Roisin Markham

View of a stony landscape with two prominent hills shaped like wide bumps. Both have distinctive rock formations comprising giant swirls of rock caused by ancient tectonic forces, making the hills look a bit like giant desserts. The foreground is a mix of short grass and scattered rock, and the sky is overcast.

We went up Mullaghmore in the Burren yesterday. I'll never tire of these extraordinary hills. The two visible ones are Knockanes (Cnocán, "little hill") and Slieve Roe (Sliabh Rua, "red mountain")

interestingly they have a role advertised advertised for a Gender Balance and Diversity Programme Manager www.socialdemocrats.ie/programme-ma...

closing date is 20 Feb

#gender #speirgorm #moremná

I spent from 9am to 3ish in the tunnel

I need to be horizontal now
wrecked
so nice to see signed of spring in the garden
budding, crocuses, pussy willow

finally got the tree out out it’s potted up now

also did the manky job of turning the compost, so many worms

Dial down the feminism hifi switch

I have never been so proud of a stranger, I mean…*chefs kiss

@garyshaw200.bsky.social

😱😮😳

I had a day like that today but about flooding & manmade climate change

i was being pissy

take two weeks off
bravo for getting it sorted

absolutely take the week off that sounds horrible

I’m having a bit of a knee jerk reaction to high intellectualism - linked to extractivism

it’s also challenges the one type of thinking, knowledge being ‘right’ over another type
to me that’s the basis of what’s gotten us into this mess

disappointed in Queens,

that’s not my experience of working with them but then
this was the space I was working

and my reference points would be Peter Doran, John Barry and Mark Emerson

that is interesting thanks

Poster of Scaling Spaces seminar series at UCC

Do check out this interesting Scaling Spaces seminar series at UCC!

Mark Little made this point really, really well in our pod discussion last week — ‘safety by design’ (actual reform of the platform) trumps targeted bans (eg u16s) every day of the week

Lol happened for me too. Delighted that his stupid shit is being Embedded In Teaching And Learning Practice across higher education, who needs brains anyway

make no mistake our democracy is under threat

people think I’ve been scare mongering but we have less then 2 years to strengthen and save a values based society where we come together rather then get polarised further

we have lessons to learn from everyone on this Island

yeah often the disconnect with privilege wrecks my head

don’t apologise I just hate that certain types of success is ‘valued’ and elevated especially when such limited advice is been given to young people

thanks for keeping me company on the journey home today it’s been elongated

I work with a lot of Irish Universities - 12 in the last 3 years

this month I have a lecture in TCD & a workshop in Ad Astra Academy in UCD

we need to inspire young people
engage them

Jay.sus.

It's weird being in Mayo, and it's been pretty dry the past week or so.

any day now, thanks

are you seeing any of this storm

Bronágh I’m a consultant I don’t talk to young people like that

I’m so disappointed that professionals would be such twats

yeah wash surprised fireside chat without a fireplace not as advertised

#notallconsultants

today even today
I’ve heard grown men who should know better say
“unusual weather event”
me: “it’s the impact of manmade climate change”
“no, no it’s just a storm”

me: … ⌛️ “no it’s actually severe storm caused by climate chaos”

him: “a wait a few years we’ll be complaining about the heat”

me:

nothing like an elongated disrupted public transport journey home after a long day to get people chatting to each other

bused to Wicklow
landslide between Kilcoole & Greystones

now on a nice train south
lots of relieved passengers that the train is going to Wexford

Irish Rail offered everyone a refund, that’s a very nice gesture

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Research from our @epaireland.bsky.social funded JustHousing project shows that new rent regulations will not only increase rents and evictions but also fail to improve conditions for tenants.

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currently in the quagmire of trying to get home to Gorey, I normally take and prefer the train - fixed line less variables except the sea & flooding

bus/train information not consistent, changing and badly communicated

flooding in Seapoint
Bray Greystones ?
Enniscorthy closed

so now on a Bus

oh I’m @ the Curiouss Open Source Conference in Dublin

facilitating the open space session this afternoon

excited to hear from Sarah Novotny on Open Source Software intersection with AI