Selling a house in the ~most expensive~ part of Ireland won’t get you the price of a new apartment So much for govt plans to build tens of thousands of small expensive apartments, with the notion that current homeowners will sell & “free up family homes” for young people www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

I’m supporting Connolly, but I know some on the left feel they can’t and I respect that view even if I don’t share it. They are also “unrepresented” in the election but I have seen precisely ZERO of them claim the process itself is undemocratic. Only the far right feel entitled to a candidate.

no one hates Dublin more than the people who run it example number 17493728283729

Putting together a talk to give to some students next week, which means that obviously I am just thinking about ridiculous pictures to put in my slides. I'm sure the actual content will come to me...

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

In fairness to Maria Steen it's a tough tightrope to walk to find nominees who hate women enough to support the Iona Institute but not so much that they wouldn't nominate one.

A quick tally of who was responsible for killing each failed Irish presidential campaign: Nick Delehanty ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Joanna Donnelly ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Conor McGregor ❌ Nikita Hand Peter Casey ❌ too much Jameson Gareth Sheridan ❌ his own hubris Maria Steen ❌ Gerard Craughwell Bertie Ahern ❌ CMAT

1. Fuck these guys. 2. "people of Ireland who feel ignored" - you're not talking about sexual assault victims, children on waiting lists for disability services, emigrants and renters. You're talking about Fergal! Fergal is cross because he saw an ad for broadband on TV with a mixed race couple.

The reason I'm concerned about Maria Steen being on the ballot isn't that she will win (she won't). My worry is that if she is nominated, it will mean a month of national airtime for a hate campaign against vulnerable groups, carried by a media too scared of being sued to call it what it is

FFS. I suppose I shouldn't have expected much better from "the voice of the city centre business community". Stick to hanging up the Christmas lights, lads.

At least it's sunnier this week...🥶

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

"You couldn't make The Birth of a Nation nowadays," laments D. W. Griffith, "because it's three hours long, very racist, and I am dead."

Robert Troy. Name sounds familiar. Wasn't he the guy who...

What is it about products containing OATS that makes copywriters generate the maddest stuff to go on the side of the packets

It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow colours, but it now turns out that at least a dozen more mammals have iridescent fur too

Random people, if you are going to reply to my posts here with a really old Twitter profile pic of mine I WILL BLOCK YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE WEIRD AND CREEPY.

Ah this is so sad. Very happy memories of dancing to Optimo (including once when extremely pregnant), he had such amazing enthusiasm for music.

Great Replacement Theory stickers on my local lampposts I THINK NOT.

"what does it do?" "Whatever it does, it's doing it now."

We spent a happy drive back from Donegal during the local elections one year rating each candidate on the basis of what sort of potatoes he/she would eat in a carvery situation. Bonus marks for "all of them".

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

Delightedly realising on hearing it on the radio that I can still remember all the words to Don't Let's Start by TMBG.

Lovely mural up on the North Strand today. There's a few people about the place who like to think it belongs to them and them alone, but it belongs to us all. Thanks to @dwmalone.bsky.social for the pic!

All is terrible etc but I did buy a dress, thought "that reminds me of something", and unearthed a twenty year old necklace that matches it perfectly.

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

*I Blame Science Fiction Dystopias

Watching Gaza City high rises be levelled this week while thinking of this line that I overheard an Israeli tour guide say in late July:

“There’s some raw work pulled at the font, Jeeves”

There’s so much going on here I feel it’s destined to be a classic @erinbiba.bsky.social

Morning everyone.

Just heard a track come up on a suggested playlist, was thinking "oh nice, I know that", then realized I knew it from a spin class largely attended by middle-aged mas (me) and MAMILs, if anyone is wondering how young and hip I am.

All our right wing have a severe case of Yank Brain. He'll probably start talking his Fifth Amendment rights.

I just saw a protein advent calendar.

This is absolutely delightful.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

RIP, Robert Redford.

Chaos! at the Laois County Council meeting

Me a month ago: "Can't believe I'll have to go back to indoor swim training at the end of September, how I will miss the open sky, the invigorating cold water, etc. etc." Me today looking at the weather forecast: JESUS CHRIST

My two cents: McGregor was facing complete and utter humiliation at the DCC tonight. Not only was he not going to get nominated, he was barely going to get a vote, meaning his whole "DIS IS WHAT DA PEEPLE WANT!!" schtick was about to crumble. So he did what he always does - he tapped.

Thank you @thisisgalway.bsky.social for writing about The Outside Voice - Culture Night, Nuns Island Theatre 🙏

I still remember finally managing to get the microfiche reader in the National Library in focus only to find myself reading an ad for some kind of girdle with the arresting headline "FREE TO THE RUPTURED".

One of the more infuriating bits of #derelictireland that I pass on the regular. It has been empty and falling into ruin for DECADES.

RIP Bobby Hart “We had created the perfect recipe for inspiration and started singing about just what we were doing: ‘Walkin’ down the street.’”

Astounding conspiracy theory here

If you can't handle me at my worst (eating a microwaved lasagne wearing just my pants) you don't deserve me at my best (same but with a hat on)

Strong argument that government housing policy will lead to less room for kids in new homes, and fewer childcare spaces.