Can't be the only Irish person who opened Instagram today, found about thirty different friends sharing the clip of Troy Parrott's goal, and watched all of them.

A van just passed me with a huge FFS emblazoned on it. Freight Forward Solutions in small writing underneath.

Seeing videos of the Irish team bus arriving at Gibneys in Malahide late last night, and you love to see it.

Neighbour WhatApp has someone asking what the 'procedure' is for people drinking in the stairwell of their block late at night/through the night. Really tempted to reply 'put down phone, go outside, tell them to go away'.

And who did this?

Who did this? 🇮🇪

Well, that's the most aggressive and disdainful a person has ever looked while offering a delightful free sample of speculoos biscuit to an exiting customer 😃

Me, trying to find checkout time at 2am, thinking "this is terrible content design", because everything becomes work.

Finally I've found the right form for the story of life.

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We are motoring now

Did a guided tour of Cantillon today and they were brewing as we got shown around. Visited before but it was self-guided and not operational. Mostly just blown away by how tf humans developed all this knowledge of plants and chemistry in service of getting wasted with a pleasant drink.

This is nice!

Got upgraded to a pointlessly large room.

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One for the road. Absolutely amazing record, still. Techno and house mix opposite emotions like this in a way no other music can.

Seen three people with different Fitzcarraldo Editions books on this one Eurostar. I like lots of their books but there's a Frankenstein's monster thing at work now.

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Is there any record that sounds like this? youtu.be/dVKezUsSjuI?...

Under the English channel listening to Superpitcher 😍

I already liked Dark And Long but Pink Pantheress Illegal is the most insane earworm ever made. I could listen to it a billion times and would still want to listen a billion more.

Made some friends waiting for my train at Saint Pancras, always amusing to have a few beers with some fellow travellers then off you go never to be seen again, just a very good feeling.

About to get some food near Kings Cross/Saint Pancras and the volume of options has me bamboozled. I have many usual haunts but can't decide on any one of them right now.

Planning my weekend in Brussels

Going to Brussels now. Forgot my phone charger but these things happen.

Emailed the brand about a pair of trousers I wanted which they didn't have in my size on their site, they found me a pair and when I asked if they were doing a sale next week they applied a discount! Service!

Ronaldo getting sent off more beautiful than either Irish goal.

I know understanding of early and late is shredded by ads and the discourse but I just saw a house with the Christmas lights up, wtf.

Love this.

I love this show every month, just a great meandering trip through a wide range of ambient music.

Genuinely couldn't gaf who "briefed" against who, just a complete media clown show.

He famously described his neurodivergent condition as "my superpower"

This is all a bit Coen brothers.

Every time there's a story like this that doesn't explain what the AI is supposed to do, who is providing it, who decided to implement it, how much it costs, how success or failure will be measured, etc, is quite a big failure. Tech doesn't implement itself.

50 seems oddly specific here.

I am sure there'll be a conversation about whether this excludes people, but I'd wager downloading and printing is already harder than using an app, and both are digitally exclusionary. It's not an offline user journey just because it ends with a piece of paper in your hand.

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Genuinely don't know what the point of not saying this or this sort of back and forth is. Is it just we are going to do this but we want to announce it at a time of our choosing for PR reasons?

Strange they took this photo before the hammer and sickle was painted on?

I'd watch a film about the Bond writers all living in a tightly guarded prison, held at gunpoint, and believing since birth that Bond is real and the events they are forced to write all come true, as appears to be the case.

Was just looking at an agent's website as I send my novel out and I saw they represent... Phil McNulty.

How badly can you hurt your foot by standing on a doorstop? An experiment I have conducted this evening.

Been having p much no real joy with using a CPAP machine and had a check-in with NHS today. I was feeling a bit like what's the point but they were so amazing, just mega encouraging and also assuring me there are diff setups they can try plus v determined that I wouldn't think it's my fault.

I like to play this on a grey Monday morning.

Kind of funny that the biggest PS5 videogame of the year avoids any of the strawman myths which the curator discusses trying to challenge in this article. Or that a discourse between a PS5 game and a museum show on this subject is on a fairly level playing field.

Tidiness.

I know complaining that businesses decide it's Christmas earlier every year happens earlier every year, but it is weird that Leadenhall Market has a gigantic Christmas tree up.

Just pressed play on the audiobook I'm listening to and the narrator shouted the words "but where were the drugs!?"

People don't say "the very same" enough in response to someone clarifying if you were referring to a particular person.