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I'll buy literally anything on the Blue Note label
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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You, an idiot: my tastes are eclectic, hard to categorise. I guess I just like anything good!

Me, an intellectual: I like albums priced at or below €15
October 22, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Pie
January 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The Who, My Generation, €19.95.

A album I've been looking to buy for a year or so, coincidentally a bargain.
January 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Aphex Twin. Bit pricey at €28,95 but it's a double album, plus I've really wanted it on vinyl for a while
January 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
For years there was a belief in the media - apparently shared by the man himself - that Ryan Tubridy held a special place in the nation's affections. But I'm not sure people even notice he's gone
There is a lot of Ryan Tubridy redemption in the papers today
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
This story is a wild ride, but "I will need a new key fob" is probably my favorite bit.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Saw an actual woodpecker today, so there's that
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is incredibly humiliating for both of them but they both lack the self-respect to know it
#BREAKING: Venezuela's Machado says she 'presented' her Nobel Prize to Trump
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
This reminds about the time that this very important service almost ceased to exist because the responsible petson in the Dept of Justice forgot - literally just forgot - to make the funding application to the EU one year
January 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Labour Senator Laura Harmon says the Government should consider banning social media platform X entirely in Ireland in response to the ‘undressing’ scandal.

“If there was a factory created down the road this morning that was producing these kind of images, it would be shut down immediately.”
January 13, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Ive read this story and incredibly it didn’t contain the words “well duh!”
January 10, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The Taoiseach has been abroad this week. Never underestimate the power of Abroad to shape a politician's perspective. He grows statesmanlike, and rises above the petty concerns of domestic politics. He gives the press a quote or two. Then he comes home and wonders why everyone's cross with him.
January 10, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Good thread, built on a good week's journalism on this story
The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up.

Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views?

Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Niamh Smith I wasn't familiar with your game
🚨 AI Minister Niamh Smyth says it isn't appropriate for the Government to maintain a presence on X and will speak to the Taoiseach on the matter.

Says the European Commission should immediately suspend Grok while investigations are continuing.

More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Make Vance Protestant Again
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I'm going to suggest that it's no coincidence the first ICE murder occurs in the midst of the imperialist, "we do what we want around here" crowing about the Maduro kidnapping. The whole movement is high on unaccountable power and the footsoldiers are thinking it's time they got a taste of it
January 7, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I am "had to buy a knee support bandage from Boots today because I hurt my knee like three weeks ago doing a silly dance to amuse my daughter and it's still sore" years old
January 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I got off Twitter about 2 and a half years ago and even when I was still on it I managed my feed to avoid Nazi exposure. But I don't deny that it did bad things to my thought processes. Anyone still on it now is giving themselves brain damage.
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is all very well but now we need a taxonomy. Need to buy an oddly shaped light bulb? That's an errand, yo. Transitioning to a new procurement platform? You're in project country. Recovering an amulet of some sort, to free the townspeople from an ogre? We questin'.
January 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Projects: Formal, something a manager concocted to fulfil a requirement, implies planning and responsibilities, could be ongoing

(Invoked when a relatively straightforward task gets out of hand and becomes a project. In this state, the task may never be completed)
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Tasks: Employment-adjacent, probably not fun, consequences if not completed
January 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Side Quests: Suggests the existance of a Main Quest.
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM