Enabled WiFi for a full seven hour flight and getting consistently above 15MB down - game changer.
Barry McGee
@barrymcgee.dev
Belfast - musing on tech, politics and other minutia. Centrist Dad.
"Quiet, piggy!" In the current climate it's very easy to forget this level of nastiness from a person in his position should be unconscionable. What a pathetic boor he is.
Barry McGee@barrymcgee.dev · 2y agoThe real gut punch for me this week with the Trump landslide was the outright win for nastiness. Not everyone who voted for Trump is a nasty bastard, but every nasty bastard I can think of was behind him.
Can anyone tell me why the entire influencer class now all hold lil tiny mics?
XL Bully dogs account for less than 3% of the dog population but are responsible for about half of all attacks in the UK. Every single one should be culled, without exception. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
XL bully killed nine-month-old baby boy in Rogiet home
Gwent Police said the dog involved was a six-year-old XL bully that had been officially registered.
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You gotta give credit where it's due - not a vote to his name but Jamie Bryson is the undisputed leader of unionism. What he wants.. he gets.
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Watching Belfast cancel everything this evening due to an incoming storm knowing I'm due to fly into City Airport at 6pm 🙈
Well, as an Irish citizen living in Béal Feirste, I'll be 100% giving my vote to Ca... oh, shit - right.
The Tonight Show@tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 10mo agoPresidential Debate 2025: This is why Catherine Connolly thinks you should vote for her in the upcoming presidential election. #TonightVMTV 👇
My good wife got us tickets to Jamie Duffy in the Ulster Hall on Saturday night past and I'm ashamed to say I didn't actually know anything about him prior, despite him growing 3 miles away from where I grew up. Anyway - he's fantastic and has a huge future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0a...
Jamie Duffy - Solas (Official Video)
YouTube video by Jamie Duffy
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Checking the news every morning: "What has this fucking clown said now?"
Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
MAGA Free Speech update: "I disapprove of what you say, and I will defend to the death our right to make you not say it" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments
ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing
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"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” - Einstein
Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦@pravda.ua · 11mo ago‼️ Von der Leyen announces 19th EU sanctions package against Russia after talks with Trump
I too would like to take this opportunity to withdraw from the Presidential race. Conor & myself had a great run of having absolutely zero chance of making the starting line and I'd like to request privacy as I continue to be a zero chance candidate. 🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Conor McGregor pulls out of Ireland’s presidential race
Former mixed martial arts fighter had vowed to curb immigration to shore up ‘Irish culture’ and give power ‘back to the people’
theguardian.com
Sitting president tries to overturn election by overrunning government buildings with violent mob finds out consequences 4 years later: 🇺🇸 USA: Congrats, you're now President again! 🎉 🇧🇷 Brazil: Congrats, you're now in jail for 27 years 🔐
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoBrazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Elmo's social media hellscape is reaching new heights of disinformation and hysteria today. America and, to a lesser extent, the western world now live in two parallel realms and shit's now got so bad I'm worried the twain never again shall meet.
I guess we're now about to see what happens when a spark meets a tinder box 😵
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11mo agoJesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."
Really not looking forward to navigating this when my two get up a bit - really feels like drugs, particularly coke, is as accessible these days as beer was in my day.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 11mo ago‘This could kill’: Highest dosage MDMA ever seen in Ireland identified at Electric Picnic
Timeline cleanser (less than 5mins long) - thank me later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjR...
Frances Maguire — Echoes of an Irish Lifetime (2025)
YouTube video by Film at ATU Donegal
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This genocide will remain imprinted on my brain for as long as I draw breath. Unforgivable.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 11mo agoBREAKING: Six more Palestinians, including two children, have died of starvation and severe malnutrition in the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, says Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g8ol3s
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
What a time to be alive. I think it's fair to say what used to be known as the broad middle in British politics is now absolutely obliterated. A complete capitulation to the worse instincts of the worst people you can think of. Just throw the keys to Tommy Robinson and be done with it ffs.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack' He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
