Country’s largest wastewater plant finally working as intended after €550m improvements www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Interesting poll by byline times for UK byelection. Good data on tactical voting etc. The UK press are obsessed with Reform considering they’re 3rd in a shoot out, (I accept it’s extremely tight) bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/e...

I thought this was great, not everyone who’s sceptical of AI is a Luddite, but it feels like every booster is a bit dim/ strange.

Tei Shi was great in dublin tonight. Really love bellobar as a venue too.

Great piece on Andrew and imagery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cliff Taylor: what does the court decision on Trump tariffs mean in practice?

It’s a well made point but the ‘everything’s gambling now’ vibe was stong this week. People blogging via/ with gambling

I didn’t think modern cameras could give you red eye

#BBCNews - Climber on trial for leaving girlfriend to die on Austria's highest mountain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another good album from Willow today. Kind of feel the family connection hindered more than helped her open.spotify.com/album/055CZX...

Very interesting interview with sean Scully on Brendan o Connor this morning. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I really liked this from earlier in the week on the Epstein files & UK politics. imo Epstein wasn’t interested in politics, they were useful people to know but if you’ve $100’s/m politics impacts a few rung beneath you podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I thought this was a brilliant piece by @cwarzel.bsky.social on nihilism and American political culture. We’re living in a Coen Bros farce without the lols www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This is beautiful, Tracey emin is the best. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“The crowdfunder asked for financial aid after medical costs had left the family "out of funds".” Dispiriting that death can bankrupt you

I thought this was interesting on vice-signalling. A lot of ideas in it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Quite the chart

I still think about this article, but reading Simone Weil on duties and rights brought it back to mind

I know nothing about finance/ ‘the market’. But it seems to me that you could be more logical than some people and make money. Now the overwhelming amount of people investing seem insane and to be logical today is a hindrance in making money.

I thought this was interesting. Years ago I worked in broadcast tv and there were engineers then who knew how everything worked, but, I think, there was a lack of interest by management to ever replace that knowledge/ power surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...

Section 230 turns 30 this week. The bedrock of the modern Internet. I made a podcast episode about the law a few years ago. There was talk of it being abolished then, there’s more talk of it being abolished now podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/w...

I watched a very long podcast www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

This is an excellent overview of some of what was in the latest Epstein files. I’ve been thinking all week of a historical comparison to these files - maybe the pentagon papers - but these files are so much more banality of evil, conversations move from finance to children to lols

“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.” #Bitcoin seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...

"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s." A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.

Unbelievable

Excellent column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com though the illustration is haunting me:

Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

This was in the middle of his two hour long, meandering, slurred press conference today.

Really loved this, absurd… there’s a moment in it where Harry Hill scribbles down and underlines a ruined castle recommendation and the comedy falls away and it’s just three men interested in castles. It’s great. youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0

European NATO members have $12.6tn of assets. Does this even matter? www.ft.com/content/beea...

GB News are calling on the UK PM to bring about closer ties to Europe

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Unhinged

More background on this - fortune.com/2026/01/18/e...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

This is harrowing - Harry McGee has done a series of brilliant interviews in recent weeks ‘There was blood everywhere’: Senator Pauline Tully on being brutally attacked by her husband in 2014 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

All key European leaders now said they won’t go along with this. So if the objective was coercion it has already failed. (This is not a US miscalculation- its a very Trumpian one).

I’m back reading Cliff Taylor on tariffs. Cliff Taylor: Why Ireland should be worried about Trump’s latest tariffs threat www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Don’t think I saw this when it came out, my brother had the book and the story felt everywhere, but highly recommend. vimeo.com/58907900

FTs Alphaville piece on prediction markets is great. - it’s a great newsletter, highly rec open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/p...

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

This is good on Marty Supreme in the NYRB www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