Me, last week: what if I buy a button badge maker? Me, this week: I wonder how much a desk top laser engraver is? Me, with neither money nor space:

Oh I'm going to cheat and post two bangers not in English. First: youtu.be/qGjAWJ2zWWI

After catching up on my (highly curated) speirgorm feed today, I have now bought a paper copy of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, from a not so local, but definitely Irish bookstore.

Reasons I 1) need a new phone 2) need to stop doom scrolling and watching Chinese dramas on the gram. The gram menu icons have burned onto my phone screen.

I nearly stopped a woman in the shopping centre today to ask where she got her BT21 sweater.

Caught again by my aversion to high shipping costs.. I want to get the new army bomb, and the cradle, and it's lil hat. But shipping to Ireland. 😭

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Yesterday I had another idea for the BTS concert freebie fans...

Bluesky, is there a follow list of Irish scifi peeps? Not just authors? And Irish BTS Army?

Oh look, one of the local cinemas is getting the Stray kids Doc. How very 5 star Michelin But alas, no sign of The Rose doc.

I have a concert freebie idea, but not the money to execute... She says, considering buying crafting equipment that costs more than the idea.

I've been remit in checking Bershka for kpop merch... So now I've missed the Tiny Tan tshirts. However, if you like kpop demon hunters, they seem to still have them.

If someone starts something with 'it was a dark and stormy night' and finishes the sentence there? that's me noping out before the story has even started. I mean, if you start with *that*, I'll need that sentence to contain: the weather; the location; the time period; and how dark are we talking?

My mild dysgraphia strikes again. Because I nearly had heart failure* when misread an email saying BST Hyde park. *Because not so secretly I wish BTS will take the 5th Jul Hyde park slot.

Went for coffee with colleagues. Coffee shop was super busy. They gave me regular instead of decaf. I am now. *Hyper*... And my eyes hurt.

I had an idea. It didn't come together, but I don't hate it.

I am still cranky that the magical yarn shop in my dream last night tried to charge me 45 euro for a single darning needle.

Zoom just didn't want to stay connected for me this afternoon during class so I doodled and I ended up with this lil soot and I love him.

Chances of a third concert are slim, but if I book my flights now, there would probably be a 3rd concert...

Randomly, is there still a gaming store in Cork? I'm looking for a solo play game, and I've seen good reviews for A Gentle Rain.

It is possible that the next 5 months will just be me learning new crafts as I bounce from freebie idea to freebie idea. This week: Learning how to do a sliding knot.

Octocon is in Cork in the Clayton, membership booked, will have to look at where to stay later. Any suggestions?

Tangentially following up on this. Are Tom's Studio refillable pens good? The ink colours look amazing.

Won the general on sale ticket war for BTS: London day 1!

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Share a quote from a book or a film you find yourself using or paraphrasing frequently. I'll go first. 'What have i got in my pocket? *Under my breath* .... What does it got in it's nassty little pocketsess. '

Today in words I've never said aloud before: conspicuity.

Hello. Yes. I appear to have passed the semester. In fact I could possibly say I did well in maths. Which is:

Right, membership for @octocon.bsky.social is sorted.

All that waiting. For nothing. I was not blessed by the presale gods.

Books I read in 2016 (have opinions on/ remember). A thread, apparently. Disclaimer: Images from Goodreads.

I started a course in Revit this week. And when I opened the software for the first time I thought 'ah, this looks like a past trauma'. And lo and behold, it's from the makers of 3D studio Max.

Ticketing queues how bad can it be? Only 60k to 71k people ahead of me. Stadium capacity? 60K 😭

Lesson 1 for Ticketmaster. You have to refresh the page to join the waiting room.

Kim Namjoon: channelling ARMY during presale.

What if I just do 20 more RJs? I've grown fond of them, (and I worry the Koya or Chimmy will not look well.)

If I could just convince myself to read instead of doomscroll. Reading is good. Books can have happy endings. However, the world will still be a dumpster fire regardless whether I doomscroll or not.

Do you know how confused I was when I saw an ad for a *Book tour* in Cork Opera House for a horror author I had never even heard of? (Spoiler: it's not actually a book tour.)

Ahem 🎼 'I have roamed through all climates, but none could I see Like the green hills of Cork and my home by the Lee'

Reading a book about Cork poets in the 19th Century and a recurring inspiration is wondering why they weren't right now in Cork.

Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Manifesting Min Yoongi doing the When Life Gives You Tangerines meme.

One of the disc fans was ripped so yesterday I experimented with BT21's Cooky and I don't love it as much as RJ. Cooky just doesn't fill the space the same way.

I don't know whether to say the Delhi Palace on Washington st or the Ambassador Chinese on Cook st. Maybe the Ambassador, because they were my first experience of sizzling dishes and fine dining.

Note to self:

Well, the venue map for the BTS concerts in London is available and ... That's going to be a lot of people.

The algorithm filling me with dread. Because buying concert tickets is trauma. Anyway. Am I right in thinking there is both a lobby and waiting room before the queue opens, so I should set up half an hour early?

95% of the time I'm content being single. However the other 5% is when I look at house prices, hotel prices, package holidays and when I want take out but don't wanna be the one deciding where to go and ordering.

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