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Ian Brunswick

@brunswick.bsky.social
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That's just like, your opinion, man. Science communication, environmental stuff in Dublin, Ireland

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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Citizens: Can we get a pedestrian crossing on this street? Council: It's in our 20-year plan. Can we include permeability in this local greenway proposal? Council: It may be the subject of future consultation. Why did you remove that pedestrian crossing with no notice? Council: Because we can.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 20/06/2026
RSA survey seeking “experiences of cycling in Ireland to inform road safety initiatives” Ireland's Road Safety Authority is looking for regular cyclists and those who have been involved in a collision as a cyclist in the last five years to fill out their National Cyclist Safety Survey....
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RSA survey seeking “experiences of cycling in Ireland to inform road safety initiatives”
Ireland's Road Safety Authority is looking for regular cyclists and those who have been involved in a collision as a cyclist in the last five years to fill out their National Cyclist Safety Survey. The survey is for people aged 17 and over, and is estimated to take 15 minutes to complete. Participants can be entered into a draw to win a €200 voucher.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
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Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”
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Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
When I moved to Dublin, I remember people saying “half the population is under 25”. It was a buzzing place of young people and blow-ins. It’s still good, but feels less like a good place to be one of those under-25s. Especially if we don’t address these issues. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Mark FitzGerald on housing crisis: Move Dublin Port and build 1,500 cost-rental apartments at RTÉ
Solving Dublin’s housing challenge will require difficult but unavoidable choices about public investment and land use
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026
the cost of these workshops every year is a tenth of what the OPW spends on providing free car parking for public sector staff across the country
article text reads:

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is spending more than €1.2m per year renting car parking spaces for public servants, with some of the spots costing up to €3,700 each annually.
The OPW directly leases 1,115 spaces across the country in addition to what is provided under all-inclusive rental deals with landlords for other state offices and buildings.

Most of the spaces rented and costs incurred were in Dublin, where 705 spots are paid for with an annual bill of €938,000.

The cost per space differed widely according to location, with the highest price for 28 spaces for the Houses of the Oireachtas in Dublin 2 costing €103,598 per annum, or the equivalent of €3,699 each.
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What influences how you think about climate change? How we think about climate change is strongly influenced by our social and political identity. Piece by Dr Ashling Bourke and Salam Jabbour of DCU Institute of Education for RTÉ Brainstorm. Read more: launch.dcu.ie/47Fegqu
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Also the “we hate doing traffic policing and phone it in/ lie about it” culture in the Guards - how was that not a massive scandal
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
tweet from neera tanden:

the truth about the washington post: bezos made decisions to curry favor with trump that made a lot of washington post readers distrust the newspaper. it then lost a lot of subscriptions, which lost money. and now he's doing layoff. he should sell the paper to someone who will make better decisions and avoid layoffs.elliiott kalan's spider-man panel. spidey says "YOU HAVE $250 BILLION AND YOU’RE DESTROYING THE WASHINGTON POST? BUT YOU COULD SELL THE PAPER TO SOMEONE WHO WILL MAKE BETTER DECISIONSAND AVOID LAYOFFS!" and sauron the dinosaur man says "BUT I DON’T WANT TO SELL THE PAPER TO SOMEONE WHO WILL MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND AVOID LAYOFFS.I WANT TO DESTROY THE WASHINGTON POST."
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 03/02/2026
Scramblers already illegal on public roads, Department confirms after misleading media coverage -- Charges to release a seized scrambler are to be increased.-- Extended ban to make any use of scramble in parks and car parks illegal. -- "It must be emphasised that using them on our roads is already…
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Scramblers already illegal on public roads, Department confirms after misleading media coverage
-- Charges to release a seized scrambler are to be increased.-- Extended ban to make any use of scramble in parks and car parks illegal. -- "It must be emphasised that using them on our roads is already illegal" -- Department of Transport. Scramblers -- a type of off-road motorcycle -- are already illegal to use on public roads, the Department of Transport has confirmed this afternoon after continued misleading media coverage about the devices.
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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A pedestrian can’t collide with a fucking truck. Collide implies they were equal participants in this horrible event.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/12/2025
are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
About the PhD

Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity.

This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as:

    What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation?
    How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena?
    What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail?
    How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies?
    Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation.

