The Fleadh in Belfast is very good, it's such a successful collaboration between a cultural organization and city management. You could just wander around all day and be entertained for free. Great buzz and people from all over enjoying it.
Whole city center really feels like a festival.
Only one day left but they're doing it again next year and I might do an overnight or two.
Saw these great photos of traditional Irish orgasm faces at the Fleadh in Belfast. Need to keep these traditions alive, especially not taking off your jacket.
"how dare you call us anti-rights, this is definitely not about our funding"
Never take these people at their word, brazen dishonesty is standard updating procedure
So now we realize the problem with the Amnesty report, which resulted in a fucking oddball billionaire threatening to SLAPP Amnesty UK out of existence, was its revealing all the US funding from extremely conservative organizations.
These people tried to do the same shit in Ireland with gay marriage and abortion access.
I'm curious what the differences have been in terms of reportage and success rates. Are UK politicians more easily manipulated, are Irish politicians just aware of EU law?
She had certainly been a lot younger than him, I don't know if it had been the right side of the law or not, I didn't know her well enough to go asking just to satisfy my curiosity. This was told in conversation.
You heard more stories as the years went by. In conversation not on social media.
Glen Hansard and teenage girls being a thing was a known concept. He hardly did it in front of people he wanted to impress.
2/
My brother and his gang were Frames cultists and it rubbed off on me a bit but I was never blown away. Respectable indie rock and I owned a copy of Dance the Devil because it has God Bless Mom on it.
Glen Hansard was still a local hero in Dublin and you could find yourself sharing a joke with him in Whelan's and be a little star struck.
Then I heard about him having had an inappropriate relationship with a friend of a friend. 1/
Grand spot spot for reading and/or staring. Do it again tomorrow I think.
(It's at Doohoma Head, Co Mayo, looking at Achill Island)
I had my face in my hands today while I waited for an LLM coding tool to stop flailing and finish an elementary task.
If I don't use it I don't look "efficient", efficient means you don't get laid off, and there's not much sign of cool jobs right now.
It feels like you're racing everyone around you to push out whatever slop just be doing it.
I really hope this isn't the next 20 years of my work.
Going to treat myself to writing things myself tomorrow, I think.
"Why did I, a libertarian anarchist, support the Örebro Party (ÖP), which is neither, with a donation?"
Oh, me me! Ask me! I know this!
It's because the kind of cunt calls himself a libertarian anarchist always turns out to be a fascist when put to the test!
What do I win, it better not be a subscription to Mullvad.
I did a speed-run and finished reading the founders blog post in one line. Cus I didn't just float down the Blackwater in a bubble.
Met another new-to-me moth. A burnished brass moth that landed on the car up the Sperrins.
Very shiny with a weird hair style.
I met a garden tiger moth.
One upside of a massive nettle patch near you, possibly.
It was found looking lost on the lawn but some time in damp shade got it flying again.
Newly hatched I think. (Wings not the stiffest and the loopy-doopy proboscis)
I'll be honest, I felt as uneasy as anyone about this Twelfth after the pogrom in Belfast not that long ago.
As it pans out, loyalists burned out "their own" for the crime of living to near where they wanted to burn a giant fucking stack of pallets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70yp7d917eo
That's not to say things like Moygashel's bonfire are acceptable, they're not, but in some ways it's the latest flavor of a performative bigotry which continues to alienate, and also has something kind of pathetic to it.
Costa del Down looking well today.
Up the Mournes and I'd say building that wall was shite craic
A British far right grifter, who used to be better known, has visited the bonfire in Moygashel.
Their equivalent of singing in a shopping center 10 years after you were in the Eurovision.
Fucking doormat pride.
Recently saw someone talking about a person who took time off their job for their mental health, "but" they went on a nice surfing holiday.
As we all know, if someone needs time off for their mental health, they spend that time lying on the floor going "AAAAHHH MY BRAIN!"
And doing something nice for yourself just makes it worse.
- Lies
- Damn Lies
- Statistics
- Irish GDP
- AI Profits
Deciding that things are the way you'd like them to be and falling back on "nobody really knows" is just mysticism.
Have a party, if mysticism makes you happy.
Just don't try and present it as logic or science because it's just not. And certainly don't use it to dismiss people who disagree with you because that's just cultish (or similar).
