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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7h

In Ireland, you get your head bitten off for mentioning these very simple and irrefutable points. Time to grow up folks, there are hard decisions to be made.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7h

We *need* to decarbonise the electricity grid. This means fewer data centres.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7h

We *need* to decarbonise agriculture. This means less dairy farming.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7h

We *need* to decarbonise transport. This means less road building.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 7h

I was on the radio yesterday making the point that we shouldn’t just allow Dublin Airport to grow endlessly based on consumer demand without taking other factors into account. Media and government in this country are complicit in deflecting attention from inconvenient truths.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 9h

Hunter S Thompson never saw the likes of this.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 20h

💯 He called me out of the blue because I had made some noises about Wood Quay at a council meeting. You have to really care about Dublin to voluntarily wade through one of those 😀 A legend, he is missed.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 22h

I had a couple of long phone conversations with Frank McDonald earlier this year, discussing what to do about Wood Quay now that DCC have decided to abandon it. He was so passionate about Dublin’s built environment and generous with his time. RIP.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 16/10/2026

Still not half as good as the corkscrew jump in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974), done in a single take

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 23h

I think the problem is that *she* became the story. There’s only one person the story is allowed to be about.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 16/10/2026

🚨 Public sector strike for next Wednesday called off Preliminary talks to open negotiations on a full public sector pay deal will begin tomorrow - chaired by Kevin Foley, with Oonagh Buckley as employers rep and Owen Reidy as union rep Work to rule continues until further developments arise

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m too old and too badly coordinated for basketball myself, but I love seeing a game in the park. Thanks to DCC for showing the basketball court in Fairview Park some love!

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yesterday marked the biggest public sector strike since 2009. Our representatives were on the ground all over the country, visiting pickets and speaking to as many striking workers as possible. Here's what some of them had to say about why they're striking, and what they want from negotiations.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good paying jobs, yeah? Unionised? Pensionable?

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I did nearly 3 decades in tech and tech adjacent roles. Since about the mid 2010s the whole field changed. No more men with nail polish or women with lip piercings, just money bro after money bro.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We're not a gateway between Europe and the US, we're a back door the US is using to push their own agenda in Europe

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The amazing staff at St Mary’s and St Columba’s in Dublin 3 out on the picket. Up the workers!

4 people with placards saying “fair pay” outside a school

A selfie of a picket with placards saying “fair pay” outside a school

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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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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Taoiseach's arrogance towards public sector workers has been astonishing. Instead of taking responsibility for the lack of engagement with unions, he has just dismissed their frustration offhand. Unions have no choice but to strike. But govt can choose to put a credible pay deal on the table.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I will widen this out to "the difference between the active travel parents (awake, chatty) and the passive travel parents (stressed, surly) is stark" :) I was definitely a lot more chill-yet-chirpy in the mornings once we took being part of slow-moving traffic out of the mix.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And also, the stress relief I got from dodging an 8km drive at rush hour was not to be ignored!

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When my daughter was in 5th class we switched from driving to school to cycling (about 4km) with a group. Took her about 2 weeks to get into it but she would not go back. Being in the back of a car is boring, being on a bike having the chats with your pals is fun!

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Nevertheless, when a citizen paints a crosswalk or builds a bench, whether as a stopgap as an act of protest, it can also exert a sort of “productive tension” on a city, said Lydon, one that can compel a static government to act much more quickly than it would otherwise” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

vox.com

What if making your neighborhood safer means breaking the rules?

Neighborhood vigilantes are making their own crosswalks, bus stop benches, and DIY bike lanes. Not everyone’s happy about it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

democracy doesn't begin and end at the ballot box! the right to organise, protest and withdraw your labour is a key part of a healthy democracy too!!! big businesses spend millions lobbying to tip the scales of "democracy" in between elections, protest is ordinary people's way to push back!!!!!

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have they considered kidney machines replaced with rockets and guns? music.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj6...

music.youtube.com

Going Underground

YouTube video by The Jam - Topic

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 12/10/2026

Bit of positive news to start the week: the online voter registration system voter.ie is now live nationwide (having previously worked only for Dubliners) - now anyone in the State can register or update their details on the electoral register in a couple of minutes using only their PPS number.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Another preventable tragedy. I am calling on Minister Sean Canney to treat this epidemic of pedestrian deaths with the seriousness it deserves.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm so happy you're going to be OK Hazel!

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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As someone who was diagnosed this time last year with cancer in both breasts & subsequently had to go through surgery, radiation and now on a five year course of drug treatment, I cannot stress how important it is everyone to check their breasts. #breastcancerawareness #breastcancer #cancer #ireland

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There is nowhere in my house I can light anything off any more! I’m rubbing twigs together to make fire like a caveman thanks to the induction hob

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think the runaway train metaphor fits rogue AI better than the "sneaky but chaotic employee who wants to cause harm" metaphor.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI goes rogue in the same way that a locomotive with the brakes turned off goes rogue by gaining momentum, derailing and exploding. Nobody human ever told the machine to do that, but it did it anyway due to a lack of appropriate safety measures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C...

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Lac-Mégantic rail disaster - Wikipedia

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

€130mn is about 40 days worth of the fossil fuel subsidies government are currently giving to motorists. For a permanent reduction in emissions and permanent cost savings for Dubliners.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's surprising to me that so many in the Roads Policing Unit are resistant to doing their jobs, when I'm begging for the opportunity to give up hours of my time each week to uploading dashcam footage of pricks driving dangerously.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another person killed has been while riding a bike on the roads. Twelve so far this year. www.garda.ie/en/roads-pol...

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Roads Policing Statistics for Traffic Fatalities for 2026

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m a northsider Sam. It has been like this my entire life. The first time I saw Sandymount I was like 20 and I couldn’t believe it was the same city I lived in.

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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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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 09/10/2026

The council is taking another run at building Clontarf flood defences, launching a tender for a design team. The tender document for the design says the framework has a maximum estimated value of €7.5 million. It also gives a tentative construction estimate of €25 million.

dublininquirer.com

Council takes another run at building Clontarf flood defences, launching tender for design team

The tender document for the design says the framework has a maximum estimated value of €7.5 million. It also gives a tentative construction estimate of €25 million.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’d be willing to bet money that Dublin City Council will grant Lyft a monopoly license for the replacement Dublin Bikes scheme. I think this is a very bad idea for many reasons. I am calling on the council to learn some lessons from New York. #dublin #activetravel

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More specifically, it comes from men raising their social expectations of other men - things change VERY quickly when we call each other out and hold each other to account, pointing out what is problematic in "banter", unwanted attention, touching etc.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Pádraig Rice TD @padraigrice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With 70 votes for and 92 against - the SocDems Right to Housing Bill was defeated in the Dáil tonight. Another depressing Dáil vote. And another reminder why we need a different kind of government that puts people first. Well done to @roryhearne.bsky.social for his work on this important bill.

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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not one penny of funding for the Dublin City Taskforce in Government’s Budget 2027.

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