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Every guy in a videogame:

I've just been robbed by a seagull in Stephen's Green. Classic sunny day in Dublin.

One of my bedrock beliefs is that capitalists *really* hate capitalism. They name their beloved institutes after the likes of Adam Smith, but they ignore everything Smith had to say about the necessity of competition to keep markets from turning into monopolies: pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/c... 1/

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

This is genuinely the most inspiring thing I've read this week

Tried to read an article about how tech turned evil, but the site wouldn't let me access it unless I disabled my adblocker

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

I can't believe this week we've nearly had a nuclear war and a papal schism and it's only Thursday

Just worth saying, for absolutely legal clarity: the government does not have the legal prerogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety. Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre. (1/2)

My love of video games with Avignon Papacy lore lying around has finally paid off

Today's news youtube.com/shorts/okbRD...

It feels like we're in January 2020. Something is happening but we haven't quite realised it yet.

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

What's the biggest sign you're getting older? Mine is that I got a new phone and now take 8 accidental screenshots per day.

I can't believe we all have to just keep on working and going about our day with headlines like this

Senator Alice Mary Higgins asked the CnaM Chairman why his organisation didn’t take action under the Irish Online Safety Code against Grok generating CSAM. Apparently, it didn’t appear to them to be a breach of the code. What , then, is it good for?

I don't think we need to worry about any software being worse than Teams

The most romantic thing you'll ever read in Playboy

I'm experimenting with installing a deGoogled android OS on an old phone and oh boy do phones not want you to do that

My Dart stop is closed this morning. I didn't find out from the Irish Rail app I have, but rather from a lady at the bus stop whose friend had sent her a screenshot of an X post

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

It’s time to put away childish things. The Tik Tok Tanaiste is no more. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Substack Simon.

This is mad. This is approaching the mad levels of Charles the Mad, who thought he was made of glass www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

Having your Dart be so late it skips all the stations and goes straight to Connolly is like getting a Chance card in Monopoly

Lot of childhood memories of getting weird stuff in the post from the Irish government (Millennium Candles, iodine tablets) so this is very relatable

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I don't know what age bracket this birthday has put me in but I just got a podcast ad about giving my loved ones power of attorney

Adulthood has been a series of discoveries that an appliance has a filter I'm supposed to be cleaning

Have we considered letting the presidency go fallow, to replenish the political soil #Áras2025

Going through a two candidate election for the first time has made me understand how US and UK politics got the way it is. We need a dozen randos on a two foot ballot paper to stay normal #Áras2025

Something tells me a man wrote this headline

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage. This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories. The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

Spare a thought for poor @gavreilly.com, sadly putting his smarties back in the box #Aras25

Looks like I'll have to go for the old Students Union classic and write in a vote for RON #aras2025

Can we do an Éirevision Song Contest instead with an act from each county? I vote @pantibliss.bsky.social to host

This has surprised me as much as hearing tonight that Tennessee Williams only died in 1983, meaning he was alive at the same time as Serena and Venus, the other tennisy Williams

This is excellent, and a perfect overlap of my love of political communication and period dramas

It's very hard to take anything on the Path to Power podcast seriously when Matt Cooper repeatedly describes CMAT as a rapper

Ah the dreaded pol comms question, is this in any way measurable

I'm trying out Hardcore Mode on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which removes the map, has no fast travel, makes you too awkward to ask for directions, increases your tiredness and gives you a bad back. It's a real insight into how unplayable life in your 30s is

When will they make smart glasses with the features I really need - a mini map and dialogue options

Good Luck Babe! but it’s sung by a hundred boys in bars

I'm currently playing a videogame where the main character is the oldest man alive. He's 32 years old. I mean, there are narrative reasons for this, but it's not great for morale

With the AI-led deterioration of online services, has anyone else found themselves reverting to early 2000s internet habits? I've gone back to bookmarking reliable websites and visiting directly rather than wading through increasingly useless search results

Now this is the sort of thing the internet is for

The EU is tariffing oranges and chainsaws, seems like a direct dig at Trump and Musk www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

i know the 'Irish stock market' is a real thing but it sounds vaguely racist to me. like it's what the Americans call a board behind the bar with all the drink prices on it