Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I worked in a newsagents as a kid and the amount of cigarettes bought before budget day was astounding. A lovely bit of extra cash for the owner. Nice man though, couldn't begrudge it. 010
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"English language and some very basic Irish language". Born here, lived here for 66 years and, thanks to useless teachers, I don't have basic Irish language. Are they trying to ensure that no one ever gets citizenship ever again? 1331
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Small rural Irish town. Owner solved the problem of late fees. He'd just drive around to people's houses asking for the videos back. 000
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 06/07/2026As a child hearing the news about a woman who was murdered and her 2 brothers who were "helping Gardai with their enquiries." I just thought "They're her brothers. Of course they'd want to help." 020
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"What a beautiful day! What a beautiful day for turning your kilt upside down, going up to the Sargent Major and shouting "How's that for a shuttlecock"". 030
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My sincere apology. I should have realised that something that produces bullshit is a religious symbol. 100
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Beef dressed as lamb as me mother used to say. 100
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredNire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 30/05/2026www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comWide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution — hundreds of millions of machines potentially at riskEveryone, get your update hats on immediately; we're at DEFCON 1 313247
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Where's the rest of me bleedin' coat? 000
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I remember asking what the 'EAR' button on their till was for. Turns out it stands for 'Eat and Run', obviously a common enough occurrence that it required it's own input. 010
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredConor 📎💙 #BlueCrew #ResistanceBlue #VoteBlue 💙🌊 @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 08/05/2026 02531
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 07/05/2026For a poster aimed at, I imagine, a limited audience, the graphic design is impressive. No notes. 000
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Typeface features in the further Nazification of a certain class of gobshites: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTypeface of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New RomanMemo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’ 020
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 22/04/2026He is, indeed, outstanding in his field. 010
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 21/04/2026From personal experience, I think it's a huge benefit when the engineer knows the music. Any decent sound guy who's used to touring will be well able to tune a P.A. no matter the room. It's also great when the house engineer is helpful (i.e. not territorial) and everyone can work together. 110
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/ 11041951973
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 31/01/2026You have outdone yourself! Thank you. 100
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It's also not talked about enough that, if people are paying huge amounts for rent, they have less disposable income to spread around the rest of the economy. So everyone, except landlords and vulture funds, gets poorer. This is not sustainable. 031
Reposted by Carlow Digital - Retiredℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted. 5550021896
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 19/01/2026The restaurant/café in Mother Redcaps market. I worked as a sound engineer in Mother Redcaps pub for bands like Scullion and Eleanor McEvoy and would eat amazing stew in the caff before gigs. The owner was a sweetheart. I also saw Sinead O'Connor sing a song there one Saturday and she was sublime. 020
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Unreal! What a voice. We are not worthy. 010
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026It bears repeating: music lovers use their hi-fi to listen to music. Audiophiles use music to listen to their hi-fi. 1425737
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 31/12/2025It’s been 6 yrs since my sister rang me about the respiratory illness that she and her colleagues in respiratory medicine, were terrified of. That’s the last time I knew that version of her, the next 18 months traumatised her forever. I know the world had to move on, but its hard to see the erasure 221961
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 20/12/2025A record player and two tape decks. Eat your heart out Pirate Bay! 110
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredCarlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Sunday looking rather windy so if you were planning to put up Christmas decorations then maybe hold off. Not because of the weather but because it’s still November 😆 01018
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 30/10/2025We used to say "any apples or nuts?" before the Americanisation of the universe and anyone who made you sing a song was a c**t. 010
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 28/10/2025That sounds familiar. I was lucky that the Da was a fitter so I had a large supply of industrial ball bearings or steelies which, had I actually been any good at playing marbles, would have given me an unfair advantage. 020
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 28/10/2025And then getting people to pay with their own hard-earned money to have propaganda and lies fed to them. That's the bit that always gets me. Like going into a shop and asking "Can I have some food guaranteed to give me food poisoning please. How much is that?" 010
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I worked in Nimble Fingers in Stillorgan* in the late 70s. We catered to a lot of teachers looking for art supplies. An obviously frazzled, attractive woman came in one day, charged up to me at the counter and asked breathlessly "Excuse me, where can I get felt?" I just walked away. 0122
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 24/07/2025This is nothing new. When Harry's Game was charting in the UK in 1982, a producer in RTE, Fiach O'Broin, got a call from the BBC who were concerned it might contain some terrorist references. Fiach told the caller it was just la-la-la which kept them happy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...youtube.comClannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video)YouTube video by ClannadVEVO 000
Reposted by Carlow Digital - RetiredGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine 63350561637
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Nope. It happened twice in our primary school in the 60s too, Pat, albeit nothing to do with Cocal-Cola. Chap turned up, did a bunch of, it must be said, impressive tricks with a yo yo and then left. Usually it was only priests who came trying to sell us magic. 110
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I heard similar about a well-known Dublin restaurant substituting parsnip for banana to make banana splits when they ran out. Which is, you know, bananas. 020
Carlow Digital - Retired @carlowdigital.bsky.social · 04/12/2024"There's only so much storm you can take, There's only so much tea you can drink in the morning". Susan McKeown 010
