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@robindch

In alpha order, C++ developer in payment systems' certification, frequent flyer (former), guardian of apostrophes, hiker, Kerryman, LLM-hater, organist, sailor.

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Lickspittle, yes. The rest, I’m not so sure about.

12.03.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large

Source attribution:

”Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad”

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

10.03.2026 08:11 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

07.03.2026 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I met Donald Knuth, well-known computer scientist, after a lecture in Dublin and we talked about the pipe organ and how difficult it is to typeset musical notation.

06.03.2026 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My kid went to the same school as did Bono’s youngest kid, so I suppose she’d have seen Bono or maybe his dog from time to time.

06.03.2026 00:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reykjavík, Hallgrímskirkja (Concert Organ) | Pipe Organ Map Discover the 1992 J. Klais organ with 71 stops, 4+P. The concert organ in Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, is the largest musical instrument in Iceland and a remarkable feat of organ building. Built by the...

As an organist, I’m disappointed the page doesn’t refer to the Hallgrímskirkja‘s splendid, massive organ, 25 tons and fifteen meters high.

pipeorganmap.com/organ/reykja...

05.03.2026 15:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why the awful clickbait headline?

05.03.2026 06:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sentient?

04.03.2026 08:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why is Mr Farage loitering in the women’s underwear section of a clothes’ shop?

27.02.2026 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From Dublin, my most profound sympathies.

23.02.2026 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! And keep doing what you're doing.

21.02.2026 01:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thought mangoman preferred yellow water.

18.02.2026 09:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s why single-panel cartoonists are your friends!

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

18.02.2026 09:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For anybody still interested in primary source, the actual video is here:

x.com/SecKennedy/s...

17.02.2026 23:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait for the arrival of his friends, Stir-fried Broccoli Guy, Crème Brûlée Guy and Mushroom Soup Guy.

13.02.2026 00:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Costs £87 if you want him to cheer on the IRA:

x.com/RTEUpfront/s...

13.02.2026 00:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Your privacy is important to us. Please click on the unclearly-designated checkboxes to make a privacy choice which you’ll later regret.“

12.02.2026 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TACO.

12.02.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surely, the winner of this year’s Gerard Ratner Public Foresight Award?

12.02.2026 10:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Need to consider the possibility that this is simply outrage-farming to the gullible.

08.02.2026 09:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yep, that's a problem - though, if you have a NAS on your home network, then easy enough to download the video and play it from the NAS.

There's only so many thirty-second ads for 'Tai Chi Abs Exercise' you can watch before you change your viewing habits permanently.

05.02.2026 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube-dl is your friend - it downloada videos from YouTube without th accompanying ads.

ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

05.02.2026 07:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pretty good for an LLM.

04.02.2026 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You, Kyiv and Ukraine have friends abroad - do not be shy to call us and ask for help.

03.02.2026 00:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I usually do three boils - first for less than an hour, second for less than two hours and the last for less than three.

30.01.2026 06:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, looks amazing! Where can one buy such magic things?

29.01.2026 11:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In Europe, defence spending is a function of proximity to Russia.

28.01.2026 22:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could call it “Pain”.

28.01.2026 22:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“in bid to shore up key minerals”

Like, seriously?

25.01.2026 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s the Trumpy two-week tango - means it’s shoved so hard towards the back burner that it vanishes, never to be seen again.

23.01.2026 00:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0