BTW, for all those liberal types who said "the Irish far right don't do well in elections", here's a bit of a wake-up for you -
these lads have 24 councillors, four TDs and an MEP.
Start taking the far right seriously - the calls are, in this case literally, coming from inside the House.
Later today, at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) EU Affairs Committee, I will call for Ireland to recuse itself from all digital issues during its EU Council Presidency. Ireland’s regulatory sabotage of EU data law has exposed Europe’s children to serious mental harm.
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Here's a look at Dublin Inquirer's finances. We ask people to subscribe to help us do what we do, so it feels fair to tell you all where we are financially, and what we'd spend that subscription income on.
Version of the Hunger Games: 5 TDs from the government parties are given a salary of €2.8k per month (roughly the average) and told to try and find a place to live. No family help allowed.
This is the road we are on: buff.ly/3x3EXnj
We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. Time to keep fossil fuels in the ground. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #stopfossilfuels #go100re @markcarney
Not Here Not Anywhere will be joining the Earth Day protest Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:30pm, outside Leinster House, calling on the Government to change course toward a sustainable future for Ireland!
See you there! ✊
New favourite person found.
On the 1926 census Alice Knox recorded herself as ‘single (thank god)’ and detailed that she was 48 instead of the truth which was that she was 60.
I just know she was class craic
@lokapila.bsky.social Put in a request to the Department of Housing under FOI, asking for analysis/modelling of the likely impacts – on affordability and supply – of the government's big, recent rental law changes.
The response? No such records exist.
Spain, Slovenia and Ireland have asked the EU to discuss the suspension of its association treaty with Israel, Spanish FM Jose Manuel Albares said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
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We stand with Senator Eileen Flynn ✊️
Women face massive barriers to entering & staying in politics, including online & offline abuse. The abuse is compounded for Traveller women & women from other minority groups
❤️ Sending you our love and solidarity, Eileen
#MoreMná
@eileenflynn.bsky.social
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
1. People who went along with the lie that this shed thing was all about family members should be ashamed.
2. I suspect the think-tank founded by the Thiel and Musk proteges the Collisons played a part in this. Any idea they come up with should be opposed. We're bad enough without Tech Lord fascism.
Dublin currently has ZERO cycle lanes under construction.
You'd think the climate crisis, collapsing AMOC, fossil fuel supply crisis, obesity epidemic, traffic jams or appalling road death increases didn't exist.
No urgency. Just subsidies for ... yep... more fossil fuels 😞
Him: What would be your dream job
Me: Oh that's easy. Sitting on the back of a motorbike on the Tour de France pushing idiots into the ditch
Him: Oh come off it there's no such job
Me:
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman.
And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government.
He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.
except what tween girls do more accurately predicts trends/commerce than these dudes
A young human (9?) is on a mission.
Striding purposefully through the markets.
Caring not for the sploosh of puddles underfoot.
Reaching a fruit and vegetable seller and saying: "Uhm do you have any more figs? Dad ate ours before we got to the car and Mum needs more." (4)
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
All the human-in-the-loop bullshit assumes the human is a constant, unaffected by the loop. In reality, the loop is making the human stupider, lazier, and more careless.
That "Dublin Town" organisation sending a bloke around to clean stickers off the utility boxes is a bit on the nose isn't it. Keep our abysmal street clutter tidy lol
I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:
Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
This would bring massive changes to the Irish climate as well.
The thing I think about whenever Palentir comes up is that I once played Werewolf sitting next to a guy that worked at Palentir and he spent the entire time trying to convince me that the company wasn’t evil while simultaneously picking off every villager in the game.
"If you want a career pursuing any form of value other than monetary value - if you want to work in journalism, and pursue truth, or in the arts, and pursue beauty, or in some charity or international NGO or the UN, and pursue social justice, well, even assuming you can acquire the requisite degrees, for the first few years they won’t even pay you. So you’re supposed to live in New York or some other expensive city on no money for a few years after graduation. Who else can do that except children of the elite?" David Graeber
From an interview David Graeber once gave about finding a job.
davidgraeber.org/interviews/d...
I'm preaching to the choir here but if you have a newbie interested in searching the #1926census, I've done a quick video explainer. Please share. #Speirgorm #Skystorians #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy
youtu.be/6viUgy7vUsk...
Irish government: YES THIS IS GOOD WE WANT THIS
