Steve

So here’s my take. We priced working class people out of journalism with the prevalence of unpaid internships. And the fee-paying school kids who replaced them are the most gullible people imaginable. Cause if you don’t think this was a nazi salute, I dunno what to tell you

The former, or so the people who made them up tell me

I think, but them will probably suffice

I have seen 1000x more people note that Trump didn't really save TikTok than I have seen people claim Trump saved TikTok

I’m 42 and lowkey still not 100% sure you’re not all lying to me about narwhals being real

If the Cadbury's ones get any smaller the will contain nothing but the Heroes version of the chocolate

interestingly, the Programme for Government doesn't seems to include anything about stopping the shrinkflation that affected selection boxes so heavily last Christmas. Truly a missed opportunity

This is a really hard read. Fair play to those women for going public. I was a huge fan of Gaiman's work when I was younger. But he belongs firmly in the bin.

Here come the hot stepper

My trigeminal neuralgia has been giving me awful gip recently. But the cold spell makes such a difference in terms of keeping the worst of the pain away. I know it's been really hard for some people, but the difference I feel being outdoors in this weather. Better than any drug

Congrats, you're middle aged

Asked a journalist pal of mine why he thought this was the case and she said it's because everyone feels the need to get a line on everything. So have something to lead the next bulletin or to run on the website.

It makes sense from a 'content' pov, but it's frustrating as a listener

There's this really awful thing creeping into broadcast interviews more and more, where the interviewer is so busy thinking about their next question it sometimes feels like they're not actively listening to what's being said so stuff goes unchallenged.

Timmy Dooley on Morning Ireland today said three times, unchallenged, that the Irish people had given FF/FG a 'significant majority'

They don't have *a* majority which is why they're having to make deals with the likes of Verona Murphy in the first place, never mind a significant one

All bloods and CT angiogram normal. I'm heart and prostate healthy at least. Can't speak for the rest of me

A cartoon with the first panel depicting a human saying 'I guess I'm a dog person.'. The second panel shows the dog revealing itself to be a cat. In the third panel, the human calls the cat 'you piece of shit'. The final panel shows the cat giving the human two middle fingers.

I think about this @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social cartoon every single time I look at my dog

I know dream posts are dull, but I had a dream last night that I wrote a film called Manatee.

Which was identical in every way to Mannequin except, with an actual manatee in the Kim Cattrall role

the feeling of the die is SO weird

I had a CT Angiogram as part of this last week. It's a weird feeling being told to relax when someone's about to scan your heart to see if your life is in danger. Should have the results this week. Family history would indicate something dodgy might be found, but I live in hope.

It's still available to buy this Christmas. obrien.ie/and-a-bang-o...

And if you don't believe me that you might like it, here are some other writers who did too 😅

35 years ago today, a young lad went out to play a game of football and his life changed forever.

In 'And a bang on the ear' I wanted to not just write Phil's story in own words, but to structure it in a way that gave an insight into life with a traumatic brain injury.

I think I achieved that?

Ah yes, the pepole who want to protect the rich at all costs 'cause they continue to hold out hope that one day they might?

It's really weird behaviour

There's a guy running in my constituency on the single of issue of wanting to ban Irish exemptions in school. Oh sorry, and building an air force.

The man's plan is to drop an modh coinníollach on kids with dyslexia from a great height

Legally, you're allowed time off work to listen to Do They Know It's Christmas, because of Force Midge Ure.

Irish people, especially when they head away, are extremely keen to pull the ladder up. I sometimes joke that's a genetic remnant from experience with the vikings. But it's sad.

An extremely high profile Irish celeb site that would cover him quite a bit has a solitary court report - one that is weirdly sympathetic to him - and zero coverage on their socials, for pretty much this reason. It's so cowardly.

I don't understand how or why people get locked into an 'I'm alright, Jack' mindset?

When I didn't have much, I voted for people who I thought could build a fairer society. Now that I'm doing okay, I support those same people/parties even more.

You gotta build more ladders, not pull them up

I was listening to some analysis ahead of the leader's debate later that said there was no one topic that had captured the attention of the voting public yet. And how it's not housing, housing, and housing again, I'll never know

So many of our issues go away if people have affordable places to live

GP. It’s just one of those things that so easy to put off forever but I just woke up today and did it. Hopefully nothing too serious pops up but at least I’ll know

I haven't been feeling particularly great of late, so I booked a full health screening for later this week, including prostate and heart and all the other things that kill men in their 40s

I'm genuinely surprised at/pleased with myself though for doing it. Very unlike my usual 'be grand' attitude