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@luigii

Irish, Marxist-Leninish, vegetarian, both angry AND disappointed (he/him)

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Conall@luigii· 16d

RIP Bill Oddie, we have an old copy of his Birds of Britain and Ireland in my parents’ kitchen so my dad can identify who is at the bird feeders

The front cover of Bill Oddie’s Birds of Britain and Ireland

Conall@luigii· 27d

Plane from Dublin has landed and there are passengers getting off. Hope there’s plenty of old slow people going for a nice lazy Italian holiday

A photo of a Ryanair Boeing 737 on the tarmac

Conall@luigii· 27d

Our plane home from Italy had a mechanical fault so they had to send a replacement plane from Dublin. EU law says that if we’re 3 hours late arriving we get €400 each. I’ve never stared at FlightRadar harder

A screenshot of the Ryanair app. The original departure time was 16:25, it’s now 19:10. Original arrival time was 18:15, it’s now 21:00

A screenshot of the flightradar app tracking the replacement plane flying from Dublin to Trieste. It’s estimated to arrive in 37 minutes

Conall@luigii· 27d

The way they’ve stood up that blackberry on its end the only thing I can see is…

The last image from the quoted post, two very small tortoises with a blackberry in between them. The blackberry is on its stalk end so is standing vertically 2-3 times as tall as the tortoises

A frame from the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The black monolith is in the centre of the frame, the hominids surround it looking warily at it

Conall@luigii· 27d

Conall@luigii· Jul 12

A thing of beauty

A photo of the minisplit in our hotel room

Conall@luigii· Jul 11

Tintin wouldn’t do something like that

A photo of the wall of the bar we’re in. Between two posters for the 2011 Adventures of Tintin film, there is a painting in the style of Hergé. Tintin is drinking pints with Thomson and Thompson. He is in the middle with a pint in front of him and they’re on either side of him raising their pints to drink while he claps both of them firmly on the back, causing them to spill their pints and their hats to go flying comically. Tintin has a mild, utterly blank expression on his face.

Conall@luigii· Jul 11

We’re doing our best

A photo of our pub table. My brother and I have a pint of Guinness and a gin & tonic respectively. Between us is a phone streaming the Louth v Mayo app

Conall@luigii· Jul 11

What’s the Italian for “terrible kerning”?

A paper placemat from Caffe Wallner, a nice pasticceria/gelateria in Verona. The gap between the W and the A in Wallner is egregious.

Conall@luigii· Jul 10

Some personal news 👶

A photo of my wife Aanya @pudeator smiling and pointing at a shop across the street called Prénatal

A photo of both of us on a gravel courtyard. Behind us is a hedge and the Italian countryside. The sun is blazing in the sky above us. Most importantly for the sake of this post, Aanya is pregnant and we both have hands on her belly.

Conall@luigii· Jul 8

Conall@luigii· Jul 2

Really enjoying the coverage of the SSPX consecrations. The contempt is not being particularly hidden

A screenshot of an article from the National Catholic Reporter:
“Though the four-hour Mass began in sunlight, with the crowd forming a sea of white caps printed with "Écône 2026" that were distributed at the entrance, clouds slowly gathered and darkened overhead as the ceremony reached its focal point. Screens showing the Mass flashed a warning: "Beware of imminent thunderstorm."

As the host was consecrated, a torrential downpour fell on the crowd and muddied the hillside while thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky. The rain kept drizzling and subsided after some 20 minutes.”

Another screenshot from NCR:
“After a half-hour procession, the four priests sat before the altar and swore an oath to "forever be faithful and obedient" to the pope and to "combat and pursue, to the best of my power, heretics, schismatics, and those who rebel against our Holy Father the pope and his successors."

The presiding bishops, Alfonso de Galarreta and Bernard Fellay — both of whom were excommunicated in 1988 after being illicitly made bishops, a decision later lifted by Pope Benedict XVI — did not have a papal mandate, which is customarily read aloud during a bishop's consecration.”

Conall@luigii· Jun 30

Are they wearing the jackets? I’m kind of obsessed with the cool corduroy jackets they get

Conall@luigii· Jun 30

We went to see Hayley Williams tonight. Great voice, great performer, had the whole room in the palm of her hand

Hayley Williams at the national stadium, Dublin. Wide shot with a lot of crowd, the lighting is red

Hayley Williams at the national stadium, Dublin. Zoomed in on the stage, the lighting is… peach? Orange?

Hayley Williams at the national stadium, Dublin. Another wider shot with similar peach or orange lighting

Hayley Williams at the national stadium, Dublin. More of a medium-zoomed in shot this time, purple lighting.

