I need to stop looking at things, because I will go mad.

I dunno, lads, maybe Widow’s Bay is too scary? If you are a wuss? Which I definitely am?

In momentous dog health news, Tess came out for the walk TWO DAYS IN A ROW. This means her anti-inflammatories are really working. Of course, yesterday we met a friend of ours who was doling out actual roast chicken, so I suspect Tess thought that might happen again today. It did not.

I'm going on Master Chef, looking Gordon Ramsay dead in the eye while I pop this in the microwave, then staring at him unblinking for two minutes until it's ready.

Watched The Palm Beach Story (1942) last night. Fantastic film (bit racist though, obvs). The MPV was Claudette Colbert's suit, where every single stripe is perfectly pattern-matched to indicate a woman who knows EXACTLY what she's about. Absolutely incredible work from Irene's team.

While this is obviously horrible (and he has no idea what he's talking about), how mad do you reckon Malachy got on seeing this? Hutch keeps eating his lunch over and over and over again. He must be absolutely spitting. Punching holes in the drywall.

We needed a new shower curtain for the guest bath and let the 9yo pick the replacement, no regrets whatsoever. It brings me joy every time I walk by and we’ve named the kitten Catney Spears.

Prince: Girls & Boys Alvvays: Archie, Marry Me MBV: Soon Orbital: Halcyon Doc Scott: The Unofficial Ghost Japan: Quiet Life Breeders: Cannonball Spectrum: Sweet Running Water Sonic Youth: Kotton Krown Chemical Brothers: Hey Boy Hey Girl

My dog is currently ignoring his breakfast to try and get a fly to play with him. The fly is dead. I have a goth dog. A tiny, blonde goth terrier.

"Paranoia, cruelty and the faux-knowing cynical cluelessness of conspiracy theories all extend far beyond the Magaverse now. They are qualities routinely displayed across the political spectrum… "This might be Donald Trump’s lasting legacy: he has already reshaped America in his own image."

It's amazing seeing people who supposedly have at least half a brain posting conspiracy theory nonsense about staged assassination attempts.

I refuse to wax nostalgic about the Mississippi paddle steamer that got wedged in the side of Stephen's Green. It was ugly then and it's ugly now.

75yo neocon columnist: This YouTuber Says Capitalism Is Not “On Fleek”, But Is He Mogging Democrats’ Midterm Chances? 38 year old fellow at the Institute for Ethical Euthenasia of the Homeless: this is the most important thing youll read this year. if youre not scared youre not paying attention

Happy 25th birthday to SpamAssassin! The first commit was made to CVS back on this day, 25 years ago: github.com/apache/spama...

we all know I have no life, so:

I was trying to get a nice photo of him with the springtime foliage and he just kept shouting at me to throw the ball. He's so mean.

Hey maybe it does make sense for them to hack Bluesky. There could be a whole pro-war, war-criminal side to Bluesky that you don't know about because you weren't invited. Be grateful you weren't invited.

"Thank you for your question. As the new head of Apple, I wish to deny reports that everyone will automatically have _Loveless_ appear in their iPhone music app. In fact, it will be the entire Creation-and-onward discography." "But what about _This Is Your Bloody Valen--" "SECURITY."

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

"Decadence", "National Service", Palantir sure aren't hiding huh. There's a hint of Futurism in it too but it's the Futurism that was soon to go a very specific way in Italy.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

You have to have the app. You have to remember how to sign into the app. You have to have the app open at the right time. Your phone definitely has to be working. It's such fucking ageist, ableist bullshit.

No. She'd have made a Liz Truss jibe you absolute lettuce.

He is the crown prince of Can-dish-it-out-but-can’t-take-it-stan.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Visit beautiful Adrian in the Tau Ceti System! #art

Barbara Stanwyck: They say a moonlit deck is a woman’s business office. Me: Who says that? My husband: Cool people, that’s who.

Look, I found the so-called fuel protests horrific too, but I think a €500 million fine is too severe. Just a moment, I'm getting some new information ...

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Freaking Awesome!

We need to get these lads back down to the countryside smartish otherwise who’ll cut the hedgerows down to ground level during nesting season

Me and everyone else who’s been to the gym more than once: How much do you reckon Kumail Nanjiani can bench?

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I know everyone loves the Onion horse op ed, and it is very funny, but it just makes me sad.

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

Effing heretics, all of them. Idol worshippers, all of them. What's nice is that you could raise Luther, Calvin, Augustine, Aquinas, the assorted Fathers and Doctors of the Eastern and Western churches, a gamut of popes from all stripes, and they'd concur that these are heretics of the worst kind

Normally I have to set up every new app for my mam and carefully explain it to her, but give her a chance of Noah Wyle and suddenly she’s Johnny Mnemonic.

The finest genre of movie is “Guy kicks everyone’s ass for 80 of 90 minutes”

I must have the forbidden fastest-land-animal egg. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A television show called "Is It Cake?" where a panel of judges rate cover versions of Short Skirt Long Jacket

This will explain why there's no frogspawn in the pond, then.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

There is a word for these sorts of laws.

It has somehow been five years since the release of Barb and Star Go To Vista del Mar, which features one of the most sublime sequences in cinema history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUky...

SEQUEL ANNOUNCEMENT there are three fox puppers

‘Gender critical’ transphobes are SO rabidly attacking trans people and trans-inclusive organisations, they can’t wait to hurt trans kids! 😖 Despite the law confirming that trans girls don’t need to be excluded! Transphobes are vindictive bullies! 😤 👉 archive.ph/tuBH6

bsky.app/profile/mayo... What if we just repaired small things in Ireland? We've always loved capex and hated opex and it's nice to have shiny things. But they break and we waste them by not fixing enough of them quickly enough. Worse, sometimes we get the expensive but fragile version of things.