watched Doctor Who with some friends last night and this pause made us burst out laughing
toots
what if I was a pudu
I have never had a fursona or been a making OCs gal but the thought occurred to me that if I had a Sonic OC then I might indirectly, accidentally clowned on by an issue of the comics that had a similar bit character or background character and that is making me want to make one
I will do pretty much anything for an extremely tenuous bit
I get annoyed by people saying that they met such-and-such politician and actually they’re really nice in person. Of course they are! It’s part of their job to be. They are advertising themself to you. I actually dislike them for the policies that they enact and ideals that they espouse, not that I was under the impression that they had poor social skills!
No cap? Yes cap! Get on da freakin’ point, dumbass!!
Very strange getting an MRI yesterday and getting told to make sure I had no metal objects on or in my body, filling out multiple questionaries to that effect, and having a poster in the changing room reminding again to remove all piercings, etc. that it was totally fine that I still had the IV needle for the contrast solution in my arm the entire time that I was in the machine. I asked them twice as I was going in just to make sure. And it was fine.
having an MRI is like being inside a dial-up modem
How common is non-UHT milk across Europe/the world? UHT milk is uncommon and generally disliked in Ireland but it seems to be the standard in mainland European countries that I’ve visited.
ounce (n): the unit of weight (force) which, if it falls upon one causes one to utter “ow,” once.
My flirting strategy for pulling autistic trans women
Cuddling 👍🏻
I can be your bestie 😇 or your beastie 🍤
dream last night where partner told me that “reywal” (lawyer backwards) used to be a very common word and job
Poob has it for you. and by “it”, haha, well…
someone should make a newsletter or blog or podcast or something about stuff made by Irish trans artists and call it Trashinscneach
free idea because I am far, far too tired to do this myself
does anyone make fidget spinners with beyblade launcher mechanisms to make them go?
talking about AI art and weird fetishes, not serious, nothing explicit
I bet the wonderbread guy with the fetish for blonde women destroying the environment and building polluting sandwich factories etc. really loves AI slop
people keep asking “who are these AI generation tools for?” and the answer is it’s for the wonder bread guy
poob has had it up to here with you
made a friend tonight
what if I started calling myself Seto Caoimhe
Hey
I tried to put a batman mask on your cat on your webpage, refreshed the page and it… did not save most of the attempt, so it looks like I just scribbled over the top of its face, im really sorry, I cant see any way to undo it.
Weekend at Bernie’s good ending: Larry takes the money and actually gets the sex change operation
I refuse to call it getting my freak on because to me sex is a normal and natural thing
Hey are you doing okay? I know you’ve been through a lot lately and I can’t help but notice that your irises and pupils have turned into a flat gradient.
they’re calling it the movie that smells you back!
Do NOT call yourself a woman unless you can be equipped with Malevolent Nuzzler.
https://sandyspalace.ie/2025/08/25/You-Wont-Believe-This-Game-Exists.html
the thing that people don’t realise is that I am normal
making my Jellyfin server sillier to amuse myself again
today in people doing whatever with mind control fetish fiction: Woman literally just has a concussion
forgot to have tea before getting on the train this morning and I am suffering from caffeine withdrawal
re-experiencing Yu-Gi-Oh! through the magic of the “I shortened Yu-Gi-Oh!’s nth episode down to about a minute” series and everyone in the room lost their shit at this line
not sure how I feel about the nodding emoji
the transition to digital animation was not kind to The Big O
he’s called Maes Hughes but actually he’s normal sized
Reviewing stuff is fun and it’s nice to have a little log of your thoughts that you can go back to every once in a while and say “oh yeah that was what I really liked about that show.”
Flexing my pixel art doodle muscles again on WPlace has been nice
My goal in life? To have a novel fungal infection named after me
They give titles to the homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemist that mostly rhyme: Greed the Avaricious, Lust the Lascivious, Envy the Jealous, Gluttony the Voracious, Wrath the Furious but then the last two are Pride the Arrogant and Sloth the Indolent when they could have gone for Pride the Vainglorious and Sloth the Languorous.
What if instead of keeping the names of the homunculi in English when translating Fullmetal Alchemist they replaced them with the ecclesiastical Latin to keep it foreign? Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Superbia, Acedia.
I got accused of being from Dublin yesterday for pronouncing RPG as “or pee gee” rather than “ar pee gee” 😭
I blame my parents sending me to elocution lessons as a child to get the culchie out of me
in the next Street Fighter game they should let M. Bison finally transition
Bless the V-22 Osprey, a design that is looks simultaneously so ridiculous and so cool that it seems like it must have been designed by a twelve-year-old and has the safety record to match, continuing to get U.S. marines killed for two decades.
ah lads not again
when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a brush
would transition have saved Barry the Chopper?
