My homeplace in Wexford - a two-up, two-down cottage/farmhouse, which seemed pretty full with four of us in it - had a family of ten in 1926. It was a ruin when my parents bought it in the mid 70s, so they can't have been there all that much longer.
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And to boot, a lot of what they've been watching there is fiction, rather than current affairs, documentaries, or anything that might make the medium a little more forgiveable. They're the kind of people who watch Black Hawk Down and think they understand the Middle East now.
Hearing of that adage would require reading, or being around people who read, and it's increasingly evident that the current regime in the US does not do that, and has never done that. Trump, Vance, and Hegseth are all the sort of people who get all their information from (non-interactive) screens.
“The Irish government balked at introducing any such moderate, sensible energy-saving measures, presumably fearful of backlash from a public conditioned to believe that any sacrifice, no matter how small, is intolerable”.
My take is in @thejournal.ie today.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/carbo...
Was she, in fact, covered in blood?
Hey @realfollowers.bsky.social - tell me things.
Seanan Mcguire, Jim Butcher, Barbara Hambly, T. Kingfisher, Ben Aaronovitch, Lois McMaster Bujold, Max Gladstone, Gareth Hanrahan, China Mieville, Yoon Ha Lee, Maggie Stiefvater, Martha Wells, Amal el-Mohtar, Dave Hutchinson, K.B. Spangler, H.A Clarke, Foz Meadows, Tamsyn Muir, Katherine Addison
In short, I think things could improve, and my immediate list of wants is very short.
Or that the times they run at appear to be calculated to be awkward - the last train to Galway from Dublin, for instance, runs at some unreasonable hour like 1830. I'd check, but the mobile website is so slow that I can't.
We ignore that the ticket machines frequently can't scan the QR code online tickets and sometimes refuse the paper ones, that flexible tickets really aren't, that you pay twice as much for a ticket at the station as online, and that they have not since 2020 had food or coffee for sale on board.
I am pretty sure that in my last year or so of taking trains, which I do at least once a week, this has happened ONCE. Today's example is on time (well, for boarding) and at a civilised platform, but the reserved seats are not displayed.
I have three wants for Irish Rail's trains. They should be on time, have the reserved seat signs up, and not be at the platforms where you have to walk halfway to your destination to reach them. This shouldn't be a difficult set of things to achieve, and yet.
TTRPG about me
First game: Advanced Fighting Fantasy
Last game: D&D 5E
Longest game: D&D 3.5 or Legends of Anglerre, not sure which
Favourite game: Absolutely unsure, would need to try lots more
Favourite mechanics: Exploding dice.
Favourite art:
This Bountiful Manifestation
I have realised since leaving politics that a lot politically active folks on the left or progressive ideological spectrum are quite blinkered sometimes, be they aligned to the SDs, Labour, Sol-PBP, Greens, SF, Indo Left.
Look at what platforms you are using before using them!
Universal Basic Income. We have the capability for it, and everyone who's ever looked at knows it works. It would change everything for the better.
This looks absolutely magnificent.
One of the oddities is that England drinks a lot of tea, but from the Irish point of view, it's awful stuff. Even our common or garden teas - Barry's and Lyons, which are dust and tea-shop floor sweepings in reality - are way better.
What I would like to see happening.
Grant aiding getting as many viable roofs as possible with solar panels. Particularly farm sheds.
Reintroduce buy-back for people with excess.
Electrify the rail system
Bring back goods trains with hubs
Electrify the delivery trucks
Offer grants for eCars 1/2
Post a image from a game you played as a teenager:
It was nice to see a rocket launch that’s owned by us instead of an asshole billionaire.
Generally speaking, if IBEC recommend a thing, you can be pretty sure it's bad for employees, and usually also conservative and reactionary. They are a genuinely awful organisation.
You just need to meet more historical cooks. There's always fire. :)
I have always understood the Ferengi as not-particularly-any-nation right-wingers, tbh. Capitalism uber alles, sexist to a fault, mostly cowardly when challenged, and prone to racism at the least excuse.
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My God, the situation in the Middle East is so bad that Tánaiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris is considering people working from home for a bit, maybe. I didn't think we'd see this in our lifetimes. He's actively considering inconveniencing the office block owner's lobby
Posting for truth but also for smug James Connolly
John Carter (of Mars). The only movie I've seen more times than Mall Rats and The Princess Bride, both of which were on permanent rotation in my college hangouts.
