iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

I kept coming across discarded clothes and Irish Life wooly hats on Manor Street which was a Marathon route, this morning

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Sharing this bit about how NGOs' reliance on the state for funds impacts their advocacy from a piece I did earlier this year, in light of the MoJ causing a DRCC ad to be pulled

Kennedy says at ICCL – a non-profit which isn’t reliant on state support – they’d actually looked into whether dependence on government funding causes NGO workers to tone down activism.

And they found that the majority of non-profit workers they talked to strongly agreed that the “government would prefer it if we engaged in no advocacy and only in service delivery”.

“Funding is used bluntly as a lever to silence dissent,” it says.

It quotes one worker as saying, “We have been in the room when a senior civil servant said it was not our role to criticise government policy”.

Some of that manifested itself when some NGOs quickly endorsed the government’s position in the 2024 Family and Care Referendum, says Kennedy.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Watched this amazing movie tonight, it's about how if you're a woman you should probably avoid calling the cops under most circumstances.

Poster for the film The Prowler (1951). featuring Van Helfin creeping at the window and Evelyn Keyes standing in a white sexy dress

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

I feel like this post needs one of these disclaimers

I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

The government having failed to prevent tomorrow's strike:

Elaine in Seinfeld tells her boyfriend: Fine. you wanna be a communist? Be a communist

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

I never stopped thinking about this moment

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Taxi drivers' protest outside NTA offices on Smithfield square

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Reading Nerd Reich and it is jarring to learn for how long technocrats have been dreaming of the society we're inching closer to everyday.

The following year, in 1997, tech critic Langdon Winner coined a term for this emerging ideology: cyberlibertarianism. he defined this as a "collective of ideas that links ecstatic enthusiams for electronically mediated forms of living with radical, right-wing libertarian ideas about the proper definition of freedom, social life, economics and politics in the years to come.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

It's so over for hope this email finds you well crowd.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Was just sitting at home when a dishevelled mouse and my backyard cat barged into the room. Then the mouse hid in my bathroom. Finally, I managed to get the mouse out and into the backyard, where the cat is still searching for it. Enough for today, I'm goin' to bed

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I just realised Lucozade is a regular visitor here, and a playmate to my lovely backyard cat, Pashmak. 😭

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Lucozade was among the kitties featured in this year's Stoneybatter cat crawl. Please keep an eye out.

Text alongside a photo of a back and white kitty it says: Hoping someone has seen our cat, Lucozade. He's been missing since Wednesday morning.

Last seen: around Ivar Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin. Microchipped. Really friendly.

He has a black collar with an AirTag that has not updated since Wednesday morning when it last pinged about 5km away in Ballymun.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Felt the exact same way getting rid of X.

Jon Ronson being asked about not posting on X says: Oh I felt an enourmous weight lifted from me. It was never for me....X

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, my Friday night sleep is here 🙏🥹

pink panther sleeping with a nightcap, and a gaping mouth

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

given ai picks up random x posts, like his, for its sunmmaries one can also search Niall O'Connor and the summary mashes it up using his post and actual news articles about another Niall O'Connor's drug charges and puts you under the impression that he was done for drugs as well.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks Mick. I did point out to Pepper that housing need is the basis but he seemed to be suggesting some sort of conspiracy around their housing needs. (Looking forward to the lecture)

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Someone on Brunswick Street had thrown away Fabrice de Villeneuve's French Eggs...😔

A framed copy of fabrice de villeneuve's French Eggs

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

POV the last thing you see before you die

A very cute black and white kitty called Pepper launches at me. The sweetest black and white kitty Pierre gazes down in the background

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Some of these groups are also seem to be cynically set up by dodgy companies like Roomster for their own gains who have zero interest in moderating them

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Burke in the background trying to look busy ahaha

Philip Dwyer and Burke outside Burke's former workplace (school), Burke is in the background pretending to read, Dwyer in the foreground squinting

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

yeah but seems like not everyone was impacted

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