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And nothing will change until we all start to break the cycle.

Stop clicking on rage bait, ignore the manufactured culture wars, start thinking about what really matters to you find good sources to follow.

Most of all, find a way to pay something, anything, towards real journalism. It isn’t free.

Is it any wonder we see the political centre shifting constantly to the right then? Vainly hoping to salve the fears of a public taught by constant news coverage to fear whatever gets the most clicks lately?

The attention economy distracts us all by focusing on shallow short-term stories.

The existence of trans people is suddenly being treated like we just discovered vampires living amongst us, and everyone needs to be warned of some unknown danger.

The constant coverage of these kinds of stories for ad money inevitably ends up worrying people totally unaffected by those issues.

Living in Ireland, 99% of what tr*mp says and does has feck all impact on us, but he alone must take up 10% of Irish news coverage.

The problem with immigration isn’t that it happens, it’s that host countries have failed so badly on housing & services for everyone for so long that they can’t cope.

The attention economy has acted like a black hole on the whole concept of news and journalism, (mostly) shifting it away from reporting on difficult but important concepts like the commodification of housing, climate issues and wealth inequality, and replacing it with constant rage bait stories.

Ha! Well only one of those was on offer as part of my Maths degree in the 90s. Maybe things have changed now! 😅🤷‍♂️

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Topology

A sign on top of a car saying “Yippie Ki-Yay Oystershucker”

OK I chuckled a bit Poker Face Season 2

Reason number ♾️+1 why I’ve permanently deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and would dearly love to ditch WhatsApp if only others would stop using it … 🤦‍♂️

So disappointing.

The presumably more successful e-scooter drugs mules in D7 appear to have upgraded to deafeningly unmuffled motorbikes now, and love nothing better than tearing up and down Manor Street and its environs at all hours.

The dangerous driving is bad enough but it’s the noise level that makes me 🤬.

Just saw a nauseating new way to describe an overpriced block of build to rent apartments:

“A new rental community”

🤢🤮

Everything about build to rent is by its very nature anti community.

I voted for Eoin Hayes, and deeply regret it. I didn’t know he had worked for Palantir, and wouldn’t have voted for him if I had.

Some of that is on me for not digging deeper myself before voting, but I think the Soc Dems showed very poor judgement by running him in the first place.

I remember bringing two famous DJs to Ned’s on Townsend Street around 8am after being cut off and then chucked out of the hotel resident’s bar (after one of the DJs tried to serve himself post cut off!).

In hindsight maybe we were the weird ones in the early house … 🤪

The Welcome Inn was a great spot, such a shame it see it rotting away all this time.

I don’t remember ever being scared even in the rough spots, although I got plenty of odd looks for my 90s indie dance “fashion”.

The weirdest were always the early houses post rave, Trinity Ball, or even wedding!

Walking is woke 🤷‍♂️😅

Happy birthday glad it was a good one!

Today, 30 years ago, I was right down the front of this all day.

Definitely warrants a trip sometime 🙂

I was thinking it would your dream club as I was reading it!

‘It can bring you to tears’: is this the world’s most beautiful sounding nightclub? Transformed from a second world war bunker into Germany’s buzziest dance venue, the acoustics at Open Ground in Wuppertal are raved about by DJs such as Floating Points – and may even be good for your...

This sounds like heaven, and 💯 what I’d spend a Euromillions win doing in Ireland.

That was exactly my reaction to this headline too. Maddening.

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Would totally rock this ngl

Walk before you can run 🏃🏻‍♂️ 😅

A clever government would setup a marketing department alongside the use research team to publicise that exact feedback as well as the resulting wins that make their voters’ lives better.

394. New Apartment Standards – The 21st Century Tenements with Orla Hegarty Podcast Episode · Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media · 16/07/2025 · 37m

A really concise summary of the negative impacts we can expect from the recent changes to apartment standards in this chat between @orla-hegarty.bsky.social and Rory Hearne.

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A man in an orange Adidas T-shirt stares down the camera with various clutter behind him

A man in an orange Adidas T-shirt looks to the right, with record shelves in the background, and sneaker boxes stacked on top.

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Scruffy orange T-shirt selfie experiments

Golden rule of DJing:

Pushing boundaries: 👍👍
Playing absolute dross: 👎👎

Was just listening to these earlier, love all 3. 👏

The dream 😅