“Prior to entering politics, he worked within the community sector of Dublin City Council and spent a decade within Bank of Ireland, specializing as a Mortgage Manager.”

Eils_G 📎@eils1.bsky.social · yesterday

Happened to hear the Lord Mayor of Dublin talking about e-scooters on Radio 1. He said that people in social housing should be banned from using one! WTF? He wasn't put off when told that this was discrimination. He just doubled down muttering about anti social behaviour! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Coming up just after midnight, we reveal how a draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public. Read on thejournal.ie 🔜

That oughta keep them contained

I've decided we're living through a paradox where the water and atmosphere that "used to" be on Mars were destroyed by future tech billionaires actually managing to get there but fucking up a time travel experiment shortly after they ruined that planet too

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Solidarity with trans people in Britain today. Fuck the EHRC guidelines.

A Ancylometes by the riverside. Now these spiders, which were once in the Ctenidae, are now in their own family, the Ancylometidae. They are still big and awesome though!

"Russia must pay for destruction it has caused," warned European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen. Agree 100%. Now try saying this out loud: "Israel must pay for destruction it has caused," warned von der Leyen. Otherwise, this is absolutely rank hypocrisy. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

EU condemns Russian 'atrocities' as 17 killed in Kyiv

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen slammed "horrible atrocities" by Russia after a deadly attack on the Kyiv region killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens,

rte.ie

First policy when I'm dictator is to introduce a flat per M2 value on derelict properties. If your property is classified as derelict you can't charge more than the flat rate. If you don't sell it or fix it within 2 years, the state gets to buy it at a fraction of that rate.

Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...

The race to the bottom is hotting up Beds in sheds progresses rapidly to beds in work depots This government is truly delivering #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland "Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot" www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot

Swords Express operator’s planning agent said “severe shortage” of suitable sites for employees

independent.ie

Guy who plans to colonise Mars in case we trash our planet, starts by trashing the nearest celestial body

I never wanted to know what a Stancil was, but apparently they've taken a swing at my man Sam Vimes and now they've made an enemy for life

It's fun living in a freshly cleaned apartment like my life is a game of Jenga. Praying the thing I put on the kitchen counter "for just a few minutes while I finish this thing" won't trigger an avalanche of cumulative bad habits that leads to the whole fucking place collapsing into chaos again

My office is like the home decor version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. If I ever invite you over and the rest of the house is spotlessly clean, I implore you to stay out of my office. We're talking horrors that would get me on one of those "fix your shitty life" TV shows

just a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company

It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.

ontheditch.com

Every time a new supermarket outlet opens in Ireland, there's a big article in the local paper about the jobs that will be created (but nothing about the jobs lost in local butchers, greengrocers, bakeries etc., who they're targetting). And after the big announcement, they start replacing those jobs

Kerrie B@wheels002.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

Happened to hear the Lord Mayor of Dublin talking about e-scooters on Radio 1. He said that people in social housing should be banned from using one! WTF? He wasn't put off when told that this was discrimination. He just doubled down muttering about anti social behaviour! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

research has actually become a lot harder now that google doesn't really recognize booleans anymore

This is misleading. If you say the Rhine’ s “water levels drop to lowest level since 1880,” that implies that the river was this dry in 1880. But 1880 is just when we started keeping records! So what you need to say is: the river is at its lowest level since records began.

From a lack of domestic violence refuge spaces, to prison overcrowding, to a real need for violence reduction nationwide, there are so many issues in our justice system that need solutions. But those solutions require thinking big. And @garygannontd.bsky.social is just the man to do it.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

Unlike what Minister Jack Chambers claims Ireland has one of the lowest per capita ratio of civil servants among EU member states. And significantly fewer than other high tax member states like Sweden, Finland and Denmark

Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.

socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

So… they’re working

So some of you may have heard I've reached mid-life and I just wanted to say, if anyone is thinking of getting me a crisis, thank you but no. I know it's traditional, but I already have more crises than I know what to do with.

How much do TV Show writers hate the people who catalogue their shows on platforms?

*Watching a TV Show with a cliffhanger about the survival of a major character* Me: Holy shit. This looks bad. Are they really gonna kill... App: Watch Next! Featuring a thumbnail of the imperilled character looking very much alive, along with a synopsis sentence confirming their survival

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