Justin Mason

@jmason

Dublin-based software engineer; still linkblogging at . Nerdy stuff on . Been on the internet far too long at this stage. Opinions my own.

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Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir jmason.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Justin Mason@jmason· 1d

A Zamburak is a Technical

The zamburak, a camel-mounted swivel gun

Justin Mason@jmason· 6d

Spiralism you say?

A 5000-year-old kerb stone from Knowth, covered in engraved spirals

Justin Mason@jmason· 11d

Came across a good one the other day.... #streetpoker

The "Hanged Man" tarot card, found lying on a path

Justin Mason@jmason· 27d

Why is Youtube drama spray-painted onto the streets of Glasnevin?

"Bricks + Minifigs Steal Lego" apparently

Justin Mason@jmason· 29d

Mr. Tayto's Spanish pen-pal

A Spanish crisp bag for El Tio Las Papas Patatas Fritas (yum)

Justin Mason@jmason· Jul 3

ChatGPT did my homework, Spanish museum edition

An impressively wrong map of the retreat of the Armada, featuring two islands of Ireland

Justin Mason@jmason· Jun 19

Charlton Heston discovering what Soylent Green is made from

Justin Mason@jmason· Jun 4

oh look, two people had showers

two sparkline graphs showing short 0.630 kWh bumps

Justin Mason@jmason· May 25

Pawlitican

Justin Mason@jmason· May 15

new favourite reactji

A screenshot of a Slack reaction emoji reading "SLOP" in the style of a "STOP" sign

Justin Mason@jmason· Apr 28

actually I hadn't seen this part before. How on earth is that cross-the-junction bike lane supposed to work?!

Justin Mason@jmason· Apr 12

Justin Mason@jmason· Apr 1

Hopefully for Artemis 2 NASA will be printing a new version of the iconic Space Mickey chart I have hanging on the wall here

A large chart of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing mission plan from the Office of Manned Space Flight, which unfortunately looks like a huge space penis, I have been told

Justin Mason@jmason· Dec 12

This blog post about Google de-indexing a personal blog very much rings a bell for me -- journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-in... . The vast majority of my own blog is no longer in the Google index, for the same reason: "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"

bar chart showing a huge amount of "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"

Justin Mason@jmason· Nov 15

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

Justin Mason@jmason· Nov 10

looking forward to seeing footage of the Presidential Bee Swarms frolicking with visiting dignitaries

'When asked if any animals would be joining her at Áras an Uachtaráin, she said she had two black cats, a brother and sister who were known as “Cat One and Cat Two”.
Ms Connolly also said her husband, or “current husband” as she refers to him, Brian McEnery would be likely to bring “more than one” of his beehives with him to the Áras.'

Justin Mason@jmason· Nov 3

When an Amazon vendor's random name generator accidentally generates a "real" product's name

Justin Mason@jmason· Oct 24

That people are now being paid handsomely to hate, is a huge, huge social problem. Regulation is desperately needed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This week’s violence has raised serious questions for some of the main social media platforms. Livestream content depicting violence outside Citywest was broadcast on YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, with streamers rewarded by viewer donations, as they captured protesters shouting racist expletives towards Citywest.
In one eight-minute segment of an hour-long livestream I watched on YouTube that night, the user broadcast the burning of the Garda van, referred to migrants in horrific terms and proclaimed they were there to show people “the real truth”. During the video, they received the equivalent of €56 in donations from viewers around the world. The notion that violence can be monetised on social media illustrates a glaring failure of platforms to adequately enforce their own community guidelines around violence.

Justin Mason@jmason· Oct 22

I just came across this Stephen Collins comic and it seems very relevant to this story making it across the channel.

Justin Mason@jmason· Oct 14

today's annoyance. The box on the left is "fast acting" and costs 59 cents per tablet. The box on the right, 33 cents. The only difference is some added sodium. What a scam