Megan Ross

NTA’s official response to this is that it was an intentional choice to essentially appeal to foreign visitors who think the four leaf clover is associated with Ireland. Genuinely dumbfounding. What other country belittles its own culture and traditions like this to appeal to ignorance?

They’re incorrect that the shamrock is Ireland’s national symbol - that honor belongs to the harp that’s on our passports - but that’s neither here nor there. The Shamrock, representing the Holy Trinity, is what’s associated with St. Patrick. The 4 leaf clover is just commonly mistaken for it.

They’re correct - NTA’s logic, that international audiences “associate the four leaf clover with St. Patrick’s Day”, is so deeply offensive and embarrassing it’s worse than this being an honest mistake. What other country would self-undermine to appease foreigners’ ignorance of their traditions?

Was just sent this, it’s more than a bit embarrassing that the folks over at comms for the Luas don’t know the difference between a shamrock ☘️ and a four-leaf clover 🍀

Greatest city in the world

Ian Huntley death: the summer we watched a senseless tragedy unfold in Soham How the desperate search for two missing girls in 2002 and their now-dead killer claimed its place in the country’s museum of appalling crimes

Ian Huntley has died after being attacked in prison.

There’s questions to ask but right now, let the media focus on his victims: 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, and their parents and siblings who must still endure a lifetime of grief. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were the first missing kids I remember hearing about, being only a couple of years younger than them, and I still think of this case often.

18 mins is actually overestimating by a few minutes, that’s the time between my credit card being charged at the Dunkin inside Alewife to arriving at Park Street.

18 mins Alewife to Park 😭

Back in Boston for the first time since 2023, weeping at how much faster the Red Line is now than back then

Boarding an Alaska Airlines flight and they’re playing a Maggie Rogers song from her third album … feels like a missed opportunity …

This is the best argument for actually having traffic calming infrastructure that would discourage high speed driving the full length of this stroad and not just randomly as you approach an intersection (by which point a speeding car clearly won’t see it)

I am so glad someone else said it

There being 2 lanes coming off the bridge towards 520 contributed to me almost being hit by a speeding car once when I was crossing there with my bike, so I’d be ok with reducing it to 1 lane, but removing car traffic entirely here would be disastrous for Eastside commuting from North Seattle

Spring Is Coming With a Strawberry in the Mouth

The Irish for “strawberry” is sú talún open.spotify.com/track/6kZmkC...

Somehow this is never considered as a systematic problem of the highway system, even though it happens consistently. But if it happens on transit it's considered an indictment of the entire system.

Unclear if WA and BC being on different timezones for half the year will be any less crazy than Nashville, TN and Knoxville, TN being on different timezones all year round news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Thank you so much for having this was a big moment for me!!! TikTok video by Zara Larsson

Unlike Justin Timberlake and Benson Boone, Zara Larsson was not above wearing a helmet www.tiktok.com/@zaralarsson...

Starting a bike bus not so that the children can get to school safely but just so I can meet internationally renowned musicians and make them ride a bike through the streets of North Seattle

God bless the man dressed up as a Samoa cookie presumably on behalf of his daughter’s Girl Scout Cookie sales on the corner of 65th and Roosevelt right now

I live just north of the University of Washington, a university with about as many students total as UCD and Trinity combined, and there's no widespread crisis every autumn where students have nowhere to live. The UW does not have to beg local residents to rent out a room every year.

And guess what - Seattle's rents may be high, but Dublin's are somehow usually the same or higher despite people making way less money on average there. Working professionals do not expect to have to queue up to get an apartment to share with three friends in their 20s in Seattle.

There's basically no equivalent to a place like Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in Dublin, despite the cities having similar overall populations. Forget about something like SLU/Belltown. The tallest habitable building in Ireland is 21 storeys.

You're not going to see rents coming down meaningfully in Dublin until you see 10+ storey apartment buildings across the entire city near high-frequency transit corridors. Dublin is embarrassingly under-built especially in the city center.

surely this is a typo and they mean 6 months

Unless the reform of rules massively increases the supply of homes in Dublin in particular, this is a silly thing to expect

Oh yeah to be clear I hear the resemblances, it's just that this guy in particular does not sound unusually more Caribbean to me at all, but I can see how people outside of Ireland would not regularly be hearing a strong Cork accent haha

Routle - King County Metro
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I’m still learning this end of the city’s buses

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As best I can tell this is having a similar effect on people unfamiliar with actual Irish accents as that time a white American guy spoke Singlish in an interview because he grew up in Singapore. But to my mind this guy’s voice absolutely matches the appearance lol.

My brain is far too Irish for this because I’m struggling to even hear how this sounds more Jamaican than any other strong Cork accent. This is just what people from Cork sound like.