Irish politics
the president doesn’t have much power or particular influence but if Miggeldy gets replaced by some Fianna Gael gombeen it is really going to drag down the vibes of the whole country a little bit
the thing about hosting parties as an introvert is that it means you don’t have to go to other people’s houses
they’re saying that I’m the best there ever was at tickling
*evil overlord voice* I will not succumb to link rot
Balatro Wonderworld
struck by a vision of an Irish mammy offering someone green or black tea but meaning if one wants Barry’s original blend or master blend
Don’t Forget-Don’t Watch Mr. Beast mashup
re-form the Ireland Simpsons Fans Party
I am interested in resources for guided meditation, relaxation-focused hypnosis audios or similar things to try if anyone has any recommendations.
I was rambling to someone the other day about how endearing I find the names Biolizard and Finalhazard and how someone spoke English natively would probably not name something that and they suggested maybe Biolizard was meant to evoke Biohazard in the first place which I hadn’t considered and makes it make a lot more sense but in a way that still I don’t think scans very well to a native English speaker lol
Orthanc you very much :)
VVVVVV is Ireland’s greatest cultural export
I wonder has anyone written a sequel story to Godzilla that focuses not on any further monsters but on the consequences of the use of the oxygen destroyer on the ocean
finally, they made a burger that can consent
what
I am meant to monitor my blood pressure but the sound of the velcro strap scares the cat and she is currently sleeping on my desk and I do not want to disturb her
this game looks extremely my shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wvFtCS2QE
https://nebulous.group/index.php/projects/translations/hybrid-front/
rice cooker rice, microwaved baked beans and Lao Gan Ma is what’s getting me through it
if Windows is going to demand line endings be \r\n it should actually treat them as separate operations and not one thing. If it sees a \n character on its own it should put the output onto the next line without returning to the start of the line instead of just doing nothing. if it sees an \r character on its own it should start layering lines on top of each other
I think this might be the worst map in any fantasy novel I’ve read
Borders that could only have been drawn by an American.
there are some kinks where the spaces are split between extremely self-aware feminists and also the worst men in the entire world
the thing about Ireland is it might only be 16°C but it’s also 100% humidity so walking up hill to the train station with a backpack on I am drenched in sweat and it just doesn’t evaporate because the air is made of water
updated my terminal config so it uses the PC speaker for the bell 🤓
IDW Sonic the Hedgehog #79
Incredible that today’s Sonic comic ends with the heroes teary-eyed celebrating a successful revenge-murder and no one suggests that this might be a bad thing.
lesbian couple going on revenge-murder mission and also their supportive friend Silver the Hedgehog is there
the vibe here really comes off as lesbian couple going on adventures and also their supportive friend Sonic the Hedgehog is there
which is, frankly, the ideal relationship dynamic
I have been struggling to get my zippo to catch consistently and I think one of the problems was that I was actually tightening the spring too much and pressing the flit too hard against the spark wheel. After putting it back in and tightening it with just my fingers instead of a tool the wick seems to be catching better now.
Depressing how much Computerphile is just shite about LLMs now.
I bet it feels amazing to be an enemy made of a bunch of separate sprites that look like spheres
oh fcyj
im autims
:)
I accidentally stepped on my cheap theracane knockoff and snapped it. I have splinted it with a metal rod from a broken folding chair and judicious application of duct tape. Seems to be holding up so far.
getting into this print photography thing
Very upset that my title pitch got rejected.
full conflict of interest disclosure: There was a Sewer Man
Really surprised but pleased at the reveal at the end of the episode that I am going to be the the new Doctor Who
Great cover story. Definitely not a vampire.
(comic is Girls × Vampire)
I got an MRI done a little while ago and I decided to download the data for it from the clinic just because I could and apparently the KDE Dolphin file browser has a thumbnail for MRI data files
this video has loud distressed cat noises
heard this from the bathroom and genuinely thought that my cat was dying but another cat had just managed to get to the outside windowsill
teaching her about her heritage
Add Eggbug sunset to Cohost page when you play Love Honk
normal git commit message
talking about picking Saiyan names with friends and I am going with Choka, from artichoke
My friend Ruby said Tus, from lettuce.
happy Piccolo Day
It’s not hung up at the moment but the local gay community centre has a framed home STI test kit
you wouldn’t download an opinion
I have now twice won a strap-on harness from a raffle at a lesbian table quiz.
