7 years today since our great friend Lyra McKee was taken from us. I wonder what she'd think about the world today. I hope she'd be proud of those whose lives she touched. I'll be up to see you this afternoon, honey. Love you as ever.

7 years today since our great friend Lyra McKee was taken from us. I wonder what she'd think about the world today. I hope she'd be proud of those whose lives she touched. I'll be up to see you this afternoon, honey. Love you as ever.

If you know a Rosanna who's lost a Capital One credit card in the Ravenhill area of Belfast today, let her know it's with the peelers at Musgrave in city centre. Tried to leave it in at Castlereagh station so it would be nearby but they wouldn't touch it!

If they have room in unicode for 🫪 this shit 🫪 they have room to bring back the love of my life who I've mourned for over a decade #HairyHeart2026

been a fan of Owl City and Adam Young's other music projects for decades but this has gotta be his worst lyric of all time lmao The song is class but dear god man

love is in the snail van

ok it's time to be cringe. zero of our friends have been surprised at the news but it's indescribably wonderful when, during the best holiday you can remember, walking around the Atlantic coast of Ireland, you and your best friend of many years become girlfriends 🔥 @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

I was fully expecting to have a bit of craic holding a couple of lambs. We got there at 9am, it was pissing rain and we were the only people there the whole time. Ended up hand bottle feeding over a dozen lambs each and were completely unsupervised almost the whole time lol - genuinely lovely!

snail van has a sniffle. this is what the engine sounds like under no load (in neutral, he's fine idling in drive, not running lean, just with reduced power). pretty awful noise! telltale is the brake returning so quickly after the booster loses power. easy fix! #WeirdCarBS

travel with the wonderful @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social. can't bate it with a big schtick

Have well over 1,200 photos from the past week so no apologies if I'm posting them for a good bit. Some bangers in there

I am such an absolutely huge fan of her actually. (with @ellenfromnowon.co.uk at the Conor Pass waterfall)

accidentally took a photo of @ellenfromnowon.co.uk as the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in Dingle

holidays are so much better when you bring an outdoorsy lesbian and a stupid car with you (@eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social / 1989 Nissan S-Cargo G20)

more of Dingle: truly such a magical place. the weather was, to me, absolutely perfect. rain, cold, wind, it really added to the whole vibe of the place. I’ve really just never seen anything quite like it. First picture is a tea break taken while tailgating at the beach

I was fully expecting to have a bit of craic holding a couple of lambs. We got there at 9am, it was pissing rain and we were the only people there the whole time. Ended up hand bottle feeding over a dozen lambs each and were completely unsupervised almost the whole time lol - genuinely lovely!

Taking Conor Pass out of Dingle, County Kerry was a bit of a gamble in the snail van (extremely steep hills, twisty corners and long descents that cook brakes badly) but he did great. Here's me and then the snail at the waterfall on the north side of the Pass.

Shout out to Sallagh, resident dog at the Greenway Lodge B&B in Achill Sound, who was an endless delight during our stay. Here he is mid-gallop on his way for belly rubs.

snail enrichment activity: bring him to the atlantic coast along a gravel track so he can witness the wrath of neptune 📍 Ferriter's Cove, Dingle Peninsula 🇮🇪 #WeirdCarBS

1,800 kilometres added to the snail van's odometer forever, and worth every one. Best trip I've been on in years, really gives you a boost. 🗺️ Belfast, County Antrim > Kinsale, Co Cork > Dingle, Co Kerry > Achill Island, Co Mayo > Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal > Belfast with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

Nice day for Achill Island. The biggest offshore island of Ireland! Been here plenty but today it was to die for

Rough, lumpy idle but fine performance when giving it pedal, and reduced braking power, starting right after a high speed emergency brake... carburetted engine. This screams brake booster issue right? Vacuum leak? Should hopefully be an easy enough fix!

