Deirdre

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One of my biggest pet peeves is brick and mortar businesses that are advertising all over Instagram... And absolutely no mention of their location anywhere whatsoever.
Babe, your gym/coffee/brunch/cocktail looks lovely but are you in Rathmore or Sydney? I need to know x

Tesco delivery organised. Trying to do Calm movement daily. Cats tag teamed me on the bed this morning. Getting stuff done. Have a lot left to do.

if gender is so innate why does it need deputized citizens to meticulously enforce it?

Australia probably has its own distinct norms and sociological patterns, but you can still count on three universal truths:

- teenagers take laws very seriously,
- no teen coild possibly outwit a technological defence built by the lowest bidder to a state tender, and
- porn is very easy to define.

And today he's home

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

A tale of two Taytos: How an anthropomorphic crisp became a symbol for Irish identity How a half-man half-crisp in a suit became a symbol of the Irish diaspora—and an important part of the Brexit deliberations

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.

First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

We are not radical. We just paid attention in history class. Hand made placard

Gestures at blue sky again today. Guesses that ordering from grocery store might be better than walking around... Also chest is not happy with moving, damned cold (or more accurately upper respiratory tract infection)

a bald man is smiling and saying " you fell victim to one of the classic blunders ! " ALT: a bald man is smiling and saying " you fell victim to one of the classic blunders ! "

never get involved in a land war in Asia

First used mine on a Vax/VMS system as a process name in ~1989

Yeah they insist on my using a graphic. It goes against the grain. At least fewer people are using customised backgrounds these days. Tho the pseudo signature in a script font makes me twitch

*Raspberry noises*

There may be also a little of that with me.

Hell I remember the debates about if "Dear soandso" was wasted bandwidth when who you were talking to was included in the header. My current work email sig makes me twitch because it's more than 12 lines long

Can't remember mine, but I did use it. I've been accused of being abrupt and terse in emails because I respect people's bandwidth and have got thrown out of groups in email and elsewhere because I don't 'contribute' because you didn't just waste bandwidth like that.

I expect that for the next 6 days there will be sunshine. Because I'm on an antibiotic that advises sun avoidance. Then it will rain for the remainder of my two weeks off

I still stare at folks younger than me who tell me they are too old to have learned how to use computers. I first used a computer in school in the goddammed early 80s.

And he's out of surgery and on the good drugs

Ironically I had asked work if I could WFH for a bonus week only to be told no when I dragged my sorry ass into work on Monday, barely audible.

Thanks. I had booked two weeks off starting next Monday but my body decided I needed a bonus week off!

So I'm down with a chest infection, antibiotics, steroids and inhaler. Worst part is not being able to kiss Dave before sending him off for surgery.

A farmer* and a County Secretary.
*Would have been in politics if it hadn't been for those pesky Black and Tans and an inconvenient bankruptcy

So, Dave is having the other knee replaced Thursday and right now I'm at home semi-mute with something upper respiratory. No appointment for doc available today. So I'll possibly be in with doc Thursday

Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

Interesting article about women's sizing. It would be also interesting to see UK/European stats
pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

Paranoia, I think, could also have been shadowrun or cyberpunk 2020

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