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Vacancy Watch: Council sits on disused Dracula house for 11 years as vacancy sucks the lifeblood of the city Dublin City Council has not yet said what it's going to do with the building.

Vacancy Watch: The council has been sitting on the disused Dracula house for 11 years as vacancy sucks the lifeblood of the city. Dublin City Council has not yet said what it's going to do with the building.

There was an Irish IT company that did social welfare systems that did a deal with Louisiana back after Katriona

They gave it for free, with a rider that they'd get paid after they'd found >$1m in savings. It took an hour and involved the fraud the staff that gatekeeped and policed SNAP were doing

Back in my day any talk of AI got my grandparents all uncomfortable and my uncle would start complain about the AI man robbing him

In practice, even government employees who are in work and paying taxes are getting screwed by this bullshit, and they'll be in a much better place to protect themselves than most of those targeted.

No because this as happened to loads of people in Northern Ireland who flew from Britain to Dublin and are then considered vanished.

Automatically cancelling benefits is a cruel and harmful policy.

Maybe it could be used for risk analysis, where you could investigate those flagged

Irish Times headline: "Remain calm, keep time low: What experts advise if 'doorstepped' by the Burke family"

Don't get them wet.

Don't feed them after midnight.

Don't say "I'll be right back".

Don't be their friend, you know you'll only wake up outside a school in the morning...

"I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards"

Otd in 2012 Savita Halappanavar died after being refused a life-saving abortion in Ireland.
Her death led to huge demonstrations and helped put Ireland on the road to legalisation of abortion in a referendum in 2018. This is the story of that movement:
isj.org.uk/irelands-abo...

When did all the loons start getting AIs to type out their rants for them?

We are reaching galaxy levels of phoning it in when if the trolls are getting Grok to do their bullying for them

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."

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I know my da worries about how people he knows (who'd not be NP or the like) are becoming increasingly racist. My brother sees it with his in-laws too. They're not going to break for the Fash, but this stuff is likely to colour the existing parties as they feel their members drift towards the right

To an extent, yes. Though where there has been some success in mobilisation has been where people are thoroughly disconnected from politics.

And there's the issue of whatsapp radicalisation where, particularly older people are in groups that constantly circulate racist shite.

I congratulate you on your barrel vaulted kitchen :)

Ours has completely changed our place - which is a 90s green house perched on top of a building, and so gave us 2 options; Saharan over the summer and Baltic in the winter. The one we have can get the whole place up to 18° from freezing

If you can’t get fascists and conservatives who think Ireland should be like it was in the 50s on the ballot surely we are a failed state.

The smart move is a proper dehumidifier which dries the air in the room and warms it up for about 200/300 watts/hour. You should look for one of the ones that you can use on a boat.

I remember in 2007 out in DSW when they were running stories about Conor Lenihan losing his seat at this part of the morning, and missed that Sean Crowe was losing his. They don't know this stuff well, and they don't need to, they just need to fill the news vacuum with noise until the count is done

If you're just looking at a couple of boxes you'll be thrown by a single 7 person family that pray and vote together, or a local priest who's a fan of Ronan Mullen. I'm not saying it's not true, but no one from RTÉ has the skills to claim anything, they're just looking for stories.

Nobody is capable of credibly making that kind of assertion. It's just a person who has scanned a few boxes saying something that can't be disproved. You'd need to have a rake of people across a large number of constits looking at the spoilts ballots after the first count is completed to say that

Someone isn't messing around with this pumpkin contest 😍

Coins are all shapes of constant with, which allows them to be sorted in machines regardless of orientation (including 50ps etc.)

School buddy of mine did sound for a Prince afterparty in 2011 where he played (mostly improvised) for twice as long as he did in the real gig

Every addiction is a disease of isolation and alienation

I'm generally a bit of a softie, I'm a romantic at heart. But when I see a bride in all her bridal finery swanning into the primary school to vote, absolutely desperate to get her picture in the paper, I think "first dance is Ed Sheeran, no open bar, speeches before dinner, stupid table names".

Love to live in the Anglosphere. Seemingly the worst version of capitalism on literally any measure of human wellbeing you can find. And with the progressive half of the electorate represented in the electoral system by "better things aren't possible" centrists.

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

The Irish Academy of Fine Arts, at the GPO Why the GPO?  The GPO offers a rare and remarkable opportunity. Many of the great academies of Europe, such as the Royal Academy in London, the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, the Ecole de beaux...

This is an idea worth exploring. Our most important street does not have to be entirely given over to shopping. Please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/th... @uplift.ie

Crazy that this photo isn't two bisexuals who live in Stoneybatter, and occasionally bring home a third they pick up at kombucha brewing courses

The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies @dias.ie
are running another set of their Samhain agus Science lectures this month

Well worth a look if you'll be about Dublin (and not just on the Halloween, the first of the talks was on last night)

www.dias.ie/2025/10/21/d...

everything about Trump would be too hacky and on the nose for fiction

This is why conservatives say Wikipedia has a left-wing bias