Jen Keane

I can confirm that there are companies like DigitalPrintingIreland who have a great range of sticker sizes and if someone were to, for example, want to print a load of anti-racist stickers for their local community, it would be very reasonable to print literally hundreds of them.

I'm barely convinced that anyone actually uses them as intended, off-road in supervised situations with appropriate safety gear and adult supervision. You know, the only way it is actually legal to use them.

It will never cease to amaze me that people are allowed to buy them for kids who then go and terrorise other people by driving them around where they are absolutely not allowed to, with no safety gear, tearing up parks, dominating paths, and injuring themselves and others.

Quite literally, why are scramblers legal? Why are they sold the way they are. If you want to buy one, why don't you have to show that you're a member of an off-road club or something, where clubs can verify membership, meet standards, etc. Like gun ownership.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Line drawing of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sitting on a wooden bench.

'Fuck ICE,' said Pooh.
'Yeah, fuck 'em,' agreed Piglet.

Very much so. Too much news for every given day and my brain is cataloguing it as multiple days of news because surely there couldn't be this much bad and stupid in just 24 hours.

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I know it's always long but this one feels extra especially long. Like 47 months long. All 300 weeks of January and still, somehow, more January is still available.

No but HOW is it STILL January though?

This happens so often! "Sorry you weren't home" is code for "we actually didn't try"

Love it when delivery companies hit you with the "we tried to deliver but no one was home"

I work from home 100% of the time. No delivery van was seen. I was definitely home 🤷‍♀️

You better believe I'm taking the 2 mins required to put that number into a box online and get at least some of it back (though I miss the days where it wasn't just a flat 20% and you'd get the expenses back at the rate of tax you paid)

I do this every year and it takes minutes or less. Particularly the medical expenses, which required no more effort than asking my pharmacy and coming back for the receipt a day later. Since my migraine med breaches the DPS threshold by itself, thats hundreds of quid I spend every single year.

Search your online banking for the name of your electricity/gas/broadband/etc provider to get your annual spend. You don't have to provide monthly details or anything like that, literally just your total spend.

And if you're thinking "but I don't know how much I spent on blah" that's ok. Pharmacies can issue receipts for a whole year of prescription expenses so you just get a total that you put into the form. Easy peasy.

It's very little work to claim, which means that even if you're not getting loads back, it at least doesn't feel like you've done an absolute ton of work for nothing. Few boxes on an online form.

Claim your reliefs people, it's actually much much easier than it was in the past, you can do it all online, don't have to submit receipts as long as you keep them (or you can separately upload them and then you don't even have to keep them!)

Revenue: You actually underpaid by 9 cent this year but don't worry, we won't pursue you for this.

Me: Uno Reverse, here's my receipts for all the claimable stuff all year. Now who's underpaid?????

Advice for Guinness drinkers the morning after.

Diagram comparing the Celtic, astronomical and meteorological calendars

picking up the 6-year-old from school she said "daddy i think the winter is nearly over because it's not dark any more when we're going home"

YYEESSSSS

Thank you. The curl gods smiled on me that day 🌀

"hahaha we're all having such fun with my fake cupcake"

"the gender pay gap in legal and accounting firms averages 20% and goes as high as 58.5%"

More in my series of "jesus I make weird faces when I'm speaking". I call this series "before Jen tells you about the gender pay gap" and "after Jen tells you about the gender pay gap".

This is a) terrifying for the passengers and b) some kind of metaphor for America, where everyone is a confused and scared passenger on the crazy bus being driven by the crazy dude

I mean, I guess it's nice to watch a woman fail upwards despite incompetence for a change...

(For legal reasons, this is a joke and I actually do not want her to continue to fail upwards and I do not support her upwards climb OK BLUESKY POLICE?)

I will not vote, nor give a preference to ANY candidate who personally remains or is a member of a party that uses the child sex abuse image generator also known as X/twitter.
Pass it on.

They say don't meet your heroes, but I'll always make an exception for @ailbhes.bsky.social

A headline from the Guardian that says "I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers". The author's name (Rebecca Shaw) is written underneath the headline in red text. The author is pictured in the bottom right of the screenshot

Instead of sharing the photo of Trump with his special boy medal, I'll share this evergreen headline that I think of almost daily and have a screenshot permanently saved on my phone.

I've found that lightly sharpening the matchsticks is very effective as it makes them just a bit harder to remove. #proTip