dw the "meme" comment was addressed to someone else whose post is no longer visible!

Worse still, you know there's plenty of unethical fuckers calculating how many students they can cram into a 20m2 shed while still charging 1k a month

It is not merely a case of poor policy; it is actively insulting, doubly so coming from the very politicians who got us here in the first place, and a billionaire-backed think tank

Btw I think the reason we are all so mad at the beds in sheds stuff is not just because it's a bad thing per se (though it certainly is), but because it is a symptom of decades of catastrophically failed policy that is now being presented as a solution

I mean TBF if they're using AI to maintain these lists of ai haters for them to block, at least they are consistent

Why is it that diasporas near-universally end up with the worst spokespeople

Real "not even one of the better known clowns" vibes

I appear to be on multiple anti-AI blocklists and I would like to say thank you to the clankers for taking proactive steps to ensure I never need to hear their horseshit again

Mayor Mamdani Unveils New Tools and Financing to Help Homeowners Add Ancillary Dwelling Units

1. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... - note primacy of "backyard" in all imagery and language of the announcement

2. I fear you are doing the meme

Ancillary Dwelling Units is the jargon term you'll want to look up; I'm fairly sure that is where the progress ireland boyos cribbed the idea from in the first place tbh

also just incredibly funny to me that the guy they said was a scary communist is literally doing fine gael housing policy, my goodness

zorhan mamdani: i am in favour of tenants living in sheds in people's back gardens AWWW, YOU'RE SWEET <3 simon harris: i am in favour of tenants living in sheds in people's back gardens HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!

look the policy sucks ass regardless of who and where it is being implemented but you have to admit its kind of funny seeing the different responses based on how well liked the messenger is

See that ancient label design of the Cork Dry gin? You're not gonna believe this but...

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse — because viral hatred is highly profitable

Really need to remember to share a link to the piece

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

Seriously, read the article, it gets so much worse than the headline. The people involved are genuinely the scum of the earth, I do not understand how people can be so broken by greed that they act like this, but they are everything wrong with this country

Me normally: one very frustrating thing about being on the left is that a huge chunk of the movement is obsessed with defending the abusive, repressive monster that was the Soviet Union

Me after reading this article: gulag gulag GULAG FOR THIS FUCKER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

Aye we really are atrocious for it. I just dont think anyone cares enough to fix it given the size of the task atp, and its all at odds - one part of DCC commissioning murals to make the utility boxes look less bad, while another blocks half the pavement on Nassau St with digital advertising boards

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

Yeah I agree that some folks will see opportunity for self-advancement there that didn't exist before, that much has changed

Not sure they're in reality much more of a party than they were - still an mess of incoherent grievances - but you're right insofar as that matters less than the perception

Only if they ran for them - I don't think either did from what I can find but may have missed something

Apologies, not quite accurate, thought it was a plurality but forgot about the MEP and had one guy mixed up with another. Of 28 currently serving II reps it's:

- 11 ex-party (7 ex-FF)
- 6 previously ran as Inds
- 11 first-time II candidates

But point remains about their strategy being consistent

Not sure Independent Ireland actively recruiting disgruntled councillors from other parties is a particularly new development - been their strategy since day one. I think most of their elected cohort previously ran for other parties!

Probably lethal I imagine

The half-strength Strong Zero sold here as "-196" is really nice but has got me wondering how the full whack stuff is

We very famously copy every terrible idea the UK government has, but for some reason not this one?!

Give the chief executive one go of it themselves and they'll immediately implement it once they experience how fun it is

You parked your car on the footpath or in the cycle lane? No. You parked your *cube*

Give the council a mobile car crushing unit. I am not joking.

That's so smooth!

One thing I love about playing old games - particularly handheld ones - is how beautiful and expressive sprite art can be. Some of the best looking games ever imo are on GBA and DS