Two hours in standstill traffic (300m in 110 minutes lol) for the fuel protests outside Limerick. Has made a 5 hour drive a bit more interesting, mini picnic with new pals on the live motorway carriageway.

snail enrichment activity: bring him to the atlantic coast along a gravel track so he can witness the wrath of neptune 📍 Ferriter's Cove, Dingle Peninsula 🇮🇪 #WeirdCarBS

Corca Dhuibhne

Say hi to Beanie. She was born premature with her guts on the outside but she's doing great now and is growing quickly under a heat lamp like a #KomodoDragon

horsin' around with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

gorsin’ around 📸: @ellenfromnowon.co.uk

New battery day for the Nissan S-Cargo! The snail van was struggling to start in the cold and had a resting voltage of 11.9V. That's both a dead flat battery and proof this thing starts like nothing else! All shiny and new now. #TimingGenious #SparkGapPerfected #CarburettorWizard

Got rear-ended at slow speed on my bicycle by someone driving a huge pickup truck today, they pulled up behind me at a junction, then because of the huge bonnet on the truck, forgot I had was pulling a trailer? All fine except for their truck bumper. Victorious photo under the motorway overpass:

nothing gets younger friends annoyed in little ways like using hashtags in your private messages like it's you're tweeting in 2011. it's impossible to stop

Helping a loved one fix up their electric wheelchair. Always kept clean, dried off after rain. How many of you would expect £8,000 (that's with 0% VAT too) to get you unprepared mild steel with a single coat of paint, rust-prone fasteners and controllers that die in the rain?

how much do you think your insurance would go up if you crashed into 92 antiprotons

Days like iss? When do we ever get days like iss? Ats a wonder day.

UK/Ireland trans people: what's a good way to get low dose testosterone these days? I'm out of the loop. Super low dose, ideally the same someone would be prescribed post oophorectomy.

After careful inspection and assessment, I believe this decking is showing signs that it's approaching end of life, although it will function as healthy topsoil in a few years if the customer prefers to keep it

I very rarely act on it - has to be a real gem of a find - but I've always been a nosy bastard when it comes to looking into skips people have on the street outside their house as I walk past. One of life's little joys. What's wrong with that big crate? You'll miss it in 5 years when you need one!

not to brag

previously uncharted sharp edge on the back of an appliance decided to slice all four of the very tips of my fingers open today on my dominant hand, just deep enough that they're bleeding and sore as fuck, but not so deep that they can more easily be held closed to heal. sent using my left hand 👍

when you excel at something in life, you can flourish by staying at the top. you might prefer to try something else, though. for example, i won Boy of the Year in primary school at the age of 10

yooooo look what i have uncovered #FenianUpbringing

Another productive weekend working on my brother's house. I had already disconnected this random unarmoured 240V supply that went nowhere but this masterpiece was hidden. That twin black wire goes directly into the brickwork mortar for some fucking reason, and it looks like 12V cable. Nope, 240V!

got some new tools today! hole punches for webbing material that cost £22 each advertised as tool steel that are very clearly mild steel. the fuckers nearly fold in half in the press lmao

sorry british media, sectarianism is OUR word

Life update: been rewiring my gay brother's house, just delivered a functional prototype of the wearable tech project I've been working on for a client for months now and it was a huge success, and I got celery and onions for basically free at the shop right as it closed so celery soup dinner

Brand new double yellow lines I spotted today had an interesting failure - they just peeled up! Maybe cos the ground has been so soaking wet? It's like a 3D printing failure lol

Walking to big Tesco and passed a pair of nice fellas carrying one of those bubble cat backpacks that let the cat see outside. Come level with them and there's a fucking parrot in there. His name is wingnut!

tommy robinson is doing another glipe march and i saw the we are charlie kirk shit AI music video they did for it. why do they always refer to N Ireland as "Ulster" lmao, is it because Northern Ireland is a mouthful in a song or are they trying to snipe another 3 counties now

thanks tesco great insight

Perils of keeping the windows open for some fresh air during the first night without rain in 7 weeks: woke up to a spider the size of a newborn kitten chilling beside me in bed ☹️