Brian Chamberlain
brian.by
Brian Chamberlain
@brian.by
Telecoms monkey and Cat litter box attendant.
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Pirelli trying to skirt danger with limited tyre stints have invented all new danger with pitlane chaos
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It will cost you nothing to share my work but it could change my year!

Tis' the season for sales and corporate greed, I am just your friendly neighborhood LOI guy, a one man band making work about things we all love.

You know where I am if you need any seasonal gifts 😇
Hi, I'm Barry an artist from Ireland ⚽☘️

I drew that thing you like. A life long League of Ireland truther and enjoyer of old stadiums. Available for commissions in 2025, Lets work together 🤝

Portfolio: barrymasterson.com
Shop: shop.barrymasterson.com
Email: [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Hi 👋, slated.ie here.

We are a small Irish family business, creating beautiful products from slate.

Using our 170 yr old family knife to craft each piece.

Specialising in personalised gifts, wrapped in our fully sustainable packaging.

Slated.ie

The voice of the wonderful @conorvoice.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
you can pretty much track the progress of a storm using outages on powercheck.ie
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Classic Sony commercial youtube.com/shorts/h6eLf...
"The only cassette player as small as a cassette case..." #sony #superwalkman #discogs
YouTube video by Discogs
youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ferrari to try cross the line synchronised and end up taking each other out. #f1 #ferrari
October 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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We’ve a hedgehog house tucked away under the shrubs — and it’s one of the best things we ever added to the garden.
Here’s where to put yours so they’ll actually use it: 🦋🌱🌎 #spéirgorm
gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/hedgehog-house
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hello Comreg and irish mnos! Labelling every shortcode text I get as a likely scam when I'm travelling is seriously dumb.
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.

(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Record wind speed recorded at Magilligan in Co. Derry
Record wind speed recorded at Magilligan in Co. Derry
A record wind speed for the North for October was set in County Derry during Storm Amy on Friday.
www.derryjournal.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Check your pumps! Looks like practically every tucson pump installed over the last few years in Ireland could be deadly. www.ccpc.ie/consumers/20...
Serious risk of electrocution from 114,000 circulating pumps in homes in Ireland - CCPC Consumers
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is an independent statutory body that enforces competition and consumer protection law in Ireland
www.ccpc.ie
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Sunday world is champion of inappropriate photos. Here Simon looks like he just won the lottery. www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts...
Man who carried out illegal electrical work which was ‘dangerously faulty’ is fined
A Wexford man wo carried out illegal electrical works on two separate domestic properties also falsely claimed to be a registered electrical contractor Wexford District Court heard last week.
www.sundayworld.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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September 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
That's a sweet pastry. #f1
September 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Aldi have started selling vegan steak.
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Salesforce paid 27. 7 billion dollars for slack. There will be lots more of this. skyfall.dev/posts/slack
Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
An open letter, or something
skyfall.dev
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
What hell in the sky is this crap? www.reflectorbital.com
Reflect Orbital
Sunlight after dark
www.reflectorbital.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The fia managed to make a wet spa more boring than a dry monaco. #f1
July 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The pinnacle of motor racing. #f1
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM