It's a pretty cool effect, I doubt it would know how to do it if you asked

Dear @netflix.com, you heavily pushed Mid Morning with Alan Partridge's arrival... for weeks. Then you email me that it arrived. I get to watch 1.5seasons over a day and then you disappeared all trace of Alan Partridge from Netflix Ireland. What are you playing at? It's, frankly, bizarre. #SpeirGorm

Mark I'm not sure this makes sense, Trump told us the Iranian navy was obliterated and the US navy had control of the strait...

... so... awkwaaaaard.

Oh yeah, our GINI index must be popping off at this point. And the opinion that angry right voters are bad people rather than folk society has left behind & ignored

Oh yeah, but at least I'd like to believe folk voting for FFG thought they were a bit incompetent but really good for their house prices. Hopefully they make the blunder of dropping the mask before it's time to vote them out, believe right is the side the window is shifting.

Headline of the Day.

The other day I heard Simon Harris say we need to stop treating budget surplus like a dirty word. Incredibly removed from the reality of the housing crisis etc. The government isn't a for-profit entity. We have no metro, massive homelessness, under staffed health system etc. Spend wisely. #SpeirGorm

Who are the four TDs? I'm one of those "at least they haven't won anything in a general election" sorts. Now I'll need to adjust my SVT cheerleading

That see you, Capital G, they see you

Ooooh I'm on an anti AI blocklist for saying no thanks & muting folk pushing AI "art".
Slightly awkward since I actually use AI a lot to do menial tasks at work and have invested in AI companies etc. There's just a time & place for it. Great at pattern recognition & doing tasks at scale, not "art"😂

@netflix.com where did the Alan Partridge go from Ireland Netflix? It literally just arrived. And now... error can't be play instantly? WTF? Why do I subscribe if you're going to tear away a show a day after I fall in love with it? No Partridge found on the platform? #outrage #unsubscribe?

So... something odd happened. Yesterday Alan Partridge became the whole reason Netflix had any value (other than the Stargate SG1 rewatch I'm doing.) I sit down to watch tonight & netflix says the Alpha Papa can not instantly be played. Error. I search - zero Partridge on Netflix suddenly. W.T.F 🤯

Folks I guess I'm a bit slow... commutes have always been book+music or podcast+doom-scroll... today I realised I could watch Alan Partridge on me wee tram #GameChanged #PartridgeOnTheProwl

Great photo. Would swipe positive. Then would question if jean holes aid in cabbage picking mobility.

Just a buncha hard-shelled bros having a good tiiiime

Latest Alan Partridge show dropped on Netflix and how did I not see these when they were presumably first on BBC? Soooo good. Small studio, a few cameras and just incredibly tight and funny writing. Pure distilled AP magic. #AlanPartridge #Comedy

I'm heading down in two weeks, will you please use the good sacrifices to get me this weather?

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Hank is a glorious sonuvabitch!

The US far-right are determined to interfere and influence European and Irish elections. Here’s James Geoghegan and John Dallon, who portrayed themselves as ordinary farmers / contractors, hobnobbing with Kevin Posobiec, an American far-right influencer.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….

WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL NEWS STORIES!!!

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

I love how hard Invincible hits. Folk getting ripped apart all over the shop, which is what you'd expect with a bunch of evil Superman style folk running about. But wow, for animation it really can land as hard as The Boys. #Invincible #AmWatching

How is a Minister for Communications so bad at communicating? What about him made his leader go "y'know, I've got juuuust the man for the job"

How does the blue work in terms of camouflage?

I can't keep up. I'm trying to write a podcast episode & I can't get the narrative straight cause the full stop keeps movie further down the line.

Threads post saying Ireland has just declared his independence from England. This should be interesting. With a screenshot of RTÉ News showing an Irish army officer reading the Proclamation.

If you're ever bored by the bland sensibility of Bluesky have a look at threads for some of that social media derangement.

Here's a yank thinking the reading of the 1916 Proclamation on Easter Monday is Ireland declaring itself independent from England today....

_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.