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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 10h

There's just something very wrong about him trying to be all stern with schoolteachers.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 10h

I know "that sounds like a headline from The Onion" is overused these days, but.....

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 12h

Just had to google Trunk or Treat and it confirms your assertion

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 12h

Yep, every report of a death or serious crash has AGS specifically asking for footage. My mild conspiracy-theory is the same as for red light cameras - once it's recorded the scale of terrible driving on the roads will be hard to deny and invite loads of focus.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 12h

The picture is excellent - a farting right-wing councillor straight out of central casting.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 14h

That definitely isn't happening because of special reasons and we're going to commission a report that says just that.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 14h

I was watching something else recently and it was the sheer lack of quality control, rather than the awfulness of the opinions, that really got me.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 14h

To be fair that's how I'd like to be remembered.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Data centers are an extremely important part of modern tech - they enable remote working, entertainment, shopping and all that good stuff. But clownish responses like this to well- founded concerns about our outsize proliferation just makes the government look tech-illiterate and frankly weak.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel it would be enhanced if Danny Dyer was in it as well

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's the joke! Drivers are always complaining that they can't see cyclists, but also complain about the things that cyclists do.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The driver was distracted by an ebike rider that they couldn't see because they weren't wearing hi-vis clothing.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The willingness of conservatives to embrace these arguments tends to suggest that the conservatives in question are often just polite fascists.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I regularly invoke the "who cut your hair" / "don't worry, we'll get them for you" combo, to the hilarity of nobody in my family.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mine is when a charity person in the street says something like "help cancer" and I want to point out that this is a terrible idea.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I look at him I always think that a lot of people in my age bracket must have watched RoboCop back in the day and thought "you know what, those corporate guys who work for Omni Consumer Products seem pretty solid"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Contains the magic "rural Ireland" phrasing that provides political cover for ignoring anything related to emissions.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A massive part of their whole schtick was "EU wants to crush our beloved traditions like bendy bananas and pints" so I think you're absolutely right that anything related to the pound would be similarly weaponised.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nothing in the piece describes any evidence that the drop in numbers would be impacted by whatever part of a VAT cut actually gets passed on to customers

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought the moon was just the sun but in "night mode". Now I'm questioning my understanding of astronomy....

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember reading "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" years ago - it has some interesting insights, especially as it was written during the rise of the Nazis.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Recently tried to poke my daughter's earring through the "hole" where I used to have an earring with painful and slightly bloody results. Would have been worth it though as I could rock that look in a definitely non-tragic way.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those footpaths and green area look underutilised. They could be momentarily relieving the sense of being hard-pressed for busy motorists instead of providing space for "walking" and other frivolous activities.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's hilarious because people just like him have been complaining about Galway "gridlock" for ever anyway, but still somehow think that making it more attractive to drive will fix things.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's such a weird/shitty idea of what music is. Who wants personalised songs anyway, particularly infinite ones? I get it that recommendations can be good, but there's no need to burn tokens to produce idiot-friendly mush that superficially sounds like someone that I already like.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I miss those workplace posters....

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's "our airport is reducing emissions* (excluding flights)" greenwashing, but from a state agency that's supposed to be looking out for the rest of us.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Straws is an apt analogy since their argument is a massive strawman. Nobody things that datacenters are bad because of the emissions caused by the employees ffs

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

rte.ie

Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns

Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worrying interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social from the Climate Change Advisory Council on Morning Ireland. He was clear/damning about govt's lack of climate adaptation prep. Hopefully @rteradio1.bsky.social schedule follow up with Darragh O'Brien to ask him why govt are so far behind.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep, must admit that i don't want to annoy myself by actually reading it....

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To me, "unsolvable" feels like it's not even worth trying, whereas "insoluble" sounds like it's been attempted but everyone's failed.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why do they put scare quotes around 'Charming and disarming' but not around 'harnesses the power of cuteness'?

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Christ. I feel a bit anxious even thinking about it several times removed.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Her "spiritual beliefs [were] aligned with Hinduism" seemed to be doing a bit of work as well....

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, but when it comes to Rural Ireland™ (the political concept, as opposed to actual rural Ireland, where lots of different types of people live and work) you're not supposed to suggest anything different regarding emissions because it's all a leafy Dublin middle class bike lettuce wolf trap.

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Éamonn Reilly @darthratz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

... Rural Ireland running on diesel is the problem electrification and renewable energy is trying to solve

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Man's Hilarious Confused Look

ALT: Man's Hilarious Confused Look

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even something "background-y", like a music app, doesn't need to slow down boot time and consume system resources until I want it to.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are virtually no apps where it is helpful for them to start when the OS starts, as opposed to when you first need to use them.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is appalling. In what f*cking universe are monkey chants *not* racism?

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a weird reverse version where I've had people trying to convince me to like a mainstream/pop artist (even though I definitely don't like them), based on the logic that they're popular and so the only reason I don't like them is that I haven't listened properly, or am blinded by snobbery.

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm always amazed at how some genres like metal/country have huge audiences while the artists are virtually unknown outside of the genres themselves. Even for the ones I've heard of I couldn't name a single song. But that's a good thing - it means that there's always something to be discovered!

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm so cool that I don't even know what Rolling Stone is (or the Rolling Stones for that matter)

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