Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder. www.pilcrow.ie
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I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
No Union Jack duvet covers? Disgusting
“I regret to announce that I have stored too much pee in my balls”
*waves hand vaguely* computer, make them amnesiacs
We are entering a new golden age of turd-polishing www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Or possibly *in* a flag
Every state has left the union, and who can blame them
Absolutely. We were perfectly pre-primed for a technology that simulates that experience
I can explain: your “enhanced” photo doesn’t work in the way that you think it does, it’s just an AI upscaler having a (terrible) guess
I don’t want to kink-shame but these are the words of a man who can only achieve climax in the presence of a flag
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Looking forward to Ireland being absolutely battered by Hurricane Fionnuala
I was all excited to show the civil war ghost who haunts my house cool shit on youtube like metallica and dragon force, but all he wants to hear is turkey in the straw. this fucking guy loves turkey in the straw
theyre hiding him because hes pregnant and hes starting to show
He was trying to signal something with this unusual tie knot
It’s 17 years later, we’ve had plenty of inflation since, and €45 for a bottle of water is *still* wild
We did this in Ireland in 2008, can’t remember what happened next but I’m sure it was good
Is there a threshold of trouser wideness beyond which you have to seek planning permission
Notes app apology from the CIA apologising if anybody was offended by their behaviour over the past 80 years and promising to listen and learn more in future.
“A lot of people are into the intelligence services’ greatest hits, but honestly I’m more into their later more experimental stuff - have you heard ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ yet
“The FBI definitely didn’t do anything bad when I worked there, and I would know!”
lol @ everything here, but especially “(legal)”
We’re two months away from Spotify having video calling for some reason
legitimately i would hang out there reading a book the years that i went because they had the best AC running
Is it too late to change it back
Their signage font is giving Ren & Stimpy vibes
The Orgy Dome has fallen
Cracker Barrel? I hardly knew her
How about before we do that, we protect the welfare-based interests of humans
lol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If I’m asked to explain anything that happens in the world, this is my go-to answer
I've had many varieties of shirred eggs over the years, and never realised it. They are SO good
Had to look that one up myself - baked eggs!
New astrology just dropped (via @goodspeed.bsky.social's Casual Archivist newsletter)
“Today, the format is functionally dead, displaced by email signatures, LinkedIn profiles, and QR codes (see also: the slow decline of paper menus, postcards, and real concert tickets).” themalin.co/journal/the-...
It actually smelled ok for once, if that makes it more or less good
Sandymount Strand
I know it’s hyper-exaggerated but I feel lucky that I didn’t see the tiniest fraction of any of that stuff. It was like looking at an alien landscape
Watched Eddington yesterday and I’m coming around to the idea that an infinite scroll of video is considerably more deranging than an infinite scroll of text-only posts (although they’re both deranging, obvs)
Now I’ve got ‘Eddington In Peru’ as an earworm
Bananas good! Still working though it…
Ba-na-nas
"IN FAIRNESS TO Kneecap and Sally Rooney, if I had to embroil myself in a battle of wits with a world leader, I’d probably pick Keir Starmer too."
His parents died after slipping on something and hitting their heads leaving the Wexford Opera Festival.
Because he's the hero Dublin deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A Cum Man
“There was a time when the happiness of existing customers was a sacred metric. CEOs saw the long arc of loyalty as essential to a company’s success. That arc has snapped.”
“The idea that all of this happened because, like, twelve professors at Berkeley used “Latinx” on their syllabi is just detached from reality, from my point of view.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social In full form www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
They’re turning me into a political prisoner for my fig roll beliefs
Awwwwww yeah
*hits roof of car with a giant fig roll on top* Let’s figgin’ go!
DUBAI BATTERBURGER
Oh yes
I’m not sure yet *where* it will be, but I implore you to try a square of decent dark chocolate with a Fig Roll, and all your concerns will evaporate
(Scheggings)
Random memory of Spike Milligan sending an increasingly paranoid Peter Sellers a telegram saying “IGNORE FIRST TELEGRAM”.
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
By far the funniest entry here, in a death of irony sense, is “Overton window”
See ya around, lil’ guy 🥲
I generally love to see non-designers talking about design, but “the new Cracker Barrel logo is woke” is where I draw the line
This is about 3 months since they were doling out $10m a year to A.I. researchers. It’s almost like they haven’t a clue what they’re doing. Again
Ok cool, now destroy Powerpoint
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
“Gentlemen, as you know, we’ve made shelter ruinously expensive - what’s next on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?”
The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship
No but I will seek them out
Try it and tell me I’m wrong
Once we get past this cursed dubai chocolate nonsense, we can get to the confection innovation that needs to happen: dark chocolate fig rolls
WHY WON’T YOU ADMIT IT
Truly we live in a golden age of corporate demergers
My Source | Wasps | Otters | Rats | Dogs
This has 12 months, tops, before it’s completely overhauled again
Desperately trying to flush my hardback copy of Intermezzo down the toilet as the police kick in my front door
"Suck it, coppers" I yell before downing my freshly-blended Normal People smoothie in one go.
Desperately trying to flush my hardback copy of Intermezzo down the toilet as the police kick in my front door
That’s WHY I hate them
The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this
can i explain the gap on my resume? Dude that’s white space, it frames the content and is a compositional element unto itself, also I was in prison
can i explain the gap on my resume? Dude that’s white space, it frames the content and is a compositional element unto itself, also I was in prison
A drama where every character looks profoundly bored throughout
You’re all set then!
The three leads looked bored for the whole thing.
Watched ‘Materialists’ last night, which definitively answers the question “What if we had a romcom with zero chemistry and no laughs?”
A spectacular tribute to Ireland’s sisters
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’
Welcome to Bluesky!
Oh right, I see, it’s perfectly fine to have “a toilet” in the new en suite, but suddenly I’m the bad guy because I want a urinal in there
Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Great to see Britain’s brightest minds finally getting off the fence and weighing in behind the law abiding majority
I hope this skeet finds you relatable (derogatory)
“When you spend $8 billion, you get what you want”: your wife having sex with James Bond, while you look on
Can recommend this EXTREMELY gossipy piece on Bennington (much better than the recent podcast IMO) www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Ever been to Monaco? It’s an ugly shithole, full of the worst people in the world
Only an edition hewn from marble, each page its own immaculately chiselled tablet, will do - as unpickupable as it will be unputdownable
I’m only annoyed because (a) it’s my favourite book and (b) it’s been burdened with meh covers in every edition
They gone
I did a marbling workshop last year so I’m an expert now, no questions please