Catching up with probably my favourite tv show of the year the wonderful #PotteryThrowdown Such talent even in the first episode. I love how everyone on this has loads of hobbies.

My kid loves Nationwide and tonight it’s all about Dublin Port so we are both loving it. Large ships and customs dogs!

And make sure to leave some water out as well!

If you can leave some food out for the birds especially if you feed them now and then as they’ll be checking everywhere for food this morning to keep them going. My crows and starlings are starving!

I feel a great disturbance in the force, like a million Glenroe theme tunes playing at once.

I think I need to put a reminder in my calendar to do the Christmas shopping online in October. This year I mostly did it in real shops in December and it was patchy and slim pickings. Really hate how shops are a season ahead now.

Writing this piece about the connections made between AfghanI refugees and local Irish people was quite heartening www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Watching RRR again because sure why not.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Ah I see we have reached the point where Mo Gilligan loses his grip on reality. #TheMaskedSinger #MaskedSinger #MaskedSingerUK

Can I persuade you towards significant jollity? #TheMaskedSinger is on ITV at 6.30pm and it is just the most eccentric, silly and delightful guessing game to lead you into The Traitors. If you’ve been sniffy about it before, let this be your sign to give it a go. Someone will be dressed as a sloth.

Almost time for the complete nonsense that is The Masked Singer. Bread and Circuses eh.

Really awful that story about the fire in the bar in Switzerland. Lots of young people involved.

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Donald Trump has said the United States has taken the President of Venezuela and flown him out of his country.

Great to have a proper west of Scotland pronunciation of “murder” #thetraitors

Checking out all the handwriting on #TheTraitors

All the gays gravitating to mother Fiona, as they should #TheTraitors

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

A gorgeous full moon out tonight. Went to Newbridge demesne for a walk and saw all the crows returning to the their roost for the night all squawking and chatting to each other about their day.

I regret to inform you that over on Facebook even newborn babies can’t catch a break from the racism. These peoples brains are rotted. This was on happy posts about new years babies.

A good start to the year. Wordle 1,657 2/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Even we’re now starting to lose track of the amount of rollbacks of basic road safety commitments from this Government No safe road speeds No restructuring of the RSA No automatic camera enforcement Oh and we’ve just had the worst year for road deaths in a decade

Imagine if in 2026 we decided everyone should have access to: Housing Food Clean water Childcare Healthcare Paid time off Education We can choose to make it happen. We can stop blaming people for being sick, poor or marginalized & start demanding more from the elite.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir! Happy new year to you all.

Hard to pick one but its Weapon Of Choice by Fat Boy Slim. youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8?...

Irish people well able to make a short story long all by themselves.

I remember watching the royal Institution Christmas lectures when I was younger. Now C is loving watching Maggie Aderin-Pocock explain space science. She’s great at this.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

And the Irish Star. Which didn't credit me but did sneak in some Popperian epistemology I was arguing into the article www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...

People article about my "we didn't start the fire" graph people.com/brigitte-bar...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

PSA: it’s 2025 and I am pretty sure every single person you have ever met who mentions they have seasonal depression to you has, in fact, already heard about and tried the lights and vitamin D supplements while you mean well, please stop telling us about them as if they are new information

Just finished the jigsaw and one piece is missing! My mum got it from someone she knows who swore all the pieces were in the box.

Some local kids write & sell their own newspaper called The Morning Moustache every few months. Last edition, I wrote a letter to the editor about a fruit & veg safari. This edition, they printed the letter & followed up with some replies from the editorial team. An extremely fun correspondence.

Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.

Rest in peace Barbara G Walker. A knitting genius. She invented the ssk, popularized knitting from the top down and most famously wrote THE knitting stitch dictionaries. And she was a celebrated author in other areas too.

What a sunset this evening.

Today I'm making turkey and ham pie using a Neven Maguire recipe. My mum loves it. Recipe is here and in his Christmas cookbook which is great. christmasfm.com/turkey-ham-p...

The way people have just chucked the whole idea of consensus reality into the bin has been my biggest ick of 2025. People are going to come unmoored in a big way if this continues. #spéirghorm #ireland

People often think unhinged grifters are a new phenomenon but they've always been around, it was just you didn't hear of their shenanigans as much at the time. A wild thread.

Cast on a Christmas sock with west Yorkshire spinners sock yarn in Holly Berry. Had a chilled St Stephen's Day.

That time of year again!

We got a great Christmas present as my daughter and I got tickets for the Uncanny fear of the dark live show!

My dad wasn't well today so my mum and I did the cooking today. The turkey turned out very tasty. Traditional dinner as that's what they all like. A really lovely day today.

Good morning Happy Christmas! Up at 7 this year which wasn't too bad.

Fat Bottomed Santa has almost finished his festive duties. Looks like he's hitting the sauce.