This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk

Imagine if there was an epidemic of pubs selling alcohol to children and instead of shutting the pubs responsible the government imposed a nationwide curfew on everyone under 16.

Do people still use "you effort" as an insult, I feel it is due a resurgence.

Jeremy Bentham Building a prison and spying on every cell I don't think he's well

Scramblers are already illegal on paths and in parks, because they are motorbikes! And they are illegal on roads if not taxed, registered, and insured, because they are motorbikes!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) r/brutalism

As the man says, spectacular level of credulous horseshit (from an article about Amazon layoffs).

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

Exactly this. Cyclists etc already suggest to each other that hiviz, lights, helmets are a good idea in places with bad bike infrastructure. But when agencies with the power to do far more effective things emphasise hiviz, it signals clearly that they don't want to do those more effective things.

Fake thumbnails for fake Youtube videos is a favourite genre of mine

Kids also love Herbie Hancock www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoi...

Unreleased Blue Note UK albums from the era of cool #jazz. #graphicdesign

13yo reports that some American visitors sitting in front of him on the bus exclaimed "you can really feel the heritage!" when crossing O'Connell Bridge.

I don’t think it matters how much hi-viz a person is wearing when an Amazon delivery van is reversing down the footpath at speed - just saw this on Griffith Ave in Dublin. The footpath’s wide enough to fit a van so sure enough some delivery driver will attempt to bomb down it backwards. #RoadSafety

RIP Sly Dunbar, drums on everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1I...

The Nudge mentality is alive and well in the semi-state managerial class. There are very obvious ways to improve their services. I'll give them those for free. But they cost money. What they want is a secret incantation that will make things better but for free. www.reddit.com/r/IfBooksCou...

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland. Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.

OK so in 1992 a girl I know went with her brother to Lepre-con and she was one of the only girls there. The shy nerdy boys acted like she was the goddess Aphrodite and it did wonders for her self-confidence. Then one boy approached her with a figurine and said "I have painted you an orc".

Perfume nerd achievement unlocked: man in cafe just asked me what I was wearing because it smelled amazing (Tantrum by Boy Smells, should you too wish to smell like me this morning).

Government announce it will be illegal to generate CSAM on X if you're not wearing a helmet

Every week there's a pair of headlines that's like "NUMBER OF HOMELESS CHILDREN REACHES ONE MILLION" and "GOVERNMENT TO FAST TRACK BILL BANNING TURNING YOUR PILLOW OVER TO THE COOL SIDE"

Good morning humans who like to go to things in Dublin. I have updated Dublin's premier events listing spreadsheet. There are many exciting new additions. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #Speirgorm #DublinGigs #DublinListings

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

i never want to hear people say o'connell street is dangerous again when a lamborghini has been sitting there untouched for a week

Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus

Dublin's new housing policy is "I thought I told you to FUCK OFF."

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

i think if everything's going to hell i might start telling people to fuck off on linkedin

🎵 you’ve been closed by / you’ve been shut by / the task manager

“10s of thousands have died or suffered abject ruination in the service of a few glossy pictures. The shambolic project that killed or ruined them was made possible not only by a seemingly bottomless supply of oil money, but by the borrowed prestige of some of the West’s leading architecture firms”

And in "spectacular car brain" news. "We should be able to give the motorists a break. You know we all talk about trying to bring business and activity back into the centre of Dublin..."

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Folks familiar with 80s girls' comics (I'm thinking Diana or Misty), am I right in thinking this artist looks v familiar?

please refer to your Davos phrasebook www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

"Without us you'd all be speaking German", Donald Trump tells an audience in Davos, in Switzerland. Where the most common language is German.

Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:

Autocorrect means that I just emailed someone to ask them about the EU bazongas

A problem with appeasement is the people doing it see it as a neutral act. "We'll just appease him until it doesn't work", as if things stand still in the meantime. But every little act of appeasement makes things worse. He's demanding Greenland cause he's been appeased into believing it's possible

Is it a particularly Irish thing to not install amenities or take amenities away Just In Case someone unsavoury uses them?

Reminded that I have actually been to a conference in Davos (not the WEF) and most of the conference centre looks like my 1980s secondary school. A lot of breeze blocks.

Went outside, lads, don't recommend it.

It’s a race now. Can he die before he’s lowered the bar of behaviour expected while in office so low that he can keep doing it while dead?

Going through old files, I just stumbled across these 2001: A Space Odyssey / 1970s kids' TV mashups. No recollection of doing them. They must have been stuff intended for #Scarfolk, but got forgotten.

EXTREMELY successful experiment with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com egg and rice breakfast this morning (please excuse asymmetrical egg).

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

At least we have clarity now about America. It’s like there’s a neighbour down the street and people say he’s a nice guy but you’ve always thought he was a bit odd, then one day everyone sees him naked and waving a sword around in a shopping centre car park, screaming about the hamster people.