@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.
Has anyone a way to let a kid have their own music device without giving them a phone or tablet? Something for streaming (tidal, spotify) that would let them do playlists etc? The move away from MP3s was such a backwards step
A graph showing the connection between GDP and infrastructure in the EU. Ireland a massive outlier - one of the richest, with the worst infrastructure
This graph should be on the front of newspapers.
From Sinead O'Sullivan: www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap
Remember when they wouldn't pass the Occupied Territories Bill because it would violate EU rules? Was Israel violating international law and committing a genocide an insufficiently "acute" situation? #Spéirgorm
This will seem a little odd but the photo shows a giant gorilla with arms aloft towering over the rooftops of Georgian Limerick. A nearby but seemingly unrelated billboard declares 'The dinosaurs are now extinct' - presumably because of the giant gorilla.
I need to know what's going on here. #Limerick
(Found in my Dad's stuff, he loved to photograph a well-placed sign or billboard)
#TheDinosaursAreNowExtinct
I love starlings. They're such raggedy little gurriers, belting out squawks on the wires outside my window, with their black breast feathers shining green and purple in the sun.
Meme of Samuel Beckett using the photo of him taken by Jane Bown, just his b/w face top left against a black background. He says “I can’t go on”. Then, on the right, Mrs Doyle from Father Ted says “Ah, go on”. Then, below left, Beckett says “I’ll go on”
So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate
It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️🌈
Photo from the Artemis lunar trip. Zoomed in shot of Earth. A very thin layer of atmosphere is visible.
Photo from the Artemis lunar trip. Shows Earth night side. A sliver of sunlight is visible through the atmosphere on one corner.
An AI generated image of Earth as a translucent empty sphere - like a very thin bubble sitting in space.
Earth's biosphere (100km of atmosphere, 4km of seas, a few metres of topsoil) is a very thin skin sandwiched between lots of dead rock and dead space - as clearly shown by #Artemis photos.
Environmental teaching should show our biosphere as a thin and fragile bubble rather than a robust solid.
if you make me leave the house at 5.03am to avoid your motorway messing, then the protest better be about something very important
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
This has gone off shockingly quietly. Given the noise Ryanair and Michael O Leary made by saying no, the far bigger story here is that Aer Lingus said yes.
TEN EPISODES. TEN. You can't just keep playing that scary noise for ten episodes
It’s Transgender Day of Visibility - love and solidarity to people navigating an increasingly challenging world in order to just be themselves. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
You think your cultural life is pretty much complete, and then you find a Coronation Street scene that's better than Pinter, soundtracked by music from The Seventh Seal for some reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7s...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
is that good
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
1,463 Dublin residents express interist in renting €100 per-year spaces in on-street bicycle lockers
-- After the inner city, the Kimmage-Rathmines area is one of the first areas to get the lockers A total of 1,463 Dublin residents have registered their interest in renting 2,633 potential spaces…
It looks like a wonderful book (the real one, not the wetness one).
I am sorry to say I read it as wetness.
PERSONAL POEM Now when I walk around at lunchtime I have only two charms in my pocket an old Roman coin Mike Kanemitsu gave me and a bolt-head that broke off a packing case when I was in Madrid the others never brought me too much luck though they did help keep me in New York against coercion but now I'm happy for a time and interested I walk through the luminous humidity passing the House of Seagram with its wet and its loungers and the construction to the left that closed the sidewalk if I ever get to be a construction worker I'd like to have a silver hat please and get to Moriarty's where I wait for LeRoi and hear who wants to be a mover and shaker the last five years my batting average is.016 that's that, and LeRoi comes in and tells me Miles Davis was clubbed 12 times last night outside BIRDLAND by a cop a lady asks us for a nickel for a terrible
disease but we don't give her one we don't like terrible diseases, then we go eat some fish and some ale it's cool but crowded we don't like Lionel Trilling we decide, we like Don Allen we don't like Henry James so much we like Herman Melville we don't want to be in the poets' walk in San Francisco even we just want to be rich and walk on girders in our silver hats I wonder if one person out of the 8,000,000 is thinking of me as I shake hands with LeRoi and buy a strap for my wristwatch and go back to work happy at the thought possibly so 1959
Someone mentioned Frank O'Hara so I opened Lunch Poems at random and:
Not sure I'd see this moment as the great failure it is framed as here. Do we think making billionaires cry because they don't get their own way is inherently bad? thecurrency.news/articles/220...
The first major project from our new investigations unit.
From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
If only £400 fines were handed out to selfish gits who park on the pavement.
Maybe we should view pavement parking as antisocial fly tipping.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Care free car free ☘️
Maybe of we think of it as England really doing their best to help Ireland, the better team, win the 6 Nations...?
