IrishMJ

Some words and some photos from last weekends Harlekino Kollektiv show, Zirkus. irishmj.ie/2026/05/zirkus…

Released this week a few years back #warhound #klubberlang youtu.be/IzjS1QRHZ6A?is…

@chefsevenn My mouth.

Ketchup isn't available... What are you putting on this? 🤔

Red lights... Never my favourite lighting to shoot in, but for this photo of the incredible Foxxx, it works so well. I'd never photographed #Shibari before, so this was totally new to me. Delighted with this shot, even if it meant shooting at 10,000 ISO!

@Ravenismeee Flowers.

what is the male equivalent to flowers??

@iupdate That says an awful lot about you Sam, an awful lot...

I am 28 years old and still can’t comprehend how someone would willing use Android over iPhone

@alxlvds @iupdate Yet OP proudly proclaims they're an iPhone user in their profile, and are the ones posting this nonsense... People, in general, don't buy iPhones for their technical ability, they buy them because they're an iPhone.

@iupdate Android people always act like they have something to prove. Meanwhile, the Apple people don’t care.

A few photos from and a few words about the All That Glitters Glamorama show. irishmj.ie/2026/05/all-th…

A lot more words than normal, and a few photos from last weekends The Write Stuff gig with Pete Holidai in Chapters Bookstore. irishmj.ie/2026/05/the-wr…

No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live!💞❤️

@rocknrollofall The Verve played the Point Depot in Dublin back in the 90s. It was an absolute yawn fest, so we left and went on the piss.

What's the worst concert you've been to?

@FridgemanUK @UltrawokeMK @PeterMcCormack If the only way to make a business viable is to pay shite wages, then, well, is the business really viable?

@UltrawokeMK @PeterMcCormack Trying to pretend you intended to outsmart him has further highlighted who the dummy is. The business must support itself to be viable.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

So the Orange Man is upset at a Jimmy Kimmel sketch poking fun at his wife... Was it in poor taste? Maybe. Yet reports indicated the Orange Man referred to Marines buried in France as "losers" and "suckers".  Was that in bad taste? Absofuckinglutley.

@micheal_ws18 Can I go back to sleep at 5:01am?

You’re offered $250k, but you have to wake up at 5am every day for the rest of your life. Do you take it?

@SirJeremyLondon Good fuck...

“It was the dumbest of times. It was also the stupidest of times”

Do the fellas that billed €336,051 for the Dáil bike shed have family over in Washington? $400 Million for a fucking Ballroom???

@ThatEricAlper James Brown, Oxegen 2006. He'd played the previous year, I reckoned he'd play the following year, so I said to my friends I'd skip him and go watch someone else (who though???). He died a few months later. I should have went.

What is the concert you didn't go to, for whatever reason, that you have regretted ever since? The one that still stings when you think about it?

@NouveaT53568 Absolute bollix. The 4 previous nations went and exploited the US, the set up armed camps to enable their troops to explore deeper into the US to exploit, murder, and steal. They absolutely didn't go to the US to spread the word of god.

You're wrong, and it's based on bigotry, prejudice, and racism. You don’t understand actual history at all. Remember almost all the criticism against the west and white people is based in prejudice and bigotry. Most white people were dreamers and refugees seeking a better life. Colonization is mostly exaggerated. They were immigrants, many forced. Native Americans were just as bad, and many were worse than any of the groups that came over. Many were escaping religious persecution, and many came over as slaves. It was actually Africans who brought slavery to the West along with the Arabic slave trade. Most slave ships were Arabic, and most slave traders were African. In fact, Europeans fought wars to end slavery around the world. No other group has done that. You probably won’t care about any of this, because your views aren’t based in reality thus reality can’t challenge them. They’re based in your own racism.

American Culture exists, it's very clear and obvious. It is the Bible. That was the foundation of America and its culture. In fact, there was even a guide that was meant for us, to show us. The Jeffersons Bible A guide to the American Culture and Dream. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson compiled the manuscripts but never published them. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today.[1] The second, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting, with a razor and glue, numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine.

Trumps security team isn't up to much if it allows a man with a "powerful gun" to even get in his vicinity... Fucking Dublin nightclub bouncers would do a better job of stopping people getting in! "Sorry, I don't care, not tonight..."