Keith Adams

Going to a Protestant primary school (very much a jolly hockeysticks millieu) has fairly inocculated me against the charms of the GAA, but it's also meant I don't really understand its pull on Irish society

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

any justice would have Persico winning the sprint after the Dutch women's shenanigans

quite the double rec by the algo

r u in Dublin?

broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

Climate action has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.*

*ripping off Chesterton's famous quote

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

the Taoiseach's Gavin debacle took all the media oxygen this week but this is far more consequential, throwing in the towel

wait until they hear about going to a restaurant by bike, having a meal and drinks and then cycling home

i had actually forgotten Ivan Yates existed

when were the new prison spaces revised up to 1,600? I have been waffling to people about 1,100

Also, it certainly communicates something to co-locate a place of incarceration and an accommodation centre for people seeking asylum

i really enjoyed my weekend in Galway

writing down an amazing title for a penology paper I might write in five years, no substantive ideas just the title

Kim Jong Un in giant pants.

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

Oscar Isaac in giant pants.

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

fair enough I guess, takes longer to go from Derry to Belfast by train than from Belfast to Dublin on Enterprise

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Google search for "austria hungary in space" Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

extra style points for CC doing it in heels

correct position

maybe CC can manage the men's soccer team too

Me rn

The Route map of the long awaited (first line??) of the Dublin metro.

Her: I bet he's thinking about other girls.

Me:

old friend, describing his daughter's birth: i couldn't stop crying

me: was it the happiest day of your life

old friend: nah, that would be when denmark won the euro cup

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

Spanish cycling fans ftw