Big fuck-off dog at the beach in Portmarnock which is famously on the south side of Dublin

Maybe we should all agree to use vulgarity in the alt text with a sprinkle of obvious lies.

Well he certainly knows how to put up the price of a stamp. Up 255% during his tenure.

Just wanted to say thanks for this. A great chat that sent my scurrying up to the attic. Found my Cassette of Kiss the Big Stone and honestly track one could have been written yesterday.

Astonishing, yes, and, at times, transcendently eerie and beautiful.

I know they say that the past is another country but then you see the exact same faces of your friends and neighbours in something like this. Even if you aren’t particularly happy with where we ended up, it’s been some journey

As a man of a certain age born into this world can I just say thanks a mil. When you know what we know the mixture of wistfulness and horror at what lay just beneath the surface of that Ireland is quite the cocktail.

Wall Street on the Tundra | Vanity Fair Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance&...

Remember when all of the Icelandic fishermen sold their boats to get into banking.

archive.vanityfair.com/article/2009...

The Fatima Mansions - Blues For Ceauşescu YouTube video by Edward George

Does Blues for Ceausescu count?

youtu.be/FnvsgWD_pAQ?...

Big progress. #Spéirghorm

Headline about the arrest of Mothers against Genocide during a protest

What makes you say that….

Time for a revenue audit?

Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body Reported values in the literature on the number of cells in the body differ by orders of magnitude and are very seldom supported by any measurements or calculations. Here, we integrate the most up-to-date information on the number of human and ...

Also recent scientific studies suggest that there are as many cells inside your skin border that are not you (bacteria etc)as there are that are you (human dna)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Full post prob Monday, but for now:

Dáil Seat Projections for April 2026

Sinn Féin 44 (+5)
Fianna Fáil 42 (-6)
Fine Gael 41 (+3)
Social Democrats 13 (+2)
Independents 12 (-4)
Labour 10 (-1)
Independent Ireland 5 (+1)
PBP/Solidarity 3 (nc)
Aontú 3 (+1)
100% Redress 1 (nc)
Green Party 0 (-1)

Maybe they should all lead by example and give up the free drivers and walk themselves..

There’s a bang of Cork City Council off the logo but I presume it’s just to get residents ready for all the flooding coming down the tracks with climate change

Pretty sure lots of people take annual leave to look after their kids so that’s a part of it too.

Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms | CNN Business A jury on Tuesday found Meta violated New Mexico law in a case accusing it of failing to warn users about the dangers of its platforms and protect children from sexual predators.

With reviews like these…

www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/t...

A map of Naas which is all wrong

When AI does the map on your flyer. The places are on the map but just not where they are supposed to be.
#Speirgorm #Naas

Current Policy Framework

He is risen

Zippy from rainbow

Naming it after this guy was an unusual choice in fairness

There is one on the other side of the canal opposite one of the locks but it’s down on the path so you would need to know it was there and have walked down before you reach it

Blazing Saddles

Spicebag’s eviction art

Meanwhile the Government responded

EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible ...

Also the idea of someone else having access to everything you ever look at. What could possibly go wrong.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home YouTube video by National Theatre

For the day that's in it:

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
(available for free until tomorrow).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=obX-...

#speirgorm

In fairness the intro is God tier