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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Just going to leave this here

Don’t scrap an older electric vehicle – just upgrade it Irish company Range Therapy is now offering Nissan Leaf battery swaps and upgrades

More here on @hannahdaly.ie's ev-battery-reuse adventure: Don’t scrap an older electric vehicle – just upgrade it

www.irishtimes.com/motors/2025/...

Image of the final Calvin and Hobbes Strip ever published. Where the final frames are "Its a magical word hobbes ol' buddy .... lets go exploring" as they head out into the snow

First #DalkeyOpen of 2026 is this evening in the Club in Dalkey. All welcome

A new year. A fresh start. Lets go exploring

This what we call in the biz: A dramatic heel turn. Welcome back to reality, Paul.

The first #DalkeyOpen of 2026 will be Thursday the 8th of January
Happy 2026 all

Has not escaped my attention that 'Frazzled Staff Member' and 'Crying Adult' are virtually interchangeable

reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing

TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers

Me:

Title: Heartwarming christmas television advert plot generator for bookshops. (choose one from each column to come up with a sentence) Choices in column 1: A lonely A grumpy A workaholic An elderly A poor Column 2: Book Shop Owner Learns The True Meaning Of Column 3: Literature Christmas Community Wealth Friendship Column 4: With help from a Column 5: Wise Celebrity Magical Kindly Clumsy Column 6: Child Mouse Parsnip Snowman Ghost Additional text below: Just add: twinkly music, wooly jumpers, computer-generated snow, poetry, bells.

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I think about this tweet a lot

The Irish government needs to take this issue far, far more seriously than it has to-date. By all means hold on to the neutrality agenda if that is the view of government, but not spending adequately on defence is a serious abdication of responsibility.

On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse” Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy

Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank

elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

@profgalloway.com I figure someone has already pitched you DACO to replace TACO?

Screenshot of Tweets that say: "Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up. My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people who profess to like it."

Unbelievable thread.
(You should be following Emma btw.)

They should have a running total on how much he and his family have cost the state, indexed to how many surgeries etc it could have paid for.

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up sign Alt: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up as he gets blasted by a megaphone

Me every single budget day:

STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO GREYHOUND RACING

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

💯 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Joswiak says “Meta alone has made more than a dozen of these requests”.
“This type of data is so sensitive that Apple itself can’t see it and we purposely engineer it that way. But under DMA rules we’re forced to hand it over to other companies no matter how they plan to use it.”

If you have people you know starting college or already in college you should get them to take heed of this

Are you.... Are you ok?.....!

Omfg