Kona bikes close. Stages power meters close. Rapha laying off US staff. All in one week.
The high end of recreational #cycling has become increasingly unsustainable. Prices are too high for consumers, and companies locked into a system where they cannot reduce costs. A house of cards
This made me laugh for hours. I still can't believe it. My work was blatantly ripped off. Normally that's not funny. But when it's the Gardaí doing it, all you can do is laugh.
My sign for County Wicklow from 9 years ago vs the new Garda sign on Howth head today. 😂 lads, seriously now. #plagiarism#whiteCollarCrime#intellectualProperty#design#graphicDesign#ireland
If anyone needs me, I'll be here by the side of this motorway in Kildare for the next 60-90 minutes. Punctured, I can change the wheel, except when the wheel has bonded to the brakes... #puncture#weekendFail
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Those chivalric fruit cakes are out in Dublin today, making noise and handing out flyers. Weirdly they aren't shouting about playing with swords, being anti women, being anti gay, anti trans, anti abortion, anti everything. Instead they are getting people to photograph the pipe band.
New one for me #wacom#apple#ventura You can't simply install Wacom tablet drivers on Ventura. The Apple’s setting will have a fit and get you to allow permissions in settings. But they are already on. To get them to work, you have to delete them from the list!
They’ll ask to get back in and then they’ll work.
This guy nearly burst a blood vessel because he was sitting in slow moving traffic and I cycled past him on the inside, as is correct. #cycling
He made accusations on video, which was dumb, and then he said I was doing 40kph. I'm not sure how he knew that, but as there was a strong headwind, traffic, and a sharp ruse at that point, it looks like 2024 will be a stunning year for racing. (Spoiler: I was doing less than 15 😕)
Those weirdos who promote Catholic swordplay for chivalrous boys in Kildare showed up in the festering pit known as the YouTube timeline.
I have history turned off so as to be tracked less. It means though, as a downside, I get shown more weird religious stuff, or gun channels, or alternative archaeology. YouTube is horrible
If one side in politics is openly & boastfully corrupt, attacks vulnerable groups from its own electorate, attacks its country's allies, supports a country which has attacked it and its allies both digitally and violently, undermines progress at home, restricts freedoms in the name of liberty, why is it still portrayed as a regular party in the media?
Our pet #cat had to be put to sleep yesterday. She was 17 and a fighter. Here she is a few years ago, interrupted midway through a face-off with her next door frenemy
Gotta say I'm getting pretty sick of these images of climate change being nice balmy days at the beach. What about nature suffering, seasonal cycles out of whack, crop yields down. It's a serious problem Irish Times, not a clocking off early for swim story. #climateChange#media#theyStillDontGetIt
YouTube now showing ads for a finger up the hole.
And before any of you filthy sickos say anything about it being related to searches, I get randomised ads because I have history turned off. I mostly get tampon ads.
This annoys me. Business Post could have aligned the first s in Business and the s in Post, and at the same time aligned the vertical emhasis of the i in Business and the t in Post. But they didn't. #design#graphicDesign#fixed#type
I have an idea for a specific font design. It's a solution to a long standing small problem for my design studio, but I get too distracted in long processes, so it'll never be made. Maybe I'll try a binary typeface #type#design
I'm in a student union bar having a coffee. Nik Kershaw is on, following Level 42 and A-ha. My youth is so distant it's becoming a quasi-fictional world for young people to imagine.
No one here has stone washed jeans or shoulder pads. Yet.
I may have to give up racing. Age comes at you, but it's not that, yet at least. It's the price to compete, it's getting to the point of ridicule. You can still get really good bikes, and get really fit, but when you are looking to race, the expense to match the others is ludicrous. And immoral. #cycling
