Paddy🎦 That’s just like, your opinion, man.

Irish legend

@HedgieMarkets @MannaAero

🦔Amazon's Prime delivery drones, now deployed across multiple US cities at $4.99 per delivery, drop packages from 10 feet in the air onto whatever surface is below. A teacher who ordered a bottle of syrup to test fragile deliveries watched the drone deposit it directly onto concrete, smashing it. Videos from Nashville show the same delivery method. Amazon's drones maintain a fixed 10-foot hover height before releasing packages, which then free-fall to the ground. The drone's propellers also disturb the surrounding area on descent. My Take Amazon has invested billions in drone delivery infrastructure and the pitch has always been speed and convenience as genuine improvements over traditional delivery. Dropping packages from 10 feet onto concrete is not a delivery innovation. It's a trebuchet with a Prime logo. The fragile item problem alone eliminates a significant portion of what people actually order, including wine, glassware, electronics, and anything in a glass jar, which covers a substantial chunk of Amazon's catalog. The deeper question is whether this technology is being deployed because it's ready or because Amazon needs to demonstrate progress on the billions already committed to it. Every video like this one becomes a public test of a product that isn't finished, in neighborhoods where the company needs goodwill to maintain operating permissions. The $4.99 fee also doesn't cover the actual cost of drone delivery at current scale, which means Amazon is subsidizing a service that breaks your syrup. I'd want to see the unit economics on this before calling it a viable business. Hedgie🤗

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@karldeeter The BS continues

Wow...

@adrianweckler Well said Adrian- I never understood the scepticism, I understood the risks but they seemed manageable. It also puts downward pressure on prices in the market

Ireland is about to complete a major multi-billion € piece of critical infrastructure on/under time and on/under budget. You read that correctly. NBP, maligned and scorned, will finish ahead of schedule. How on earth did we get it right? What lessons? independent.ie/opinion/commen…

@TullMcAdoo @harveynormanIE I was looking at a Child’s Bike in Smyth’s, it was €180. I thought I’d wait to Black Friday. When I went to the shop it was €200, marked down from €220.

The great Black Friday con is upon us. Not looking at you @harveynormanIE

@Gregorein @cqcqcqdx The "sponge" is anti-static foam to stop damage to the chip

@cqcqcqdx Cyber-enhanced dish sponges? (Software engineer here, blame my silicon illiteracy.)

The start of something big..

@jasonomahony Agree

I would argue, warts and all, that Ireland is one of the best countries on Earth to live in.

@adrianweckler Duolingo

Anyone experience disruption?

@LindFritz AI

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@realBobbyHealy The only thing that helps the situation is that in really Ireland is a small and insignificant world power player no matter how we view it domestically

@danobrien20 The US Dollar is over priced by about 50% and the Big Tech Stocks by much more, compared to the long term trend, there's a correction coming. This is exaggerating the valuations of US companies.

European tech is booming. Value added in the sector is up 70% over ten years and is by far the fastest growing sector of the European economy. Also reflected in jobs - 10 million people are employed across the EU as ICT specialists, up from 6 million a decade ago. Regular reminder that Europe is not a museum-based economy!

@karaowen @PJohnstonFCDO Welcome, LFC Fans are especially welcome 😇

Today I arrive in Dublin to take over as British Ambassador. Until I have the honour of presenting my letter of credence to the President, I am just "designate". But I am delighted to get started and work to build on the excellent legacy of @PJohnstonFCDO.

@Rossmac212 The hose is connected outside the house and then is suddenly connected inside the house after the dog goes through the flap 😇

This dog😂

@TullMcAdoo @SenatorMcDowell It stank from the very beginning

Senator @SenatorMcDowell uses Oireachtas privilege and accuses the Gardai of entrapment in the Evan Fitzgerald case.

@RuthCan75563366 A brilliant story

Midlife fitness is nothing new, as shown by the story of the Stephen's Green pickpocket whose age did not stop him giving the authorities a merry chase round the back of the Four Courts in 1893 after he escaped from the Dublin Police Court before being apprehended after a 'view hello' and an unfortunate meeting with Detective 'Bill' Stratford, the Lugs Branigan of his day. Pickpockets needed to be swift to stay in business but there was such a thing as being too swift for one's own good! Read about it all here: ruthcannon.com/2025/05/27/a-p… Image Credit: Istock

The amount of stupid "Will my dog save me from a phoney attack while he's eating?" videos on here. The dog has the right idea - take a hike pal

The beach as the storm starts rolling in

@GrahamProle Happy days

@paddyflynn Fr Collins Park, Clongriffin 🇮🇪, confirmed as 6 cygnets, 1 egg did not hatch. Photo by Tom C. CCLK & CDSV. #ColourRinging #DublinSwans

Finally cygnets hatching in Dublin 🇮🇪. Nesting late this year. Three nest were hatched on today's rounds. All parents are colour ringed. Grangecastle 4 cygnets. CDJD & CDLZ Parkwest 3 cygnets. CFHP & CFHS Tymon Spawell 5 cygnets. CCFF & CDKI

@MylesDungan1 @MarkJCarney Amazing. Is he wearing a black arm band?

Canadian PM ⁦⁦@MarkJCarney⁩’s grandfather in his Irish police uniform - Garda #87. Unearthed by the great Irish Garda historian Jim Herlihy. Not sure why he has a weapon though, I thought uniformed Gardai were unarmed even in the 1920’s (after a threatened mutiny).