House wildlife.

Woken 12 minutes before the alarm by cat performing her latest opus, Yowl in B Minor. There doesn’t seem to be any obvious reason for this other than a good yell in the morning which in fairness I can appreciate.

Breakfast interrupted by a spider the size of a HORSE (ok, a very, very small horse) galloping across the floor. Cat helped by immediately losing sight of it and prowling the wrong side of the sofa it ran under.

I’m sure there are mice in the walls.

The tiny flies.

Cat^WKit inspection for tomorrow’s #poolbegparkrun

Good grief. It’s like the weather has suddenly remembered this country is supposed to be a soggy ball of mud.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@poolbeg_parkrun/117163973011781655

Come join us! I'll be the Run Director this weekend: if you don't have fun, it's _my fault_ and I will offer you a lifetime of free ParkRuns in compensation 🤣 #poolbeg #poolbegparkrun #parkrun

This headline was _eventually_ amended to make it not read as if the bird is _still_ in the engine, weeks later.

Bit of a Robert E. McElwaine flavour to his BusConnects objection.

(Usenet. 90’s. If you have to ask etc. 😉)

Regardless of any other considerations, searching the planning website for the complainant’s name is at least amusing.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2026/0804/1586419-dublin-hotel-college-green/

The thing I like most about #DublinPride is that it seems to have given people a license to let their inner freak out for the day, even if that just means wearing those mid-shin purple stripey socks that you bought but could never quite bring yourself to wear in public. More power to you, sir.

Gosh there’s a surprise.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0625/1580220-australia-social-media/

It’s a bit warm in these parts.

LOL.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0623/1579985-irish-freedom-party/

Another gorgeous day for a #poolbegparkrun. I was scanning again, and for one reason or another wound up scanning the first thirty or so of our 265 finishers before the relief party arrived to help out! Big shout-out to Clara who was looking up barcodes and _live registering_ newcomers! #parkrun

There's a traffic cone & sign closing the eastbound route next to the house for the Dublin City Half Marathon. I've just watched a half-dozen cars simply swerve around it, including when there's oncoming traffic. I mean, surely it doesn't apply to _them_.

George’s Dock seems to be a magnet for “what’s the daftest idea we can come up with and get DCC to fund a “feasibility study” for?”

BRB putting together my pitch for the world’s largest boxty pancake.

If you know of any Irish Parkruns that have made the move to Mastodon, please let me know. #parkrun #ireland #mastodaoine

There's either fireworks going off in the area or someone mistook DUBLIN for DUBAI.

I put up with a couple of years of roadworks in my area because I understand the benefits of proper bicycle infrastructure. Yes, it was inconvenient. It's still occasionally inconvenient if we're driving right instead of left from the house, but you know what? I just turn left and go around the block instead.

Same goes for BusConnects: oh no my unreliable regular route is being replaced. Turns out the replacement is more reliable _and_ more frequent.

You know, one week it's "we'll never have metrolink" and then the next week it's "you can't build that metrolink there because it'll temporarily inconvenice some people". It's a wonder _anything_ ever gets built in this city. Some people need to do a bit of reflection on the concept of "the common good".

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0328/1565712-metrolink-ireland-gaa/

I may have said this before, but it bears repeating: fuck the IOC.

Fuck, and I cannot be emphatic enough about this, the IOC.