The entire project of advanced education is about believing it's worthwhile to do the hard work of learning to understand difficult things and express your understanding in your own words. Bringing GenAI into the process is wholly destructive.

Haha. I just tried to buy the new Nealons Guide but had to abort. Another fail for the nemesis of public sector shitness

I let a pot of spaghetti burn dry a couple of weeks ago. This evening, armed with a pot of Elbow Grease, new rubber gloves and a scourer, I vanquished carbon and am blinded by the gleam across the kitchen. Which is to say this is my trad wife origin story

Without being nit-picky about a generic Christmas-starting-too-early-column, this is quite the claim for Prosecco Stormfront in the Sindo

I have just learned of “lexaprotok” where photogenic young women make short content videos extolling the virtues of antidepressants. I have so many thoughts

Tonight’s episode of the A-Team is where they organise agricultural workers into a union. The golden age of kids tv

Absolutely absurd interview where low uptake of AI in the workplace was framed as “oh we need to make sure everyone can get the benefits of new technology!” rather than “most people aren’t interested in that crap”

All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized. You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...

I honestly think that might be it. Just reading an interview with a resident and....

Surprisingly few years ago opening on Stephens Day sales wasn't a thing and I worked in the only shop on Henry Street (Gamestop) open that day, we closed after 2 hours because the place was JAMMED and unsafe and everyone was screaming for discounts on things we didn't sell.

Paul Reynolds just described Coolock as being in “Dublin’s north inner city”. It’s interesting when you see someone’s verbal muscle memory in action

Well, my public sector friends, John Collison can say what he wants about red tape but the last two times I used his poxy money transfer service for large payments it didn’t work and took hours out of my life. Dickhead

Was listening to a podcast and an ad came on with David McWilliams for PwC and AI as if something had been lab grown for me to switch off

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

Stunning

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Happy Wrong Naomi Day to all who celebrate

So many heretics out there, but thankfully you can spot them by their pointy ears!

I don’t care if it’s framed in stupid gendered terms. I’m seeing discourse about microwaving fish in the workplace and I think we should all agree not to do this ever

When it stopped raining yesterday, I went outside to get a lap of sunlight and fresh air and saw an eejit baby seagull trying to eat a 2” off cut of wood and it wouldn’t give up. It was highly entertaining and probably an important life lesson. Probably to stop for a moment and just give up

Oh wow, watching @virginmedianews.bsky.social & the auto generated subtitles for the Presidential oath as Gaeilge are *not good* 😬

We wish the very best for their future to President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins as they leave the Áras for the last time. President Higgins opened the doors of Áras an Uachtaráin to us, to many of the brilliant Palestinian speakers, artists, lawyers and activists that came here to advocate

In Michael D Higgins we have been lucky to have a President for the last 14 years who not only had such a keen appreciation of history but in labour history, not least during the decade of centenaries. It’s easy to take it for granted now but I always thought how easily that might not have been so.

Is repeatedly alluding to one’s “personal integrity” a lack of self awareness or a blunt attempt at NLP?

Missed The Ivy latest. Turns out the tipping out system means managers are getting tips but not kitchen staff. So the people who do the roster get tip money but not the KP. ‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...

And a little entertainment afterwards?

Was thinking the other day Dublin seemed to have nearly finished its new hotel spree but in the last two days I’ve seen planning for two more. Yes, they want to turn Pablo Picante into a hotel

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

¡Hola! A pal is looking for a Jinx Lennon ticket for Thomas House this evening if anyone has a spare? #ticketfairy #speirgorm

Made the mistake of reading that O’Connor column which was as idiotic as one would expect but this bit is exceptionally dense

Dame Street is closed for an event but I can’t see anything anywhere about what’s on. Anyone know?

Without casting any obvious aspersions on that the Progress outfit the last two times I had to use Stripe it got large transactions it didn’t work and I had to spend an hour in the bank did one and go into town to the shop for the other. So *my* suggestion would be make your shit work better.

Posting old halloween comics, #2

I just want to be able to go online and not see palid sausages or people talking about them. I don’t feel like it’s too much to ask

Dunno if sharing photos of the violent threats and hatred on spoiled votes and thereby giving those gowls the audience and coverage they want their otherwise mainly unseen messages to get is great tbh

Not sure if I’ve seen it reported that there were active spoil canvases in Dublin Central and North West, at least, by anti-immigrant reps and parties. Seems worth noting

I am asking people if they honestly think it is reasonable or good to share a video of a kid being harassed. Just delete it

That Indo headline is still there. There’s also a story about a TD having their consistency office vandalised although unlike RTÉ, it didn’t managed to illustrate it or outline the nature of the vandalism

'In June, when two Romanian-speaking teenagers were charged with attempted rape in Ballymena, there were anti-foreigner riots and violence for over a week.  A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '

This is horrible. I hope everyone is okay but it’s an awful thing to happen. The exact people who say they want to protect women show us who they are every time. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

I don’t know why a think piece that was probably stupid last week or the week before when it was published is being shared again tonight.

It’s wild how Israel imprisoned some British activists from the flotilla like two weeks ago and Starmer was like: it’s a matter for Israel but there’s been an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss football hooligans from another country and how we welcome them

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Gutted. Should have been CMAT

Great article by our friend Sarah Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Was in Rome a few years ago, went to the Sistine Chapel - As I was on the stairs out of the chapel some American shuffling out ahead of me - realising the stairs was the exit - yelled, in sincere disbelief and outrage "Was that it?! One room?" and began discussing getting their money back.

Anyone familiar with Dawson St will know how much space The Ivy has taken up with its outdoor tables it doesn’t use and the planters around it. Now it wants more but at the Luas stop. If you’d like to be able to walk down the street and not be in over by trams please think about objecting

Five Irish citizens have been detained by Israel on new Gaza-bound flotilla, including author Naoise Dolan and independent TD Barry Heneghan. The others named by organisers as Fionn Macarthur, Veronica O’Keane, and Mutaz Jadaan. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

The thirty-five fossil gas turbines that power the supercomputer that runs the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, emit 1,200 to 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides a year. The Costs of the Cloud: Stellar piece by @ashdawson.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...