Loads of people I know here are aware of the BIA scheme and think it's so cool and living in Ireland must be a gas. I wish awareness of the men (and women and children) in sheds idea got the same visibility.
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
'were' dammit. Bluesky always does that.
Same here. My wife 'bought' a car on that kind of deal because, ironically, we were cash poor and couldn't afford a banger. Didn't sit right, and happier with the 19 year old Golf sitting outside, bought and paid for.
We sold a house in Dublin a few years back and we're happy that it was being sold - we were told - to a family. Recently discovered via a friend of a friend who was living in it, that there's now a shed in the back....
The Govt's ‘beds in sheds’ plan going before Cabinet today is a recipe for exploitation and substandard accommodation.
Hiding a generation in back gardens is not a solution to our housing crisis.
Was wondering the same. Anyone?
Well if communism means everyone doing the same thing at the same time....*runs away*
You don't want to bother with lots of records/ CDs clogging up the house when you can stream it through your phone but also, you can't be a real adult without a car clogging up the road.
early morning coffee thought; odd that are now obliged to rent rather than buy cultural 'content' and the operating architecture that allows us to consume such things, but things like housing and transport, that were once rented, and public, are relentlessly privatised.
Now ban them in the HoC. Lammy was texting away as Starmer was speaking yesterday.
Mobile phones to be banned in schools in England under new plans www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Much like Starmer, I swear MM is just waiting for someone to put him out of his misery. He can't be enjoying the gig anymore - just clinging on so he can be 2nd longest lasting FF leader.
/ nad his fingers were mostly moving too fast to match the visual to what I was hearing.
Strangest thing; as far as I could see from the back, mainman Kawabata was playing a left handed guitar right handed; in other words, adapting a left handed instrument the way most of us lefties grapple(d) with right handed instruments. I wasn't close enough to see if it was restrung or not/
Bad picture of the phenomenal Acid Mothers Temple at the Brudenell tonight. Ears ringing like Quasimodo has taken up residence mind. And that's with protection.
I spent a few days in Cluj a few years back. A city a little bigger than Cork, a little smaller than Belfast, 20+ tramlines, trolley buses, loads of green space and cycle paths...
I had a couple of months' physio from a similar injury. You don't even do anything exciting to get wrecked.
A nation of slumlords.
The people affected most acutely by the housing crisis are the ones least likely to vote, or even to have a vote. Which doesn't excuse political parties from representing them. *Looks leftward meaningfully*
I bought a plant today. Seems I will garden my way into retirement. If I start saying 'you know Nigel has a point' then impale me on rake.
Further back I thnk? 2006, from memory...
I once marked a student essay that began 'Plato sat in his cave in Ancient Greece and thought about morality' - and this was pre-ChatGPT.
I've been reading a lot of 'whither Ireland?' commentary from the 80s/90s and from left/ right/ centre, usually deploring the loss of our soul to consumerism and pop culture. There an unmistakable moralism; whatever it is that's wrong with Ireland, it's your fault.
Ah.
Don't remember this at all, weirdly, though I must have heard it at the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hel...
Can't remember the line or the song title to search ...
XTC?
I’m chronically early. My partner thinks that you score points if you are Right On Time™.
This is exacerbated at the airport by my general flight anxiety. I like to get there. Find my gate. Find a snack or bathroom (if necessary). If we pile time anxiety on flight anxiety, that’s too much anxiety.
Soft spot for MR thanks to @deaconajw.bsky.social
Once half wrote a spoof paper on Modern Romance, Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial Pop, but couldn't keep a straight face/ pen.
Unplugged version below.
I went to gig in an artists co-op in Tottenham (!) a few years ago, and got off at Tottenham Hale, first time ever. Couldn't get this song out of my head, and consequently remember nothing of the show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91LC...
Dissenting vote for Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees.