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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2026

I am very impressed that tonight’s hotel has chosen the upscale Noir range by The White Company as bathroom accessories. I would like one of them to say HAND WASH in large letters and the other to say LOTION in large letters, both contrasting with the background […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Two black dispensers in the hotel bathroom. The branding is so upscale that you can’t tell which is hand wash and which is lotion except by trial and error.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

You’re never too old to retrain for a new career!

Newspaper article excitedly reporting the first goal in a Serie A match by an Italian footballer named Mussolini (presumably not the long dead former dictator).

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

Nervous about dental work? We will make sure you are completely off your tits!

A sign 🪧 n a dentist’s window offering optional Nitrous Oxide or other sedation.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

That’s “Most Rev. Alphonsus Cullinan” to you, ya little bollox! #rtenews #frted

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Fraudsters these days! It’s like they don’t even try anymore! Now excuse me while I go and sign this punter’s hotmail account up for a load of advertising emails.

A spam message warning that I need to log on to a spurious website to have my government medical card renewed (spoiler: I don’t have a government medical card). Rather than use a burner mobile phone, the fraudster has sent from his Hotmail account.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Met Eireann issues “Daycent Wedder Warnin” Met warns of only low quality drizzle which may even be intermittent. Citizens warned of carpal tunnel injury risk when overloading the line to get the great drying that’s out.

An image of Ireland from a Met chart unsullied by cloud or rain. Obviously not real.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Strangely reminiscent of the old MS Windows background wallpaper, but with more houses.

Photograph of the gable end of a house with a colourful mural. The house appears set on its own at the top of a grassy hill with a suspiciously blue sky overhead.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

More proof (as if it were needed) that we live in a giant video game and the plot-writers are getting bored. #simulation

Headline from The Guardian newspaper: Quadruple amputee corn hole champion arrested on suspicion of murder.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

What the news is generally reporting: A US Navy submarine sank an Iranian warship. “It was sunk by a torpedo, a quiet death – the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II,” added Hegseth. “Like in that war, back when we were still the war […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Map published by The Guardian showing how the US Navy sank without warning an Iranian warship minding its own business half a continent away from conflict zone.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Gotta love the firm espousal of brand identity on the back page of the NYT International Edition today.

An advertisement for Fendi fashion house. A woman is pictured from the knees down, bare legged except for a pair of strappy high-heeled stilettos. She is standing on a chair. Maybe she’s about to be hanged in a bizarre fetish game or maybe she’s replacing a light bulb; the lighting is dark. It could equally be a sex dungeon setting or a blown lightbulb. Her shins are being tightly grasped by a suited man’s hands from behind. Let’s be generous and say he’s steadying her as she changes the lightbulb.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

“Yeah well, that’s because they’re just a frozen s**thole with nothing but snow & ice all year!” I can already hear the MAGA types deflecting. Thinks to myself: well then it’s a pity Greenland didn’t enter - we could have seen some real Yankee humiliation.

Newspaper article noting that tiny Norway won a multiple of the medals of the much larger USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

I just realised that I appear to have bought white supremacist toothpaste.

A tube of Arm & Hammer Advance White Pro toothpaste.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

It’s raining heavily. Went to a posh coffee shop to cheer myself up and ordered a Cappuccino. “Would you like chocolate topping?” “Always!” (Expects sprinkled powder) This is what I got served. Result!

Top of a takeaway cup of Cappuccino coffee where the barista has lovingly drawn a cartoon of a sheep in chocolate sauce.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

There’s a mains electrical power failure in my area. Being a modern wired citizen (with power still in his phone), I go to the ESB Networks website for a status update. It asks me for my address (logically enough) and then for my phone number (why?). It then […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Tried to file a NIL VAT Return. Revenue computer fell over at the very idea.

TTP Status 500 Error "The Server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request." What, never seen a NIL return before?

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

In other news: bear spotted defecating in forested area and Pontiff admits to saying masses and hearing confessions.

