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Long Island right-NIMBYs are genuinely some of the worst people on earth. they’ll beg for a government handout in the form of NIMBY policies that artificially inflate the value of their homes, and then turn around and say that simply making it legal to build apartments is “charity” or something

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Dumbass. She wanted to put low income housing in our beautiful Nassau County. The people stuck together under Blakeman's leadership and stopped the socialist idiot. You're such a moron.
You have no clue what YOU are talking about. My $500,000 house in now worth $800,000. That's progress. We are not a charity.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 2h

“Modestly successful comedian” Zelenskyy has given more joy in this one clip than Trump in his entire life youtu.be/J8IRLdGpr3Y?...

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President Zelenskyy in 2015 as President Holoborodko on "Servant of the People". S01 E18

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hadestown: (The Movie Of) The Musical is *very* good. Very good as in I now slightly regret not seeing it live in August when I scuttled past the Lyric multiple times to go to other shows. I don’t usually suggest that anyone should ever see musical theatre at all, so that’s a solid two thumbs up.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

As I’m someone who generally prefers to firmly attach my name any time I criticise anything, I think it’d be better if politicians put their name to their backstabbing…but all the parties do it, and it’s not as though Minister O’Donovan hasn’t indulged in it: remember his Simon Harris leak sting op.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

For the pittance it’s worth from me, Patrick O’Donovan declaring that his own people (finally) saying that he’s basically incompetent is actually an insult to everyone with a disability or a health condition that affects them is something that I find personally insulting. Not in my name, numptyboy.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

every fuckin week some marketing person for an AI company goes "dude this thing can like totally suck your dick and make your dreams come true in real life" and someone who did a degree in journalism sits at their laptop, copies and pastes it into an article, and hits publish

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Eoin Buckley @eoinbuckleylmk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Two cameras, two weeks, 19,000 violations without measuring speed or red light breaking. Pretty sure #Limerick could top this with a camera at the Shelbourne Road/Condell Road junction and another anywhere near the schools on the SCR/O'Connell Ave. It's getting worse out there. #RSA #RoadSafety

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean, even mainly ignoring the dodgy rent review that wasn’t a rent review, even if you accept the “I need the property back for personal reasons” line (which the RTB did), the earlier eviction notice on the basis of a rent review that wasn’t a rent review is, ipso facto, shitbag behaviour.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m almost impressed (not in a good way) at the sheer brass neck of Rita McInerney, Clare county councillor (& GE candidate in Clare in 2020 & 2024 for Fianna Fáil) for unlawfully increasing tenant rent from €650 to €1500 & then evicting them. Shitbag behaviour. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

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Fianna Fáil councillor in Co Clare ordered to pay €5,000 after ‘unlawful’ rent review

Rita McInerney, a well-known figure in Doonbeg who was mentioned in the White House by the Taoiseach, said the property was ‘underperforming’

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I strongly suspect that this is a made-up graph… but let’s run with it for a brief moment of joy… If Ukraine bombing a few Yandex data centres could cause that much of a drop in AfD and MAGA bots, it’d be a service to humanity where it might be the first bombing in history worthy of a peace prize.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’d never heard this phrase until Joe Lycett used it on the telly talking about parking fines… and there it is on the front of the Bun because Micheal Martin is out there, taking another thing from us and making it uncool. (yells at tv: THAT MAN NEVER BUTTERED A PARSNIP IN HIS LIFE)

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

The facial expression on the moon is priceless.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just think it's kind of tiresome how, in a country with incredibly weak unions and industrial relations legislation, the government are trying to act wounded and outraged that unions are doing literally the only thing they can do to exercise leverage

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Right... cause shutting down thw country for a week by blocking roads was definitely not a threat to democracy 🤔

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One thing nobody ever mentions when they’re fear-mongering about this is that to even get a referral for a child, their neurodivergence has to be bothering OTHER people. It is SO HARD to get a diagnosis, let alone for children who don’t have outbursts or other “upsetting” behaviors.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The time and energy we have to put into fighting these over-diagnosis scare stories is time and energy we should be putting into talking about the scale of under-diagnosis.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and this the response. It’s the pettiness of it that disgusts as much as anything else, and the servility of those who go along with it. To adapt the line about Caligula: “Never better slaves to a worse master.”

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Spoiler as to why: "The announcement came hours after a former ICC judge won the Nobel Prize."

