Like I get what he's saying but Ireland actually mostly exports high value luxury items like dairy and meat and ingredients like milk powder. We actually import most of what people actually eat

responding to the looming risk of a catastrophic disruption to global supply chains that could last for months if not years by shutting down the national road network to demand tax cuts is a more cutting indictment of the pettiness of Irish politics than I could ever write

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

TACO countdown is live.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

BELOW: How Chicago feels about kings.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

As Trump contemplates deploying ground troops in Iran, it's time to reinstate the Ancient Greek principle: that anyone declaring war is expected to lead their army into battle.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Pleased to share Convoy, a new course in #selfhosted infrastructure. Participants are fully supported in the build up of a sovereign email server in 8hours. Dozens of accounts can be given to family, friends & colleagues to help them off predatorial email providers. courses.nikau.io/convoy

one month ago two researchers used 2 days of processing on 100 CPU cores to calculate the lines of sight of every point on earth. Including refraction. www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Glenn Keating RIP, loads of my close friends are devastated and my heart goes out to his family. A nicer fella you couldn’t meet, and insanely talented with it. Dublin music community is reeling tbh

@timredfern.bsky.social has done some incredible work to bring AVS, #Nullsoft's legendary #Winamp visualizer, to #oFX #OpenFrameworks creative coding with the effect chains, real-time audio reactivity, and scripting engine intact, and better than ever. It even accepts the original presets!

Tonight we are entering Universal Ambient Time, where it is 9 PM Eternal. So join us at 9 PM on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social If you snooze, you win! Music from: @slowdancingsociety.bsky.social @alexleonard.bsky.social @k-lc.bsky.social @akprecordings.bsky.social @pitp.bsky.social

As the primary cover artist for Byte from 1975 to the late 1980s, Tinney became one of the first illustrators to give the abstract world of personal computing a coherent visual language.

Low lying cloud over South Connemara

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

Exactly this. Cyclists etc already suggest to each other that hiviz, lights, helmets are a good idea in places with bad bike infrastructure. But when agencies with the power to do far more effective things emphasise hiviz, it signals clearly that they don't want to do those more effective things.

WHO removing Us Flag

Not surprising that a minister in this lazy government thinks that the solution to a complex problem is to force cyclists to wear magic clothes so he doesn't have to contemplate all the other, far more effective, measures. @davewalker.bsky.social

I'm pretty sure jaffa cakes used to be bigger than this?

How long would you survive with no DNA? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3oL...

Article 4.4 GDPR: “‘profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person” Article 22 creates a general ban on profiling, and sets out specific exemptions and safeguards needed.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

New Gist: The Abuse Factory It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

If there was a child porn factory down the road, it’d be closed immediately. The Govt’s response wouldn’t be “hang on, they let us print flyers there too”.

Mass creation of sexualised images of children, as a paid-for feature is not quite enough for Simon Harris to decide to leave X.

LEGION OF ONE : OF DUB Front End Synthetics

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Here's a free mini album of fuzzed out noise and drone.Thanks to everyone who picked up a release this year. Yizzer all deadly 🤘🙏❤️ on.soundcloud.com/wUBTB1b2berC...

Hanging out in the set of severance

It costs 50 cent to spend a penny in Galway coach station! Talk about inflation...

Doomsday scenario

I regret not starting a 'Golden Age of Dogshit Tech' thread when bsky started, because I genuinely believe the next 20 years are going embody this video in various ways. (It's Russian but it could be from anywhere on earth where venture capital is found).

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Out today on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social !!! cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/textures

How's the ticker?

So anyone named Al will be thought be AI, e.g. Al Gore?

THIS WEDNESDAY

One of our most frequent #ruralPursuits #aras25 #rtept

“If Edward Woodward is being burnt in a huge wicker structure and is dying a slow and agonising death - how can you say you abhor human cruelty?” “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”

Haha, spectacular levels of Toryism from HH

Words fail me

THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN’ Comin’ soon…