Prepped a puzzle entrance last night. Puzzles, eh? Boy, I dunno.
The crew (honourably) decided to brute force their way in rather than solve the puzzle (getting cursed in the process).
Then, with way clear, decided to spend the next 12 hours in-game figuring out the puzzle.
The duality of gamers.
North Cork Co-operative Creameries in Kanturk in Co Cork has been fined €8,000 and ordered to pay more than €3,600 in costs and expenses after the company pleaded guilty to charges arising from an illegal discharge of effluent into a tributary of the River Blackwater last summer
Views on the Shannon, Clare and Limerick side, on April 21, 1842
Views of the Shannon from Clare & Limerick shores, sketched #OnThisDay (21 Apr 1842), attributed to Captain Thomas Hastings.
Five scenes: Tervoe House; Cratloe Castle & woods; Bunratty Castle (Scarlet Tower + second view); Castletown (Limerick).
https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000552871
This tickles me cus local roads and park amenities both come under the purview of local councils. Swings and roundabouts indeed!
Dublin City Council doesn’t have a huge amount of overlap, so seems safe from such search result infiltration.
No hate but Dungeon Crawler Carl is both not my taste and is impinging on searches related to my beloved DCC - Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable
In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived
Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power
The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.
I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment
Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.
It seems to be the best year for bluebells in half a century. Bluebells to infinity in Moore Abbey Wood in Monasterevin.
Not just in patches, but everywhere this year.
Howards End (-ish)
Putting the final touches on the prep for tonight's Cairn ttrpg game by rummaging through the character portraits of @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social to throw some weird n' wonderful NPCs into the mix. So many weird n' wonderful dudes (gender nonspecific) to choose from.
Joshua Burnside is quite very good at this whole sad folk business.
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And was hated by the yanks. Both the crowd, who loved to boo him, and his fellow grapplers who legit wanted to hurt him.
Physically I am in work but mentally I never left the Workman’s Club.
Yes very good
The video that you hope you’ll never need, but should watch anyway just in case it happens to you.
A time travellers guide to Doggerland
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Makes it sound hip and glam, instead of a scummy scam.
“It’s understood that residents are offered licences rather than tenancies, which is a common feature of the room-share trend.”
Good grief.
This is so much worse than Infrastructure Week
This guy is living the dream (my dream in particular) of expanding an old Irish hedgerow into a wood. Hedgerows are the backbone of our biodiversity, and it’s beautiful to see one getting some love.
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Councillors dug into a plan for €3.88 billion in spending on projects in the city, during their monthly meeting Monday. Flagship projects include a new HQ for Dublin City Council, the redevelopment of Dalymount Park, and the refurbishment of the Fruit and Vegetable Market.
Madra Salach playing onstage in the Workman’s
A picture of the backdrop for Roger O’Sullivan’s Fekken comedy gig, which is a reworked Tekken logo
A succulent Chinese meal
The poster for the anime Akira
A music gig, a comedy gig, a succulent Chinese meal, cocktails and the 4K restoration of Akira - I have done well this wedding anniversary. Perhaps too well. The bar, set too high. Might need to do something oafish today to reset expectations.
Finished S2 of The Pitt. I was sceptical at first, but by the end I was won over by the constant grinding beneath systems of power.
I want a Three Men and a Baby spinoff, tho.
New ironic hipster jersey by Gan Stró acquired. Terrific evening for it.
Loah singing in a music shop.
Saw Loah singing at Freebird records as part of Record Store Day. Been a fan of hers for absolutely ages now, but my first time hearing her in person. Also picked up another ironic Junior Brother jersey. I’m very cultured.
Ha!
I’m having a stroke.
I love it when people talk excitedly about playing the Exalted RPG, both because it’s nice to see people enthuse about things, and because it lets me know we would not play well together.
Gonna treat myself to a 1926 Census day tomorrow.
That was an intense piece of storytelling.
