An ad on the back of a Dublin bus for an app called Tap a Taxi.
Someone’s finally done it - a co-op taxi app, run by the drivers, charging only the meter fare with no commission to gougers. Uber and their ilk only drop fares to shove them sky high again when they’ve killed the competition. Support Irish Co-ops! #SpeirGorm
I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper
just fyi, it is spelt “HAMNET” but it is pronounced -
Frontal lobe lobotomy
Checking out this @deadline.com story about the Mees Peijnenburg-directed A FAMILY (which looks pretty good!). Who’s mentioned… cast, director cinematographer, producers, sales agents… No writer, because apparently these things just write themselves! 🤷♂️ deadline.com/2026/02/a-fa...
Currently at the ‘words are jiggling up and down on the page’ stage of working-while-poorly…
A black and white photo of two women in 1940s clothing, talking to each other while each holding a stack of wrapped presents. Over is the text: ‘Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh’ which, roughly translated from Irish, means ‘Happy Women’s Christmas to you all’.
A very happy Women’s Little Christmas to all who celebrate 🍾
A headline from the Irish Business Post: “Food brands scoring bumper profits - as price hike misery continues for punters.”
Surprise!
The Irish embassy puts on a screening of the Late Late Toy Show tomorrow and has been doing it for years
The Irish embassy in Germany puts on a screening of the Late Late Toy Show tomorrow and has been doing it for years. That's brilliant.
#latelatetoyshow
Toy Show: This is Child 1
Ireland: I would die for Child 1
Toy Show: Goodbye Child 1. Now welcome Child 2
Ireland: Never mind, Child 1 is dead to me. I love Child 2 now.
#Toyshow #LateLateToyShow
Anyone else’s autocorrect getting worse and worse? Mine keeps correcting you to yoi, about to aboit and just corrected public to ‘pie liv’ - is liv even a word?
Watching The Horse Whisperer with my dad, and the late-90s sure did have a lot of movies about middle aged women dabbling in picturesque adultery, didn’t they?
Wish we had more political discourse like this in Ireland right now, or that the media were covering it - the current leader of Green Party UK explaining in plain, accessible terms why taxing billionaires doesn’t mean penalising businesses and hard workers: youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...
Hey! Lots more fun here now.
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
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So how often *do* I have to turn motion smoothing off on my telly before it stays off?
An image of google maps showing an overview of a walking route to Whitehall and estimating the time at 1 hour, 58 minutes.
It would literally have been quicker to walk…
You wouldn’t want to be using public transport to get to work or anything silly like that. Sure why wouldn’t it take over two hours to get from Whitehall to Donnybrook? #DublinBus #SpeirGorm
I always find my David Bowie impression is on point when I have a cold
Remembering Ken Harmon who slipped out the back of life’s Story Room a year ago today. We could have told you, Ken, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. amp.rte.ie/amp/1473475/
It's time to talk about something very personal. Receiving an invoice from a freelancer is very triggering. There, I said it. The thought of money leaving my account gives me distress. That's why it can take me 6, 10, sometimes even 15 months to transfer it. There is nothing more anxiety inducing than having to pay someone for a job they've done for you. I once received an invoice from my gardener and immediately threw my phone into the ocean. It's debilitating. I wish I could pay people on time, but my emotions won't let me. So please, if you are upset, just remember the person on the other end refusing to pay you is also a human. And they're going through a lot.
please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
We should all contact your councillors and let them know that if they endorse McGregor, they lose our votes forever. They’re probably already being inundated with bot emails, claiming to be local residents, trying to persuade them to back the rapist. We need to counteract that.
Big thanks to all the amazing staff at @dublinairport.bsky.social and Aer Lingus who helped me and my injured dad navigate assisted travel for the first time. It was a stressful and unplanned journey, but everything went as smoothly as it could and people were lovely x
A can of McDaid’s Football Special soft drink.
Drinking new recipe Football Special for the first time - WTF is this gash?!?
My long time Fair City compadre and Story Editor non pareil has launched a new way for all creative types to get the Writers’ Room experience: www.rte.ie/culture/2025... #SpeirGorm #IrishWriters
Went to the self checkout at Bershka and first it asked if I was ‘resident or non-resident’. Then it asked for my ‘zip code’ and at that point I walked out. No one needs all my personal info for me to buy a pair of shorts, WTF?
A man in a flat cap who is carrying a bag walks towards the camera. In the background is a single building visible through mist. All around the ground is flat and shows signs of demolished housing.
Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.
some thing
You probably heard that theme tune as often as I heard ‘Michelle, ma belle…’
Yes, and the pressure to never admit to having emotions (never mind weakness) is why men and women suffer similar levels of depression and loneliness, but more men are killing themselves. Let boys be boys, by which I mean, let them be themselves in every facet.
