Much like the Apollo missions had an Earth-based replica of the Lunar Command Module to help troubleshoot issues the astronauts had in orbit, I now have to buy a second of any moderately complicated gift I give to my parents to keep on hand for the inevitable tech support call.

Looking forward to seeing my Spotify Wrapped ruined by ambient sleep music for the sixth time running.

All the photos of Zelensky with Martin make me do a double take because I initially see Putin. Thanks mild face blindness.

Stuck our heads into the reopened Library Bar, formerly of The Central Hotel, now of The Hoxton. Only stayed for a minute but the feeling we got was it's been poshed up into a soulless version of it's former self. Cocktails and oysters in an overlit room.

Told DPD to reschedule a delivery. They completely ignored me and left 3 boxes of wine outside the house. Someone could have had a very happy Xmas at my expense. Amazing they'll dead drop alcohol without verification of an adult.

The only day I'll be in the office this month and every single outstanding delivery suddenly decides today is the day they want to arrive.

Well, they do owe a lot of their success to "the bank of Mum and Dad".

Doing my strategic xmas holiday planning. For 6 days of holidays I can have 22nd-5th off. Almost 2 weeks without having to turn on the work laptop. I might even make a dent in my Steam backlog (or procrastinate on what to play for the entire 13 days before realising it is time to go back).

Just saw Bitcoin is almost 17 years old. Not long before the libertarians start losing interest in it.

Xbox360 Just got a "you up?" text from Leonardo DiCaprio.

This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".

Just saw Liam Gallagher signs off his tweets with LG and I'm never going to be able to look at my TV the same again.

And we'll be boycotting the world cup if they don't right? Right?

Going to shit out a bad photoshop of The Fugitive poster with Enoch Burke slapped in and rake in the 🤣 on Facebook. Hopefully I've not been beaten to it.

There's an opportunity for some company board to be truly revolutionary and ditch their high paid CEO and replace them with ChatGPT. Y'all think AI is so good... go do it! Think of the stock bump! The Street will love it! Goooooo ooonnn!

You can now submit feedback on the Irish Right to Request Remote Work legislation. Demand some real requirements for refusals to requests. There is currently no consequences for companies making up any old junk as a reason. enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...

Considering my entire Steam friends list was on Arc Raiders I broke my "don't spend more than 20 bucks on a video game rule". I fully expect it to dramatically drop in the Steam charts as everyone immediately loses interest in it on hearing I've bought it. #videogames

Is it even worth putting the wheelie bins upright?

Scientists announced they've fully verified and sequenced Hitler's DNA, just like in the famous sci-fi novel "Don't Fully Verify and Sequence Hitler's DNA."

New post-rock band name just dropped.

You're all very invested in a qualifying match for a competition we'll be boycotting, right?

My solution to the James Bond problem.

If we believe FF/FG we should expect Catherine Connolly to pull a grey hood over her head, instantly develop a hunchback and cackle for five solid minutes on being inaugurated.

Jesus Christ, not NOW, "Lucifer Bee"!

Michael D was heard to say as he was leaving, "Finally, I can grab that pint in the Underdog. I've been parched for the last 8 years." 😢

New style guide dropped. Instead of saying, "the other site," please use "the Nazi site." So the sentence, "over on the other site," becomes "I'm enabling Nazis by using the Nazi site."

I'm hearing the Democrats are folding as punishment for all the bad memes you made with the Mamdani slogan generator. Sorry Bluesky... this is on you.

Y'all know Chinese beer jacket man is AI slop, right? Right?

Hey, asking for a friend (America): Has removing a government social program and giving money direct to people to purchase the service from the private sector ever resulted in anything other than increased prices and worse service? What does collective purchasing power even mean?

The only feature I want from Bluesky is that when someone kicks off a trend, such as "post a pic with your foot in it from 2003" or whatever, I can immediately mute all quotes and variations. Yes, I hate fun. Why do you ask?

please stop reposting AI-generated slop memes like that list of "20 weird things" that's going around

Went to an exhibition of various models and sets made by stop-motion studio Laika at the miniature museum in Lyon. The amount of effort that goes into making these films is overwhelming. The thought that any of this could be replaced by generative AI is ludicrous.

"The Coddle controversy" is the new "left the immersion on." The joke Irishism ran so far into the ground we're now two layers deep into ironic referencing of it. It'll finally die when FF/FG use it in an AI-generated TikTok ad somehow.

He also effectively owns the production company behind The Traitors and Gogglebox.

Going to open a "Belgian-Irish" bar called Smurphys.

That AI pic of the lad up the ladder with the cat had a lot of people asking, "Where in Dublin is that?" knowing no such place existed, but it took a very long time before people rightly started calling it out as slop. We're not ready for this shit. History and reality are going to be whittled away.

All us insomniacs over in European doing this right now. Congrats #mamdani and NYC.

(Me, waking up at 3 AM) "Don't look at the phone, don't look at the phone." (Looks at phone) "Oh, thank fuck!" Well done NYC! Maybe I'll even get back to sleep now. #mamdani

All us insomniacs over in European doing this right now. Congrats #mamdani and NYC.

I'll be on an airplane for approximately 2 hours tomorrow so I am desperately trying to download all media that has ever existed on to my devices. That way I can spend the entire flight procrastinating what to watch/listen to/play, just like when I've free time on the ground.

Kinda forgot someone there lads.

(Gesturing at The Internet) Okay, I've seen enough. Shut it down.

Look, the more you post untagged sports skeets the more I pay Etsy witches to hex your team into losing. Thats the deal.

The labeller that labels people "who post a lot" is telling on a lot of you I'm afraid.

Odeon cinemas in Ireland doing tickets for a fiver this weekend. You need to have a (free) account with them for the option to appear in checkout. #speirgorm

Weather forecast has rain with a peak of 3mm kicking off at 6pm on the nose over Dublin. That's going to make for some soggy trick or treating. #halloween #speirgorm

Here was me thinking it was outages in AWS and Azure.

I found the beer the lads who never stop talking about crypto drink.

It's only been 20 hours since the plague monkey escape story, not several months like it feels.

Searching for Azure on Bluesky and the posts are equally split between news of the launch of their Agentic MCP (AI API Gateway) and the huge outage they're having. I am sure those things couldn't be related... #technews