Karlin Lillington
@klillington.bsky.social
Retired Irish Times tech columnist. Chair, New Music Dublin. Likes privacy/infosec/human rights. Likes 🦇. Lots of 4-legged talls/smalls 🐕🐈⬛🫏🐴. Talkative. 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸➡️🇮🇪 Also on 🦣
I seem to have accidentally bought the Disco Inferno toaster
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I seem to have accidentally bought the Disco Inferno toaster
If you go to Pettit’s SuperValu in Bray and over to the holiday chocolates wall by the booze section you too can get your very own mega-sized display box of Tunnock’s and NOT SHARE THEM WITH ANYONE
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you go to Pettit’s SuperValu in Bray and over to the holiday chocolates wall by the booze section you too can get your very own mega-sized display box of Tunnock’s and NOT SHARE THEM WITH ANYONE
Just got an email with this subject heading from Camile Thai
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Just got an email with this subject heading from Camile Thai
Consider a box full of Iain M Banks — woot!
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Consider a box full of Iain M Banks — woot!
We’ve lived in the back part of the house for 17 weeks w/ 8 dogs & 5 cats & a temp kitchen fitted into the front porch (no cooker). Today begins the long process of moving back into the renovated rooms, hooray!! Cooked my last breakfast on the portable Ikea induction plate (great product btw)
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’ve lived in the back part of the house for 17 weeks w/ 8 dogs & 5 cats & a temp kitchen fitted into the front porch (no cooker). Today begins the long process of moving back into the renovated rooms, hooray!! Cooked my last breakfast on the portable Ikea induction plate (great product btw)
I’ve voted in California elections since the 1970s. Never in my life did I think I’d be voting on measures like these, thanks to the new authoritarianism 😵💫
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I’ve voted in California elections since the 1970s. Never in my life did I think I’d be voting on measures like these, thanks to the new authoritarianism 😵💫
I've confirmed my humanity
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I've confirmed my humanity
I do highly recommend a visit to Beaumaris Castle though if you are on your way to the Holyhead ferry and have an hour+. 60-90 minutes is ideal. It’s like the ur-castle
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I do highly recommend a visit to Beaumaris Castle though if you are on your way to the Holyhead ferry and have an hour+. 60-90 minutes is ideal. It’s like the ur-castle
I nominate this one as the official Sign of the Times
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I nominate this one as the official Sign of the Times
These guys clearly did not pay attention to the warning signs on the castle
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
These guys clearly did not pay attention to the warning signs on the castle
Hudson has opinions
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hudson has opinions
The mismatched best friends who were together from puppyhood onwards. Extra large Pyrenean Mountain Dog (aka Great Pyrenees) Zuri and little Cavalier King Charles fellow Hudson. He sleeps on her tail at night because: soft #dogsofbluesky #speirgorm
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The mismatched best friends who were together from puppyhood onwards. Extra large Pyrenean Mountain Dog (aka Great Pyrenees) Zuri and little Cavalier King Charles fellow Hudson. He sleeps on her tail at night because: soft #dogsofbluesky #speirgorm
Hudson the cavalier had a snood mishap after eating his breakfast
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hudson the cavalier had a snood mishap after eating his breakfast
Surprisingly relaxing to watch
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Surprisingly relaxing to watch
Upside down reflected world in the flooded stable yard
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Upside down reflected world in the flooded stable yard
Sour! Skeletons! (Of COURSE I bought them!)
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sour! Skeletons! (Of COURSE I bought them!)
And just now in my feed:
October 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
And just now in my feed:
Cairn Holy in Scotland is a pretty heavy metal cairn. Those tallest standing stones must be close to 3m high. Missed the earlier ferry so got a chance to go see it
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Cairn Holy in Scotland is a pretty heavy metal cairn. Those tallest standing stones must be close to 3m high. Missed the earlier ferry so got a chance to go see it
Way hey! Yet another reason to holiday in Scotland
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Way hey! Yet another reason to holiday in Scotland
I’ve unexpectedly turned into a woman who thinks, now that’s a really nice bale of hay
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’ve unexpectedly turned into a woman who thinks, now that’s a really nice bale of hay
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Meta AI on Facebook just now. 🤔
September 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Meta AI on Facebook just now. 🤔
I have poor Turkish delight self control and just ate … a lot of this lovely gift box from friends 👀
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I have poor Turkish delight self control and just ate … a lot of this lovely gift box from friends 👀
Great column in todays’s Observer. Soooooo spot on. Am in UK for a week and so many flags everywhere making those ‘statements’. Totally Ulsterised
August 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great column in todays’s Observer. Soooooo spot on. Am in UK for a week and so many flags everywhere making those ‘statements’. Totally Ulsterised
Aren’t these lovely? Birds of the North Pennines printed on beer mats (!) which the woman at the register in the Bowlees Visitor Centre in Teesdale gave me today when I bought some cards and books. You can scan a QR code on the back to learn more. Lovely morning walk along the Tees with a few dogs
August 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Aren’t these lovely? Birds of the North Pennines printed on beer mats (!) which the woman at the register in the Bowlees Visitor Centre in Teesdale gave me today when I bought some cards and books. You can scan a QR code on the back to learn more. Lovely morning walk along the Tees with a few dogs