I am overly annoyed by the leery jokes about big boobs in the first episode of The Apothecary Diaries when it’s based in a culture with different beauty standards where breast binding was often practised
I though that in The Magnus Archives when they were starting to more openly reveal the nature of the Fears and the rituals and that the Magnus Institute was dedicated to the Eye that the big twist was going to simply be that the ritual for the Eye already happened.
My logic was that the Eye is audience. The world is already a story for us to watch (well, listen to), the main cast all work for the Institute (podcast) for our benefit and that a world shaped by constant invasive fear of being watched and catalogued and observed at all times is indistinguishable from just life now, especially if you live in London.
I got the job as the new cat from the I have hired this cat to stare at you meme
Further horrific stories of treatment of patients by Loughlinstown. None of it is a surprise at this point.
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-national-gender-service-6690859-Apr2025/
When I post reviews to my blog I include a star rating in the title with star characters like this: ★★★☆☆
I want this not to be a mess for screen readers so I decided to wrap them in spans with ARIA labels like this: <span aria-label="3 stars">★★★☆☆</span>
But trying to look more into accessibility I am finding people saying that aria-label should only be used on interactive elements or elements with a specific role assigned and not general text but then I am not sure what alternative to use here to make this work better. Does anyone have any specific suggestions for what to do here or good general guides on accessibility to read?
Also is there any practises over labelling things that are correct names but that screen readers are probably going to struggle with. E.g. the new Gundam show is officially called “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX” which I understand is meant to be pronounced something like “G-Quacks” or labelling “Kevin Can F**k Himself” to be clearly pronounced without the censoring.
Another weird question I’ve thought of: Does having a span in the middle of a word (e.g. if yo were doing some decorative text on just part of a word for whatever reason) fuck up accessibility? Or even bolding or italicising parts of words? Like if I write unimportant to indicate I am emphasising that part of the word?
first episode of Kevin Can Fuck Himself
I adore how the plaster on Allison’s hand from where she cut herself is barely visible in the sitcom lighting (I went back a little bit just to make sure it was even there) but stands out very clearly in the drama lighing
instead of the great man of history theory I propose the shitty man of history theory: history is mostly shaped by systematic forces but sometimes there’s a huge cunt who fucks everything up
I have to take my blood pressure a few times a day at the moment and the cat is absolutely terrified of the velcro strap. It’s because of the noise it makes but she runs out of the room when sees me so much as get out the blood pressure monitor.
American politics
Hey yanks I am sorry about the rapid slide into fascism but the fact that the White House website just posted a rant that starts with complaining that NPR said that “the make-believe clownfish in Finding Nemo would’ve been better off as a female” is really fucking funny.
Court papers were lodged on Friday, almost 18 months after Prof O’Shea and Dr Moran made a formal complaint against the Health Service Executive (HSE) with Hiqa over the HSE’s referral of young people for assessment abroad, saying it posed a risk to these children.
Just watched the first episode of Adolescence following it up with Dave Made a Maze. Great double feature.
Reading 
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We need to normalise sex and kink in society so that it’s socially acceptable for my autistic arse to go on rambling about the ridiculous smut I’ve been reading in the pub after two pints the same way I do about The Ring or Sonic the Hedgehog.
I just got a call from a robot voice saying “hello, hello. I want to talk to you about work. Please add me on Whatsapp” from a withheld number. If you are going to try to scam me at least make it possible for me to fall for it.
Remember scromiting?
In Sonic Unleashed the name Jungle Joyride doesn’t really work for the werehog version of the level, where the gameplay is much slower and combat-focused. Instead they should have called the nighttime version of the level Jungle G.B.H.
Incredible web design from my insurance company. The name field is automatically filled with my account details and is not editable but then fails validation due to the presence of a fada in my name. This is an Irish company. Editing the value of the form with my browser developer tools of course allows me to submit with no problem.
The ADHD clinic sent me five day, one day, five hour and forty-five minute reminder emails for my appointment. I guess they understand their patients.
if we are mutuals that means we are following each other
Easóg has helped customise the window blind.
thinking about her...
spoilers for The Clan’s Heir Is a Trans Woman
suddenly feel like I‘d love a gua bao but I don’t think that there’s anywhere around here that does them
Mewtwo is the Shadow the Hedgehog of pokémon
Paul Moran & Donal O’Shea
I’ve noticed a pattern of behaviour online and I want to coin a new internet adage:
Caoimhe’s law: please be nice to Caoimhe
Italian trans woman named Bianca Cogiati
Rationalism is fundamentally the belief that if one trains really hard it is possible to do a kamehameha in real life but for the mind.
Devastated to learn that the “Today is Friday in California” guy may actually be saying “fine day”.
