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Moved to Ireland from the UK, I do technology stuff (web, 3d printing, electronics) and a bit of tourism hosting on the side.
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It would sure be nice if just one person learned anything from history even once. theonion.com/this-war-wil...

I can buy one stamp for €1.65. I can also buy 200 little sprinkler heads for my irrigation system, manufactured, packed and shipped from China to my house for a total of €0.88.

Sigh. Forget about Kneecap, provocation is their schtick, but a man who was DPP should know better than to make *any* comment about the accused in a live case. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still some very agreeable houses available out here in the west www.daft.ie/for-sale/hou...

Sunset at Doolin harbour looking out to the Aran Islands

Here are the rules that currently apply RPZ areas for short-term lets like Airbnb, these will now apply country wide it seems. planningpermissionireland.ie/blog/2024/04...

It seems the government has accidentally made all whole house short term letting in Ireland require planning permission in a week or so.

Now that the warm weather has arrived, baby dragons will be hatching in the mountains & woodlands throughout Wales. If you see one, please do not handle - they are wild creatures and do not make suitable pets. Not only are they very hot, but their parents won't be far away...

struggling to decide which coop to get www.inthemarket.ie/chicken-coops/ I will be building on to it, and/or re-roofing it in slate, but I think I will start with a kit rather than completely from scratch.

Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.

The happy feet prequel you were not expecting

If you can believe it the US President/King Birthday Parade official event audio keeps giving shout outs to their sponsors, just like Idiocracy, but instead of "Brought to you by Carl's Jr." it is sponsored by bits of the military industrial complex

1. Take a situation that has challenges - pretend it's a huge crisis (trade deficit, immigration); 2. Use it as a pretext to massively deploy executive power in a way previously constrained by laws and norms; 3. When anyone complains yell, THERE'S A CRISIS AND YOU'RE WHINING ABOUT LAWS & NORMS?!?

Time to play the game of "which of the 8 smoke alarms is beeping, or is it another one we don't know about?"

Fixed an issue with timezones and added the blight warning, so weather alerts are back and working.

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

I see my Google subscription is having a "price update" due to "significant added AI value". So that is nice for someone. I must have missed the bit where they asked if I want it.

Finally getting around to watching #HousewifeOfTheYear. I'll report back in an hour and a half when I am filled with rage. See ya then!

AI can do much better avatars than this. It looks like warping a static image to get some movement with a mouth overlay. Dreadful all the way down to the double Adams apple.

The RPZ system isn't great (and reusing the zones for short term rental regulations was even more dumb) but trying to grow the exploitative long term tenancy sector is probably not good if it comes at the expense of people who want to own a home www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

I believe a bit of a rethink is in order to achieve an aimed crash of the International Space Station into the pacific. www.astronomy.com/space-explor...

Pop quiz! Is this the market saying it thinks: a) Tesla's value was significantly reliant on Elon skimming governments contracts by being Trump's bestie? b) The Trump administration will use the machinery of government to enact personal vengeance? c) Both? Whatever the market says, I say "lmao".

“Females are too emotional to be in leadership” they say as the richest man in the world and the president of the United States cry tweet in an online beef

Today is 2025-06-05, the sun sets at 20:47:02 (21:47:02 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 41 mins and 19 secs. #GrandStretch

And with that the ISS was just handed over to Russia.

My niece is having indoor recess at college because there are reports of ICE enforcement activity in the area and the school doesn't want students kidnapped.

I did notice the Ardupilot logo timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...