Netherlands should join and offer to host the first meeting at the exclusive, famous, gilded and very luxurious palace called "The Hague".

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

If your neighbour sets their house on fire for 4 years & then puts the fire out for 4 years & then sets their house on fire again for 4 more years, you probably shouldn't be making long term plans that rely on your neighbour's house not being on fire, even if they manage to put out the fire again.

Got a sale on for the rest of January. Any digital release is pay what you like and got heavy discounts on a bunch of amazing records. Tell all your friends! hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Why not both?

It was inevitable.

I'm not saying anything no one else has said, but I always feared a bad and terrible person becoming leader of a major country when the real danger was that a complete moron would.

For the mad-as-a-dozen-boxes-of-frogs times we now live in... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLd...

If you missed it before Christmas...

I rewatched Don McKellar's 1998 film "Last Night" - the one about people in Toronto spending their last hours before the world ends at midnight. It is funny and poignant. secretpandablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/l... #LastNight #DonMcKellar

The OECD has warned that the uncritical adoption of generative AI as a tool in education could inadvertently undermine the development of key human skills such as critical thinking and evaluative judgment in students

Any recommendations for books in Irish that are not of a difficulty that makes them impenetrable for a learner but challenging enough to give plenty opportunities to look up words or phrases? Not textbooks, more like novels etc. - I've a few graphic novels but ideally something longer. #Gaeilge

Be warned: if you ask questions then you may receive answers.

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

All you people who shared that screencap of a Nick Schifrin post... what did you do to verify it before you shared it?

I'm looking for my Mercury Music Prize runners up gong from (ahem) 1993. I intend to give it to Donald Trump, its rightfull owner.

"Manchester - not much of a music town. No great bands came from there. Even the Smiths are just a slightly above average indie band" - I heads someone say this once.

#BREAKING My cat Bette has been made Governor General of Canada 🫡

"A disturbance in the force... as if a million nonces cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

why is some prick setting off fireworks?

At MINIMUM our elected representatives, public bodies, public transport etc need to move off X. Every time an elected representative posts to X they are supporting a platform that is generating and hosting CSAM. #SpeirGorm my.uplift.ie/petitions/el...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

A new update of my Dublin listings spreadsheet! New additions include so many films by Jean-Luc Godard. Various new gigs include free jazzers Space, Holy Fuck, Miki Berenyi Trio, David Bowie Festival stuff, Steely Dan tribute Aja, etc. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #Speirgorm

Elon Musk Files For Full Custody Of All U.S. Children https://theonion.com/elon-musk-files-for-full-custody-of-all-u-s-children/

For anyone who is abandoning the #BirdSite, while here is good, also consider giving Mastodon a try. It is refreshingly without feed algorithms. Find your local or interest-based incidence and join up. For anyone of an Irish persuasion, there is mastodon.ie full of great Mastodaoine!

Context here bsky.app/profile/moll...

What is this bullshit? #Wikipedia #GenAI #ButlerianJihad

People are very annoyed about this list but I am unclear as to what stories they think are better. I would leave out all the nu-Who stories. Of the old ones, Genesis is a great choice and Kinda is a good one for Davison. Dalek Invasion a good one too. Not seen Mind of Evil and War Games is too long.

I follow comedian Ed Byrne on Facebook, absolutely no interest in his comedy but I enjoy seeing what beer he has for his pre-show pint.

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

#BBCNews - Only Trump can stop Putin, Polish president tells BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #UkraineWar

Watched Excalibur again last night and I'm not gonna lie, casting his daughter and son in roles where they have rampant horny sex with Gabriel Byrne and Helen Mirren makes him a historic Great Dad in my books.

I've contacted our school to ask why they are still on X.

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t by Kula Shaker, Cast, Ocean Colour Scene or Weller

Ofcom are investigating X. Ofcom still have an X account and posted this on X. I won't hold my breath. #Speirgorm

Dublin's Temple Bar, 40 years ago and today. brandnewretro.ie/2026/01/12/t... #TempleBar #Dublin

I feel like "Stay away from ketamine unless you want to become incontinent" might be a winning slogan.

Small bit of personal promotion here but: I've launched my first group programme for ADHDers! Comment or message me for a massive discount on the first cohort in exchange for a bit of feedback. Triciasalt.com/whatevernext

You should leave X if you are a company because if you don't your social media staff will definitely end up encountering CSAM and then you and/or they may be held criminally liable.

People voted for this guy. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...

Attention gamelan fans and gamelan curious people! In the linked post I write about recordings of music from the Javanese and Balinese gamelan traditions and the difference between them. secretpandablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/g... #gamelan

This is useful info

as of today putin's three-day military operation has lasted as long as the Great Patriotic War. congrats to irony for its total victory over russia

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

I think these were the only armed conflicts between NATO members. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

Attention gamelan fans and gamelan curious people! In the linked post I write about recordings of music from the Javanese and Balinese gamelan traditions and the difference between them. secretpandablog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/g... #gamelan

I do miss press releases because releasing statements on X/Twitter seem to make them almost 'not real'. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Grok #NoExcuses