I don't think Connolly is a big Hamas lover or anything, and she's correct in her disagreement with Starmer's unworkable, high-handed, bad faith conditions. But fucking hell, her mouth has a foot fetish. A president needs to be a shrewd and sensitive communicator.

Marvellous! ☄️🔭

it's a sad state of affairs when I can't tell anymore if seeing the Irish flag so prevalent in spaces means patriotism or racism

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

If anyone’s looking for these in Dublin, send me a message and I’ll point you to the charity shop. #StarTrek

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

This week in 1989: Trevor Francis, at 35 years young, working his magic for QPR at Villa Park. Goodness gracious me. Have a look at the technique here. You never lose it, old son.

tired: pentagon pizza index wired: culture war grindr outage index

No time this morning for imaging, but did visually spot comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) this morning in 10x50 binoculars. Mag 8.4: easy in very dark skies. Fingers crossed the fine weather holds until I can image on Wednesday morning. #CometWatch

Testing out the #Mini5Pro - a little hyperlapse of Boatstrand Harbour on the Cooper Coast after sunset. #Speirgorm #Waterford #Ireland

Oh shit it's today! Almost missed it. One of the greatest songs of all time. Happy 21st of September folks. youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

Love this photo of Superstar Kate O’Connor ⭐️ by Morgan Treacy

Chemistry explained

Spot the moment when I tried the extremely hot curry I made for Eldest Son last night

In addition to Katie's point, what these takes all miss is a lot of people on the centre and left...haven't actually left X. Continues to be startlingly to me how many people just don't *notice* the degradation of their media environment.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

I think Apollo 13 is Howard's signature film and his most influential work. It changed the way true stories and biopics got made by fixing the "how can it be tense if we know the ending?" problem.

The Executive Order does not appear to exempt professors (who are exempt from various other working visa conditions) from the 100,000 USD fee. That means that no university will hire foreign professors. American academia is toasted.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

The Late Late Show: #RTE #jimmykimmel

Slowly but surely they’re saying the quiet part out loud

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

It's a fabulous album. One of all time favourites.

Nathan Collins' extremely poor international form has continued on at club level. Absolutely shocking performance for Brentford tonight. They do look to be in real relegation trouble this season.

Taiwan is the next Trump victim www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today I Learnt..

Anyone agreeing to this is no longer a journalist.

This thing is an absolute beast. Nimble, fast - a ton of capabilities that will be fun to discover. And the photo and video quality is unreal: certainly way better than my old Holy Stone drone. This will be fun! #Mini5Pro #DJI #Drone

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This fee is absolutely horrendous, and I feel sick for multiple friends in the US or who were planning to take up positions in the US very soon. Hell, even people I spent time with this week at @stellarorigins2025.bsky.social here in Vienna might not get back into the US tomorrow

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

There are 6 very distinctive accents in Tipperary all heavily influenced by the adjacent county

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Little clap back from Stephen Colbert 🎶🤣 #freespeech #kimmel #colbert #shutyourtrap #pinks #resist #resistanceunited #voteblue

The tech scene in Vancouver BC is about to boom

Today I learnt the name of the Turkish football team Galatasary translates to 'Palace of the Celts', after the Celtic people who settled in Anatolia.

Picked this up for myself in Dublin today. Definite compensation for a nightmarish travel day. I think I will wait to unbox it tomorrow.. Can't wait to test it out! Though of course, the weather for the next few days is awful for SE Ireland.. #drone #dji #Mini5Pro

Happy Ronny Rosenthal Day everyone. 33 years ago we sat in front of the telly and said: “Oh deary me. How did he fucking miss that?”

My first teenage crush!

I cancelled my Post subscription: no regrets. Sad to see what is has become under Bezos.

Picked this up for myself in Dublin today. Definite compensation for a nightmarish travel day. I think I will wait to unbox it tomorrow.. Can't wait to test it out! Though of course, the weather for the next few days is awful for SE Ireland.. #drone #dji #Mini5Pro

Don't be distracted by the statement itself. Rather, ask who is feeding him his talking points?

A reminder that you get the public representatives that you deserve

Remember that bit in Raiders where Ronald Lacey had gone home and they needed him for a shot so they just propped his coat and hat against the car seat?

developed an earth-shattering crush on Conan earlier this year so watched a bunch of his early late night shows, like a creep, and was really taken aback by how properly funny and *really* odd most of it was, the cultural mainstream has become so much more sanitised over the past decade or two

Yay. Am in the purple zone

@rte.ie - Can you please change your headline to accurately reflect the story. The show was not pulled over Charlie Kirk comments it was pulled after a threat from the US FCC Chair.

The greatest player that I've ever seen in person. (Was at Ireland-Holland in 1983, which turned out to be the birth of the side that won Euro 88.)

Every 4 years Ireland's data protection "regulator" writes to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties to say their investigation into shady Real Time Bidding ad networks' surveillance of <everyone> is at a "mature" stage and its release is imminent And surveillance + sale of data to ANYONE goes on