Dermot Casey

A chunk was reformed a few years ago. You can apply anywhere. Schools define their catchment area.Catchment is not post code. Citizens Information has a guide.

Read the whole thread. 👇

there is actually an “extreme conditions” ikea lab in new york, where they test how hard it is to assemble the furniture in any given circumstance.

they say that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

tech bros won’t be happy until everyone is as miserable and isolated from humans as they are

This piece from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social on Crooked Timber is absolutely superb “Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job” crookedtimber.org/2025/07/31/m...

I was wondering about the 4* review in the FT yesterday

The thing is, celebrity transphobia is literally a cult. You can watch individuals allowing themselves to be dragged into it, *in public*, over the course of months & years. You can chart the radicalisation *in their published words*, watch the ever-grimmer expressions of contempt & disgust pile up.

The person getting caned here is John Boyne, author of one of the most misleading, sugar-coated works on the Holocaust ever published; who, when this was rightly critiqued, wrote a sequel that was exactly the same. Because he's a ****.

Stella O'Malley, with this High Court action, may finally have bitten off more than she can chew. Suppression of an experienced therapist's compassionate &well-evidenced difference of opinion seems a curious hill to choose to die on & risks a big Streisand effect!

www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

It’s unlikely than anyone under the age of 30 remembers that note. Most, with the exception of CMAT, won’t have a clue who Bertie Ahern is either.

well I'm glad I'm seeing this on night 2 rather than night 5.... How did I miss night 1

I can imagine

Sorry!!

At age 12 the bit where he tricks everyone into doing his work and getting paid for it appears genius. As an adult......

I really enjoyed it. And Foundation and Chief of War on the same day. Apple making some very good telly

It seems to be a trend. Worst Irish accent on TV this year is Pierce Brosnan in Mobland. (The second worst was Helen Mirren in both 1923 and Mobland )

ah damn... I'm now compelled to give Jellyfin a spin...

Societal level solution is regulating hosting companies the same way cars are regulated. I self hosted for years and its a niche endeavour.
Personal level solution - make sure your content is multiple places including a local copy. My content is in Dropbox, iCloud, and a 2x 3TB hard drives

after seeing the thing shared and commented upon all day yesterday I finally read it this morning. The "getting laid" thing in the skeet is bizarre as 90% of the article is "men need to realise they need to work on themselves to be attractive to the opposite sex"

Two young lads “Mister do ya want us to look after your car?”
Mr points to dog in car “sure I’ll be grand”
Young lad “mister does your dog put out fires?”

Messy like a baby’s nappy

There is no crisis of masculinity. Rather the crisis of masculinity is like Brexit and other crisis a manufactured one in sheer volume of media. Volume of shitty information (from papers to facebook to YouTube) can’t simply be argued against. You need to turn off the hosepipes first 2/2

This is pretty much what @iandunt.bsky.social piece yesterday said. With the addition of c) when you cultivate yourself society will also be better. The bigger problem as others have pointed out is how boys and men are flooded with right wing media. 1/2

He’s here on Bluesky. Pioneer of software development and author of seminal text. And seems like a very good guy

That’s very speciest of him. Why not

“I have failed you completely and catastrophically” is a great name for a book

So that’s good weather AFTER the bank holiday weekend

Snap

the number of reshares of that graph and link to @edzitron.com latest piece online and even comments in person show that theres a lot of people wondering just how long the market can stay irrational and before the bubble pops