keys instead of guitar. Stupid reason being that original keyboard player couldn’t. No disrespect to original keyboard player per se but it helps if you can make nice sounds. Anyhow. Band’s called…

Martian cows in #Donegal tonight. Oiche mhaith.

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Dark or milk? Repost for Dark Like for Milk

I really am wide of the Bluesky vibe today so here’s a vid of a seal my eldest took. That’s all I have. No hot takes. No cutting analysis. No ire. Just a happy seal. I like seals. They seem sound.

Opium poppies.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

It’s always worth a closer look.

No wind here, only the bell-silence of flowers that do not need to ring to be heard.

Being in this reggae band has its challenges. I’m struggling to sing and play the offbeat. But then you’re introduced to a tune and it’s pure (pleasant) ear worm for weeks. Alpha Blondy… oh yes… youtu.be/jNPdBP_4dyc?...

Stopped into centra on the way home from walking the dogs. It’s usually really quiet at this time. I’m wandering around looking for a few things and suddenly the place is swarming with a bus load of teenagers, chatting and laughing. The women behind the counter looked terrified. I suspect I did too.

Bluddy eemigrants coming over ear, swimming ahbout are rivers like they own the place…

Have you got… *sniff* got any *sniff* you know? Any of them hard *sniff* antihistamines? It’s just the pollen. Honest. *sniff*.

I have to drive through Raphoe to get to the forest where I walk the dogs every morning. It’s not far. Lovely little town (smallest cathedral city in Europe). It’s always busy. Very busy. As you drive in, there’s a mart on the left and secondary school on the right. You have to time it just right…

Erm. No. Sorry. QED. youtu.be/pdz5kCaCRFM?...

I moved home (to Ireland) in 1989, aged 24. I’ve lived here ever since. I’ve been inside Stephen’s Green shopping centre exactly once and for as short amount of time as possible. There is another Ireland beyond the Pale that doesn’t care that much. And we’re not apologising for our disinterest.

The sun is out in Donegal, there’s a cement mixer next door, the farmers are throwing shite everywhere they can like there’s no tomorrow, the lambs are bleating like tormented field-demons, the quarry trucks are running loads up to the wind-farm site and I can’t actually hear myself think.

It's often said that Shakespeare was born and died on the same date. Now, whether you like his stuff or not, you have to admit that's a shitload of work to bang out in 24 hours.

Taoiseach’s off the Ayia Napa then… He’s gonna get sorted for Es and whizz and dance like a maniac for three days straight. youtu.be/WDswiT87oo8?...

Happy birthday Will. Thanks for everything.

You can’t play Rudy if you’ve got no harp intro.

Sits down at computer. Closes all the tabs and… Powercut. Great. Fuppin great.

Sprung

Words to live by #Quakers #QuakerThoughts

I went a bit viral in the night and I don’t like it.

Those feckin shepherds better be right the’morrow. Oiche mhaith.

The best pizza in Ireland is served from Nina’s in Ballinamore, County Leitrim and they do the most amazing one with artichokes and olives and basil and oh man. It’s sublime. Better than any Italian pizza I’ve ever eaten. Better that any NYC pizza too. Or Chicago for that matter. I love Nina’s.

Jesus. So many complaints about stuff on the internet today and how it’s this or that or not. I remember sending postal orders for cheap plastic toys to an address I found in the 2000AD adverts or asking my folks if I could use the landline to call Saturday Swapshop. Grow up you wimps.

Those mushrooms that weird Dave used to always have and the hash oil that Bill and me used to smoke watching movies and that night chasing dragons with that spiky-haired Ozzie lesbian and what was the question again?

In case you didn’t know, there are only 8 ingredients in food. They are in order. Bulgar Wheat Parsley Olive oil Garlic Lemon juice Lemon zest Salt Cayenne pepper

A generation locked out of real housing, now told to rent sheds in back gardens. This is not a solution. It is a distraction from the failure to build affordable homes. We need proper housing, not unregulated, unsafe alternatives with no tenant protections.

Word

Currently listening to Good Vibrations. Brian Wilson… genius is an overused word but the dude was from another planet.

A very accurate flowchart

600 to 800 words on why my project is the bestest and shiniest things out of all the bestest things in theatreland ‘cos it’s made by me, a disabled idiot with less talent than a belly-up goldfish. Right so. Off I dive.

Basic Income for Artists… #BIA Just my tuppence worth… Yes, the survey sucks. I had to do half a dozen of them while I was on the pilot. No, it’s not designed by artists for artists. Arts Council forms and surveys suck too. In fact I’m my 40 years being a professional arty type, I’ve never…

That lettuce woman murdered her Majesty.

The $666 Board That Built Apple: How the Apple I Changed Computing 50 Years Ago

The dog ate my google glass(es) and I had lift what was left of them with a poop bag, my Meta specs decided to annex the Sudetenland and I’m guessing these new ones will end up in that abyss between the car seat and the armrest along with Clippy’s mummified corpse.

OH WFH today. I’ve been making synth noises all morning. She’s just said, ‘Right. I’m off to zoom.’ I’ve taken the subtle hint.

Well I guess I’ll never get that £400 he owed me then. It’s amazing to see the difference in memories between those who were higher up the food chain and those, like me and plenty of other I know, who were just plebs and treated like shite.

Pretty sure, even if the GAA rules are increasingly labyrinthine and impenetrable, that having different sized goals is not really in the spirit of the game.

Every pink bit on an old map.