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Savage visuals and a brilliant set. First time in that venue too. Sheffield is blessed!

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17h

Down observing the AI Counter Summit today for something I’m working on. It’s been organised by the CWU as a response to the Government’s AI Summit next week - which is predominantly based around speakers from corporations, with just one union rep on any of the panels.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Another example of Martin turning legitimate, public action into a 'threat to democracy'. "There doesn't need to be a picket, and I'm saying to all concerned, parliamentary democracy matters, and we shouldn't be just lightly chipping away at it." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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'Dial it down', says Taoiseach over public sector strike

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has reiterated his opinion that upcoming public service strike action is unnecessary.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More headmasterly attacks on public sector workers from Micheál Martin on Newstalk today. As if workers are choosing to strike on a whim, rather than after years of eroding living standards and being taken for granted. Workers don't need another lecture. They need a better deal. #IrelandOnStrike

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"We're There Looking After Everyone Else” | Fórsa Member Fiona on the Value of Public Servants

YouTube video by Fórsa

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was thinking this morning the only positive thing about a live televised execution by a firing squad of soldiers is that they’ve yet to move onto using kids selected by a “voluntary” lotto to carry out the deed.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A year ago, school secretaries & caretakers took to the pickets. Yesterday, they voted for a deal. It's not perfect, but it's their victory. As we face more historic public sector strikes next week, let's take inspiration from them. Workers who fight together can win. #IrelandOnStrike

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“No Shortcut to Winning” | Inside the School Secretaries and Caretakers Pension Parity Battle

YouTube video by Fórsa

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tasty collection of horror lit here for the spooky season. Knock Knock, Open Wide by Ben Sharpson was a recent fave of mine. Blending Irish folklore with that sort of fuzzy hauntological scar we all have of there being something just not right with shows like Bosco... www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When people talk about looking to the Dail for political leadership in a time of crisis, this generally isn't what they mean - but I'm into it! Precarious broadcast workers potentially pulling the plug on Budget Day just as a wider strike wave gathers force... Yum.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Eamonn McCann is always razor sharp in his analysis of the North. Garvagh road is not a difference between ‘two communities’ that needs ‘both sides’ understood. It only benefits the DUP and hardline loyalists to force us to revisit a terrible time in the North. rebelnews.ie/2026/10/02/g...

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Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL

The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite all the insane alien and human tech, so many of the clear plot junctures in The Expanse rely on the fact that the writers hadn’t copped or imagined the possibility of deep fakes yet.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People all over Dublin terrified they accidentally walk into a pop up U2 concert today.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RTE’s coverage of Burnham’s plan to add some bite to remote working rights in the UK is just so vibes based. Facts and research should be front and centre but they don’t work for the bosses or the Irish state, so here’s some random vox-pops.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nah - but they all went to international schools hence the yankifaction. Was a mad fan as a teen.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I see Crime World is now hanging around the courts, snapping pictures of 25 year old carpenters who tested positive for cannabis while driving and naming and shaming them online Absolutely pathetic stuff.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The NCT waiting room when the mechanics are balling out random car reg numbers as if anyone remembers theirs.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As much as I'm gutted for the heads at Bohs every time there's a delay on this, I know a lot of us see it as a reprieve. Given the status the bar has as one of the last spaces in the city to facilitate truly DIY and community driven music scenes of all ilks. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...

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Bohemians postpone Dalymount Park exit to ‘minimise time’ away from stadium

The iconic League of Ireland stadium will undergo a major transformation ahead of the start of the 2029 season.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great to see a union like @siptu.bsky.social moving on this. There's are real swell of possibility around it now given recent events with Ed Sheeran. The people already have their minds made up on it. It's over to the FAI to do the right thing now. #StopTheGame #UnionNews

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah totally agree. I'm just to lazy to get off the couch and change it.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An Irish guy on #Liveline has just described concentration camp conditions in an Ice detention centre and detention without trial. And people are ringing up saying he deserved it for over staying his Visa. Jaysus.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The elation on some of their faces is truly unhinged. Totally cult like. Someone pass them the kool-aid.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pearl Ham The Scone Roses Whipping Cream Boy Plaicebo

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:

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We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them

This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's no doubt better DVD versions of this sitting on a hard drive somewhere. There were screenings in the IFI and across college campuses. When you consider the native resolution of DVD is 720 x 576 pixels, you get a real sense of the absolutely rapid evolution of video in the past two decades.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For the weekend that’s in it: flashback to the 2004 “Ambush” protests. Trip-hop and grainy digi-cam! Hosted on Indymedia, circulated on DVD with community screenings. A real lesson in the precarious nature of digital archives. Hard to believe it’s 22 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnfF...

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Bush Weekend by Irish vid head/Indymedia Ireland

YouTube video by Polly Genic

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hardly Bucks it is so. Great to see Francis Higgins confirm he's having nothing to do with the new RTÉ comeback. If Cowboy Kelly is involved, it'll put the boot into the show's legacy. www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheHig...

