This articulated many of my concerns about the fuel protests. One of my major issues with it (aside from the far right's involvement) was using large scale fossil fuel wastage as a protesting tactic. As an environmentalist I can't support any movement wasting precious resources.

It does smell gorgeous. Tastes rank but I have had worse Piña Coladas.

‘I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology’ - jaw dropping stuff from Catholic-come-lately JD Vance. Like lad, whether you agree with him or not the Pope’s whole thing is theology - it’s been a papal thing for, oh you know, 2,000 years now

Strands #773 “Gift of the month” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵💡🔵 🔵

Vintage at this stage

Type this into a Nokia and it plays Sweet Child Of Mine

“I guess we learned to keep doing it, and that nothing we do is wrong, nor has it ever been wrong”

I'm glad Finian McGrath has publicly made the important point: maybe the lads with the 300k machines should have been parking up at the US Embassy rather and directing their ire towards the people causing the crisis rather than blocking people from going to work and draining petrol stations.

'So much for the tolerant left'

my most conservative opinion is that michael healy-rae should not be allowed wear that wee hat in the Dáil.

Say what you like about John McGuirk

Having gone round and round and round and round the variety of non-helpful help pages , Erin the Aer Lingus AI bot has finally given up and suggested I *Go to the airport* to speak to a human. The airport is 50 miles away

Singular or plural ? Pick a lane

I never like seeing genAI stuff out in the real world, but that is often the fault of small business people. Still annoying, but somewhat understandable. In this case, they got funding from both the Irish government and local big businesses. Potential jobs for local artists, just gone like that.

#DidYouKnow you can donate an end of life car to us for road traffic collision training. We'll collect for free (Dublin area) and issue the appropriate certificate See bit.ly/DFBcar

I was listening to the new M.I.A. song and the dog started growling. How do I explain separating art from the artist to her?

"well I made it, Seymour, despite your directions" is such an incredible opening line.

Two things can be true at the same time: grievances can be real and people struggling, but their protests and the allies they choose completely wrong. And the double standards the state and media applies to them also obvious. The next time there's a strike, see how far you get blocking O'Connell St

the sacred covenant between the plain people of Ireland and An Garda Síochána was broken when they started wearing those wee pale blue polo t-shirts. Could not take them serious from that moment on. What boy, stealing apples from an orchard, would take orders from a laptop repair shop employee?

Ní bhfuair Fungie bás in aon chor, ach chuaigh i mbun dianstaidéar na matamaitice

Do people go quiet when Gardaí come in? Oh yes purely to try and eavesdrop on gossip Everything after that....no

There is living in a social media bubble and there is "pretending that a small business would ever chance refusing a guard."

Oh shit, the dolphins have invented maths

I’ve been informed this is the plot of Dune

Strands #772 “It's a little unclear” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵

Celtic mysticism for the day so.

I mean... my only really human quality to speak of is a fondness for Celtic mysticism.

What do you think to yesterday's WIP- My knitted Collie & Sheep hat so far 🐑💕 #bsnm #wip #sheep #pink #collies #bordercollie #knitinprogress #knitted #knitter #knitting #farming #farmlife

Radish vip..🫜 #art

Half a billion euro for 10c off each litre of petrol and diesel for drivers and all the rest on private business. No grants to make evs or hybrid cars affordable for people, no increase in grants for home insulation to save on heating oil, no reduction in the price of home heating oil.

We don't need tractors to blockade vital infrastructure for our own goals. A few dozen cyclists could lock their bikes together into some sort of collosal metal beast that will strike fear into the heart of the average garda.

For gods sake get a hold of yourself, man

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Love medical dramas. Doctors have such exciting lives.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

I don’t even like her or her music that much but when you realize that Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the CEO was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than half the people in the actual Epstein files, you do have no choice but to become this woman’s strongest soldier

What do we want? Clickbait! When do we want it? The answer will shock you!

I'm raging. Those fucking Mé Féin-er blockaders went and vandalised the memorial to that poor young lad, Johnny Santos, who was crushed by the cement truck on Abbey Street less than two weeks ago. They're just such irredeemable cunts.

A lot of people are quick to say they *can't* give up Amazon. Okay, don't. Just don't make it your default. That thing you threw in your basket that you can get elsewhere? Get it elsewhere. If everyone still buying from Amazon reduced their spending by 20%, Bezos would be screaming bloody murder

Went on to Instagram and was disturbed by my friends and family falling prey to groupthink and posting Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls memes.

the enemy of my enemy is.... the pope? wait that can't be right.

Love it.

you so rarely see a leader picking fights with both sides of the crusades. it's probably because everyone else throughout history was simply too big of a coward to try

So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate

Henry the Eight type problems

The long-term solution to the fossil fuel crisis is *not* more fossil fuels.

I hope we do . Shits getting nuts already