New student accommodation strategy includes a contentious proposition: 32k new campus beds effectively to be built by private sector, on campus land, with similar pricing and rent controls as off-campus purpose built student housing. The era of colleges building and owning res is over it seems

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I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, chicken, and vegetable. Someday, I hope I’ll be a bouillonaire.

WTF?

Dealing with a user who needs a new phone. Apparently they dropped their old one into the lawnmower 🤔

Coincidence, I think not.

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#WeekendSingles 😆

Hello #RaveyardShift! Something of a smaller playlist this week, probably because so many regulars were at @ono-ch1.bsky.social #ONO last night 😁 Some cracking tunes nonetheless, so enjoy! 🎶💃🪩🕺🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOaR...

Around 96 Trent/Damier relationship seemed to have split from Prescription, Damier went onto run Balance records, and produced one of the most gorgeous techno records ever, an utter masterpiece with Stacey Pullen #raveyardshift www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8im...

Also on Prescription #raveyardshift (I strongly recommend The Collected Sounds Of Prescription on Slip 'n Slide an excellent compilation that got me through many a night DJing!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ojY...

One of the label's founder's Ron Trent #raveyardshift www.youtube.com/watch?v=fei1...

Some lovely deepness on Prescription #raveyardshift www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80T...

another fave of mine on Prescription #raveyardshift www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wqa...

Evening all! Tonight's #raveyardshift will feature a selection from the seminal Chicago label Prescription Records, founded by 2 giants Ron Trent and Chez Damier - Blending a unique mix of techno, house and disco, 1st up this classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_H8...

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oh goody #motorhead live on Sky Arts

Look, I may have disagreed with Chuck Norris‘s politics, but that doesn’t mean I can’t also acknowledge he was an untalented actor who made shitty movies. RIP

Fair and not harsh

When ai slop meets #eurovision marketing geniuses

I'm certain that the biggest threat to humanity are the techbro billionaires. They have to be reigned in, though so many politicians are either a) afraid or b) in their pockets, that nothing will be done until it is too late

Have ordered some really nice hot sauces from www.micschilli.com have ordered this 900k Scoville scale one, will report on it if I survive

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Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop. Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything. It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

8 new Irish songs you should hear: 🇮🇪 Grian Chatten & Lankum, Sloucho, Sugaboo & Lil Skag, SYGH, Plus One, iNNUENDO, KiiKO, Pippa Molony, Rory Sweeney and a playlist for more. nialler9.com/new-irish-so...

In Ringsend, 176 new social homes sit empty due to funding paperwork delays. There are over 1,000 households on the council’s social housing lists for the area.

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Yesterday some ‘Christians’ of this county were having a hissy because the President called Patrick a migrant & by his first name instead of Saint. Today those ‘Christians’ are delighted a new bill will make family reunification more difficult for migrants here. Patrick would be horrified by them.

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Each stick acts as a leaf spring. By weaving them, they store elastic potential energy through the woven & bent tongue depressors. Once they are triggered potential energy converts into kinetic energy. #science #physics #nature #energy #cobraweave

Happy Saint Patrick's Day ☘️ Couple of Irish breakbeats to banish the snakes 🐍🥳 Van Morrison - Naked in the jungle '75 Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox '76 Thin Lizzy - Half Caste '75 Them - She put a hex on you '68

Heading into Dublin for the parade with the kids, for the annual freezing half to death while negotiating drunk tourists expedition ☘️ #StPatricksDay

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My wife pointed out Leonardo Dicaprio is starting to look more and more like Benny Hill and I can’t unsee it now #oscars

😂

Lads.. #speirgorm

#mothersday me, mum and grandmother, France Summer 1967

The Shamen at UCD, #onthisday in 1991. A while back, 909originals caught up with Francois Pittion to discuss this and other legendary UFO nights – check that out here: 909originals.com/2024/11/16/t... For more #flyers from #Dublin's clubbing history, check out www.analog-rhythms.com. 🙂

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Just the one, and it is epic, from me ( recovering from watching some epic rugby all day) a building acid monster epic from Dj Skull #raveyardshift youtu.be/8d7nItlNGCU?...

Best #6nations ever, epic games

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

In today’s @ftweekend.com I write about the wider significance of allegations against Rene Redzepi of @nomacph. He’d set himself up as the head of a movement which portrayed high end restaurants as a social good, instead of just places serving fancy food to rich people www.ft.com/content/f3dd...

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Some soothing music to help blank out the noise youtu.be/C7PtoAlOPZ0?...

Straight out of the Nazi playbook www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...