Conall@luigii· Jun 29

You can really tell which AirTag was Pascal’s

A photo of our tabby cat Pascal sitting on top of my PC (which he isn’t allowed to do!). My hand is in front of him nearer the camera holding two Apple AirTags, each one has a cat emoji on it. The one on the right has many small bite marks

Conall@luigii· Jun 25

Some street team marketing people were giving free bottles of this out yesterday at Tara Street station. This is absolutely fucking rancid, we genuinely just took a sip each and poured the rest down the sink.

A bottle of Lucozade Energy Zero Sugar Grafruitti. The bottle is empty.

Conall@luigii· Jun 22

They’re selling air conditioning systems for under 400 quid on Amazon, if you fancy DIYing it… and decanting your own refrigerant in there. What could go wrong!?

An Amazon ad for an air conditioning compressor and minisplit bundle, the EVVO Split, 9000 BTUs of goodness for €383.23

Conall@luigii· Jun 16

The temps are so low the rear exhaust fan has turned itself off! I’m winning at life right here!

A close up of the inside of my PC case through the tempered glass side panel; the rear exhaust fan at rest. Please pay no attention to how dirty the glass is, that’s a task for another time

Conall@luigii· Jun 12

Tried to get a photo from roughly the same angle as yours, and took another from around the corner

A photo of the old stone building at grand canal harbour, looking at the north east corner

Another photo of the same building, looking at the north face. Big white letters are painted on it reading “GRAND CANAL Co’s HARBOUR AND OFFICES”. It’s taken in the wide angle “0.5x” mode to capture the whole building and the apartment blocks behind it

Conall@luigii· Jun 2

They were reela reela good

A photo Rilo Kiley playing in the Roundhouse, London

Conall@luigii· Jun 1

this is a cat check point. relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

An overhead photo of Pascal, our tabby cat, basking in the sun being interrupted by Shai, our tuxedo cat. Pascal has half gotten up and is looking at Shai suspiciously, if a cat can be suspicious

Conall@luigii· May 31

Can’t wait to see Reela Keela

A screenshot from a WhatsApp conversation:

“Mam says you're going to London tomorrow to see the band "Reela Keela"
“Hahahaha Rilo Kiley”
“Aye I thought that might be it”

Conall@luigii· May 13

“The new orthodoxy” here is “well-evidenced policy based on facts I don’t like”

A screenshot from the opinion piece in the Irish Times, written by Ireland’s biggest dickhead Michael McDowell “The new orthodoxy disapproves of one-off rural homebuilding, save in very exceptional circumstances, and has a very strong preference for planning guidelines that encourage new homebuilding outside cities to be located in towns and villages, rather than dispersed in rural areas. Sustainability arguments are made in support of this policy, based on claims that concentration of dwellings reduces the need and cost of transport, provision of social infrastructure, provision of services such as water, waste management, energy and telecommunications, and ease of access to schools, shops and commercial outlets.”

Conall@luigii· May 8

Uh huh uh huh, that’s a totally normal way to count voters, real respect for the democratic process on display here

Conall@luigii· May 8

Move over Hemingway

A screenshot for a Vinted listing. The photo is of 4 tiny green croc booties which on first glance I assumed were for babies but the title on the listing is “Dog crocs never used”. Also the price they’re looking for is €45 what the hell??

Conall@luigii· May 7

I’m not usually one to praise the IT, but the photo editor did great work here

A screenshot from the Irish Times’ website. The headline is “Special savings scheme will benefit wealthy at State’s expense, say economists”, the subhead is “Plan for new personal investment account, as outlined, will benefit wealthy at State’s expense, TDs and Senators to hear” and the main photo is of Simon Harris looking impish and smirking, somewhere between “ain’t I a stinker?” and “you’ll never find me pot o’ gold!”

Conall@luigii· Apr 28

Oh yeah people come here to look at history and culture, then go party afterwards, and that’s bad. What we need are bland, corporate instagram photo ops, that’ll bring up the tone of the place

A screenshot from the above article “It said the current tourism offering is “too narrow” and “heavily focused on museums, heritage and alcohol-led experiences”, with “limited appeal for families, younger visitors and repeat tourists”.”

Conall@luigii· Apr 18

Extremely cursed object on Vinted

A Vinted ad for The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication by Susan Williams. The cover features a black and white photo of Edward VIII (natch) casually dressed sitting on a park bench to show what a down to earth royal of the people he was, no doubt.

Conall@luigii· Apr 17

Was curious what’s the first concert photo I have in my iCloud Photo Library, and here it is: fun. in The Academy (I’m pretty sure) 6th of October 2012 on an iPhone 3GS. Photo looks like crap ofc but I enjoyed the show If you see this, post a concert photo you took

As described in the post this is a low quality iPhone 3GS photo of Nate Ruess (singing energetically into a mic on a stand, right of frame) and Jack Antonoff (sitting down playing keys, left of frame) of fun.

Conall@luigii· Apr 14

Sometimes you just have to say to yourself “fuck what the style guide says, we do not need imperial units here”