[Musk's] *greasy, flat brain* is going to stay in my head for a good while

I'm sure that everyone is sparing a thought for Albert Reynolds today, the poor craytur so cruelly defamed by The Times back in 1994.

Not sure why I saw the first and immediately thought of the second...

legend. we all like to think we'd do the right thing but it sounds like this guy did www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Boomer/ Gen X band seemingly oblivious that their fans would ideally like to be on their way home to their beds by 22.00. Counting Crows still not on stage.

Strongest condemnation from a local politician so far coming from Labour's Ged Nash - underlining how close we may have been to having several lives lost in Drogheda overnight as a result of this attack.

First response from the Taoiseach bsky.app/profile/mich...

This is creepier at Halloween than, say, if it happened at Easter.

I love how sometimes a picture really is a 1000 words. (Posted on IG by Cork Rebels Support, no credit given for the artist)

Many, many moons ago, on the other place, I had to tell an ill informed tweeter (with Irish parents) that Halloween is Irish, not American. It led to our first proper conversation. We got married on the Halloween Bank Holiday weekend in '23. Now I get to remind him annually.

God forbid a woman try to revive Victorian beauty standards 🙄

Under an hour now....

I've just found out that my husband uses "the lesser USB cable" for charging his phone in the car, so "the good cable" is always available for my use. A) Who says romance is dead? B) I'm not retracting the aspersions I cast on my Mother-in-Law's panadol consumption in the late '60s

From the deck I can't see Ireland, can't see Wales, just the Irish Sea. Obviously I'm now googling how that shower made it over in relatively small boats 850 years ago

08.00 ETA at the port for the 10.15 ferry btw

Tonight we'll be seeing Steve Earle, Sharon Shannon and Mundy perform The Galway Girl.

This from The Village archive is making me feel better today

The actual Soldier F judgement in case any of you want to read it. www.judiciaryni.uk/judicial-dec...

This trial has taken 53 years

Anyone know if the verdicts are being live skeeted by anyone in the court?

Is anyone else grateful Starmer was just *checks notes* a jobbing human rights lawyer when the Parades Commission was set up in Northern Ireland?

The age old problem with trying to end a genocide by appeasing the genocidal regime confirming that they can, actually, get away with committing genocide.

If the difference between "hostage" and "detainee" isn't violence, enforced starvation, ill treatment, denial of medical treatment or potential death, does anyone know what it is? www.btselem.org/publications...

Did I dream it or did I read that Trump is having second thoughts about the popularity of Blair?

Obviously it’s not Kushner. This means that Tony Blair persuaded Trump to accept that Palestinians cannot be ethnically cleansed and that Israel cannot rule Gaza. What an indictment of our international system that Blair was a lesser evil to Trump’s initial plan www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Current ETA for a ferry at 16.00. We can afford to hit a bit of traffic.

@groda.eu I can't figure out how this is the fault of the immigrants. Is it because immigration succeeded where Scandi Noir failed and got you hooked on crime waves?

@sophiagrene.bsky.social Did you hang on for the frost before picking your sloes?

It turns out that freed from teenage tyranny, he's choosing to listen to Agnetha Fältskog belting out "Slipping Through My Fingers"....

ROU Another Problem Eels Don’t Need

M&S should not be paying influencers. I thought their label rendered my clothes safe from theft. They've always been a middle aged women's brand, right? Yet apparently a number of M&S items are packed away to head up north to university on Friday. I feel the need to write a letter to the Daily Mail.

Interesting....

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Funny how militant democracy is only for those protesting against a genocide and not for the white supremacist tech entrepreneur who incites violence but whom the British government is in thrall to because AI, something, something, growth.

I’m just sayin, that kneecap lad is in court…

"For its protection" What on earth might they require "protecting" from?

The BBC news headlines tonight led with the state of the king’s relationship with his son, followed by news of riots on the streets of Paris motivated by rising inequality and the failings of the political class. It’s possible that the eighteenth century is back.

All of the US school shootings are bad, even the ones with adult victims who advocated for school shootings.

Ahhh, they were probably just Ukrainian drones that took a wrong turn someplace and refused to stop and ask for directions...

Details needed but at least this looks like a start.

Have we actually reached the point where Soldier F looks measured by comparison? Hopefully these lads stand trial a bit quicker.

Fair play Ireland. Resolute in boycotting a USA held World Cup. #COYBIG

@sophiagrene.bsky.social I think Darina is far too light handed with her sugar so have adjusted it up, but here's the freezer method being tested in real time. Colour leaching already from yesterday.

Finished the squares. Now time to weave in the ends etc to assemble it and I find myself searching for that "me sowing/ me reaping" meme

Apparently we don't yet know if we're taking the M6 or the M6 toll. Nails bitten to the quick here. Will report once the decision has been made.

I should say that the few bits of cabbage that were recognisable were really very tasty. He'll make it again, just next time he'll use the air fryer

Well under 4 hours now #RollOnHalloween