Andrew Coogan

Microsoft provides data storage for Israeli military A Microsoft spokesperson did not comment on a query about Irish data centres’ involvement

Fuck Microsoft.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Waiting to go inside and see if there’s a rug that really ties the room together.

Currently drinking a Lebowski beer.

@rrocheneuro.bsky.social Richard!

Another one ticked off the bucket list

Dear (some) American tourists: when visiting one of the great cities of the world, consider taking time off talking loudly about yourself to look around you, maybe even consider what all that deep history might teach you about the temporality of the human condition.

Here we are now, all the lads.

Does Mr Desmond personally pay any tax in Ireland? If not why doesn’t he restrict his comments to jurisdictions where he chooses to be tax resident.

Why did they call it melatonin and not restosterone?

Funnybones was one of our very favourites when my lads were small “In a dark dark street there was a dark dark house…”. Magic stuff.

Positively Mill Street.

Walking through the many overlapping roadworks in Maynooth on any given day

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Yes, saw that. I was impressed that they didn't mention the established FDA approved benefits of oats through beta glucans on improving lipid profiles, but did find time for lots of hand-wavy pseudoscientific nutribollocks.

Incredible load of drivel here. Chock full of pseudo-scientific terms and generously over-interpreted studies. And written by a senior exec from Ireland's largest funder of research 😱 Truly embarrassing stuff.

‘Mad fer it’: Greater Manchester Aldi to keep Aldeh name in tribute to Oasis Rebranding before homecoming gigs, reflecting local pronunciation, to be permanent after outpouring of support

Prestwich for the win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I don't think TCD graduates even get the visit the Book of Kells for free anymore, the sheer hardship of it all.

"Just throw in the auld MA and we have a deal!"

Yes, just checked, unless you are staff or graduated 50 years ago...

Same in Trinity.

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)

I was just listening to this today, what a band.
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Or this classic

Adelaide 'mansplaining' advert draws criticism The image next to the crest of the University of Adelaide shows a man holding forth to five women.

Probably the same PR geniuses at play as in this one
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

If only there had been some kind of warning sign

The other thing is the sheer number of old, unsuccessful grant application that I have completely forgotten about I am chucking out.

Heir of Barne Estate ‘shocked’ by €50,000 ‘luck penny’ offer from John Magnier Richard Thomson-Moore being sued by bloodstock billionaire over collapsed €15m deal for estate

Great to see that the “brown envelopes stuffed with cash” culture is alive and well with Ireland’s brave non-dom tax exile billionaires,
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Moving office (again) and found these together: my final year project on enodnucleases in yeast and an edited collection of Emil Kraepelin’s poetry (in German). I’m nothing if not eclectic🤷‍♂️

Jeez, c’mon, I’m polluting the literature as fast as I can.