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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/03/2026

All of those things from 2006 still exist and work fine. There are lots of directories but here’s a good one ooh.directory there’s also a search engine focused on them, marginalia-search.com Enjoy!

ooh.directory

ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 2,402 blogs about every topic

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 25/02/2026

I would love to be there - maybe I should hop on the Eurostar.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 14/02/2026

Was he supporting immigration? As a lifelong immigrant, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any politician actually say “immigration is a good policy idea and we should do more of it”, the best I’ve hoped for is “immigration isn’t bad and a wall is stupid”

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 12/01/2026

I’m so sorry for what’s happening Scott, I’m here getting teary eyed in my kitchen in the Netherlands. Big ❤️ to you and everyone.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social

irishtimes.com

Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration

For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/10/2025

What does it do? Normalization and compression? Windowed or uniform across a file?

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 20/10/2025

You should care about the wellbeing of people outside of your immediate family, and make decisions and take actions accordingly.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 12/09/2025

This has been obvious to everyone who’s thought about it for more than 5 minutes since about 1825

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 12/09/2025

Nationalize Ryanair (for €1), leave him on a fancy island where he can live out his days and where we can never hear from him again.

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.zip · 22/06/2025

Can you imagine if Congress was alive to see this?

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 19/06/2025

Protesting won’t solve this, but it’s step one.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 19/06/2025

I get the instinct to “focus on the good things”, but that’s 2010s shit. If now is not the time to find your nearest protest, bring your friends and family, and build a movement, then all hope for the future is gone. Scroll cat videos on TikTok until you burn in a global thermonuclear war I guess.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 14/05/2025

A story in two parts. Gript is the propaganda wing of violent right wing politics. They exist to try and push politics rightwards and pull back hard-won rights. They target and try to redirect people's righteous anger at government policy onto migrants, asylum seekers, and LGBTQ people. #Gript

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Megan 🪡 @ohnomegan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

What sharing art on Bluesky feels like sometimes

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 02/05/2025

And this is exactly why I subscribe to your high tier in Patreon! :)

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 01/05/2025

And for good measure nationalize Tim McMahon (into jail)

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 18/04/2025

Is someone already backing up #LitCovid and the papers it points to or are we in serious trouble?

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 03/04/2025

They say the UK ONS "did perhaps the most thorough tracking of long-COVID rates through late 2022, the risk of long-term complications had been going down with reinfection" - it's self reported data from a survey, labelled "experimental statistics" and says "We advise caution when using the data."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 25/02/2025

Your work!! YWA, MP and IBBK. Usually people are talking about a specific culture war issue, and a lot of the time you have covered it somewhere or other. Then if they don’t pull a stupid boomer “I don’t like how their voice sounds and they swear too much”, they get hooked on your thorough analysis.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 03/02/2025

I get to bluesky by typing "bs" in my url bar and then hitting enter, this is appropriate

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yep. Living in Berlin I was constantly struck by the ability of Germans to acknowledge the horrors of the Holocaust and in the next breath declare genocidal racism against Muslims.

the conviction among Germans that “they had left the rabid racism of their forebears far behind them may have paradoxically allowed for the unabashed expression of different forms of racism”. This partly accounts for the extraordinary callousness, bordering on racial contempt, in Germany over the fate of Palestinians.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 27/01/2025

@coverville.com wanted to check with you before giving you an impossible cover request - have you ever come across music that mixes bluegrass and ska? There are some synergies there I think

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 20/01/2025

As opposed to seasons of (Star Trek) Discovery which were …not

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 15/01/2025

You might've missed that Europe is largely electing republican style far right parties these days, including the Netherlands, which has the additional problem of not having any available housing because the farmers have a monopoly on land and nitrogen emission budget.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 06/12/2024

The brain rot has set in on bluesky. Mastodon continues to be better!

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 06/12/2024

quicktms.li/recommentals... you did indeed - and I am listening to them right now :)

quicktms.li

Recommentals: October 30, 2024 | quicktms.li

The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 26/11/2024

Everything's gong to be a-ok!

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Ruairí Fahy @ruairifahy.pbp.ie · 23/11/2024

Today is the first day I can properly campaign—had to give 2 weeks notice for time off I got leeway to attend some events during the day but a short election campaign on the government's chosen dste excludes workers and benefits the status quo There's a reason the Dáil of full of landlords #GE24

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 22/11/2024

If you'd like to help out in this effort to make candidate data accessible, please let me know, I'd be very happy to get you set up with a task relevant to your skills and interests, or to hear your input. I believe DMs are open to the extent that they can be on BlueSky. #irishpolitics #ge24

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 22/11/2024

Today I'll play more with embeddings for features like - Fuzzy search candidate statements for topics of interest - Clustering statements to compare and identify groups - "Similar candidates" by statement I'm missing a lot of statements though - mostly from the far right parties and independents.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 22/11/2024

Progress report on the Candidate Viewer #ge24 irish-election-2024.vercel.app Yesterday I matched a lot of records that hadn't matched automatically, as well as made a page to clearly see which records still need matching. Mostly in a good state now. Also started playing with embeddings.

irish-election-2024.vercel.app

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

Yeah I think xitter is almost impossible, and most candidates aren't on bsky, threads, mastodon. Not sure on the state of mastodon, tiktok, & linkedin. Another one maybe too ambitious for now is to get mentions of candidates from news services (incl. local outlets).

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

#ge24 has anyone done a freedom of information request for the nomination forms received by returning officers that were rejected?

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

All the returning officer websites use Joomla, featuring unmaintained plugins from permanently closed businesses.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

This website is, honest to god, a critical piece of infrastructure in Irish democracy: irishro.com - it hosts the nomination form for the general election. When this is all over I'll have to go looking for who got the contract.

irishro.com

Home

Irish RO

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

Here's some existing unmatched records - I'd be happy to walk you through the database when you want to start. irish-election-2024.vercel.app/data_gaps

irish-election-2024.vercel.app

These are records that exist in the candidate table that are not matched to the returning officer data.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

That would be great, thanks. We'll see how things are then, but at the moment, the things that spring to mind are: - data matching - delving for more open data about the candidates - finding the candidates on social media and finding a way to collect posts

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

I need help! If you're a developer interested in #civics #civichacking and #irishpolitics, or just want experience with #nushell, #datasette, or #sqlite - please reply to me here, there's plenty to do.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

Next steps: - More data from the party websites - Candidate statements (and embeddings which is where the real fun begins) - Show candidates "neighbors" based on geodata If I get help I'd love to get data from social media, find more open datasets to join in, and anything else you can think of.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 21/11/2024

Work continues on my candidate information site for #ge24. Today I added - Candidate images - Data collected from the returning officers - That required manual mapping because of the sheer number of candidates who can't keep their name spelled consistently - Geocoded that data Check it out!

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 14/11/2024

BTW you can explore the data here: irish-election-2024.vercel.app/election-2024 and check out the code here: github.com/hughrawlinso...

irish-election-2024.vercel.app

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 14/11/2024

If any of that resonates with you, let me know! DMs are open, and I'm happy to talk through other media.

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Hugh @hughrawlinson.me · 14/11/2024

3) Work on the "platform" - if you care about civic hacking, and want to work on a datasette project here's an opportunity 4) If you know all this info is more easily accessible elsewhere, lmk!

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