Nothing is for you!
09.03.2026 15:04
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Nothing is for you!
Oh I will still shout abuse at you on the street!
Note how I now longer rise to your petty jibes 😝
I’d think you’d like it (& his work in general). More strategic design - dark matter metaphor being used for good 10-15 years in that field. Also Indy johar.
The National Museum of Ireland seeks applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Design Studio Manager (HEO). This is a two-year fixed term contract position. Closing 13 March, €59k www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...
You familiar with Dan hill’s ’dark matter & Trojan horses’?
One of the reasons we have high energy prices is our dispersed grid. One of the reasons we have poor rural public transport is our dispersed population. Leaking septic tanks, loneliness, land use difficulties, the list goes on.
One-off rural housing is a bad idea, and the real costs are socialised.
In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
The bradogue remembers…
I got so frustrated at one point I just said
"You have soup. We are making a sandwich. We cannot make a sandwich out of soup!"
And I feel like that's what rebuilding from post-slop everything is going to be like.
Welcome to Ireland where the law states if a pedestrian is walking along a back road/boreen they must step into the verge/mud/grass to allow the brand new 4x4 pass so it doesn't do the bare minimum of being a 4x4 and spare it getting mud on its tyres.
Wear a hi-vis.
Cool and How many of them have spouses who have rented out properties?
Where did you get that photo from? Not seen it before.
Ha! I know the landlord!!!
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
It's one thing to highlight a bonkers claim in a headline, but the article does no such thing; it implies that Chornobyl claims are somehow reasonable concerns (spoiler: they are not).
Questions need to be asked about the Local Democracy Reporting scheme.
Is there a good book about Irish folk practices that are Catholic-adjacent? You know, that extra layer of beliefs and customs that are common but not strictly endorsed by the Church?
Brigid's Day customs, taking a day off Lent for Paddy's day, the Child of Prague's whole... deal... etc.
#speirgorm
I find myself telling my kids, even at a green pedestrian light, to try and make sure they've locked eyes with the driver before they start walking. As if their small fierce faces can hold back the machine towering over them.
7 deaths on our roads over the weekend including a 16 y/o girl walking her dog.
Why the obsession over hi-vis? Why the reduction in active travel funding?
Where are the 30km/h zones?
Where are the red light cameras?
Why no enforcement?
Why aren't intelligent speed systems default on new cars?
I know that! but it is there in the general discussion around this topic. Do definitely thing we could do so much more with existing assets.
Like did we ever have loads of pitches in the inner city? Racquet & handball courts yes but maybe the idea that field sports can expand infinitely in Dublin might need to be reconsidered. Current mess of trying to find pitches is only going to get worse as climate change impact increases.
Should we have full size playing pitches in urban areas we are trying to densify? I don’t know but do other cities have these in their cores? Like I need them more than most as you know but personally I’d love to see more current pitches accessible by public transport / active travel.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
I'm sure they would and always keen to learn from what is happening in the UK. I'm not too familiar with the data & how things were split after Independence. Sadly we lost all the census data for Ireland before 1901 during the War of Independence & Civil War which means there isn't much to go on!
Brilliant thanks - I meant the Irish National Archives but have given John a follow!
If anyone has connections at the National Archives I'd love to chat to someone there about using census data to build an open historic address dataset for Dublin.
Inspired by this old photo from 1912, I've been looking at some census data and what it might tell us about what was going on at the time, who lived there, & how it relates to current discussions about inner city living.
medium.com/@redubhthaig...
good thread from Waldo about a real problem with agentic bots scraping at volume when real data sets exist
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The petrol station on Old Cabra Rd has been in breach of planning for 6 yrs & then has the neck to use planning laws to delay delivery of bus & bike lanes needed in Cabra. Locals have had enough. Protest for safer streets on Saturday @dublincycling.bsky.social @ibike.ie @dublincommuters.bsky.social