Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

'There is no God, no redemption, no forgiveness, only pain.' - Stuart MacBride, No Less The Devil

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

First world problems, but @YouTube, there do exist loooong songs.

Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road" is 14:17 minutes long; it's a transcendental religious experience for some.

Is it really necessary to ruin it by throwing a FUCKING AD in the middle?

https://t.co/1f54Dn1dlB

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

God kväll, Petter @MenTourPilot. I'm losing my mind. Didn't you do an excellent video explaining ETOPS? I'm having a daft semi-argument about twin-engined aircraft range over the Atlantic. Tack!

[Del Amitri @delamitrinews]

🚨 !Competition !🚨 📖 📕

🎵Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?

It took me years to write, will you take a look?🎵

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For your chance to win a signed copy simply share and like this post!

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[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

I asked my perpetually stoned pal if he talks incessantly to drown out the theme to The Magic Roundabout that plays on repeat in his head.

#introvertproblems

https://t.co/2jXmbu22xo

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Paleoanthropologists have long argued over whether or not precursor species to Homo sapien - Homo erectus and Neanderthal - had the capacity for speech. Some suggest that they might've managed nasal, whiny grunts.

Goes a long way to explaining the inner city Dublin accent.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Heartwarming to see my ex living her hashtag blessed best life on her hashtag recovery.

I wonder if she ever gives a thought to the folks she bulldozed at the beginning of her hashtag journey.

Hashtag step eight iykyk 😐

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Question on The Chase tonight: LS Lowry's occupation... builder 🙃

Anyhoo, I was - *counts on fingers, six* - when I first heard this on the wireless.

Remember it like it was yesterday 🤗

https://t.co/Xx2Il5TaXv

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

There's an amazing beer garden at the back of the @UpperQuarter on Bienville, New Orleans.

Some genius strung a pin-pricked garden hose around the garden, producing a magnificent cooling mist in the stifling Louisiana heat.

Idea for Ireland? 🇮🇪

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Great thread 😐

[Mike Binder @MikeBinderjokes]

13/ Here's why I'm telling you this on a Sunday morning, 41 years later:
There is a Marty Klein in your life right now.
Maybe they fired you. Maybe they told you a hard thing you didn't want to hear. Maybe they walked away from you and you're still angry about it.
Call them.
Today.
You don't have as much time as you think.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

This completely random shite (Android) 😡

[Yagiz Nizipli @yagiznizipli]

What issues/bugs do you see on https://t.co/Yo5uB6s6RA? Share with us and I’ll get it fixed.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

@punishedmonet This? 🙃 https://t.co/R8CxX7tQCV

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Hoping for more comedy gold out of London today 😀

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

The lovely Kara Tointon has gone out on The Chase (Nelson's burial place).

Idioms that don't translate well to Romanian: It's well Horatio didn't lose his left arm... he'd've felt a right tit.

(On reflection, this joke makes no sense whatsoever 🤔)

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

For what's a glorified, with bells and whistles, badly-sorted RSS feed, X has totally fumbled what made Twitter great.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Heists around the world: planning, disguises, blueprints, alibis, aliases, synchronised watches.

Heists in Dublin: "Hee-uh, Deano," *pops a benny and holds up a Phillips screwdriver* "Deadly, wha'?"

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Fair play to the Court of Appeal.

Domestic violence and coercive control is insidious, and indicative of small men.

Also, why do these complete wastes of oxygen always have shit-eating grins plastered across their scummer faces when photo'd outside the CCJ?

Remorseless.

[Courts News Ireland @courtsnewsIRL]

Gavin Lawlor, who repeatedly assaulted and coercively controlled his teenage girlfriend - including one instance in which he punched her for “liking” a video on TikTok - will be returned to jail after his original sentence was tripled by the Court of Appeal.

https://t.co/bsdYQJoroY

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

There's no https://t.co/AwdHKmDOPV, so I'm resigned to Delilah feasting on my soft tissue. Joy 😬

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The most downloaded paid app in China is targeted at people living alone and is called Are You Dead? If the user doesn’t confirm that they are alive for two days, the app notifies their emergency contact.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Splendid googlewhackery: I've googled, "You have a new voicemail from restricted" with 0 results. The VM sounded like someone in a car with their indicator blinking.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Fascinating legacy.

Better than being the official clothier (alongside Pennys) for scrote clients of Intreo and/or the Irish Prison Service 😐

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Doug Tompkins co-founded The North Face in 1966. He sold his share a few years later for $50,000. The real money came later, from a clothing brand called Esprit that he built with his first wife. He walked away from fashion in his forties and spent the rest of his life buying up wild land in South America and giving it away as national parks.

He died in 2015. His kayak flipped on a freezing Chilean lake while he was paddling with friends, including Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia (the clothing company). Doug spent almost two hours in near-freezing water before he was pulled out. The hypothermia killed him. He was 72.

The 800,000 hectares everyone keeps posting (about 2 million acres) is just the land Doug and his wife personally handed over. Kris took over after he died. She had been the CEO of Patagonia, the same clothing brand Yvon founded, named after the very region the couple was busy protecting. In 2018 Kris handed a million acres of their own land to the government of Chile. It is still the biggest land gift any private group has ever made to a country. Chile thanked them by upgrading nine million more acres of nearby state land to national park status.

Add it all up and you get about 15 million acres now protected across Chile and Argentina. More land than all of Switzerland. Thirteen new national parks have been created, with several more expanded. A 1,700-mile road called the "Route of Parks" connects them, running from the middle of Chile down to the bottom tip of South America. More than 90% of Chile's protected land is now in Patagonia.

Buying the land was just step one. They also brought in biologists to put the missing animals back. Jaguars are back in Argentina's wetlands after 70 years gone. So are giant otters, small native deer, and Andean condors (the huge South American vultures with wingspans up to 10 feet).

The latest piece is being finalized this spring. Chile is about to declare Cape Froward, at the very southern tip of the continent, the country's 47th national park. The land came from another 314,000 acres (about the size of Grand Teton) that Kris's foundation transferred to the Chilean government in late 2025.

Doug got the project off the ground. Kris closed the biggest pieces after he was gone. More than three decades of work, four hundred million dollars of their own money, and roughly 15 million acres now protected as national parkland.

[Colin | Fewer Sleeps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @ThreeMoreSleeps]

Recycled mobile number?

I bought a new SIM this morning to help out a pal. Five or so minutes after activation, spam calls from Spain and multiple from the UK.

Are the scammers just cycling thru 08x (0000000 <= n <= 9999999) now?