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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2h

Every single time in my entire life that I have ever stepped inside any business in Ranelagh, I got there on a bike. "Customers arriving by taxi" has such a weird and ungrounded grip on the minds of a certain kind of Irish business person

IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 1d

Councillor complains taxis unable to pull into Ranelagh's protected cycle lanes used by school children and commuters irishcycle.com/2025/10/09/c...

Councillor complains taxis unable to pull into Ranelagh’s protected cycle lanes used by school children and commuters

A city councillor — who cycles himself but who also previously objected to the proposed Strand Road route taking up a traffic lane — said that he thinks the protected cycle lanes in Ran…

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 15h

Micro-Giant saw this video and asked me what it was.

His instant reaction? "Can I join that party of praise?"

You see why Jesus told us to cultivate faith like a child's.

Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 16h

It is past time to update your priors about the social significance of religion

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 16h

It is past time to update your priors about the social significance of religion

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

The Taoiseach recounts how he and Sir Keir Starmer lament over pints that they can't get anything done. I don't want to jump to conclusions but that could be, as they say, a skill issue.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

And the planning result noted objection to the dramatic difference in height of the proposed buildings but blocked construction for substantive reasons, primarily the crappiness of the ground floor design & the way it would hinder pedestrianisation (a climate mitigation strategy!)

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

2/ There were no "apartments" blocked because of a tennis clubs' view. It was *student accommodation*. A complex tax fiddle that is not the same things as homes for families!

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Note who he was speaking with? A tech billionaire.

We are already on the same course that the USA & UK are on in terms of democratic decay and our leaders do not notice.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to note two details that should frame your reading of this deeply alarming confession.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

The Taoiseach admits that he has given up on climate mitigation. This is genuine nihilism. You know what's "socially polarising"? The soon-unstoppable erosion of the literal ground on which society is built. archive.ph/kCt0M

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland could build a new children's hospital every three years for the cost of the hospitality VAT reduction.

We could build a Galway sized luas system every year for the same cost

We'll invest less in the National Grid between now and 2030, than we will in €18 sandwiches in 2026

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 1d

*Hot Teaching Elder

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

I love you Dave

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

a warning for every newsletter writer going solo right now: you can literally win the Nobel Prize for literature and still desperately need an editor

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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 1d

This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

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Niall Leahy SJ @nlsj.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to go to this. Please spread the word among younger adults who might be interested.

JCFJustice @jcfjustice.bsky.social · 1d

🌍 The Economy of Francesco Global Event 2025
Nov 28–30 | Castel Gandolfo (Rome) 🇮🇹

For too long, the economy has run on exhaustion of people, time, and the planet. Join young changemakers building a just, inclusive, sustainable future.

💶 €120 incl. meals (travel/lodging separate)

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain he is the funniest man in the world

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

It surely didn't break out of spéirgorm (Irish bluesky) but when the heavily backed candidate for president, Jim Gavin, abandoned his campaign last week, many Americans broke into Irish conversations assuming we were mocking the California governor, Gavin Whatshisname.

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d

Silence from the arts minister and the department for culture

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

I'm also going. We should cross paths! There's a panel on Brian's book on the Monday

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

A month would be pacy enough!

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 3d

Christian leaders: only an everyday commitment to speaking the truth in love can generate this kind of extraordinary witness for when the dreadful day arrives

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 27

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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