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From the IntoTheHigginsVerse community on Reddit: Viper confirming he's not in the new Hardy Bucks :(

Explore this post and more from the IntoTheHigginsVerse community

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Caught this at the Fringe last night. Incredibly good craic while lacerating online paranoia and contemporary doubts about a shared reality. Think Black Mirror meets WWE or something. It goes off like a bomb. Well worth seeing.

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CRISIS ACTOR

You are invited to watch an emergency training demonstration. The gun isn’t real.The blood isn’t real.The pain is a performance. Crisis acting is a real job: performers simulate emergencies so others ...

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The definition of failing straight to the top.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great stuff here from Gav Trickmist on the purgatorial state of delayed adult head, that young people are trapped in due to the housing crisis. He helped out with the Displace soundtrack. New album out very soon. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/r...

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The Gap – Trick Mist

Podcast Episode · Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media · 10 September · 42min

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Right, as if the worm who thinks fines are counter-productive is suddenly going to grow a spine and do anything more drastic to reign in tech giants. Good man Dougal. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Fines for social media firms counterproductive - minister

Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan has said that fines imposed on social media firms are "free advertising" for platforms and have become counterproductive.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah yes, the “up early every morning” dog whistle. Because apparently the only people who deserve a break are those whose lives fit neatly around a 9–5. Hospitality workers. Healthcare workers. Shift workers. People working nights and weekends. Ye can go shite. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Government rules out universal energy credits in Budget

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has ruled out universal energy credits in next month's Budget.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fianna Fáil blaming vape shops for the decline of the high street is some peak backwards shit. They’ve built a car centric society where people spend inordinate amounts of time stuck in traffic jams to go to yank style “big box” retail parks. Now nicotine is to blame for donut towns and dereliction!

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The same platforms, with the help of AI, are also engaged in creating a mass declinist delusion about our past that is rotting people's brains. There is nothing more fashy than endlessly pumping out insane pastoral bullshit about “how things used to be.” Cut to a scene from Darby O'Gill.

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Danny Bones: the men behind far-right AI rapper revealed

Danny Bones turns far-right talking points into viral content while the people controlling him have remained hidden

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This, in turn, leads to the "Good luck saying that in a fish shop in Derby!" trope, where private-schooled pundits sneer at the idea that working class people could care about, say, Palestine, climate or trans rights, rather than the right wing monolith they see all day on we-love-fascism-dot-com.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

With a wave of industrial action brewing across the public sector over the cozzie livs, a good old-fashioned #NoFaresDay could connect the anger of commuters with the frustrations of transport workers. Sure, everyone loves a bit of noughties revivalism these days! www.rte.ie/news/2003/09...

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No penalties on workers for no fares day: CIÉ

CIÉ has confirmed that workers will suffer no financial penalty for refusing to collect fares on the so-called 'no fares day' in July.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

David McWilliams syndrome (n.) — the phenomenon whereby a previously moderate, centrist dad type social media user undergoes a rapid rightward political shift after prolonged exposure to X's algorithmic feed.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Boomtown was once infused with a carnivalesque clowning of corporations. It was “Catatonically opposed” to and gleefully satirized surveillance capitalism. Now, it's become a vast data-harvesting farm for the cops and Big Tech. Live Nation strikes again. Sad to see. Recuperation writ large!

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Festivals Have Become a Data Collection Dystopia

YouTube video by Simon Doherty

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You can’t take essential workers for granted. The people who keep public buildings, hospitals and essential services running are taking action, as Chambers serves up tumbleweed. "The ladder was drawn up" according to the quoted Connect Official in here. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Ireland’s largest craft union to begin industrial action over public pay

Connect union leader says action involving tradespeople to begin in three weeks’ time after Government ‘refused to engage’ over pay mechanism

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You can see this as teeing things up for an attack on remote work as well.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chambers gave RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week yesterday a sample of the establishment attack lines to come. Hard-headed union leaders. Refusing to talk. In reality, unions spent the summer organising, while Government greeted cost-of-living concerns with with radio silence. www.forsa.ie/members-vote...

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Members voted for industrial action: what's next? - Forsa

Fórsa General Secretary Kevin Callinan explains whats next in press conference after members voted for industrial action.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There’s a lad on Radio One blaming hedgerows and bio-diversity for an increase in deaths on the road. God forbid your HGV gets a scratch off a blackberry bush. Where do we get them.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Juvenile stuff from Savage. Tired, clapped-out shite from an establishment nepo-baby: Lenin references and Monty Python gags for the Southside wine-bar set to guffaw over. I regularly bought the Business Post years ago. Now I wouldn't. even wipe my arse with it. It’s taken a sad fucking turn.

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Anton Savage: People Before Profit’s internal row shows the left is still doing what it does best

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lu-imbo: that uniquely Dublin experience of platform purgatory watching a Luas sign count down from seven minutes for what feels like half your adult life.

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RashersT @rasherst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the few who made us think seriously about urbanism and where we live. Our own Jane Jacobs. May his eternal peace not be disturbed by some shit-hole Temple Bar pub blasting clichéd trad waaay too loud. The Destruction of Dublin is never more relevant. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, dies

McDonald’s reporting on planning corruption was pioneering in Irish journalism, and he regularly reported from abroad on climate negotiations

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