I’m dismayed by the decline in the quality of everyday items, systems, and interactions. Not only because our quality of life is eroding, but because once you’ve normalized the enshittification of everything, it’s much harder to notice it or to fight it.

Nearly everything is more cheaply made now than it was decades ago, from appliances to clothing to actual houses themselves. Shrinkflation is hitting food packaging. Customer service is nonexistent. The entire internet enshittifying. All while everything costs more and the wealth gap grows.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

1/2 I see the 2 Johnnies pop up so much more on tv adverts now. Which, I am fucking horrified by. I know the world is going through a particularly regressive time but it is so upsetting to see the likes of Bord Gais encourage it.

Had a painful middle finger on my left hand for days. This morning, agony. Then I googled it with perimenopause and loads of articles about painful hand during this time. But I honestly feel I could google 'left eye pops out every Tuesday at 3:15pm' and it would say it is a perimenopause symptom

What in the Frankenstein sex dungeon is this? www.daft.ie/for-sale/hou...

me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:

Whoa. This is some thread

"Nothing matters and there's no point in even trying because it won't work" may as well be the Taoiseach's personal motto at this point.

It's poison. I recently saw an archive clipping related to ABBA's 1979 tour, the caption under a photo of the women was "Flabba." Alison Moyet was asked by a German journalist if she was "ashamed" to go onstage "looking like that." Dumb fat jokes persist in The Devil Wears Prada. It has to change.

On the back of the CMAT stuff, last night I watched the Kylie doc It was 1991 when I first became aware of Dannii Minogue If you remember, you remember, but I cannot express enough how much the press labelled her the 'chubby' sister. Followed her for years. I was 13 & being told that this was fat

have kept this to myself for years but tonight is the night i'm saying it. i've never seen benjamin button and i never will. i don't want to see a big baby old man or whatever it is that's going on there.

I don't believe in making a big deal of your birthday as an adult unless I'm asked to do any kind of chore 2 weeks either side of mine. Then I am the special birthday boy.

When even someone as confident and talented as CMAT is affected by the level of body-shaming vitriol aimed at her, what hope do the rest of us have. Body positivity is worthwhile, but it can only go so far when society still treats commenting on people's bodies as acceptable. We've so, so far to go.

That CMAT stuff is genuinely so upsetting. The current beauty standard is based on the aesthetic of very young children. Hairless, rail thinness, bleach blonde hair, plump lips etc. It is not what grown women look like. Its what an 8 year old looks like. I am so angry for her, for all of us.

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

John Gibbons: From deadly heatwaves to missed climate targets, the climate warning signs are flashing red, while political urgency in Ireland is nowhere to be seen... jrnl.ie/7054392

I am not saying people can't 'enjoy the sun'. But what is coming for us, very soon, is terrifying. And no one is taking is seriously. This is world ending stuff. Do people not realise that? John Gibbons: The planet is burning, but Ireland still isn't taking climate change seriously jrnl.ie/7054392

Wasn't going to watch this because it is clearly football. However, good for him. Hopefully that is the start of a serious conversation about this match

Movie fact. There has never been a movie made that didn’t feature either Brendan Gleeson or Colm Meaney.

“Why don’t women report” See: E. Jean Carroll and her subsequent retribution As long as we have a society that glosses over SA because “men make mistakes” while also blaming victims for being whores, this will continue

The social media companies are all in favour of banning teenagers because they know it doesn't work (*points to Australia where teens are still on social media*) and allows them to get away with making no changes at all and facing no consequences at all

@gerrymcbride.bsky.social hello! I think you seem to know stuff. You know anything about air con? THANK YOU. Yours sincerely, Sleep deprived, Dublin.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Has anyone in Ireland ever delt with an Air Conditioning company? Looking for a recommendation. THANK YOU

It’s feeling a smidgeon cooler, so here’s a cool print. Sorry.

We’ve provisionally broken the UK record for the highest May minimum temperature for the third night in a row 🌡️ Camborne only fell to 21.4°C overnight, making for another ‘tropical night’ (above 20°C). Meanwhile, Loch Glascarnoch in Scotland dropped to 1.1°C

I have just seen a comment about a proposed new hotel on Camden Street in Dublin. The comment went straight to 'this plan has IPAS centre written all over it'. Nice. But they then went on to describe Camden St as the 'epee centre of Dublin nightlife' epee centre epee centre

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

life is so much EASIER when you just adopt an attitude of "is this actually impacting my life? no? crack on then". you'd think some of these people would give up just from the effort involved of being so angry all the time

Imagine being on the anti-trans rights side and seeing the gov change the law to allow trans segregation and thinking "Yes! I can't WAIT to go to the shops and film random employees as I harass them! This is the best day of my life!". You really have to be such a fucking loser to be transphobic

One of my favourite London heat facts is that in the summer, temperatures on the tube regularly exceed the legal standards for the safe and humane transport of livestock.

TL;DR It’s hot as all fuck. Skip the dog walk. You have my permission. Signed, Your friendly neighbourhood veterinary surgeon.

A cool breeze coming through the bedroom window

The media sells a beach day. In 2024, Europe saw 60,000 heat deaths. Heat kills.

Heat kills. Yet, without fail, all Irish media outlets are covering the current heatwave using beach and ice cream pictures. Barely any mention of the harms of heat, nor climate change fuelling more frequent and severe heatwaves.

stop writing articles about extreme heat using fun summer imagery challenge: impossible (apparently) apnews.com/article/euro...

I'll shut up about the weather now. Tomorrow, I have a whole new tirade about Richard Osman

Arrived in Crete. Sat on the coach and the serial killer next to me in a sleeveless army jacket just asked his phone “is there anything worth doing on Crete?”

if the media could just stop calling this good weather, it would be a start. But they won't even do that. No, no, but can I interest you in a picture of a child having an ice cream on a beach? HOORAY!

A record 274 climbers summit Everest from Nepalese side in single day 'Kami Rita Sherpa scaled the peak for the 32nd time this week' Jaysus, he must have been wrecked.

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

And one for #spéirgorm fans

Pushing 40 degrees for this Friday in Bordeaux. IT'S MAY. And, can someone explain why the media refuse to call hot weather anything other than 'good'. None of this is good. Average temps for Ireland are 11 to 16 degrees for May Monday was pushing 30.

Everything about this...

Being bald means people assume you wear a hat in the summer just to protect your head from getting burned. To prove these people wrong, I cut a hole in the top of my hat, leaving my bald head fully exposed, and allowing me the room to be fashionable in a hat without it being a bald thing.

Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.

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@ronandusty.bsky.social I have corrected this article but, thought it might help

Fucking hell. It was so hot this weekend, the orange i left on my desk melted. THE ORANGE MELTED. I have never seen anything like this.