M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Is anyone here an Ireland rail expert?

Imagine building a hotel beside a late night bar that has been there for YEARS before you and not putting in some form of sound proofing in the rooms and INSTEAD taking legal action on the bar. FUCK OFF.

All the talk of infrastructure in Ireland last few months and impact of not having open address data seems never to have come up.

Real pity the Irish times doesn’t link to the public consultation for college Green - its here at engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec... Although of course links to bord pleanala twice.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Google must have finally incorporated AI into Google Maps. How do I know? It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport

The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Great work being done in nature based solutions in Dublin.

A lovely animation of how Paris has grown over the last 2,000 years. substack.com/profile/2972...

This day last year I was kicking off something - been a hell of a learning curve 12 months later.

Join us for an evening of films and stories about Cabra - its people, its nature, and the places we share. Resilient Cabra: Stories of People, Place, Nature and Water. Easy Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, D7. Thurs, 12 Feb, 6.30pm. Book now! www.eventbrite.ie/e/1981595810... #SpeirGorm Pls Share!

It gets worse! Just when you thought they had come up with the worst possible legislation they've gone and made it worse again. irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...

Rebuilding state capacity requires building the confidence of the civil service as well as investing in the dynamic capabilities needed to tackle grand challenges - not outsourcing to consultancies.

I've had to share this a few times recently, so I've written up our high level approach for thinking about buildings & land in Dublin, as well as two examples that highlight the challenges.

Everybody knew, nobody said’. #OTD in 1984, Ann Lovett lay down in the rain in the grotto behind St Mary's Church, Granard & gave birth to a full-term baby boy. She was found alive around 4pm by three schoolboys but died later that day. www.dib.ie/biography/lo... #DIBLives

"The cities that cope best are not necessarily those with the most impressive pilots. They are the ones that, project by project, crisis by crisis, have deliberately built up their capabilities to sense, learn, and act"

Rice's Pub on St. Stephen's Green and the Dandelion Market on South King Street were demolished in 1986 to make way for the St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. The Slazenger family had assembled the site over 15 years, beginning in 1966. #Dublin

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Kind of obvious this is on the horizon but no sense it’s a discussion in Ireland (as far as I can tell).

A Swedish city's one-year project is testing how various public services would function in the scenario of a digital blackout theconversation.com/europe-wants...

Like that this is DCC's first post on bluesky. Come join the crew (both digital & IT paths in this one job spec)

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

I wish the internet was more about people 3D printing whistling mortar bombs for their very happy dogs to chase than arseholes secretly filming unsuspecting people for grifting and humiliation but I guess that ship has sailed

Christ, what a week…

The insanity of UK public bodies threatening other UK public bodies with the apparent intention of limiting the reuse of UK address data. Meanwhile the rest of the world has long recognised that postal address data is critical digital public infrastructure in the 21st century.

Someone made a very clean job when they stole this illustration from our copy of Blaeu's Atlas Major, v.1 from 1662. That it's historical theft makes it no less galling!

Looking for examples of formats to bring a bunch of 5-10 people into a project for a few days of doing some exploration /designing/coding/mucking about but *not* a hackathon - more directed and people paid for their time. Any thoughts appreciated!

Here's a starter pack of various accounts related to Dublin City Council on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/4naJbid Any missing? Cc @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social

Came across this reminder of a very old name for the NEIC / ballybough / north strand / fairview - Críonán or Crinan. Part of the Mary’s Abbey lands before dissolution of the monasteries & establishment of the Gardiner estate.

Meklinburgh Street (aka Tyrone Street/ Waterford Street / Railway Street) came up in work this week. Lots of name changes over the years! arranqhenderson.com/2018/11/06/m...

Irish public services really need to get it shit together about dns. The desire for everything to be its own mini brand is going to lead to fraud. Seanadvoter.ie is asking me for a scan of my passport & pps no. How do I know this site is legit? We need public sites behind a .gov.ie address

Technical design *is* business process design *is* team design *is* service design *is* user centred design. If you insist that one is superior to another or that you don’t need to concern yourself with all aspects, you’re doing your organisation and your users a disservice. This course looks great!

Can you imagine being the software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA testers, and devops that built and run this? Cashing out your palantir equity for "deportation targets"? Accomplices and ghouls, all of them

Trying to find some information about ownership on north bank of the Liffey between 1539 & 1674 - specifically how/when Dublin city became the owner of the Amory Grant lands. I had some references but lost the links, and this is me noodling rather than directly work related so any help appreciated

Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…

Since y'all asked nicely, here's my complete history of Robin of Sherwood. One of the finest TV shows ever made. Hugely influential. Most modern cinematic/TV Robin Hood tropes trace back to it. As Herne would say: "Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." authory.com/JohnBull/Not...

I feel a great disturbance in the force, like a million Glenroe theme tunes playing at once.

Hows 2026 going... well I'm back to waking up at 5.30 after a dream about the old rates office building & dataverse / SQL / ArcGIS integrations so... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcome...

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Great thread with actual data - for all of those 'data driven decision makers' out there.

Now this would make a great film

ireland has had self-id for a decade and there has been no increase in violence against women and there has been no erosion of women's rights or safety it's a success story @theguardian.com: ireland has had self-id for a decade. here's why that's a danger to women, children, and your grandma

Did the big Christmas shop by 2 of us getting the luas into dunnes in ilac and luas home.

I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.

Dublin City Council's new #BikeBunker service arose from a €4,500 BETA Project. The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces. More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social Live for your bike, not with it.

Massive thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social for shout out to Digital archives in her latest column, to recent comments I made at launch of #ExploreYourArchive campaign with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social as our new ambassador, and for encouraging all to 1/2 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Lovely high-res digital version of John Rocque's 1756 map of Dublin city virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-Roc...

Make no mistake, this is fascist rhetoric from the Justice Minister. I would argue that 2/3 of adults under 34 stuck living in their family homes is far worse for "social cohesion", than the immigrants who come here seeking a better, safer life.