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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I agree, but what really gives me the heebie-jeebies is that we, collectively, have created a culture that rewards people like that 😱

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15/10/2026

THANK YOU. Have been thinking this increasingly often for TOO MANY DAYS. :/

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I, a member of the public, do not wish to see my fellow members of the public who teach my children, heal me if I am sick, who administer the state and so on left worse off due to inflation each year.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I second this recommendation: even (maybe even especially) for movies you don't like, it explains a lot.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Kavanagh seems to have been the “Brainy Smurf” of mid-century Ireland in that every episode ends with him being thrown out of town.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just thinking about these two stories next to each other: 1. In Darndale Park, a football club and a parkrun have been displaced by horses, and some locals have been asking for stables. Nothing yet. 2. In D2, the council is spending €7.5m on a new tearoom in Merrion Square, an area short of cafes?

dublininquirer.com

What to do with the horses of Darndale?

Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.

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Some guy @internethuman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: I need to learn about this programming language for work. My brain: I see that... But have you considered learning about the bronze age collapse and Mycenaean palace complexes instead?

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

I dunno: I could see you wielding a surgical “Stop talking. Have you an actual question?” to devastating effect.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it time to post that paragraph from The Road To Wigan Pier? The one about how the desperate, pleasureless poor will always refuse to just spend their pennies on cabbage no matter how much you try and insist. This isn’t a thing you can make people do. It’s not how humans work.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A distinction between the UK version and #TraitorsIRL is that Claudia has irrepressible fun mum energy whereas Siobhán is playing the role with the playful malevolence of pagan trickster Goddess or literary incarnation of Satan.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

The line “by the balls of Leviticus, he was simply a gherkin importer” has never left me since I read it.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

The story that’s felt most prescient to me is Watchbird, from the 50s. We really haven’t changed much, have we? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579

gutenberg.org

Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

Watchbird by Robert Sheckley. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

My growing? Old. My trousers? Rolled.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

One for #speirgorm (and you won’t guess what the rest of the thread is about from this one post 🙂)

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apparently I wrote a comic about AI about fourteen years ago. Pretty accurate.

A comic about AI from 2012. The post beneath it read: "I have gazed out into the quantum threads of our mutual future and seen what it will bring: Artificially intelligent dating advisors. It’s an inevitability. Maybe they live on your phone! Maybe they live in a corpse. The future’s so bright!"

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

I had thought they couldn’t get worse, until I heard “I ran your self-eval through [LLM], and here’s what it told me” from the other side of the table.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 09/09/2026

Bosco’s Basilisk: Those who do not help to build the magic door will be forced through the magic door where they will experience an uafásach eternity.

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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bookmarks, 'watch later', favourites, open tabs – we're only loading extra work onto a future self who won't thank us for it.

theguyliner.substack.com

The truth about ‘save for later’

To all the tabs I’ve closed before.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At the Dublin City Council meeting last night not a *single* councillor was willing to defend this price hike. Not even the ones from the government parties. I am hopeful that this is a leading indicator for a U-turn from govt.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Looks like Ireland is closer to Beijing than Boston, never mind Berlin. (thread)

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

New citizens can vote, and my guess is at least part of this is that they're not voting FFG...

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

All relevant digits crossed 🤞

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

This bit seems to be glossed over: “It is the NTA’s intention to merge the ‘Short’ and TFI 90 fare in Dublin city to create a single flat 90-minute fare.”

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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

i see someone was taking notes during a criminal conspiracy.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So maintain fuel excise cuts to subsidise driving more, and raise public transport fares -- is that where we are at with transport policy atm

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

But have you gone the beetroot route yet?

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

I wish that "One of the biggest risks we face is that of sleep-walking into a police state, simply by mistaking the ability to monitor everyone for even minute legal infractions for the imperative to do so" hadn't held up as well as it has 😭

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

This talk is nearly 20 years old, but it's where I first saw that digital Dark Age concept.

antipope.org

Charlie's Diary: Shaping the future

Fill this in yourself.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

You've got to take them to the Fields, I guess.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

There were so many of those things, though: only experienced through Argos catalogues, and inevitably disappointing if you ever got your hands on them. Like Mr Frosty.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

I remember my roundabout section: a nice lady had right of way from the right, but she kept waving me to go ahead of her, and I had to grit my teeth while I waited for her to realise that no, I had to yield to her. Felt like forever, but couldn't have been more than 5 minutes. 10 tops 😛

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Bradbury’s “The Murderer” is pretty on-point when it describes a world where everyone is always contactable and always on. I think this reflection on Niven’s “Flash Crowd” is good too: behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/o...

behindthehedge.wordpress.com

On Larry Niven’s “Flash Crowd” and the internet mob.

I like to reread the science fiction I first read when I was a teenager. I find interesting the perspective a life lived in history gives to the artifacts of youth. Recently I reread Larry Niven&…

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

"But why _cherry_ tomatoes, Bond? That's what we need you to find out. Do try not to kill anyone."

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

It's probably not justified, but part of me thinks that the decision making process went something like "we can only have one show with kids and ghosts and detective agencies at a time", and at that point NG had a mainly positive reputation. Fast forward a year, and we had no shows.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m still not entirely over that cancellation 😞

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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if you want real art you have to support real artists

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

It's probably too much to say that mixing up sprints (a fixed unit of time within the scrum approach to software delivery) and crunch ("long hours in the weeks leading up to the release of a new feature") is deliberate, but it's definitely something.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

Nah, that’s the original greenwashing 😛

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

@amyhoy.bsky.social 👆🏼 might be relevant to your interests.

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Mike McHugh @jymian.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

“Zero Hour” didn’t end well either.

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.

westernpeople.ie

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

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