Colm

@mcstrolly.bsky.social

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City Planner, public servant, less cynical on LinkedIn. Building that mid density paradise with the wide footpaths and big green squares. Immigration is good for you, me, society and the economy. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Simpsons monorail episode: Leonard Nemoy claims his work is done. Barney challenges him that he didnt do anything.
From the BBC News live feed: So Farage isn't forcing this by-election in order to stop that investigation ever happening, he is doing it in order to appeal to a higher political authority than the House of Commons standards commissioner. He is arguing: "I derive my mandate from the voters of Clacton." It is a bold political gambit, and it could well determine the question of who has the opportunity to become Britain's prime minister at the next general election.
Naked Gun reference. Leslie Nielson's Frank Drebben is saying "nothing to see here" as a building behind him explodes.
Map showing submissions on Neighbourhoods.civitech.ie for the boundaries of Kimmage, Harold's Cross, Crumlin and Terenure. The Kimmage layer is on the bottom and you can't see most of it due to strong consensus amongst the other communities that their boundaries extend into Kimmage.
Little Britain Sketch: David Walliams as a scandal-hit MP giving a terrible and unlikely excuse for a sex scandal.
Alan Partridge in a room full of Alan Partridge posters and paraphernalia (also Alan is in a headlock from a semi naked stalker with Alan's face tattooed on his chest)
From The Guardian live blog: "The Queen has arrived for an engagement in Westminster just hours after police confirmed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. [highlighted by me in **] *Wearing a velvet, navy coat,* Camilla was greeted by representatives of Sinfonia Smith Square where she will attend a lunchtime orchestral concert, PA reports."
Bart Simpson is grumpy upon hearing Lisa say "don't have a cow man!" to her cool friends in the distance.
Screenshot from the Guardian newspaper. In an article talking about Machado's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in December, this is highlighted... "Since then, Trump has invaded Venezuela and removed Maduro, handing power over to Venezuela's vice-president, Delcy Rodriguez".
* Item that is new or altered. * Item is an oral question. (Extract from the original image, likely means the parliamentary 'item' but who knows...)
Bike route from leinster House to custom house (8 minutes)
A viral twitter post about feeding cats to cayotes has been altered to read (asterisks around inserts): *Macron* told me *The National Assembly* keep eating his *centre-right prime ministers* so I asked how many *PMs* he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a *new centre-right prime minister* afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding *centre-right prime ministers* to *the French National Assembly* and then his *Gaullist Republic* started *collapsing.*
Screenshot of text from a BBC News website live feed. I have selected a sentence in the middle, symbolised here with 3 asterixis at the start and end. "Authorities say one unfired casing had the words “Hey fascist! Catch!” and an up, right and three down arrows. ***The three down arrows alone could be a common symbol used to represent the anti-fascist movement.*** As a whole, the sequence of arrows could reference a gaming cheat code - although this remains unclear, and authorities have not yet released images of the casings."
A child wearing a garda high vis jacket and carrying a very real submachine gun at an event at Templemore
A post appearing from the 'Music' feed on my timeline. Westbury Baptist @wbcpreache... Did you think to pray? Hymn sung by Westboro Baptist Church <youtube link> #music #song
Bob Vylan on stage at Glastonbury, leads the crowd in chants of "Free free Palestine", "death death to the IDF", and "from the river to the sea..."
Spotify notification that Ludwig van Beethoven has 'started the countdown' in advance of a new album release.
Blueskatter about Finn McRedmond. @jaseomcn apologises for posting about Finn McRedmond. Next post on the timeline is an autorepost by @rubot complaining about people posting about Finn McRedmond.
The Valeriepieris Circle. A slim majority of the world population lives in a circle that is centered on Myanmar and covers just less than 10% of the Earth's surface. The circle includes China, India, Bangaladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Phillipines, some of Pakistan, the Koreas and Indonesia, and a slither of Russia, but not Japan.
The Temple of Monte Grisa, RC Church in Trieste, Italy
Rick & Morty: Rick changes the value of the galactic currency from 1 to 0.
9.5% tally
6.7% Tally in Dublin Bay South
A TV Screen (BBC Four logo in top-left): A military man with a stern face. Overlaid text says, "Big Brother is Watching You" And overlaid on that again is "Interval"
A temporary sign tied to a signpost, which has fallen down to knee level: Níl Aon Mharcanma Bóthair NO ROAD MARKINGS
Kildare Village Outlet. Shops arranged on a relatively narrow pedestrian street with green stuff and benches down the middle.
Simpsons screenshot. An elephant is descending upon a factory. The caption is "Three Lions on the shirt"
A local election ballot with 15 candidates and a European election ballot with 20+ candidates. Both ballots overhang the table in the voting booth due to their length.
Leinster House, seat of the Oireachtas. The Pelstinian, EU and Ukrainian flags fly on flagpoles in the foreground, in front of the Michael Collins monument. The Irish flag flies on top of the building in the background.
Rushing Sunak looking sad in the rain, looking directly into camera
Andie Macdowell standing in the rain at the end of 4 Weddings and a Funeral
"Chaos"
Screenshot of email subject: "We need 10,000 people to endorse Labour today before polling day. Take action today:"
A photo of Brendan O'Connor's front page Sindo piece on Varadkar's resignation, which opens with "It felt like we'd been mugged. We woke up on Wednesday - if we're allowed to use the word "woke" any more - thinking nothing much was going to happen..."
ChatGPT producing a 4-post explanation for SXSW that looks remarkably similar to their actual statement, at least in its early posts.