Justin Mason

@jmason.org

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Dublin-based software engineer; still linkblogging at https://jmason.ie/ . Nerdy stuff on https://mastodon.ie/@jmason . Been on the internet far too long at this stage. Opinions my own.

"Bricks + Minifigs Steal Lego" apparently
A Spanish crisp bag for El Tio Las Papas Patatas Fritas (yum)
An impressively wrong map of the retreat of the Armada, featuring two islands of Ireland
Bezos Center For Sustainable Protein
two sparkline graphs showing short 0.630 kWh bumps
Election poster for a dog wearing a tie
A screenshot of a Slack reaction emoji reading "SLOP" in the style of a "STOP" sign
A large chart of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing mission plan from the Office of Manned Space Flight, which unfortunately looks like a huge space penis, I have been told
bar chart showing a huge amount of "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"
'When asked if any animals would be joining her at Áras an Uachtaráin, she said she had two black cats, a brother and sister who were known as “Cat One and Cat Two”. Ms Connolly also said her husband, or “current husband” as she refers to him, Brian McEnery would be likely to bring “more than one” of his beehives with him to the Áras.'
A mop and bucket called "Ibuprofen"
This week’s violence has raised serious questions for some of the main social media platforms. Livestream content depicting violence outside Citywest was broadcast on YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, with streamers rewarded by viewer donations, as they captured protesters shouting racist expletives towards Citywest. In one eight-minute segment of an hour-long livestream I watched on YouTube that night, the user broadcast the burning of the Garda van, referred to migrants in horrific terms and proclaimed they were there to show people “the real truth”. During the video, they received the equivalent of €56 in donations from viewers around the world. The notion that violence can be monetised on social media illustrates a glaring failure of platforms to adequately enforce their own community guidelines around violence.
A pair of boxes, of green and blue Panadol tablets
Waterford Whispers: "Thousands Of Middle Aged Men Flock To Dun Laoghaire To Stare At Big Ship"
Am extremely productive hops bush
Anakin/Padme meme: "rapid cuts are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout" -- "so we'll be making rapid cuts, right?"
an email from "Heathrow Airport" titled "Discover your scent of the season"
A Sankey chart data visualization for home energy use
A shot from the 1990s Aussie classic movie, "The Castle"
"According to the research team, the consequences of this reversal are already becoming visible. The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. In the long term, this process could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries—potentially with catastrophic consequences for the global climate."
A chart from the EU's Climate Action Progress report from 2024, showing Ireland's disastrous performance
Doctor Zaytoon testing a tasty kebab
the Michael Collins note-taking meme
A 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission pin
the "That's Bait" screengrab from Mad Max: Fury Road
The final page of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker"
A ZX81, the manual, a tape recorder and a TV of the same era
Ben the dog, wearing a "sock" on his paw instead of the Cone Of Shame
Bryan Johnson holding up his big bag of bodily fluids
screengrab from Flash Gordon, showing Ming's weather control machine
Sun shining through the trees and mist over the graves
quote from Esther Crawford at Meta stating that "Metamate" is useful as a "PSC feedback editor"
Forwarded tweet indicating that "20% of global electricity production at lunchtime today will come from solar"
A screenshot of a masto post from Kevin Beaumont wherein Google Search describes making pizza with glue
A Young Fine Gael ad from Twitter, titled "A Renewed Focus: Delivering For Young Peoplespeakers", incomprehensibly