Happy Bloomsday everybody

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

Correct

My radio show on @eistradio.bsky.social is back this Sunday with an earlier time of 11am with a guest mix from Chicago native Erik Kramer. His album from 2023 is one of my favourites of recent years and the mix is gorgeous mix of ambient/folk and outsider music

World Cup Game Number 1 . Avoided it .

Since the war in Ukraine began Ireland’s exports to Russia have soared. Exports from Ireland cannot be allowed to support Russia’s war machine. The facts are staring this Government in the face. They must take action.

Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.

My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.

Again, to be clear, the “Online safety for children” policy Ireland is advancing is just the Meta proposal to evade regulation and increase surveillance.

I will just note that Dublin's Congolese community were able to protest about the horrible killing of Yves Sakila without so much as breaking a window.

Newsrooms here and in the UK need to learn the difference between civil protests and racist pogroms; today if possible

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

FYI, Daragh & I (i.e. Heat Werk) will be spinning warm up tunes for Royce & Gabb’s party at the roof garden in Bad Bobs on July 4th Royce is a good man for always ensuring the vinyl set up is tight, so I’m very much looking fwd to that

EXACTLY. 👍

This slayed at Open Ear this year on Sherkin.

"This is a moment for respect, safety and recognition. Trans rights are human rights.” 🏳️‍⚧️ 👉 buff.ly/1JVcGfK #GCNnews

An Irish insurer that covered a ship carrying 440 tonnes of munitions to Israel – which Amnesty International said could contribute to genocide – had the “honour” of having Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy attend the opening of its new Dublin office. www.ontheditch.com/israeli-weap...

Mick Lynch on why the government and the FAI must ensure that the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel are not be played. The Palestinian picket line must not be crossed. #StopTheGame FAI must take a stand and refuse to participate in Israel game www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

Here’s another one of my chillout playlist thingies on the off chance anyone’s into it. This one’s rather long (3hrs) and goes from pure drone up more beat-driven gears at the end - www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita... There’s even a Laurie Anderson song in there, can you spot it? …tracklist to follow

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

Short, unpaywalled, must-read editorial from Irish Times debunking job figures from data centres claimed by Simon Harris last week, and pointing out that they are increasing domestic electricity bills AND carbon emissions.

"why do Irish people only care about Israel and not other bad counties?" Well, as the people posing this whataboutery always point out, Ireland is part of the Western system, and the West is currently backing Israel to the hilt. We're morally obligated to try and stop this.

Strong letter in today's Irish Times, how many more reports of apartheid Israel's crimes against Palestinians are needed before they face consequences? #SanctionsNow "Will the “international community”, including the EU, actually do something about this? Or will it look the other way?"

I‘m getting pretty annoyed at Gov treating AI like it’s a force of nature; It’s a set of proprietary products battling for market monopoly So why is our Gov shilling for it? Adopting takes trust; trust takes knowing someone has our back; ”AIReady” isn’t that www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Israel forced the entire population of Tyre to flee. Here's some history about the ancient Lebanese city that’s being blown to bits: • One of the world’s oldest cities • UNESCO site with Roman ruins • Early Christian center; mentioned in Bible • Once wealthy for trade, textiles & royal purple dye

RTÉ's Today with David McCullagh did a piece on our protest calling on the FAI to boycott the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel, (presenter got our name wrong twice). And after us had THREE contributors who want the match to go ahead. #StopTheGame www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.

On the tube

Someone had told me Ray McAdam was going around saying "sure what's the point in having a 4th opposition TD in the constituency" as his pitch for getting elected, and I didn't fully believe them. 2 days out from the vote and his pitch is "vote for me cause my friends are in Government"

La Repubblica 🇮🇹 The Irish Times 🇮🇪

A fallacy known as a false dilemma (or false dichotomy), because it - Argumentum ad Passionem: It often relies on fear-mongering by painting the opposition as a catastrophic choice. - Tu Quoque: It shifts blame and focus away from the speaker's own shortcomings by pointing fingers at opponents.

Just like everyone predicted. If only we had newspapers who weren't up the FFG arsehole.

Rents in Ireland surged by highest level on record after new control system started

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

Archive bit. Some eclectic selections at the start before heading into straight-up house territory, then a lovely guest mixup by Gabb - www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita... We had a fine time hanging out in to the ddr studio and made a plan to put on a rooftop party later in June (watch this space)

I just saw some water flowing underground. That was a once in a lifetime experience.

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

Ireland has *immeasurably* benefited from immigration. Despite its problems (none of which were caused by immigrants) it is a vastly more interesting, vibrant - and *fun* - place than it was in the grey dreary miserable 80s thanks to immigrants. And anyone who walks through Dublin city centre and...

if you specifically say "people from the congo" shouldn't be allowed into ireland than roger casement's ghost gets to make your life a living hell. think that's in the bylaws

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163 great civil society organisations have endorsed our National March for Palestine on Saturday 16th May. Join us to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba and to demand our government ends our complicity in apartheid Israel’s genocidal crimes. #Nakba78

My home town football club is more alive to the anti-social essence of X than the general run of Irish & European public bodies. And leaves. Be like Cork City FC.

We need to let go of this fairytale idea that everyone is "decent" by default. We've seen time and again that while most of us are decent, there's a predictable cohort that are chauvanistic, unkind, nationalistic, and/or theocrats. C.U.N.T.s for short. #spéirgorm

an Odyssey reboot but it's a live-action Ulysses 31 starring Matt Berry

Of the five sitting Kerry TDs, four had fathers who were also politicians, and three have children who are now also politicians, and maybe that's not the best way to do democracy

I’m back playing some jams within my excessively broad definition of house music on ddr. tonight at 8. People have told me I’m wrong, but it’s all house to me. Anyway, whatever you wanna call it, it’ll be party jams all the way for sure - listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

Harris says a lot things. Harris says this, Harris says that Kids are still on waiting lists who need spinal surgeries, Harris promised in this would end in [checks notes…] 2017 For someone’s who been Taoiseach and Tánaiste for much of that time he has precisely zero chops, he’s a spoofer