John Maguire

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

“The paramedic filming is heard on the video reciting, over and over, the “shahada,” … He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die.”

A Well-funded Moscow-based Global ‘News’ Network has Infected Western Artificial Intelligence Tools Worldwide with Russian Propaganda

“A NewsGuard audit has found that the leading AI chatbots repeated false narratives laundered by the Pravda network 33 percent of the time … a powerful new distribution channel for Kremlin disinformation.” www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

I wonder is there any connection between these two pictures? I’ve travelled frequently on Ryanair with this bag but today this was deemed too big. Eventually got air out so that it met their bar so didn’t have to pay the €75, and thanks to the staff for that, but it was a poor customer experience.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Absolutel bonkers stats from today’s game.

#LFC | #BRELIV

SOO close from Szobo!

Loving how they're playing though. That was a lot of energy.

Szobo realllyyy wants it today.

#BRELIV #LFC

Kilkerrin-Clonberne 0-13 vs Kilmacud Crokes 0-9 full time in the Ladies Football AIB Club Championship Senior Final. Hard luck to all involved with the ‘Crokes setup and congratulations to Kilkerrin-Clonberne. #lgfa #hersport

Kilkerrin-Clonberne 0-8 vs Kilmacud Crokes 0-4 at half time in the Ladies Football AIB Club Championship Senior Final. C’mon Crokes - a big second half needed.

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

On the “relatively modern phenomenon of the wide acceptance and praise of bag-chasing nihilism.”

This is a deliciously original piece of writing. You don’t have to be extremely online to appreciate its significance, but it might help.

defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip | CNN Business Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more tim...

Google said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.

Congratulations to everyone involved in putting together this great segment. Norah Patten has Ireland heading to space 🇮🇪 and inspiring the next generation along the way. #latelatetoyshow

3 Irish astronauts 🚀

#latelatetoyshow #latelate

Brian Og #latelatetoyshow

#latelatetoyshow rhythm killers strike again. Brian Óg deserved better 🚙🛞

Trad fusion Thunderstruck is an instant classic. Get that on Youtube @latelateshow.rte.ie !!!

#ToyShow

Mother duck #latelatetoyshow

And yes, this is the official account 🤝

We’ll be using #LateLateToyShow for all of our content tonight 🎅

You can watch the show worldwide on @rteplayer.bsky.social 👇

What a beautiful December morning here in Dublin. If you have to go back to work ‘cause it’s Monday, then there are worse ways to start the day.

Clontarf Half Marathon done and dusted. Thanks to the organisers. Loved running with my daughter. Congrats to her on her first ever run over that distance!

How’s that for a first Bluesky post 🏃🏻

We have become, as far as we can see, the first major Irish publication to stop posting to Twitter/X. Hope we can serve our former 70K+ followers over here, given this exodus

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)