I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it

#mastodaoine

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/05/01/if-we-are-serious-about-rural-regeneration-then-build-housing-estates-not-one-off-homes/

My mp3 player tonight:

find /mnt/nas/public/Shared\ Music/brendan/nonclassic/Tom\ Waits/Beautiful_Maladies_-_The_Island_Years/ -type f -exec ffplay -autoexit {} \;

#linux

RE: https://chaos.social/@plyspomitox/116495604011394919

That is a hell of a good point. Ideas are not property: we do not forgo them by giving them to someone else.

RE: https://amicale.net/@franceinfo/116494152657641635

Some story for the rowers among you: earlier today a bus crashed into the Seine near Paris; the four occupants were saved by two rowing coaches who were on the scene within a minute.

I was in Donegal Town recently, and was impressed with the audacity of this business name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_homo

Macra na Feirme person: "young people from farming backgrounds building on family-owned land"

1: already exemptions for them
2: they represent a TINY %age of the demand

MnF is for it because farmers like selling sites.

Ultra-low-density suburbanisation

#mastodaoine

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/04/28/should-planning-rules-for-one-off-housing-be-relaxed/