Everyone in Ireland in the eighteenth century seeing a rat for the first time: That cunt is French!
Context
Rats were introduced to Ireland around the 1720s and the word for rat and French are the same, a clipping from luch Fhrancach which literally means French mouse.
For a while whenever I saw anything about Severance or Succession I didn’t pay much attention to the names and thought that they were the same show, which started to sound increasingly strange and convoluted.
I was going through movies by year on Letterboxd for years I have not seen any films for and I spotted They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? for 1969, which I believe my dad once said was the only film he’d ever walked out of the cinema for because he was so bored so obviously I am going to watch it.
There was a man in Tesco having trouble with the self-checkout and I heard one of the staff explain that the newspaper is heavier on Saturday and the system to weigh the items you put through the scanner doesn’t take it into account and thinks you’ve put something wrong in.
I tried changing my default browser colours to a dark background and light text but it turns out that a lot of websites explicitly set a white background without specifying a text colour, which is annoying.
I am evil and kind, while my girlfriend is good and cruel.
We make it work.
Chalmel de Vinario recognised that bloodletting was ineffective (though he continued to prescribe bleeding for members of the Roman Curia, whom he disliked)
I.T. staff installing McAfee on her boss’s computer.
I don’t talk about serious stuff much on here but I may have learnt a new way in which my body and/or brain is broken in the last week: migraines? Yay?
I adore that the Sonic Spinball options menu theme is now Surge’s unofficial theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPJqSA-in4
Because of Nathalie Fourdraine’s video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVFGeuenBc4
The team tested their findings by making pozzolanic concrete from ancient and modern recipes using quicklime. They also made a control concrete without quicklime and performed crack tests. Sure enough, the cracked quicklime concrete was fully healed within two weeks, but the control concrete stayed cracked.
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable
Arguments based in evolutionary psychology are always a bit suspect but are truly silly when you are at all familiar with the breath of kinks that people have. I have friends who are turned on by the idea of being transformed into a pool toy. I think that there are deeper and more chaotic processes involved in human desire and behaviour than a very basic model of direct evolutionary pressures leading to the actions of individual people.
If one is sent a form in .docx format one should legally be allowed to respond with missiles.
The year is 2025. The smart bomb has been replaced with the woke mob.
Podcast were the hosts track down and watch/listen/read every single official and unofficial version of Shada, including every version of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and slowly lose their grip on reality.
Oh no I’ve convinced myself this is a good idea.
Broader just like a podcast about weird, funny or interesting adaptations would be something I would really enjoy doing I think.
There are so many weird novelisations.
what if instead of Goku training super hard to defend the Earth from new threats they just gave Launch increasingly bigger guns
I am seeing people on Tumblr talk about the murderbot show and if it is going to have the emotional depth of the original murderbot source material and be true to its handling of the muderbot’s relationship to gender and I don’t know if this is a bit or not and I refuse to look it up.
I was in Forbidden Planet and decided it would be nice to have physical copies of some of the prettier Sonic one off stories and then I was told there was a 3 for 2 so I grabbed a random volume of reprinted Doctor Who Magazine comics as well
The Nothing Expanded Universe
I reserved a copy of This Is How You Lose the Time War in the library in July of 2023 and it is finally available to pick up
Donkey Kong Jr. while still a child kart raced Mario. Now his son adult son, Donkey Kong, races Mario. From this we can conclude that the lifespan of a jumpman is much longer than that of a kong.
we should extend the International Phonetic Alphabet to include all the noises cats make
I am getting cold but there is a cat asleep on my lap so I cannot get up to put on a jumper so I guess that I am just going to die
teardown of the worst bike in the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgPUpccQ_mw
please stop calling things “lost media” because it’s not on Netflix
still waiting on that Intel® software technology...
some things I made
Somehow pasting text is broke in Visual Studio Code and a fix for it is to unbind the default Ctrl+V shortcut.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/238609
please write to your member of parliament to tell them to listen to my podcast
be the sea you want in to change the world
my girlfriend is so sweet and kind and also evil and mean to me (in ways that are fun)
date night date bite
This lettering is annoying me because I know exactly what mistake was made when typesetting it and it’s consistent through the entire volume.
(the i should only be written with serifs when it’s a pronoun, but the font they used encodes this by having the capital i being seriffed, so they’ve ended up writing every sentence that starts with an i with a seriffed i)
Normal things to suddenly want to do: Pour over every use of <em> tags on one’s website and try to decide which ones should be converted to <i> tags.
any good whale fall lately?
meet me in the airport ’Spoons for an ass-kicking
reading Becky Chambers in the airport ’Spoons and sobbing
I want to figure out how to get Feedbin to display my posts with an avatar as it does this for Mastodon posts.
