Rainbow over the graveyard. What's buried here is worth more than gold.

First time I ever saw a red squirrel in Sligo. It was, of course, too fast to get the camera out.

The local greengrocer has a sign in the window "President Plums". A candidate to unite the nation.

The @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on Gaza/Palestine history is probably the most interesting podcast set I have ever listened to. The journey down to Sligo is flying by.

‘Highway to the David Zone’ tour starts next week in Cork, then Dublin, loads more. Join me! Tickets: phlaimeaux.tumblr.com/shows

I don't think I have ever met anyone brave enough to watch it twice...

Shane MacGowan's singing on "Haunted" really sounds like a bad muppets impression. Impossible to keep a straight face when it comes on.

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Judging by what is going on in the bad place the digital ID plan has got right inside the OODA loop of some folks over there.

Watching Dan talk about MCP and #Spring AI at #CommitYourCode #cyc2025

A society in which the state exempts some people from carrying proof of ID while forcing that requirement on others is less fair than one where everyone is obliged to have a standardised proof of ID.

President Trump has announced 100% tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products. Given that all of the world's Botox and most of the Viagra are produced in Ireland I'd say this move will produce as much concern in US bedrooms as it does in Ireland's boardrooms.

I am in two minds about digital ID. The principle is not all that bad (although there are guard rails that would need to be put in place) but that is nothing in comparison to my lived experience that the UK government are truly dreadful at large IT projects...

A car crash involving a lot of vehicles on.ft.com/4ntq0T8

Announcement: Bill Murray is doing a documentary tour of Sligo/Mayo so if everyone could just leave the tractors in the shed for the week - it's bicycles, flat caps and cutting turf only for the next few days.

"Volvoplasty" is what happens when a family goes back to a normal saloon shaped car when their children are old enough to make their own way to school in the morning.

Would you be interested in an online heat pump class for homeowners? There's so much jargon and conflicting information in the HVAC industry - it's hard to separate fact from fiction. A structured course with easy-to-watch videos might help. What do you think? www.heatpumped.org/c/online-class

What are your favourite TV adverts? I like the Guinness dancer one and yer man standing up on the bus saying "I don't know what a tracker mortgage is"..

It appears that China and the USA are taking opposite bets on the productivity equation. If productivity is a function of wages + energy costs + inputs, and input costs are the same for everyone then what China are doing (with massive solar and wind investment) is pushing down energy costs.

Tuesday.

Whenever a homeopath asks if you have tried homeopathy for any condition you have the scientifically correct answer is that yes, and you have already taken the maximum dose.

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

Domain-Driven Design London's next event is 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in London! @icooper.bsky.social will be presenting 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. Grab your tickets here: dddlondon.com/events/responsibility-driven-design/

When it comes to heat pumps and insulation, it is truly impressive how the high regard for the expertise of consultants from the trades and planning has been squandered by greed and laziness when it comes to adopting climate-friendly technology.

"After hours" by The Sisters of Mercy (You will be surprised how few words they managed to fit in the just over 7 minutes ) youtu.be/jo5PfAW_9mo?...

HELP NEEDED: A colleague's mum in mid Wales has been told by her heating company they cannot install a heat pump for her in her old stone house. Can someone recommend a local installer who is experienced with old houses and heat pumps?

Spat tea everywhere - that is funny!

So - did the team who are here to install the green roof bring a ladder with them, you might wonder.... *sigh*

RIP to the most striking actress of her time. If you have not watched "Once Upon A Time In The West" do it now - it is the masterpiece cowboy film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Behaviourism is a Jung man's game.

Overall, my performance at Daley Thompson's decathlon is not improving quickly, but my triple jump has come on in leaps and bounds.

Just in case she makes it onto the ballot, it’s good to remind yourself who Maria Steen and the Iona Institute are - fundamentalist zealots who represent almost no one cos even most Catholics think they’re awful

Thank you all for the beautiful special birthday wishes especially from my #Playschool Babies who remember the unconditional love and joy I shared with them❤️

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

This is the kind of rambling incoherent nonsense that gets you denied another drink at a city centre Wetherspoons.

A couple of the calls on the show today were among the most powerful bits of radio I've ever heard. Fair play @mrjamesob.bsky.social

I'm not entirely convinced that this decision is theirs to make.

Not only has autism always existed, but I think there is a credible case to say that we would not have been nearly as successful a species as we are without it. Before the word existed the condition might have been called being a seer or a shaman or a oracle or whatever.

I read a report on tunneling technology. It was both groundbreaking and boring.

* All things GAA * Philosophy * American car culture * CSS, HTML and javascript * Imperial measures * Vodka and Gin * The Caribbean

If you still have ice cream in the fridge or whisky in the bottle, do you really believe the Rapture is coming?

That colon should not be there.

Lastly, for Europeans in the UK, it is time to reconsider your position, esp. given the lack of constitutional-tyor protections for your positon, more so if UK leaves ECHR. You can't vote. Vote with your feet. Ends

Garlic and mushroom in brine - it has been fermenting for a while now and ready to use. It is quite pungent mind you.

We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn! Saturday, 8 November 11 am IMMA, RHK 🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

*Choplifter * Elite * The Incredible Machine

Nicole Perlroth is the "Ray Liotta" caller for the current topic on the threat of cyberweapons (on @mrjamesob.bsky.social ) - but anyone who knows how big a component it is of the North Korean economy will do.

As a rule, in Dublin, every "a" in the word Banana is pronounced very differently.