Track from ‘30’ by Adele titled “I drink wine”

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Ass Bar - for all your fresh from yesterday needs. #zurich

Photo of the side of a van of commercial provisions provider Äss Bar promising supplies ‘Frisch von gestern’

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Seen at Malaga Airport. Seems globally supportive of chastity kink. #locktober #kinktober

Sign for airport toilets where gender figures have padlock graphics superimposed over genital areas. Actually means unisex toilets with individual closets which have door locks.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

The everyday runabouts of persons with reputable business practices and fully-paid taxes.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Irish flag lapel pins for our newly-minted citizens on leaving the building. Nice touch.

Irish tricolour pin affixed to the lapel of a newly-naturalised citizen.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

My significant other is naturalising as an Irish citizen today. There’s a big group ceremony. It’s very moving and welcoming.

The inside of the Dublin Convention Centre getting ready for the start of 1 of 3 citizenship ceremonies today.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

German authorities not being very subtle about which nation they believe was behind the Nordstream 2 explosion.

A second suspect is named as Volodymyr Z.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

F*ck the Irish Times and their trans generational lust for property.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

I am a creature of habit. I am also a confirmed pisshead.

Aperol Spritz Aperitif about to be enjoyed on the street terrace of a restaurant in Munich on a balmy summer eve. No friends or companions mentioned - author is obviously an alike albeit a classy one.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

AI slop is endemic now. But hey, if it’s not worth your time proof-reading your own output, I can take that as a handy signal that it’s not worth reading.

Link to Magazine article boosted on Mastodon. It’s about an antimony shortage scaring US battery makers according to the headline. The sub-head is a bunch of AI prompted saying basically “make this click-bait,”

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

The Israeli Defence Minister has said that Iran’s Supreme leader “can no longer be allowed to exist” after retaliatory Iranian missile strikes hit an Israeli hospital. Given that Israeli Defence Forces have been busy deliberately reducing Gaza’s hospitals to […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

As a less-privileged person from Dublin’s north inner city, I’d say Barry Keoghan spends his days wondering how he got to ride Sabrina Carpenter and become a fixture at the Met Gala. #LifeLottery

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

I want a search. Ask Meta AI? To find a specific person on my own phone that I previously conversed with? I will in me Swiss! I’ll scroll down and find them rather than feed your data-hungry energy-soaking capital-intensive AI slop-farm.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

Americans ‘owning the libs’ at absolutely no cost to themselves…

List of stock index movements the day after Trump announces his unilateral tarriff-fest. Markets are globally down but the US markets notably more so than any others.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2025

This sender has been verified from safe senders list. <voice message attached> I don’t f*cking think so.

E-mail Message attempting to persuade the recipient to click the hyperlink on patently spurious grounds.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

Great to see the former East Germans integrating so well into the expanded Bundesrepublik after only 35 years and not acting collectively like a bunch of reactionary wing-nuts.

A map of the recent German election results. Apart from two outlying western constituencies, the constituencies won by the neo-Nazi AfD Party pretty much reconstitute the map of the old DDR.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

When you’re too right wing for the actual French National Front! 😵‍💫

Copy of Guardian News article explaining that French Front Nationale politician refuses to take place at CPAC due to Nazi salute by Steve Bannon earlier. Turns out even radical right wingers in France are sensitive to real Nazis.

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SturmUndDranger @sturmunddranger.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

For those in the UK becoming performatively incensed at Gooogle Maps recognising the newly-minted (but now apparently official in ‘Murica) regional American term for the Gulf of Mexico in brackets after the globally recognised name, you may not want to take a look further south.

Screenshot from Google Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico with the newly-minted regional title of the Gulf of America appended in brackets.

Screenshot from Google Maps of the Falkland Islands with the preferred Argentinian term Islas Malvinas appended in brackets. Silently fuming John Bull Type in Union Jack waistcoat not pictured.

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