I'm fed up of seeing drivers texting or reading from a phone ***while driving*** (and it's also unacceptable if you're stopped in traffic). If you are driving, it's very simple: you are in charge of a 1+ ton killing machine, so don't touch your phone. Ever. No, not even "insert excuse here".
One of my favorite games to play as an adult is:
Did I take Tylenol 30 minutes ago or did I just think about taking Tylenol 30 minutes ago...
Civil Service. So I can use the trauma to fuel my art.
Also, if those robots they're considering are the same ones as the restaurant in Dublin Airport they're annoying as all hell and need to be consigned to the bowels of Hades.
Had a stay in Beaumont recently. The lady who brought me my food was one of the best people I have ever met. She made my stay so much easier.
This needs to enforced by law at this point. I really don't need to hear whatever shite you're watching on Tiktok at full blast through your tinny phone speakers.
Also, please treat your elderly relatives in hospital to a set of earphones. They will use them and the other patients will be grateful.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
I'd say he's sweating now
People keep claiming it's a "better window to the world" but actively posting and engaging on a platform where interactions and content are now effectively interchangable with 4Chan and whose own AI puts images of children in tiny bikinis on demand is a choice. There are far less harmful windows.
I've noticed this recently too, on a lot of channels and the channels' own streaming services. Gambling advertising needs to go the way of cigarette advertising and fast.
Collage of prints from my site #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
One of the handwritten gift notes that I can include for free with all orders, if desired.
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
I tried to rewatch Robin Hood: Men in Tights recently for the first time in about 25 years. I lasted 15 minutes and had to turn it off. It has aged really badly. Also made me question the other shit I watched in the 90s.
An absolute waste of time and resources.
Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
Absolute travesty. She was the best of the housemates.
We need Interlagos to be the last race on the Formula 1 calendar again. It's always a fantastic race. #SaoPaoloGP #F1
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
I used to sell on Etsy. It was fine until they started really screwing over small crafters about 5 years ago. I left the platform 2 years ago over their attempt to impose targets on the makers that gave them a platform in the first place. This score makes me feel very happy indeed.
The fact that the British media making jokes about it and not pleading for lynchmobs to remain calm is very telling.
Imagine if he had a tan.
Elon Musk tweet: Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.
Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.
Is it time to eat the rich yet?
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
They start off nice, but then they burn your insides. And keep burning. And burn some more.
Another typical morning in town after Culture Night, sean-nós singers left strewn around the footpaths, poets carelessly stuffed under park benches, a lone interpretive dancer being gently blown around the square
Is it time to eat the rich yet?
a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event
*turns slowly to look at camera*
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
If we decide to treat X/Twitter as a newspaper with lots of unpaid freelance writers, and we consider tweets from Musk to be editorials (and why shouldn't we?) the there's an increasingly strong case for it to be banned in Ireland.
