someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Eating soup while drunk is fascinating because it either means you are at the absolute lowest point in your existence, or at a wedding

LIVING LANDSLIDES According to legends written down in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the slide-rock bolter is a species of alpine whale that anchors itself high in the Rocky Mountains by its tail flukes, only to luge down the slope with an open... www.greaterrealityarea.net/living-lands...

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times. Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same. Happy International Women's Day. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

I removed all game and social media apps from my phone maybe 6 months ago. I still catch myself doomscrolling through my app list frustrated that my pocket computer refuses to entertain me. It's a problem, and probably a part of another, different problem.

To this day I am still surprised that someone once thought "y'know what this refreshing fruit juice needs? Some barley flour mixed in" and that somehow we're all still "actually ok yeah, I'll buy some of that".

Watched Man On The Run on Prime last night. V enjoyable apart from that really jarring bolted on stuff about how unpopular he was post Beatles and how something something Led Zeppelin real rock etc etc. That whole Rolling Stone magazine agenda that has since been utterly discredited. And rightly so.

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

There is another war going on, here in East Donegal. So far there’s only been warning shots but you never know. So the local history committee got some money to research the location of an early Christian abbey. No ordinary abbey, however. This is St Eunan’s abbey.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

With every new headline, I become more convinced that Enoch Burke is on his way to becoming Randle McMurphy.

Danny McBride was channeling Ricky from TPB with Jesse, certainly from season 3.

The idea that "vibe coding" is anything more than a stupid name for the latest blorp of gas from a hype bubble is swiftly debunked once you realise you can't have "vibe debugging". Basically, anyone who thinks "vibe" coding can ever be a thing is accidentally admitting they know f all about coding.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has collected over £1.1 million from controversial Forest Park parking charges in 20 months and now plans to install access barriers in Kilbroney Park ✋ 🛑 Full details and local reaction on our Facebook post, which has received 80k views this weekend.

RARE have done amazing work in tracking the lies spun by the money-grabbing Newry Mourne & Down District Council. They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.

Here's the link to the petition. This Council has repeatedly mocked the people of our area with its vanity projects and self-profiting plans.

Another hour of sound culture & music without drum machines…a mix of field recordings, folk, drone, noise & other found audio materials, curated by Barry Cullen. www.mixcloud.com/bew/fringe-t...

One drawback of Solensia is that your once arthritic cat may now feel like returning to their street fighting career

In our house only hungry cats will even engage with food, so there is a very specific stomach churning "FFS that's that whole pack wasted now" feeling when the sniff test comes back negative.

Harris’s Law states that Ireland provides the exception to every statement about British politics/law/policing etc Everyone has the right to a jury trial, your home is your castle, etc etc etc

Now, you could make an argument that even things like the RIC being armed meant it was always implicit there was an asterisk on Ireland being part of the Union from 1801-1922 rather than an acknowledged colony, and it’s probably accurate.

Would you have the loan of a slice of ham 'til next Tuesday?

My mother waited until I was in my 40s before gleefully admitting that she would unwrap our Easter eggs, take the hidden chocolate within for herself, then very carefully rewrap the eggs, leaving us blissfully unaware there had ever been any additional chocolate inside the eggs.

"Yes, you read that right—a hobbit solving crimes on the Moon."

Yup. I've not seen one headline that hasn't also queried the "Mescal Snub".

Re the Jessie Buckley headline, how Irish to take the celebration of a woman's talent and make it all about a man. 🙄

It's worth taking in this description.

"I have nothing to hide but fear itself."

I just thought everyone should see this

Classic. I took a 3tb drive (music collection), stuffed it into a caddy then plugged it into the new Mac and only in that moment did it dawn on me that OSX can't read Ext3. And now: a struggle, a juggle, and another day lost copying files and files and files.

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

My mind insists that Adam DeVine's character in The Righteous Gemstones is actually Arseface from Preacher. I just can't unthink it. It's giving his role a certain richness that no-one intended and almost certainly nobody needs.

I’m telling you, this is a line we should not allow to be blurred. Assert that what has been done is illegal. Have it investigated as illegality. Bring prosecutions of company officials on illegality. Describe the basis of each step clearly and without obfuscation or imprecision.

Perhaps social media rage bait exists in tandem with growing inequality in life so that we poors can huddle round our phones and warm ourselves in the glow of the on-screen fury. Smart TV apps showing invective-filled comment sections can now heat your entire home.

There’s an argument people sometimes try that nobody “owes artists a living”, and that’s true. But if an artist makes art good enough for people to enjoy and share and talk to their mates about and have become part of their cultural identity, then you ONE HUNDRED PER CENT owe that artist a living.

Interesting article here about a dedicated non-corporate social app for Wales, for developing a Welsh community without the tech-first angle of the Mastodon ecoverse. the Tŵt app. jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/t...

For all the folks who insist that AI can be a great part of a student writing assignment: Which part of the writing process do you think is unnecessary for students to experience?

I don't understand websites that have no obvious "about us" page, don't tell you what their acronym stands for, where they are or what they do. It's so common it's almost like businesses and orgs believe they're already household names.

Does anyone know of any articles or studies addressing the similarities between comedy writing and serious horror writing?

You know how I feel about Edge of Darkness, foundational Hookland. I think it needs another #HookWatch soon. Possibly even transcribe my Troy Kennedy Martin interview.

Here's an amusing and unexpected Dr Who theme. youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY

Quite enjoying ST5 but there's a bit much exposition and why so many characters doing monologue recaps?

So one of the things pll should be taught in grad school is that if you see the same supposition or phrase repeated in every publication on a topic, see if you can track it back to an antiquarian. Bc, more often than not, those guys were full of shit. Don't get caught out by the Chortlemuffin Effect

The citation chain usually works like this: -supposition stated as fact -supposition with reference to reputable book from c.1930s -reputable book from c.1930s with reference to Sir Edward Chortlemuffin, 1782 - Sir Edward Chortlemuffin, "here's an idea I'll fart out," 1782 /2

Sometimes book reviews, often more than album reviews, will make we want to read the book. I was inspired by a review yesterday so looked on Amazon to check its details. But I'd bought it in 2022. I checked my Kindle, downloaded the book to find it at 100%. No memory of it at all.

well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser. LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better. this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...

Small Changes: Font colours, Typos, Achievements - Chicken Fillet Rolls unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill... #gamedev #indiegames

With the Traitors having a "secret Traitor", I am excited for the British public to conveniently remember how to use singular They/Them pronouns for a month.

Very sad to read that Petesy Burns is no longer with us. As a member of Stalag 17, FUAL, A-Political and his work in The Anarchy Centre and Giros/Warzone Centre helped to build and nurture an alternative way of life in Belfast during severe conflict. Eternal respect for that. #LestWeForget #Belfast

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.