Saw a fully grown man on a child's motorised wannabe dirt bike with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth in Thurles the other day and the image is living in my head rent-free.
A bird just shit on my head. Either 2025 still has a few laughs up its sleeve, or I'm finally at the end of this trial of a year, either way you have to laugh, don't you?
So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn’t produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement.
The hazelnut pain au chocolat from Mueller and O'Connell (Abbeyleix) is a god-tier pastry.
When I pop the 'spare' one in the air fryer for 2 minutes in the morning... 🤤🤤🤤
(Yes, I tried to heat one in the oven once and forgot about it for an hour. There were tears.)
Love how there's a mad Irish American declaring having a triple digit IQ as a major thing. Average intelligence is 100, with the normal range set between 90-109. Not emigrating to America doesn't mean you fell below 90, but the complexity of emigration is clearly too much for
her ego. Got to question that triple digit claim... (To think those of us whose ancestors survived a mass genocide are all intellectual inferiors of a nation led by a tangerine is a stretch, isn't it? Might not have much power but her brain is definitely able to contort itself.)
Reliably informed by a teenager today that I'm single because I have rainbow laces in my black shoes. Someone inform all of the men I've had to block because they're assholes that it was all me, the laces confirm it.
Fighting the urge to just howl at the moon and become totally feral at this stage. Everything feels like a prank. The budget, the presidential election, the whole shebang is like one long, bad joke.
So the very wonderful @UnshavedMouse wrote the wildly addictive "Don't Trust Fish". It's now available as gaeilge. My copy arrives tomorrow when I'll be half the country away, so "Níl Éisc le Trust" will be waiting for me when I get home at the weekend. Just got to get to Friday!
This year we'll give up 4% of all our revenue. 1% goes to staff on top of salary and bonus. 3% to good causes.
It's viable. Everyone does well. It's not marketing. It's an attempt to show what is currently accepted as necessary for globocorps to survive is nonsense.
Did you know school secretaries and caretakers are on strike from 28th August? Shockingly, they are being denied access to pensions by the government.
I've sent them a message of solidarity, you should too.
@Forsaschoolsecs@forsa_union_ieact.forsa.ie/solidarity-mess…
Had a lovely godmother day with my nephew. Hot chocolate, @KingfishrBand in Golden Discs, pizza at Papa'z and a Tipperary coloured sliotar. I wouldn't mind being a 5 year old again myself.
Been wearing bras for 30 years. The only people who've fitted me for bras were people who I asked to fit me for a bra. Others might have offered but that was their job, and they were fine with me declining. This bra bullsh!t as another stick to beat trans people has to stop.