I was watching Billy Wiilder's The Lost Weekend (1945) today. Jane Wyman's character suggests "hot lemonade" as a cold remedy. A shock to me (and probably the rest of #speirgorm) that this wasn't the uniquely Irish invention I thought it to be.

I think this did for me. My brain fuse is blown. What is this insane timeline?

HERE WE GO 😷

A few weeks ago I discovered the YouTuber fig tree youtube.com/@underthefig... and binged so hard I’ve already had to switch to rationing myself instead. If you want to see history recounted with passion, energy and humour you can’t go wrong.

Spaced fans only need apply.

My biggest personal project new Demo is out for everyone to build and break♥️

What a first lap! How did nobody tag Max?! Miracle. #miamif1

Another great #f2 race. So entertaining.

I changed my iPhone watch face to photos and I love it. It frames them so beautifully. I think this means I’ve entered my grandad era.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Wow that was a great race. Dunne is so thrilling when he’s at his best and today he was. #f2 #formula2

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Just want to add to the ratio.

The AI bubble has exposed how a lot of developers don't actually enjoy or even give a shit about coding as a craft, apparently, and that's just really sad to see

This is the best thing I've seen in ages. Pure joy. Neil the (Elephant) Seal from Tasmania.

I was a paper boy for the Galway Observer, a free advertising paper, in the mid-80s. As I recall it was 1/2p per paper. Around 150 papers. Took about 2-2.5hrs. In Euro it was about €0.4/hr.

I just found myself looking at a LinkedIn for a minute and it’s such an obnoxious circle jerk I nearly vomited. Everyone stroking themselves into a frenzy about AI. How very unsurprising.

In a world where it often seems that everything is always getting worse, this is cheering.

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Based on a very small sample, the digitization of the Irish 1926 Census hasn't been great. This is my mother's family who decided to fill in their census in Irish using gaelic script. These people are either Ó Conghaile, Ui Conghaile or Ni Conghaile.

Followed through and sold my Xbox Series X today. Game Pass Ultimate cancelled a week ago. Twenty years of gaming on Xbox. Gamerscore of 157k. MS should not be losing customers like me. Layoffs, AI, etc. It’s destroying the brand and the industry.

Your periodic reminder that LLMs are incapable of "understanding" anything and that it is all a function of "self working card trick" of language probabilities; it just generates likely sounding bullshit. Sometimes that likely sounding bullshit is accurate because likely sounding things often are.

Thanks (or otherwise) to Louis Theroux I do know who Sneako is but I feel very virtuous refusing to search for Clavicur or whatever his dumb name is.

I’m fasting all day for a procedure tomorrow and I don’t even feel consciously hungry but every time I think about food it’s an intense desire.

If you know me, you know how excited I am.

“I have a future!" “We will abandon the Russian way" "It means hope". A generation of Hungarians, who’ve only ever known Orbán’s pro-Russian government, take to the streets to celebrate what they see as a reclaiming of democracy, and a future closer to Europe. @maitlis.bsky.social

Can hardly believe Orban is gone. A bad day for Putin, Trump, Bannon and their fellow travellers is a good day for the rest of us.

I’m not even religious anymore and yet I’m utterly repelled by this base idolatry.

I have a special contempt to people who post fake AI stuff, are told it's fake and why it's fake, and leave it up anyway. No integrity at all.

Listen, I know that the cost of living is insane and our government are mostly absolutely useless. I know there are huge issues to solve. But I also know that it is beyond crazy that we are all being held to ransom by like 40 dudes and their big trucks. All 5.5 million of us at the mercy of them.

If you want to support their work you can donate on their website. I have. msoe.ie

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

If you’ve witnessed the growth of online extremism in Ireland over the past few years, then the constant minimisation of the threat of the far-right (by the authorities and some of the commentariat) has been akin to watching a disaster happen in slow motion.

The thickest cunt from every pub in the country all ganged up thanks to phones and that's why your grandmother died waiting for an ambulance

The self-appointed "leaders" of the Fuel Protests are truly scum of the Earth. Why our media choose to interview the likes of Duffy here re the protests is beyond me. Do they really think he cares one iota about anyone but his own self?

Well worth your time.

Cruelty isn't true strength, rather it's structural weakness. Nothing built under a cruel regime can ever ultimately persist because it is always reviled by the majority.

Brutal.

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Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.

So lucky to be able to see The Magic Faraway Tree with a huge gang of family and friends. It’s so sweet and magical and charming. It will be huge if there’s any justice.

The lovely thing about #JuryDuty is that it’s a celebration of the best of human nature. The hero’s are predictable because they recruit someone who’s deeply decent and caring. Anthony Norman you’re a credit to yourself and those who raised you.

It is remarkable, and absurd even beyond infuriating, that this is the thing sucking up every investment dollar on the planet right now and thereby cratering multiple industries in real time.

I understand grumbling about the Artemis II launch when we've serious problems on the earth, but I can't feel that way. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" We also need hope and a vision for the future that's positive. That's what exploration does.

The idealistic image of itself that the US used to like to project to the world was never entirely real, but NASA strikes me as one organisation that still approaches that ideal. For all mankind.

To the company who sold my personal phone number to a tech marketing list, may your collective anuses never know a day when they're not inexplicably itchy.