Mike McHugh
jymian.bsky.social
Mike McHugh
@jymian.bsky.social
Pixel-stained technopeasant wretch. Also, ideologically opposed to closing browser tabs.

Time and kebabs.

he/him
The government bunker in Athlone was either the worst kept secret, or the most widespread urban legend, of 80s Ireland 😉
December 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Everything old is new again.
The Pensacola News Journal, November 7,1918
December 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The 80s were … odd.
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I still remember the casual aside in Down To A Sunless Sea, which had Cuban mercenaries invited by an SF government to invade the North, and that’s why Ireland was nuked by the US…
Down to a Sunless Sea (Graham novel) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"vaccinated time travel" was a throwaway line in Generation X - "to fantasize about traveling backwards in time, but only with proper vaccinations."
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There's another top thread about it 🙂
What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.

But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Looks like it’s solid all the way back to the NCR.
December 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I say it all the time, but Bradbury's The Murderer, from 1953, is the most accurate take on (what was then) the future I've read.
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dartmouth Sqaure, maybe? Make them split their “we object!” resources…
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I'm against it too, but it's amazing how quickly people who ask for it change their minds when they realise they'd need one 😉
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'd go for "logged 100km cycling on the road in the year preceding the licence issue" - which should cover the renewal too.
Or even, as a response to "why don't cyclists have to get a licence?", go "yes, and make having a cycling licence a mandatory requirement for having a driving one".
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Cross it with Dr Who and we could get 3 movies in one. Crowe playing two roles on the one screen could be awesome 😉
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When you return - and only then -,I can recommend Horrorstör as a good read on what could have been 😛
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
And it is my personal canon that at the end of the movie, Lisa Nolan moved to London in a bid to forget it all, changed her name to Emma Flyte, and joined the Met.
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I like to think that somewhere, a Spurs fan is rubbing their hands gleefully and going "they'll never know it was me".
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As the saying should go, if they’re so rich why aren’t they smart?
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I think it’s a HIPPO violation if you have more than 2% body fat 😛
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Best to take the "living well" approach, for sure 😉
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Interrupting a Mass, and publicly challenging a reasonable instruction from his principal.
Suspension and Injunctions - The Case of Enoch Burke
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November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM