Simon McGarr

It's my birthday weekend!

Which has empowered me to be extremely cheeky now and say that if you enjoyed SISTER WAKE and feel like giving me a lil birthday present, getting to 50 reviews on Amazon is incredibly important for a book's reach and every one helps - even a rating and a couple of words!

A whole bunch of men had their financial affairs (including offshore accounts, etc) picked over as part of divorce proceedings. Resulting in a great parade of skeletons falling out of cupboards the size of Narnia.

This is both one of the reasons it was so hotly contested and one of the least discussed consequences.

There is a very well written little book called Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (if I recall correctly) about elements of being a habitual reader. One of the essays is on Gladstone’s monograph on how to optimise your home library space to hold the most books possible.

He had tracks& shelves at 90o angles

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Vision Board.

The quality of thought here is somewhere between that of a stone and another, dumber, stone.

Learning that Platner covered his Nazi tattoo with some “norse-celtic” bullshit is not convincing me that he was ever getting any tattoos “accidentally”

Newspapers have two kinds of writers.

They have “This thing happened” ones and they have “That’s what I think, anyway” ones.

And, somehow, the That’s What I Think, Anyway ones have greater pay and prestige.

facebook memory photo: a car odometer that reads “80085 km” caption: Odometer reached BOOBS km September 8, 2015 with Matt Thank you Matt, for your aid in capturing this joyous memory on camera.

one day, my coworker called me at 10AM asking if i could pick him up from the hospital after a kidney stone and i was like “lmao oh boy you really don’t have anyone else to call do you” and that was also the day my odometer rolled over to BOOBS KM so anyway this is our 10th valentine’s day together

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons It's time to make an X-it: Senator Simons questions the Canadian government's continued use of X

I had the opportunity to rise during Senate Question Period this week, to ask about the Canadian government's continued commitment to using X for official communications - and about their failure to use sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. What do you think? #cdnpoli #Canada #Grok #X #Bluesky

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

Two maps, one showing Sweden's porn preferences by region, the other showing radiation fallout density from Chernobyl. The areas with the highest radiation density seem to correlate with preference for hentai porn.

for all you map-porn loving nerds

Personally I'll be waiting until tomorrow for twice as many marshmallows

That is not the "Dublin Agreement" (which was actually called the Dublin III Regulation) in plain English. That's not what Dublin III says.

It *really* isn't.

Casablanca sold out

They should just release Casablanca in theaters every year. Free money

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

He just feels like it’s one Taking A Turn away

My last Gist was on Morgan McSweeney and he was gone within a few days.

Now I feel the weight of my awesome responsibility in trying to pick his week’s topic.

Please say many many more things on this matter.

Most EU countries have moved to a similar model by now (I've written about this in the latest @villagemagazine.bsky.social)

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

The next time the Europeans will become the subject of American attention is when they roar about regulation of American companies within EU markets, jurisdictions, societies.

Otherwise they've convinced themselves they're "done" with Europe.

Funny how there's a pretty consistent editorial campaign aimed at getting Ireland to "pull our weight" in Europe's defence, but there isn't one asking us to pull our weight in addressing our fair share of climate emissions #spéirgorm

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

A bar chart showing the reletive benefits of the two proposals each year between 2016 and 2022, with actual numbers from which the chart is derived shown below.

Taking 2016 as a baseline, if we abolished both ads and the licence fee from RTE and replaced both with just a flat fixed 0.7% of tax take, RTE would have done better every single year while we barely noticed it from the swelling exchequer surplus.

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It is in the national interest that you are told Michael D Higgins has posted an Instagram reel montage, for Valentine’s Day, of his late dog Bród

A bar chart showing the reletive benefits of the two proposals each year between 2016 and 2022, with actual numbers from which the chart is derived shown below.

Taking 2016 as a baseline, if we abolished both ads and the licence fee from RTE and replaced both with just a flat fixed 0.7% of tax take, RTE would have done better every single year while we barely noticed it from the swelling exchequer surplus.

"When you see every person using your internet system as costing you both public and ad money, of course you don’t spend any cash on making it work. You’d drown it in a sack if you could."

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“11% of households, and the figure is growing, do not pay the television licence and yet can consume public service programming on their online devices…This lag in legislation is resulting in a further loss of €20 million in public funding annually.” www.kildarestreet.com/committees/?...