There’s a blog post here that says “The great thing about this is that there’s nothing actually Mastodon-specific here. Any RSS feed can be styled this way.” but there doesn’t seem to be any documentation on how this is handled or how to use this.
Digging through the source code it seems like it’s based on whether the first post that’s parsed from the feed has a title or not.
Frustrating that it would be such an all or nothing thing for the entire feed about whether it should be considered microformat or not and that you can’t have avatars and post titles together. I’m also reluctant to remove post titles from my Atom feed as that seems like that could not play nicely with other readers.
did some repairs on Soundwave with a 3D pen
I’ve read these before but I’m reading through Joe Wintergreen’s posts commenting on Half-Life 2’s source code and one of the comments made me smile in the coding for the fast zombie’s leap
// Take him off ground so engine doesn't instantly reset FL_ONGROUND.
//
UTIL_SetOrigin( this, GetAbsOrigin() + Vector( 0 , 0 , 1 ));
Because I did the exact same thing in Snolf RB2 when taking a shot. Teleport one unit up so that you’re not on the ground any more.
https://www.joewintergreen.com/half-life-2-source-code-a-trawl/
love to make plans every evening that amount to, “tomorrow, when my executive dysfunction has magically disappeared...”
any recommendations for things to do in Edinburgh?
in Shadow Generations the reason that you can use Doom Blast on the mass-produced Death Egg Robots is that they have black arms
my headphones broke and now I am unable to function
the great Sage, equal to Eggman
merry shitscram
older people love to complain about how “no one” was autistic back when they were growing up but never consider the obvious fact that Sonic the Hedgehog hadn’t been invented yet
I got more made up than I have in months in order to go see a mediocre children’s movie
Conway’s Game of Wife
it’s funny and very 2000s how the president in Shadow the Hedgehog keeps calling the worldwide alien invasion “terrorists”
animals I am according to my partner:
- deer
- cat
- pangolin
Which animal am I the most?
- 18% 🦌 deer
- 18% 🐈 cat
- 64% 🟤 pangolin
going to discover a new animal and name it a sergal to fuck with furries
Rinne mé leaḃarṁarc de leaṫanaċ fánaċ ar Vicipéid.
the law of e-Caoimhe-lent exchange
Cork-based trans organisation Gender Rebels now has a donation page if anyone wants to contribute
getting every vaccination I can so I get quintuple autism like Sun Wukong
orkz’ life cycle is to go to somewhere far away, die gruesomely and release a cloud of spores so their bloodlust is a reproductive urge
look I know you said that this was just going to be a light, casual thing but the infinite rocket crate in the corner
you said that you’re not mad at me but there was a suspiciously large cache of health packs and ammo outside the entrance to your room
your public transport network is your public transport net worth
Has anyone ever made a bookmarket to open a Fediverse post in your own instance so you can interact with it?
Oh Blue Sky’s RSS feeds are very poor. They don’t seem to even include images at all.
I am glad that the big, official, publically-funded Irish dictionary website has entries like these:
not usually a dating sim person but two different cyberpunk dating sims that I had previously backed got released on Steam in the past week
me: I promise I won’t go on about The Ring
me after two pints:
cuddling is so nice oh my god
anyway I’ve been sick all week everyone be nice to me
I think I might start posting on here more again but also syndicating this feed back to my blog?
the vibe here really comes off as lesbian couple going on adventures and also their supportive friend Sonic the Hedgehog is there
which is, frankly, the ideal relationship dynamic
concept: rewrite a bunch of my website code to split out sections from each other more cleanly so I can more easily make small posts with less effort
result: oh god oh fuck everything is broken and I have way to many unstaged changes what was I in the middle of doing a week ago before I went on holiday if I want to post anything I need to stash fifty files and change branches which takes several minutes right now
Though honestly that describes the situation more a week ago than right now. I do have the podcast processing stuff finished now and I just need to do similar rewrites with the Pico-8 processing. That should🤞🏻 be easier now that I have done the podcast stuff and can base what I do on how I handled that.
I cannot stop laughing at this line. (He is talking about Shadow’s inhibitor rings)
Game is great, though.
after all the laser hair removal this is what it looks like if I don’t shave for nine days
Actually there is a bit more visible in person than comes through in a photograph, but it’s almost all grey.
people who know about photography I am thinking of getting a little polaroid-style camera for making little memento snaps. Image quality is not of paramount importance but y'know would be nice. Don't want to spend a fortune. Any particular recommendations?