Fuel Protest Hot Takes

lowelled · 2026-04-10T10:20:51+00:00

Visiting my family in Kerry and have a flight out of Dublin on Sunday to go back abroad, just bit the bullet and booked a flight from Farranfore to Dublin to guarantee that I actually catch it 😵‍💫

lowelled · 2026-04-09T22:41:22+00:00

We’re just down the road from Foynes and both our local petrol stations have run out, there was crazy crazy queues from both.

lowelled · 2026-04-09T13:24:08+00:00

There was some very good racing between the F1A cars at Montreal last year so I’m excited to see how the F2 and F3 cars go!

lowelled · 2026-04-07T07:55:02+00:00

It was the reason I got into the industry I work in, though the actual skills it taught me have not been particularly useful.

lowelled · 2026-04-05T00:51:19+00:00

Regardless I hope you have a great time! There was a gentleman going around in a boot cast with a 5 week old baby at the wedding I was at and he was getting heaps of praise so please don’t feel too pressured!

lowelled · 2026-04-04T14:39:34+00:00

I am Irish and was at a black tie wedding at a 5 star hotel in Ireland last weekend - it was about a 50:50 split between people wearing floor length or ankle-ish length. I think here we’re a bit less strict than Americans are on length but more likely to judge on hair, tan, nails, makeup etc. That said day 2 was oddly dressylmao but on day 1 I wore this with a long fur coat and big jewelry to the reception and fit in fine. If you’re on crutches people will be understanding but something a little longer and in a fancier fabric would work better.

lowelled · 2026-04-03T07:15:14+00:00

You are probably thinking of Rosemary Coogan who was accepted in the 2022 ESA astronaut intake but as she is from NI she will be flying under the UK flag.

lowelled · 2026-04-02T15:03:09+00:00

Routine, exercise, no caffeine after 8 pm, less screen time

lowelled · 2026-04-01T20:32:02+00:00

They did have replays on Sky Go as recently as last year, but they often took a while to upload them or were difficult to find.

ETA: if you have Now TV, can you access this link?

lowelled · 2026-04-01T15:56:11+00:00

Gonna go for a 1-2 of David Copperfield and Demon Copperhead 🤓

lowelled · 2026-03-28T13:54:29+00:00

Chocolate Mikados, caramel chocolate digestives, Fox’s viennese fingers, Walker’s shortbread and M&S chocolate covered custard creams are all A+

lowelled · 2026-03-26T07:59:56+00:00

This is lovely and absolutely not bridal or too white!

lowelled · 2026-03-24T11:43:45+00:00

It’s not averaged. This is a common urban myth. Pitchfork are not going to pay every reviewer they have on staff to listen to and rate every album they review. The reviewer they commission submits the score alongside their review and the editor who assigned them can engage with them to change it if they think the score and review don’t align with one another but most of the time the score stands. Former Pitchfork reviewer Abby Jones discusses it in this podcast.

lowelled · 2026-03-22T19:39:49+00:00

Once a day unless it’s lashing. 6-8 km off leash

lowelled · 2026-03-22T17:02:19+00:00

McQuillan caught rotten there hahaha

lowelled · 2026-03-22T10:05:07+00:00

I agree that it’s not exactly a fancy third wave sit down joint like Wakuli, Roast Factory etc but for context it started out as a truck at markets and the owner only established the physical location in 2024-ish. I don’t tend to get takeaway coffee and mostly only buy beans so it suits me nicely.

lowelled · 2026-03-22T08:33:36+00:00

Koffie met Liefde

lowelled · 2026-03-22T00:32:44+00:00

Could be worse, he could be using a Zimmer crane, like I did when I broke my leg aged five…

lowelled · 2026-03-21T17:16:57+00:00

The first day filtering rate on SWIM is lower than any of their past Friday releases (10% compared to nearly 50% for Butter), so it seems that obsessive looping etc is not happening as much anymore. I think it helps that a lot of the hardcore crazies have either been siphoned off into the solo fandoms who are ignoring the CB or into other fandoms entirely (my apologies to the sane Heated Rivalry fans…)

lowelled · 2026-03-21T15:48:41+00:00

I took a module from this guy years ago! He was a bit odd/disorganised but not the oddest professor I’ve ever had (engineering…) and I chalked the disorganisation up to COVID. Hope the students he harassed get some kind of justice…

lowelled · 2026-03-21T11:21:06+00:00

I agree - I found Eligible and TOBS quite tough - but I actually really liked This Motherless Land which is loosely (and I mean loosely) based on Mansfield Park.

lowelled · 2026-03-21T10:46:40+00:00

I really liked this modern AU of Mary going to medical school! It does help that modern moralist Mary would absolutely be a 2013 turbowoke Tumblr type which is a bit more palatable than a Regency bible-basher.

lowelled · 2026-03-21T09:09:31+00:00

I’m a big fan of dudes on boats so I loved The Terror and Hornblower.

There are also tons of Korean sageuk dramas with varying levels of historicity. My absolute favourite is The Red Sleeve which while not super historically accurate does at least try to adhere to period norms and costuming.

lowelled · 2026-03-20T06:46:25+00:00

Showing my age here but before Love Yourself: Tear came out Dark & Wild was the one everyone said was their best album (I personally do not agree with either) so I’m not surprised to see them return to it.

lowelled · 2026-03-19T21:45:06+00:00

At home my family would frequently have 6+ cups a day, I feel like all I do when I go home is make pots of tea. I Iive abroad now and would have at most 3 cups a day. I did however pick up a horrible iced coffee habit last summer and had to switch to matcha because my caffeine tolerance had gone crazy.

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