Colm Delaney

Web designer, developer, creative problem solver. Irish exile. Optimistic curmudgeon / miserable git. He/him/é.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@magi_jay @mattyglesias When future aliens stumble upon the wreckage of our civilisation they'll conclude "they seemed advanced in many ways, but they completely lacked the capacity to act in their collective best interests."

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@averyydotwav Did my homework before moving here (pre-Internet) and only discovered the Seattle Freeze after I arrived. I now think of it as resistance training for introverts.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

This practice, which is known as wage theft, is rampant in the garment industry. Garment workers are often not paid what they are owed for a number of reasons — every time in violation of labor laws. I'm glad someone is enforcing those laws.

[LateNighter @latenightercom]

The view from there: SNL UK's "Weekend Update" tackles Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@MollyOShah He was half of the writing team of Little Britain, a punching-down comedy series that was big 20 years ago. One of those people that, when you see their name in the lede of any news story, you can be sure it's something bad.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@IT_unhinged "People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"—Maya Angelou

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

As if we needed any more proof that this has anything to do with antisemitism. It’s about the people who make money from and off Israel and how they’ve exploited Jewish Americans and Jewish identity to keep their fortunes. Fuck Ed Sheeran and Fuck Robert Kraft

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@GrantSlatton A long ago Seattle colleague bought a 3 letter dot org domain in the early days of the web. He was asked if he wanted the dot com as well.
Him: "how much?"
Registrar: "$35 per year"
Him: "nah, I'm good"

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The old boy network goes back to forever:

This is Chuck Schumer, current head of the Democratic party, going to ROY COHN'S birthday party at Studio 54 on Feb 22, 1979.

Who was Donald Trump's lawyer, henchmen and MENTOR?

Roy Cohn

This is almost 50 years ago. Nothing changes.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@eigenuser1 My favourite version of my favourite Sibelius work (and possibly my favourite symphony, as well) – assuming you mean this one, from 1968

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@LeonidasPlatan1 A shout out for Berwald's 3 ("Sinfonie Singulière"), a neglected masterpiece.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@LeonidasPlatan1 If more than four options were permitted I'm sure you would have added Sibelius, which would be my choice

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

The beautiful people of Nepal consume fewer resources than almost anyone on Earth, are known for their extraordinary generosity, and do not deserve to die from a climate crisis driven by wealthy nations that refuse to end wars or rein in their relentless overconsumption.

[Colm Delaney @ColmDelaney1]

@MollyOShah I don't see the alt text in the app, but it's there on the desktop, in both Firefox and Chrome

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

This is gutting. There are few people who are universally beloved. Dolly Parton is one. She made the US a better place. I've dreaded this day because of the unique way she was admired and loved by so many different people. We'll grieve together now, and it's an awful feeling.
https://t.co/lTsqHvxjGC

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

When Dolly Parton lost the Oscar to Three Six Mafia, she sent them a letter congratulating them and saying she was proud they brought it home to Tennessee.

One of one. Never to be equaled.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

After Lynch was captured during the 2003 Iraq invasion, the media reported that the teenage soldier from West Virginia had fought fiercely against her Iraqi captors, firing until she ran out of ammunition, and had even been shot and stabbed multiple times. The Washington Post called her a “little girl Rambo” from West Virginia. Hollywood-style footage of U.S. forces raiding the Iraqi hospital where she was held was played on television stations across the country. But it later emerged that Lynch had not fought her captors, had not been shot or stabbed, and had been treated humanely by Iraqi medical staff, who even tried to return her to American forces but the Americans refused to take her back and instead staged an on-camera nighttime raid of the hospital, turning the spectacle into a Pentagon propaganda win. The U.S. neurosurgeon who treated Lynch found no evidence of gunshot wounds and testified that the Pentagon barred him from telling anyone.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

i never want to hear the phrase "vote blue no matter who" again

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

He admitted to abusing her on camera.

He was convicted of abuse and went to jail.

That makes him an abuser.

Don’t soft pedal. Don’t cover for the predators.

Don’t say “whom she accused”.

Say Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend abused her.