Sure you could develop your housing policies using evidence, examine the pros and cons, the potential environmental, infrastructural and social impact of such a decision, or…

You could ram through legislation for the beds in sheds program just because a billionaire funded “think tank” asked you too

AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI’s Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rules

Feck the feck off now!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

EU foreign ministers reject proposal to suspend association agreement with Israel A part suspension was tabled by Ireland, Spain and Slovenia but did not receive enough backing from other member states

The EU is complicit in genocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

How teenage me learned about politics

Zero. Hope.

There is absolutely zero hope.

The commodification of housing. The absolute unparalleled theft of everything by AI wankers.Airbnb. Uber. Booking. Fucking Spotify. Musician getting absolutely screwed.

The death of the Internet. Antisocial media. The rise of stupidity. Love fucking Island. Influencers. Gig economy. The death of free speech and the death of debate. Pile ons.

The 90s seems like a long long time ago now. The last upward heave socially. It's been a steady slide since 911, GWB, guantanamo bay, waterboarding and illegal combatants.
Brexit ffs.

Climate, Israel, Genocide, Rise of the right wing, Trump, fucking Trump, Europe supporting genocide, the EU supporting genocide, FIFA supporting genocide, fucking Russia...

Ok. This AI shit and the latest robot demonstrations show us hurtling towards the singularity.
Government screwing us day after day. Garden sheds to end homelessness. Maybe the farmers can rent us out their idle tractors as homes
Trump waging a hidden war against Europe by choking our supply of oil.

<a href="https://grahamdunning.bandcamp.com/album/quern">Quern by Graham Dunning</a> Graham Dunning has been utilising stacks of turntables, electric motors, automatic contraptions, and found objects to create music since at least 2008. However, the time of the London-based musician’s concept of mechanical techno might only now be truly upon us. As recent articles and social media chatter suggest, the pixel-born members of Gen Z are increasingly looking to exit digital hellscapes, rediscovering physical interfaces and material artefacts in the hope of anchoring themselves in reality. Dunning’s stupendously imperfect dance cuts and analogue subversions of electronic music, which once fought so hard to be digitised, might show a way out. Opening Dunning’s new album _Quern_ , ‘Suboptimal Beats’ stumbles languidly, supported on each side by wobbly bass lines and reverb-laden clatter. The track could be classified under minimal techno, in the broadest sense. Idiosyncratic but not unfamiliar, it’s the sort of IDM-infected and borderline deconstructed thing you might find on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit label (see Noumen’s _Altum_ , for example). Yet, as the staggered rhythm stops and starts, stops and starts, the leading edge’s sharp cliff resembles more and more the capricious stutter of a skipping record player, while the occasional ping of a monosynth note begins to feel suspiciously unbalanced. Soon, these imperfections and sense of elasticity take over the cut. In place of bit-perfect precision, we find sounds rippling in time and space. The malleability and swaying polyrhythms in Dunning’s music evoke highly aestheticised experimental electronics such as those of Bruno Silva’s projects Serpente and Ondness. His use of record decks, meanwhile, often had him categorised alongside noise and free improv turntablists like Mariam Rezaei and Vic Shen. Dunning’s world-building methodology, however, arrives from a different direction altogether, veering closer to the approach of sound artist Simon Whetham, improviser Jean-Philippe Gross, and composer Jasna Veličković, who craft sonic worlds from the broken loops of electronic detritus, actuators, induction fields, and electromagnetic interference. But where his peers take their gadgets onto abstract excursions, Dunning digs out bangers from basement dancefloors, inspired by 90s techno, hiphop, and EBM. On ‘Chronic Data Poisoning’, he makes a detour into acid braindance. Here, chewed-up and spit-out 8-bit pulses engage in a tug of war with irregular rhythms. ‘Wandering Nerve’ embraces dub, shaping static and crackle into distinct lines, surrounded by a stomp of kicks and reverberating skanks. Meanwhile, the more delirious, high on life ravers ‘Tentacle Motion Study’ and ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ push aside any notions of machinic or cerebral limitations in Dunning’s expression – the album is built atop research conducted for his PhD – by revealing his warmer, even euphoric side, with wild hi-hats, synth pads, and sumptuous background textures growing into fuzzy house – like something off of Jamal Moss’s Hieroglyphic Being albums. Across the album, Dunning remains a trickster unburdened by particular styles or traditions. ‘Flatness’ is straight up four-to-the-floor techno, no bullshit. ‘Graveturner’ goes Global South, concocting a heady, Principe-esque hybrid of baile funk, kuduro and footwork: angular beats haunted by square waves, all of them staggering and bending in slow-mo. ‘Soil Robot’ drops into bass and garage, complete with a too cool for school attitude. Its menacing exterior is only eclipsed by the hard-hitting, mean polyrhythms of ‘Grabber Arm Part 1 (Hydraulic)’ and ‘Grabber Arm Part 2 (Legacy Hand)’. Meanwhile, ‘Discoid Rotary Quern’ closes the album with a repetitive bassline and distorted percussion that suggest an utterly deranged take on Mr Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’. Here, as elsewhere on the album, Dunning betrays his noise rock roots (check out Blood Moon). Mirroring the intensity found in the music of Ren Schofield’s Container and Jamie Roberts’s Blawan, this punk sensibility lends Dunning’s work a gritty, kinetic edge. Recordings of Dunning’s live sets can be found on YouTube, but past works reveal very little as to which contraptions were used to make the tracks on _Quern_. This cryptic character, in fact, makes home listening such a blast. Each spin reveals a new clue, even though the music really longs to be heard on a club’s floor.