The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 15/12/2025
They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
long winded joke about kids in a santa movie thinking they were sent back in time to hang out with a jolly bearded gift giver but instead going to the council of nycea and listening to hours of debate with St Nicholas of Myra
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Can a country be a Failed State but only when it comes to commuting and traffic?
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Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
On today's Dodder walk we discovered a seal in the river. #SpeirGorm
Seal in river DodderSeal in river Seal in river
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Why can't the LDA still take it? I'm confused, it hasn't been sold yet? Surely it can be removed from sale?
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So we can say hamburger for foods that contain no ham, but can’t say veggie burger for things that are… *checks notes* made of vegetables.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If one of the lads from Kíla said that the election should be cancelled until there was a debate in Irish, there would not be an Irish Times article. There would not be a long line of photographers outside Leinster House.
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
yay more hotels www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Johnny Ronan consortium gets planning permission for 20-storey hotel at glass bottle site
The development got the green light after adjusting the design of the ‘landmark’ tower building
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else. Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's 30° in London and I hate this heat and I hate everyone who likes it. But dear God the amount of washing I'm getting out. Four loads already, lads. Washed and dried. The last one *bone dry* after 20mins on the line. My ancestors crying joyful tears in heaven. This must be what heroin feels like.
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In more news from the department of "why we can't have nice things": playground removed from plan because "they attract anti-social behaviour", permeability removed from plan because it would be a "runway for skulduggery". www.dublininquirer.com/council-drop...
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Council drops plan for new playground in Clonsilla
“There was a fear, I think amongst people, that if you provide additional playgrounds in the area that they act as magnets to anti-social behaviour.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I have a proposal
A drawing of the bronze statue of Molly Malone wheeling a cart with the title "Electrify Molly Malone: saps get zapped. They deserve it!"
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Art
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
good recap of where we are right now from @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Government has sent a clear message to the far right: arson and violence work www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Did you even say thank you?”
Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, sitting next to a half-dead-looking King Théoden of Rohan.
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Has anyone asked Maine if they want to become part of Greenland?
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Airborne excuse me what
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M Lonergan @mlonergan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Spotted the lad from Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ sitting in the architect’s drawing of Dublin City Council’s new Merrion Square café. They need to raise the shelf height stat cos his elbow is just hovering in mid-air there. #spéirgorm
Architect’s drawing of cafe spaceMan sitting at café counter Nighthawks painting by Edward HopperDetail of Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Two things that are simultaneously true: - Antisemitism is a real, and growing problem in Ireland, something which a distressing number of people are in complete denial about - Only either a total moron or a shameless charlatan would claim that Ireland is the "most antisemitic country in Europe"
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 07/12/2024
I love that my county motto can be translated into English as "Be excellent to each other" Last recorded words of Colmcille mac Fedelmid, b. 7 December 521, d. 9 June 597
Donegal coat of arms and the Latin county motto 'Mutuam habeatis caritatem'
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Whoa
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 05/06/2024
Cycle lane bollards removed and dumped in a garden ahead of fatal crash in Dublin irishcycle.com/2024/06/05/c...
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Cycle lane bollards removed and dumped in a garden ahead of fatal crash in Dublin -- IrishCycle.com
Cycle lane bollards were removed and dumped in a garden just months ahead of the fatal crash when 22-year-old Greta Price-Martin was killed after a truck hit her bicycle on April 24th 2024. Google …
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Has the AMOC shut down? Asking for all of Ireland.
Three day Weather forecast for Dublin with highs of 16 degrees Celsius and lows of 6 degrees.
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Job alert- @epaireland.bsky.social are hiring inspectors, a spatial analyst and general support roles. Most need degree and 3+ years experience, but some roles open to recent grads or those w/ experience but no degree. Deadlines 6 June. www.epa.ie/who-we-are/c...
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Not gonna lie, Spotify got my hopes up for this double act, only to dash them
Email from Spotify implying Christy Moore and Green Day are playing a concert together in Dublin
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
He looks delighted
An Irish Times article only showing the first part of the headline “I’m alone pretty much all the time.” The image shows a man who doesn’t look lonely instead he looks incredibly comfortable sitting on a couch that has no banana or crackers smashed into it, or any sign of toddlers smashing the beautiful vases on the shelf behind him.
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Yeah but were they cool skulls?
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Ok I will stop criticising AI art if it gives us Muppet Dune.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
SCIENCE GUYS. Thinking about how weird it is that the inner ear provides us with hearing AND regulates our sense of balance. Are there other organs of the body which perform two such disparate and entirely disconnected tasks, in the manner of one of those rural Irish pubs that's also a funeral home?
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Ian Brunswick @brunswick.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
One week left to join me on the comms team doing social media and more at @epaireland.bsky.social . Deadline 4pm weds Jan 17: www.epa.ie/publications... €54k, based in Dublin or Wexford, great team, unlimited* hovercraft access.
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The EPA is recruiting a Digital Communications Specialist to develop and manage its direct-to-public communications activities including the EPA’s social media presence. The role can be based in Dub...
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