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The crazy thing about being Irish is you can go for years being like yeah I know big Irish head not me though and then the first time you actually set out to buy a hat boom fuck you

lads what are we even doing here

I read an amazing book a while back with an Antarctic setting and now I can't remember what it was. It was quite short and had a genuinely unexpected twist.

Went outside for ten minutes and now I look like I've gazed into the heart of a nuclear reactor

I have been scolded by a family member for not answering my phone much 😭 Is it so wrong to ask that all correspondence to me take the form of a hand written note? Accompanied by a snack?

Once again accidentally typing "Knights" in White Satin into Google, furious and disoriented that it isn't the right spelling.

As I prepare to move out of my beloved flat, I recall the absolute state of trying to move in. This is a photo of my books once I'd managed to get most of them in one place. You're telling me I have to move these all again??

i am falling down a zine rabbithole

ae keep gaetting aell the targaryens in a twaest because the aell haeve such similaer naemes

I watched Search for Spock last night and I'm just saying I think I could have guessed those codes

My sister's cat is also a liquid

Showed my father an app I use to identify plants and I fear he will stop at nothing to possess a smartphone

I abandoned House of the Dragon because I thought it was a massive snooze fest. Anyway, I am being drawn back in by the clips from Season 3 that show Rhaenyra doing well, and I am sure that nothing bad will happen to her or her line from this point onwards :))

Look what I got 👀 @guillermostitch.bsky.social

Me after watching Obsession youtube.com/shorts/pZ9tr...

Someone stuck a Top Gear DVD on my windshield like a note 😭 is this some kind of oblique commentary on my parking

Learned a great new word: horripilate.

I'm reading something interesting and making little notes to myself so I remember bits and pieces later, but apparently I need to "work on my handwriting" because "it's impossible to read"

A while back I bumped into someone I taught during Covid-times (i.e. we only spoke online) and she goes "I'd know that hair anywhere" 😭

This is pretty cool. I think I started picking out words at like 800AD, and then a full phrase (which I won't spoil) emerged from the fog at 900AD. And when you watch with the translation, you can see where the connections are.

People I see in real life: if, like me, you are prone to burn if anyone even talks about the sun, just know that I will almost certainly have some suncream with me. Just ask if you need it.

House hunting is going well

This season's must-have accessory is the dorky wearable fan I bought in Riga.

Give me ur best high energy, optimistic, positive music suggestions pls

Anyway, in more positive news, I might be able to take part in lots of cool, creative things over the next while. And I have an excuse to buy a brand new (as in recently published!) book. So that's nice.

Our beloved flat has been sold and I'm just so sad.

Driving around with the window down, feeling the sun on my face

Got given a National Book Token ❤️ decisions decisions

I'm not built for this weather

Celebrated M's birthday by tramping around Edinburgh.

Heh

Our flight is delayed by approximately 100000000 hours so I used the wee voucher they gave us on some much-needed airport reading

As I eye up my poor pension prospects, I learn with horror that a distant cousin has turned 105.

I keep seeing the argument that AI summaries "give you the foundation" on which to build knowledge through further research. But I'm keen to know if there is any (actual) research into whether or not people are using it this way? Because nearly everyone I know takes the summary as gospel.

Learning some nice geological vocabulary: thalweg, schistose.

Booked a last minute trip for M's birthday and I cannot WAIT

Hopelessly suggestible. I am reading the account of someone who spent a season as a hermit on the shore of Lake Baikal and now it's all I want to do.

I know someone whose address was on that list and the police told her to leave Belfast 🙃

Anaka is organising a fundraiser for those affected by last night's racist attacks. Please consider donating: chuffed.org/project/1854...

Help I have the toothbrush song from this clip stuck in my head

My sister doing stellar work for the Donegal tourist board

She's fallen out with me because I wouldn't let her into the cupboard where our stand mixer lives 💔

absolutely obsessed with the classified section of the new york review of books.

I just listened to the video of AI trying to pronounce "WWE" and I was not prepared

Once again reading to a captive audience