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Mel 🦋🌺🌊 @mel4justice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Aaaaand this is why we can’t have satire anymore

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, lads, even the Nazis didn’t officially stage state-sanctioned public executions until after WW2 started. And obviously even when they officially started executing people, they weren’t live streaming it (not that they wouldn’t have, but they weren’t).

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/10/2026

If you went into a bank and asked for a loan, saying you’d put the proceeds into a savings account, they’d think you were a bit cracked. On a macro scale, that’s what Ireland is doing. This week’s column for @thejournal.ie:

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€7.8 billion set aside for Ireland’s future in Budget 2027 means we're borrowing to save money

As the dust settles on the budget, isn’t it notable that Ireland is putting billions into long-term funds while borrowing money to pay the bills?

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The AI CEO Dad getting his robot to read bedtime stories to his son has stumbled upon why we hate it. They want to automate the things people like to do and leave the misery and work for us mugs.

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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Americans asking *where is Ben Bulben please* (Ben Bulben right there but completely shrouded in mist) So we go *oh, yeah, well they take it down at the end of the season* And they go *oh, okay, thank you for your help* and drive away

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Norwegians have the chance to do the funniest thing by giving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Mark Carney, Pope Leo XIV, Yulia Navalnaya… …or Kaitlan Collins.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Journalist book after his presidency ends: “we all knew he meant it”

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 07/10/2026

I love seeing women thrive in male-dominated industries

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Baz @braymeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love this. ✊

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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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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty sure The Minister is still pissed off about this. Of course, that’s a prime example of him enjoying feeling powerful, and being annoyed at being told to sod off. Is he the kind of person who’d hold that grudge for months? www.rte.ie/news/2026/05... www.ontheditch.com/patrick-o-do...

RTE News headline: “Minister complained to media watchdog over RTÉ's 'lack of balance'” from Friday, 22 May 2026 21:50, over a picture of Patrick O’Donovan wearing a Healy Rae cap

The Ditch headline from May 22, 2026: “Patrick O'Donovan didn't admit secret call with Coimisiun na Meán about media examination”, over text reading “During controversy over his "sinister" comments about media, Patrick O Donovan didn't admit he had already secretly called a Coimisiún na Meán commissioner to see if he as media minister could trigger a state
"examination" of RTÉ fuel protest coverage he didn't like.”

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Friends, I am pleading for your support in stopping the use of the word Spooktacular.

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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The greyhound industry is, ironically, a massive Con.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 06/10/2026

And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m kinda snobbish about cultural offerings and what should be or needs to be funded. I don’t think Spotify or the record industry or publishing need funding anywhere near as much as some venues or individual artists or writers. And I’m willing to bet that the important questions were never asked.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m being generous here and assuming that the base cost of the vouchers was even costed. If so, I’m not surprised he was told to fuck off. At least he doesn’t appear to have been foolish enough (yet) to just divert other arts funding into this. That’s something.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ll tell you what I think happened here: some lad (let’s say the Minister) got a sudden notion that other countries have done this, didn’t bother reading the complications there, didn’t bother with any of the details, and just multiplied two figures together and asked the Finance Minister for that.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do venues apply individually to be part of the scheme? Does it matter what particular events in those venues the voucher is used for (lots of cultural venues with lots of seats will also host boring conference things: do they qualify?) How do they get paid?

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who’s administering it and distributing the vouchers or voucher-like scrip? If it isn’t means-tested and it’s the government, that’s at least a cheap admin, so now you’re using POS numbers? Are you going to allow for some fraud (there’s going to be some) or go all Recent Fine Gael Paranoia?

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to Actual Cultural Things, which obviously would include opera or ballet or theatre, but how about cinema (art house or free for all including Michael Bay?), or books or gigs or a Spotify sub? Art classes? Vinyl records? Museums? A xylophone? How about an escape room or an FAi game?

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m pretty sure the relevant minister (oh, Christ, it’s Patrick O’Donovan again, innit) may not… er, definitely didn’t consider whether it’d be a free for all on culture (in France, your Pass Culture could buy video games: I’m sure the Irish dog racing twats would claim it’s culture) or restricted..

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually, maybe I shouldn’t have listed Germany as a headline case of culture pass fraud, as budget constraints, the pass being funded by diversion of other arts funding (rather than additional funding) and anon costs were bigger problems. Anyway, that’s been slashed too.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In France, the Pass Culture scheme (€500, later €380, now half that) was drastically reduced and reconfigured when youngsters raised they could buy in-demand concert tickets and reflog them for actual cash (often at scalper rates) on resale apps later.

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