Rahaan was deadly last night. Relaxing and therapeutic to dance for 3+ hours to some good house music. He played an edit of Stop Making Sense that seemed to perfectly suit the gloriously goofy crowd. The sound system was different this time, so my ears took a hit (worth it though obviously)

Haven’t done a wine post in ages, so here you go. This one’s from central Greece and blends traditional Greek grape varieties. It’s dry with a slight suggestion of salty fizz. It’s lovely. Quaffed it with some fish tacos & guacamole

Informed that my 12 y/o nephew is writing a novel and that he’s already written 17 chapters Mixed feelings tbh

sherman, for the love of god!

Looking fwd to seeing Rahaan spinning at the Dublin Disco All-Dayer tomorrow along with a plethora of local deejays That bespoke sound system they created for these particular parties is a real beaut

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

Obviously really hope the cease fire in Gaza sticks. I’m dreaming, but it would be cool if all the people who committed the war crimes & the Israeli Gov who ordered the acts of genocidal ethnic cleansing & their international enablers, could now be brought to some semblance of justice

I mean, look at this one for example, it’s unreal - images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5...

Speaking of Niamh, she’s put some of her recent collage pieces up on her website if you’re interested to see them - www.niamhflanagan.com/unlimiting-t...

Japanese ambient heads, in case you missed it, may these 2 x “Music For Resorts” compilations from Kankyō Records bring you some peace: 1. kankyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-... 2. kankyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Resource wars are famously very uniting though.

well lush birikliche.bandcamp.com/album/dabrea

Leonard Cohen’s Cocktail Recipe: Learn How to Make “The Red Needle”

Followers in London, this is on Saturday with Dublin homies Dunk & Bea playing their live collaboration at it. Proper (I don’t normally like using that word but in the case it’s true) PROPER experimental & psychedelic electronic music that will blow your mind. The whole show looks awesome too o/c -

The whole getting a “like” showing up your previously unnoticed typo conundrum gets a bit tired after a while eh I swear my phone’s predictive text hates me and is actively trying to undermine me

suspending my generalized agnosticism to pray for Dolly Parton

I have a theory on why the tech industry is fash, but I’m not academic enough & I’m too lazy/busy with my life to research & write about it - too much exposure to algorithms (ie the sorting of information into binary groups) as a solution to everything reduces & skews your view of individual humans

This week's article! It's about our current uh... issues regarding moderation on this site, and aims to explain why this *keeps* happening in the tech industry:

I love this, but as a very random & highly improbable example against turning off your notifications it also irks the hell out of me…

Child: I am sick. Me: Ok, but hear me out, have you considered, just going to school anyway? Child: No Me: K. That’s fine. Goodbye life again.

Fianna Fáil’s presidential candidate vetting process -

The Jim Gavin story came to light because the tenant in question worked as a deputy editor for a large media organisation (?) Disconcerting to think it would likely have stayed buried if otherwise…

I see we’ve made the whole incorrect-American-reply-guy genre into a precision engineered blood sport today Grand so

Mental how the wheeled out pundits are so quick to paint Jim Gavin as an “honourable man” and how he’s somehow been dealt a tough hand, when the guy pocketed 3k of a tenant and stone walled about repaying them for… 16 years That to me is a very succinct example of being dishonourable

Sometimes I worry that my deejaying is too normie & that I should do it weirder, but I had a lovely guest on our show last week whose hard house loving listeners were bordering on being offended by my tempo-shifting sections & mixing. That gives me comfort that I’m probably in a sweet spot with it

FF voters in my work circle not at all enthusiastic at the prospect of voting for Humphries. Some saying they’ll vote Gavin regardless. What a delightful cluster fuck they’ve created for themselves

New Gist: Jim Bows Out “For anyone who has ever had to deal with a landlord who took their cash this is the stuff of legend. You would let the monkey paw get you for it. “Who needs a soul?“, Faust would have said as he traded for this outcome.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-jim...

So many Jim Gavin posters up & down the country now reminding anyone passing them of Micheál Martin’s poor judgement, and that makes the years of him getting a pass almost worthwhile

Irish bluesky (ní twitter) blowing up in response ignorant American’s replies is one of my fav internet genres Possibly works so well due to shared language but different cultures or something. I dunno, but I’m here for it

I'm gonna getcha

Getting night buses is so chaotic, my god

Before I get to the recipe let me tell you how this specific sandwich caused the French Revolution in 1789.

We’ve special guest AJ Mur in our little digital radio show tonight. Al is my age, but only recently got in deejaying about a year ago. This is his first time playing outside his gaff, so we’re quite honoured to facilitate it -

RIP Manchán Magan. I recently enjoyed his short series on John Moriarty and what struck me was that he’s as much of a national treasure as the latter. Gone too young, a real loss to the culture - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Was never that great and I know people have their issues with it, but even at that, has anyone noticed a major drop in Shazam’s performance in the past 6 months or so? Seems like it’s just given up on accuracy and it now throws up any old result as a guess, which is kind of funny I suppose

Fantastic thread of horror movies from a filmmaker, to help you through the month. bsky.app/profile/paul...

This is alarming. To add - the piece on RTÉ 1 / Country Wide on Sat about the Blackwater fish kill (largest ever recorded in Ireland) illuminated how inept we are at responding to water pollution events. Basically it took the agencies (several involved) so long that the report came back inconclusive

Happy 70th birthday to the wonderful Phil Oakey. Here are the Human League performing Being Boiled on Granada TV in 1978 youtu.be/hENt5xGR8Ng

What did the British reggae singer say to his friend on the birthday of their 4th decade? UB40

Red Red Wine slaps as a tune because it’s good for drinkin’ vino to, defo good for smokin’ to and also great for ridin’ to. No wonder it’s a classic beloved by the masses

I back this up by cutting off 1/3rd and cutting the remaining 2/3rds diagonally…

Gonna to miss The Congos in Dublin this month because my selfish-ass friends decided to get married last minute. The nerve of ‘em, was really looking fwd to it! What a La La Bam-Bam

Was surprised by how many I (a house head) know, which almost certainly means it shouldn’t make anyone’s top 1,000 best lists of the best rap albums of all time 👍

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

Fowling up the timeline to say Twink used to be a regular customer of mine when I worked in telesales & she was every bit as awkwardly cringey in real life as you’d expect. Started every call with “do you know who I am”, and I would rely “yes Adele, sure wasn’t I only dealing with you yesterday”

Pivoting to things I’d rather be talking about…my dance music hot take for today is that sometimes the original mix does everything you need it to, in a lot of cases a remix is definitely not needed

I really hate this techno future the main platforms have lobbied into existence. Of course we all need to be aware of propaganda, none of us are immune. Bullshit like this is why I want to protect Catherine Connolly from slander -

Luckily, Michael D. said this, and not Catherine Connolly, which of course would have been very unpresidential of her. #Áras25 #speirgorm

Ian McShane is 83 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...