Should potholing be banned?

You'll only drive it underground.

See, we can have all the active transport infrastructure in the world, but unless attitudes change this shit will keep happening.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Presumably Stephen's Ma was a Clerys dummy.

I’m beginning to think he’s dragging the FIFA Peace Prize into disrepute.

March, 19-21: God is a comedian A stiff drink is recommended

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation.

I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment.

This summary is just fantastic.

I just got a pike down from the loft, I didn't even know I owned one.

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

“In short, this is a malaise that cuts deep, that has disfigured our relationship with football in lots of complex ways, and somehow I don’t think banning attacking players from standing in the six-yard box at corners is going to cut it.”

Fairly spot on, as he often is @jonathanliew.bsky.social

Call it a guillotine prevention fund if "tax" is too scary for them

How are you coping?

Oh since I got this very heavy headgear it has been no problem at all.

Is this a good time to inform you that in North Donegal 'cope' also means to physically topple over.

Can be quite amusing reading perfectly cromulent sentences for anyone else and picturing people's coping strategy meaning they keep falling about the place in a presumably highly comical manner 😀

I fucking knew it

No.

Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie

now that's the power of a union

Streaker Running Across Field At Super Bowl Just Concussed Player

Streaker Running Across Field At Super Bowl Just Concussed Player theonion.com/streaker-running-across-...

Galway cyclists seek a ‘safe space’ four years on from collapse of Salthill project ‘You are caught between parked cars where you could be ‘doored’ at any moment, or fast-moving traffic’

In February 2022, I was out protesting for a cycle path along the Salthill promenade.

Consultation matters. Community engagement matters.

But four years to come up with a plan for a short cycle path and some other basic upgrades? That’s not engagement, that’s politician inertia, that's paralysis.

Filed a column for The Mayo News today expressing my bewilderment that this government is completely ignoring the flood mitigation potential of our wetlands and native forests. Flood defence schemes are just band-aids now. Hadn't seen this, but would have referenced it if I had, it's excellent.

Superb

FFS Leeson, not again!

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

Happy New Year Sam!

[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.

General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.

Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.

A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-hi...

What happened to having a piss and minding your own business?

Hup

We only need one golf course in this entire country. Have you seen how empty they always are? What a waste of space. Choose one to keep, turn the rest into rewilded nature reserves.