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Avid procrastinator, fantasy book enjoyer, reluctant grown-up.
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What an excellent burn

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Those are rookie numbers. In Ireland we managed to spend nearly €350K on a bike shed.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

The day after I switched to my new Pixel 9, there was a noise coming from a press in my kitchen. It was the alarm on my almost 7 year old phone going off, even though I'd powered it off the day before. I felt like Daniel Plainview.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

I keep thinking about something Al Murray once said. America: the best way of looking at it really, is that it's a good idea that's got out of hand.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see my family's not infrequent hijacking of my Spotify account via the Google speaker in the kitchen hasn't screwed with the analytics. My status as a fan is now sufficiently validated for another year. That's a joke... Mostly.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly 2/3s through Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan and I need to read more standalone epic fantasy. Trilogies and multi-volume epics are great, and I love them, but it's refreshing to read a story of this scale told in a single book.

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting that this didn't translate to the Greens maintaining their vote share. Encouragingly, this and a number of other responses suggest a much more progressive electorate than a lot of social media would have you believe.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who enjoys the drama of the vote counting, the idea that preserving the drama, and not doing it electronically, represents "more evidence of our natural tendency to a lack of seriousness in public life" has got me rolling my eyes. It's possible for something to be fun and serious.

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

In the three days between now and when my new phone arrives, I've started using my existing one without a case or screen protector, and imagining a life where I'm always this daring.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Today I successfully resisted buying 2 games in the steam sale. Sure, I bought 3, but I'm choosing to focus on the first part.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Spending as much time actually pursuing my hobbies as I spend watching other people on the internet pursue said hobbies would be the ultimate state of self-fulfillment.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

I must admit, it's quite nice to live in a country where normal political fuck-ups can still affect a politician's popularity.

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments