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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For some reason my parents let me watch this and it sh*t me up for years

Scary kids from the sci-fi movie Children of the Damned

Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More of an observation than anything else, but these roadworks in #Salthill Galway really illustrate how much space *that isn't even needed* is allocated to cars. No temporary traffic lights, diversions, tailbacks. It looks like regular pipe-work, but I really hope they're widening the footpath...

A photo of a road in Salthill, Galway, Ireland that shows a road with one half cordoned off for roadworks, but where there is still plenty of space for cars to pass

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think people should start pronouncing bros like it rhymes with "toss"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thing is, the pay off (of providing sufficient political cover to keep polluting) means that they can put a lot of time, effort and money into CCS

Dick Jones, corporate exec in movie Robocop, saying "who cares if it worked or not" when talking about a lethally malfunctioning, but profitable, robot

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm sure everyone has seen this but putting it here for completeness

Climate summit conference where slide from presenter shows a list of benefits:

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

PRESERVE RAINFORESTS

SUSTAINABILITY

GREEN JOBS

LIVABLE CITIES

RENEWABLES

CLEAN WATER, AIR

HEALTHY CHILDREN

Etc etc

And someone in audience is saying to another participant

"WHAT IF IT'S A BIG HOAX AND We CREATe A BeTTER WORLD FOR NOTHING?"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yes, but have you had a good look at it recently?

Picture of a dog with human head from Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sorry, completely unrelated to your question, but one of my favourite pieces of dialog.

A scene from Young Frankenstein where somebody says "werewolf?" after hearing a wolf howl, and the cart driver says "there wolf. there castle"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Last week Vs this week (first one is my default setting)

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Nice change after slogging into the giant Atlantic hairdryer on my way home for the past few weeks.

Screenshot of Met.ie weather page showing 28km/h easterly wind in Oranmore, Galway

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This from @tomflood.bsky.social captures the sentiment pretty well...

Picture of woman on bike with caption

"Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.'

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It's just this cartoon constantly

Cartoon in which peasant is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and smartarse nerd replies "yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This one isn't a million miles away theonion.com/gay-marriage...

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I know I'm not paid the big bucks to fix traffic problems, but I'm sure this will be top of Darragh O'Brien's list of things he's not writing off. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

The vast majority of residents across the State’s five main cities want increased investment in cycling infrastructure, even when that results in less road space for cars, the NTA’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index has found.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

It's like a weirder version of this

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is particularly relevant here in Ireland

It might even be worse than that. Making it more difficult to bring cases to judicial review is likely to reduce the kinds of challenge that you actually want to happen: those where there is genuine public opposition to a project, or where severe environmental danger has been ignored. But it won’t have anything like the same effect on cynical and strategic objections, brought by people whose real concern is property values, and whose budget to spend on procedural and legal battling is supported by those same property values.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I think this could work for him

A spoof advert from Viz comic for a service that teaches you how to walk like a Manc

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Not surprising that a minister in this lazy government thinks that the solution to a complex problem is to force cyclists to wear magic clothes so he doesn't have to contemplate all the other, far more effective, measures. @davewalker.bsky.social

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

There's also in general a lot of emphasis on meat from agencies, govt and advertising. High emissions are an inherent part of meat production, regardless of the quality of the meat or where it comes from (transport constitutes a very small percentage of emissions for *any* food, including veg)

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Nice - this gift to myself arrived today so I'll have to cancel Xmas so I can get stuck into it....

A copy of "Gallivanting With Words (How the Irish speak English)" by Colm O'Regan

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I guess a search for "Dutch cycling" *could* throw this up....

A picture of Dutch pro cyclist Mathieu Van Der Poel

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Guy here in Galway told me that Catherine Connolly did this to his tin foil. #Smearthebejaysus

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

They were a trip hazard back in the days of the Empire. No idea why anyone thinks this a good idea now.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Haha, great (and very apt) reference!

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Not Galway-specific, but I really like this one

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Can somebody make this make sense? In what universe is driving at this insane speed merely "careless"? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What on earth can we do about Galway's notorious gridlock(TM)? With a couple of notable exceptions, most politicians and influential bodies have zero interest in getting people out of cars, and it shows.

realtime bus information showing a lot of cancelled buses for an already infrequent route that links on of Galway's main suburbs with the city center

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

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