Exploring new depths to the word Misnomer, the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued a loathsome set of rules targeting trans people. In response, a reminder that in doing so the U.K. breaches EU data protection law & its own adequacy decision. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

The explanation given for removing data protection content is a new one.

This company that has built an apparently unworkable system for Irish Rail, reportedly headed to the bin at the cost of €50 million, is the same company the NTA has hired to bring contactless payments to Dublin's bus system. www.dublininquirer.com/the-nta-has-...

Healthcheck - our GDP is inflated. Big firms house their IP here, so manufacturing anywhere pays money into those cos in Ireland. www.cso.ie/en/interacti... We still should be paying more tax tho.

Tax to GNI* ratio for Ireland is in the region between Iceland and Netherlands (36—38%). Ireland has a notably progressive income tax/social transfers regime, required to adjust one of the widest pre-tax income inequality rates in the OECD to an EU norm.

This has slightly different figures www.socialjustice.ie/article/irel... Looks like, if you use percentage of GNP for ireland, we tax more than US, but less than all but two EU countries.

Happy to be in a place that taxes the shit out of me to deliver bona fide public services 💪

Starmer has clear downsides but it doesn’t seem to strike UK residents what effect endless months of reporting that he is terrible and in crisis has had. The UK media and electorate is hooked on political psychodrama since Brexit.

The FT has a sensible article pointing out that none of the AI industry’s sums add up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The impossible maths of the AI boom

villainizing the ultra-wealthy is like pickling a pickle; you don't need to do that, it's already been done for you

Interesting chart. Check out where Ireland appears. To save time looking for us, just start at the bottom and go up.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

In 2010, a blog like Stuff White People Like or a twitter account like shitmydadsays could land their creator a book deal or a TV show. In 2026, social media creators are writing and directing short films and playing every role - to this standard - and there's another one right after in the feed.

Do not leave one brick atop another.

Detail My mother - 2026

Almost exactly 93 years ago…

I see.

I mean, my argument is the same as the Minister’s here. We both say that dramatic, unprecedented rent rises show the Government’s plan is working. www.thejournal.ie/minister-jam...

If you ever see anyone arguing for more crackdowns on social welfare fraud, remind them that there is none to speak of and that, far from saving money, the last time they opened a tipline for SW fraud it *cost* the state approx €471,320 in wasted investigations.

The best part is the first time it trips up and then tries to Style It Out.

When rents are rising faster than they have in decades, and there are record numbers of evictions and people in homelessness, and the govt response is "the plan is working", I say we take them at their word

Multiple members raising similar concern about Sean Rocks, who was on a producer salary with a small presenter allowance (unpensionable) on top. His pension being calculated on only a fraction of his job has caused hardship to his widow; Alan Kelly says she’ll have to leave her house in two months

New Gist: A Denial Of Service Attack "The state is happy to assert it can achieve incredible and unprecedented feats of change, later, while always arguing that it can't so much as buy a new pair of shoes right now." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-d...

New Gist: A Denial of Service Attack Features a Jim O'Callaghan special section, headed "Speak loudly and hit yourself with a stick" www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-d...

Must read by @tupped on how the far right has received an outsized influence on public discourse even though vast majority do not support far right views. Have our politicians & journalists been captured by foreign interference campaigns? www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

Day 3 of wearing a white shirt, stepping outside and immediately having someone throw Bolognese sauce at me (I'm running out of white shirts)

Just saw what the web looks like outside the PiHole adblocker.

When I moved to Dublin in '06 at the height of the Celtic tiger you could rent a very basic 1 bed studio in Rathmines for about €650 a month. Adjusted for inflation that's €910. You're lucky to get a similar spot for under 2k now!

A thread of short essays going back to 2021 reflecting on the gap between Ireland’s stated housing policy ( “we must do something about housing”) and its actual one. (“We must make the price of housing always go up”) Prompted by news that rents are now 81% higher than 10 years ago.

Save this and check back in 2 years.

New research led by Trinity College Dublin’s AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law and people’s lives.

“40 per cent above pre-Covid levels, 75 per cent above their Celtic Tiger peak and 81 per cent higher than 10 years ago” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

This is like trying to do a deal with a plate of spilled gravy.

These pre-by-election days are my window - the 2 day period every 3 to 4 years when people semi-focus on election spend - to push my hobby house of usable transparency data for democratic accountability so WATCH ME RIDE THAT HOBBY HORSE also here @thejournal.ie this morning bsky.app/profile/thej...

Rents in Ireland surged by highest level on record after new control system started

Hearing there was a large crowd at the meeting about the coffee-delivering flying cameras. Much anger was expressed about the drones.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Drat, it's paywalled, now I'll never know how to lie on the floor

I see the brave knights of Sir Loot-A-Lot have slayed another of his most hated dragons.

Harry’s latest projections: irishelectionprojections.com/2026/05/19/d...

Interested in Ireland remaining a democracy - if so then read this as by their unrepresentative actions, our government appears to no longer act as if we are as described below: www.antaisce.org/news/the-end...? But this is not the only example - next up is the #TripleLock and Irish #Neutrality.

Note how Wes Streeting is apparently universally loathed by even whatever Labour Party membership remains, despite months of the press bigging him up as Labour’s self-evident heir apparent, prompting questions re: on what basis such claims were repeatedly staked, and for whom it was all for.

well done

I HAVE THE POWER to tell you that #MastersOfTheUniverse is what happens when you watch the cartoon, grab your action figures, & make your own adventure. An absolute blast, laugh out loud funny, and a Fisto-powered punch of heart. I loved it. Everything you could want.

From the UK one I did not so long ago.

#Mozilla warns UK: Breaking #VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess - www.theregister.com/security/202... "Firefox maker says the tools are basic security infrastructure, not teenage contraband"

I'm especially enjoying the beanie and the undertable fire.

#KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own - www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05... "Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows"