Ian Briggs
@ibriggs.bsky.social
Aeronautical engineer, saxophonist, homebrewer, EV owner, Blue Jays fan from Belfast, Ireland.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Off to Enniskillen for the weekend. Some nice walks planned, then an Ireland game tomorrow with a pint or two in our favourite pub Blakes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Off to Enniskillen for the weekend. Some nice walks planned, then an Ireland game tomorrow with a pint or two in our favourite pub Blakes.
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A great night at the Portrush Beer Festival despite the foul weather. Some great stuff but our favourite was the Nitro Stout from Brehon Brewhouse (not pictured!).
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A great night at the Portrush Beer Festival despite the foul weather. Some great stuff but our favourite was the Nitro Stout from Brehon Brewhouse (not pictured!).
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Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.
Saturday night, some homemade tapas, Stuart Maconie on 6Music Funk & Soul duties and a very nice bottle of wine. Perfect.
August 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Saturday night, some homemade tapas, Stuart Maconie on 6Music Funk & Soul duties and a very nice bottle of wine. Perfect.
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This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
August 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
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DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
August 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
Finally saw #Hamilton tonight on the West End. Absolutely astonishing! Tears all round. A modern opera that makes 18th century politics utterly captivating and yet all the themes are still so relevant!
June 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Finally saw #Hamilton tonight on the West End. Absolutely astonishing! Tears all round. A modern opera that makes 18th century politics utterly captivating and yet all the themes are still so relevant!
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"The Big Man" made his entrance into the story, the photograph and the myth this week in 1975, during the cover shoot for "Born to Run." "I brought Clarence to the session because I wanted to be photographed with him," Bruce said...
📸: © Eric Meola
📸: © Eric Meola
June 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"The Big Man" made his entrance into the story, the photograph and the myth this week in 1975, during the cover shoot for "Born to Run." "I brought Clarence to the session because I wanted to be photographed with him," Bruce said...
📸: © Eric Meola
📸: © Eric Meola
Great to discover Land & Labour brewery at Boundary #jubilate. Some fantastic naturally fermented beers and their 'Geibhreagh' Gueuze was the best one of the day for me 😁
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great to discover Land & Labour brewery at Boundary #jubilate. Some fantastic naturally fermented beers and their 'Geibhreagh' Gueuze was the best one of the day for me 😁
Am I the only one that thinks Google Assistant has been getting progressively worse? Even the must basic of voice commands (volume, skip tracks) now seems to result in the devices getting confused or being unable to respond.
April 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Am I the only one that thinks Google Assistant has been getting progressively worse? Even the must basic of voice commands (volume, skip tracks) now seems to result in the devices getting confused or being unable to respond.
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This is ridiculous. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen: a nation destroying itself to prevent the sale of cheap products. We can't keep getting stupider at this pace, as a species. Within another generation or two we won't be able to speak whole sentences.
April 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is ridiculous. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen: a nation destroying itself to prevent the sale of cheap products. We can't keep getting stupider at this pace, as a species. Within another generation or two we won't be able to speak whole sentences.
March 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM