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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 2d

Into triple digits, emergency stockpiles are being tapped

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 9d

Kids in Halloween costumes making voting fun this morning

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 12d

Super frustrating update from anpost where they don't actually tell you that they are not going to bother attempting to deliver and instead you have to go collect from the depot.

Anpost parcel notification showing zero effort to deliver

Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 17d

Irish people are excluded from the legal definition of Foreign under UK law

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 19d

Since the president has zero actual power and is 99.99% ceremonial can we replace the debates/interviews with skill tests. Can they deliver a speech opening a civic centre in the rain?
Can they learn the names and faces of 50 visiting dignitaries in 10 minute, then recall them in a receiving line?

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 27d

Currently an hour into an ESB outage for scheduled work but the entire house is running off solar. Zero disruption. The future is pretty cool

Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · 28d

Attempting to enter politics at the presidential election would be like trying to learn hurling while playing in an all Ireland final. At this stage we have enough data to say it doesn't end well.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · Sep 22

A good point - everyone trying to run for president now had 7 years to try and get about 20 people to like them, and are still falling at this hurdle. Our elections are not a surprise.

I'm a loser with deep social anxiety and even I reckon I could get 20 people to like me over the course of 7 years

Cath @cathdibella.bsky.social · Sep 22

Definite skills issue also underpinned by peeps had at least 7 years to prep

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Sep 22

Cold and Sunny days for the win

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Sep 20

Anyone here able to ID this industrious spider. They built a web several meters wide across our driveway overnight.

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Sep 11

I have received zero from any party/candidate in the last year since I updated moved my vote last year and gave my email/phone number.
I did have one email exchange with a member of the franchise office to validate that a set of suspected duplicate entries were all me and could be cleaned up

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Sep 4

Humans really are the worst.

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Aug 27

That is a pretty large bubble of people who need to flow through all the various bits of state institutions

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Aug 14

My no Zuck rule is aging quite nicely

Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Every government TD I have contacted about it have parroted the dept of justices position that it is a good thing

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 27

Have a relative visiting this weekend who is a passionate GAA supporter so a lot of time has been spent watching live streams of various club games on clubber. It's a great use of the internet but my main takeaway is that GAA clubs need a broadband service optimised for broadcast

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 23

Actually I have to give Microsoft some credit here, word made it pretty painless

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 23

I was this many years old when I first managed to use a printer to address an envelope

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 23

Digital stamps are a neat way to avoid needing to go buy stamps but then comes the struggle of finding an actual postbox.

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 16

One of my favourite trips was taking the train from Toronto to Vancouver, it was a great way to experience the scale of Canada and the different provinces. The transitions between them were surprisingly crisp

Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 14

The math is going to be the difference in off-peak vs std rates compared to the cost of shoving power in/out of the battery. There margin is small but then any amount of solar widens it. There is also a value in having the ability to run for at least a day with the grid down

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 14

I wonder does the traffic vary based on the counties playing and the availability of public transport.
If you don't have a leap card public transport in Dublin is also difficult to access given most people being cashless

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jul 14

With solar and battery it is possible to shift nearly 100% of demand into off-peak hours

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jun 27

It is all the more frustrating because the nation had flashes of brilliance. The folks who built Ardnacrusha would be amazed at the resources available today and appalled at our inability to get anything done.

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Colin Whittaker @colinwh.bsky.social · Jun 27

It is all the more frustrating because the nation had flashes of brilliance. The folks who built Ardnacrusha would be amazed at the resources available today and appalled at our inability to get anything done.

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