Very kind review of my new album in The Quietus.
It's nice when someone has properly taken time to listen to something you've made. Interesting to me what bits he focused on and the comparisons he made to other artists.
thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/graham-d...

It's absolutely ripe for exploitation of the renter.
Government are a bunch of hacks.
Ban Airbnb. Ban short term rentals. Ban build to rent
Absolutely hate this country now. FFG are selling it from beneath our feet. A return to feudalism.

The shed housing plan is the ultimate example of the governing Irish political ideology that everything must be set up for someone to make money from it.
Here's a national crisis being converted into an opportunity for people who're unaffected by it to screw money out of those who are.
A new low.

A dark figure in the Munch room, in the old Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo

18 today it would seem, released by @renderg.host's Open Music and #Audiotong...

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OF TOWERS AND BRITTLE THINGS, by LEGION OF ONE 5 track album

LEGION OF ONE
Of Towers And Brittle Things e.p.
[Front End Synthetics]
@frontendsynthetics.bandcamp.com

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Torches and pitchforks

Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity By treating governance as contract administration, we are letting our sovereignty erode gradually through every decision we outsource, writes Paul Davis

Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Israeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials say Lebanon's government condemns as a "flagrant crime" the killing of the paramedics, one of whom featured in a BBC report.

Truly depraved 😞
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israelis war-weary but most oppose Iran ceasefire, poll suggests The vast majority did not believe Hezbollah or Iran had been severely weakened by weeks of Israeli and US attacks, according to the poll.

And this
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

I'm gonna repost this every day for a while.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

'Predator' leaders seeking new 'world order' - Amnesty The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new "predatory" world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said.

The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new "predatory" world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said

Dirt - Objekt Refuse Reject Abuse YouTube video by HisIroIsGone

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Or maybe Carrie

Memento

Yeah. Always felt a little off. Never quite sure why. Lovely looking place though.
Unfortunately consigned to the dustbin now.

I've got a goo for some 🤤

Anyone seen Sam Adams beer for sale in a Dublin 12 or close off license?

Up to four in a room in Dublin 2 house as landlord says it's a hard time 'to make money' A former Clare Street office now houses up to 22 people paying up to €890 for bed spaces.

Well I won't ever be going to The Sugar Club again.
Fuck that!
www.thejournal.ie/clare-street...