Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change. Our politicians’ response? Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?! More emissions.

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

The depressing thing is all the FFFG politicians are on Twitter where no doubt all the assholes and bots are saying "Yeah fuck those woke communist plebs on bikes, kill them all, cars for everyone!" and so they think helmets and high viz is a great idea altogether lads we're on to a winner here!

The hi viz will work great when I'm hit by a motorist looking at their phone.

“It was a sign that young people growing up here could have bigger aspirations – that Southend was a town on the up.” This article highlights the entangled connections between higher ed, place, space and identity really well. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I will go back to my monthly sharing of this. Big change in my own online life since last month is that my employer @dublincityuni.bsky.social , has left X and is posting here more often. Hopefully this can be the start of greater engagement Do get in touch if you want to join go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG

Reducing - and enforcing - speed limits for ALL vehicles to 30km/hr in urban areas & cameras to detect cars breaking traffic lights would save scores of lives annually, but it might annoy some motorists so instead we get this performative BS from gov’t. www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

Thank you Sarah Moss - “Where the built environment separates human skin and bone from lorries, cars and buses, there is no need for our frantic striving to make fragile bodies hyper-visible” @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @irishcycle.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

As someone said the other day, one of the biggest problems with AI is not that you're expected to be more productive; it's that it triples the output of the biggest idiot you work with

Going to Trump’s Doonbeg? You should be ashamed of yourself www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

We have been using the cargo bike daily now for the whole family for almost 5 years. It is so quick to get around and reliable - a brilliant way to get around www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

“The nexus of middle management waffle & AI is a bullshit industrial complex.If there are currently too many bullshit documents in your workplace it’s nothing compared to what it will be like now that AI can be used to create them en masse” Freyne @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

To think that providing homeless accommodation is fast becoming one of Irelands big indigenous service industries Yet we've over 160k empty homes & over 20k derelict homes How have we left successive governments normalise this violence While generations suffer Sickening😡 #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Truly shameful that close to 6,000 children will spend another Christmas in emergency accommodation in Ireland Truly shameful homelessness has become a massive industry in Ireland F*ck the property hoarders & all those making money off this structural violence & vandalism #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Ancór, the choir I sing with, belting out the Chrimbo vibes with our new album. open.spotify.com/album/1slcJd... Choral Director: @ceciliamadden.bsky.social

“Up to 41,000 apartments with planning permission lying idle in system” 41,000 ready-to-go on site with full Planning Permission..a fact ignored by those looking to blame Planning system for the housing crisis. The deregulation agenda is strong, don’t be misled www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

“Rather than address the real root causes of political dissatisfaction in Ireland, it suits the Government to point to asylum seekers as the problem – something the far right is happy to capitalise on.” EXACTLY THIS. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

@kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9–12 April 2026, on the theme Ethnomusicology and the Present. Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov. bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...

If dereliction is vandalism then Dublin City Council are vandals & should be treated as such #DerelictIreland

It's mad to think how short this section is and how much parking will be left after the plan is done. The blue is the stretch where parking will be removed. The yellow is the available on street parking after the works

A 9-year-old homage to Picasso. “I’m an abstract person”, she says. I couldn’t be more pleased 😁

A 30km/h default urban speed limit will save lives. Dilution and delays will cost lives.

RTÉ News was given permission to enter Citywest Hotel to speak to some of the 1,200 residents in the wake of a series of protests outside the facility

We are 20 years singing! Come and join us for the celebration in December and for the launch of our Christmas album! ancorchoir.com for tix!

30% off my new book ‘Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music’ (Oxford University Press, 2025). Use code AUFLY30 on the OUP webpage. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

'With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes.'

Save the date: the 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday, 16 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge. The conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs & ECRs) working in music psychology and music education. Learn more: sempre.org.uk/conference/2...

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Phrases harvested from your chapters whizzed up and extruded into B+ essays for bored teenagers. Finally someone has worked out how to make money from academic publishing.

Will this be like #Blackwater fish kill where"an investigation"is held but no accountability for wanton destruction of nature? What is needed for an Irish government to implement Citizens’ Assembly recs & enshrine protection of nature in our constitution? #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Our time with the Dolly cargo bike has come to an end. I want to thank Pat @pfitzp.bsky.social (@limerickecargobike on X) for letting us trial the bike. The end result? We're all in. Moving the kids via cargo bike is a no brainer. 1/3

Check out this OA special issue on ‘Music Education Among Refugee and Migrant Youths’ ✍ Kenny, A. & Lukianchenko, O. (2025) ‘Ukrainian children making music in an Irish school: A temporary place to be?’ Music and Arts in Action, 9 (1), 46-65. www.musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/ma...

The really nauseating thing about the Ryder Cup is how seamlessly it will all happen www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The capital of Finland hasn't had a traffic death in a full year. Lower speed limits, plentiful speed cameras, 1,500+ km of bike lanes, infrastructure for pedestrians, and a new tram line. When you prioritize people and not vehicles, you can save lives while protecting the environment.

When politicians are landlords this is what happens over & over Tax breaks are a typical @finegael.bsky.social policy In this case great if you are a developer/landlord/hoarder Shit for everyone else #DerelictIreland

🎶 CDIME 2025! 30 Sept – 2 Oct at Mary Immaculate College & the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance - 17th International Conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education. Keynotes: Rhiannon Giddens & Nasim Niknafs. ✨ Explore the programme & register at mic.ul.ie/CDIME2025 #musiced #limerick

“The rise of GenAI underscores that we must fight for the university as a place of debate, of critique and of contestation. We should therefore protect and promote the independent thinking skills that enable such a debate now, and in the future”. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

📗New arrival! News of a book launch soon but for now I’m just very happy to see it in print. 📚’Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music’ (Kenny, 2025). ✍️published by Oxford University Press 🔎 The book explores how people seeking asylum create musical spaces. Order global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We pay 170 euro a week to “solve it” (see below re afterschool care). Always amazed by the amount of people who think I could collect my kids from school at 2pm AND hold down a full-time job 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Year after year after year and still no safety improvements or traffic reduction on the #SCR. (Scoil MD & MIC are not even back yet!) Shame on those councillors and local 'representatives' delaying and trying to block this. Who is representing the 2700 school children along here? #Limerick

📢 New OA Publication from the MUSPACE project: This article explores relational & collaborative practices in school & how they might foster agency & belonging. We implemented a soundscape project in 2 schools & gathered qualitative & arts-based data over 7 months. www.ijea.org/v26n26/index...

I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.

17 authors and 13 articles later...here is the Frontiers Special Issue on 'Forced Migration in Education: Challenges’. All open access www.frontiersin.org/research-top...