The Incredibly Strange Government who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.

Who's responsible for deadly antisemitism? Everyone will hate the answer forward.com/opinion/8195...

Why is meeting online so much more exhausting than in person?

There's a fine line between comfort clutter and depression squalor and boy do I walk that line like Johnny everloving Cash

It's the religious equivalent of the people who don't like when RATM get political.

Looking at the 1926 census records and my father's age is incorrectly given as 16 on the digital record; when you look at actual form it's easy to see how the mistake could have been made. He was actually 6 at the time. Also given as 'Paddy' a version of his name he never used in my memory!

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

I remember when people used to report from the USSR about the crumbling infrastructure and poorly equiped army in Afghanistan as evidence that communism doesn't work.

The Fyre Festival war

Ireland could do this

As someone who spent a miserable couple of teenage years in Athlone, and whose only musical memory of the time is a Peggy's Leg gig in the Dean Crowe hall, this is astonishing really.

It's something that's perhaps easier to see from a distance, but Ireland is run almost entirely by men, to an extent not matched in almost any other European country, and this has consequences.

Had tickets for the London show but couldn't go in the end. Mad jealous.

More than 20 times the size of Ireland, and yet they can manage it.

Bluesky today

Round here you're not allowed serve coffee without a moustache* and an armful of tats. *optional for women/non-binary baristas. Compulsory for cis-males.

It's awful. Would it not be more worth their while to report on the great mass of people claiming asylum who are not gaming the system.

From a distance, it looks like a zombie govt. Keeping going through muscle memory, but brain dead. Can you imagine reading a proposal from MM or Substack Boy and thinking 'that's interesting!'

The R in R4 stands for Reform. More shite about bogus asylum seekers today.

I doubt if 19 year old Dylan owned the tractor he was sleeping in. Getting the staff to do your protest for you, sounds like.

Sitting by the river in Prague, reading over the paper I'm about to give at the University. Pigeon flies over head and shits right on it. (you didn't say it had to be a serious movie)

Epic.

“We’re taking 18 years to build a tram line. How can that possibly be the case?” Dublin Metro: hold my beer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I sent a piece off to an editor last month about country music in Ireland, for a collection about country outside the US, and argues in it that any urban rural divide in Ireland was less political/ economic and more cultural, and often played for laughs as anything. I said there was no equivalent/

Someone compared Magazine to the Sensational Alex Harvey Band to me today. Mind blown.

Apply for Elaine Mai's Arts Council-funded one-to-one music production workshops for under-represented artists nialler9.com/apply-for-el...

So much wrong with that paragraph

@sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social hits it here. Thinking recently, there used to be competent, even very bright people in Irish cabinets - is there anyone in the current shower that you could even imagine writing a diverting blog post? saturdaynightwaltz.substack.com/p/a-confeder...

Agree. Too much thinking in Ireland starts with 'it is what it is' rather than asking 'why is it as it is, and how might it be different?'

The Minister for Hiding Under The Bed at the Department of Not Taking Any Questions

There's at least a chance I know someone who could do this.

But necessary. It's a very dangerous moment. FFG have run out of road, and there's no serious opposition that is not equally spineless in the face of 'the lads' and the Healy- Raes and their ilk are not anything like as funny as they look.

This strikes me as another example of Starmer doing the right thing the wrong way. Sneak it through, and it offers Reform an open goal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badly needed good news.

I'm an immigrant in a tolerant and diverse city. I prefer it to being surrounded by people just like me, thanks all the same.

Sentences expected to range from confiscation of boot cut jeans and brown boots to expulsion from the ploughing championship.

Now that O'Connell St is cleared, I look forward to a few court appearances.

Trains. Everywhere. In cities, between cities (not just to and from Dublin) to every town between those cities. Normalise not needing a car. We can afford it and we will need it.

Refresher course in how to spot your class enemy required.

FFSFG Same package different tin.

Just spoke to someone on an Aircoach to Cork. Every motorway slip road blocked so old school through every town

Doesn't even take 2mins to donate, quick & simple, even a fiver if you can manage it will show them your support msoe.ie/donate/

Legendary record turns out to be just that. Superior Viaduct reissue a label that will bankrupt me

Ok but when will they address the issues of My Wife Has Her Own Interests; Gays Existing; and I Heard Different Accents in My Local Shop

Maybe now you realise these rich business owners protesting with their expensive machinery only care about themselves. They don't give a shit about the people of Ireland which is why they're so comfortable holding us hostage.

Among the most cunning of marine predators is the Stevie Smith shark.

I see some of the bois planning protests about fuel cost up here, are actual fuel smugglers. Could not make it up

This is who they are. Believe what they do.

Can anyone explain why the fuck an FG TD was accompanying the supposed spokespersons of the John Deere Irregulars up to govt buildings? A TD from a govt party hanging out with people who want to topple it.

National Party stickers all around O’Connell Street incase anyone has any doubts as to who has been front and centre of this.