Karl Stanley
@karlstanley.bsky.social
Twitter migrant. Dublin City Councillor for Clontarf. Also on mastodon, but rarely: https://mastodon.ie/@karlstanley
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Karl Stanley
@karlstanley.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Apropos of nothing, I'm not going to argue with strangers on this site. If you want to debate me, you've got the wrong guy. I will probably just mute you and forget you exist.
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The orchard in the Mother & Baby Home where I was born has been abandoned since the 90s but still bears fruit, which, abandoned, falls to the ground and rots. The nuns' beloved greenhouse is wrecked but still has dessicated grapes hanging there. If I was a novelist I would find a metaphor here.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The orchard in the Mother & Baby Home where I was born has been abandoned since the 90s but still bears fruit, which, abandoned, falls to the ground and rots. The nuns' beloved greenhouse is wrecked but still has dessicated grapes hanging there. If I was a novelist I would find a metaphor here.
The should rename it “425ppm CO2”. And rename it 12 times a year as the number creeps up month by month by month.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The should rename it “425ppm CO2”. And rename it 12 times a year as the number creeps up month by month by month.
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🪧 New apartments for sale
Manchester 2-bed
£299,995 (€341,000)
Belfast 2-bed
£189,950 (€216,000)
.. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐
Manchester 2-bed
£299,995 (€341,000)
Belfast 2-bed
£189,950 (€216,000)
.. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🪧 New apartments for sale
Manchester 2-bed
£299,995 (€341,000)
Belfast 2-bed
£189,950 (€216,000)
.. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐
Manchester 2-bed
£299,995 (€341,000)
Belfast 2-bed
£189,950 (€216,000)
.. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐
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Dublin People: Bohs launch 2025 Christmas Toy Drive.
Bohs launch 2025 Christmas Toy Drive
Bohemians, the Bang Bang Cafe and Focus Ireland have launched their Christmas Toy Drive for 2025, with an aim to raise €75,000 in presents for children in international protection and homeless service...
dublinpeople.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dublin People: Bohs launch 2025 Christmas Toy Drive.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
Scenes at the Dublin City Council budget meeting last night. The histrionics from the ruling group betray their guilty consciences. I’ll also note that champion of the working class Mannix Flynn went missing during the vote, meaning the ruling group won 31-30. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Scenes at the Dublin City Council budget meeting last night. The histrionics from the ruling group betray their guilty consciences. I’ll also note that champion of the working class Mannix Flynn went missing during the vote, meaning the ruling group won 31-30. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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My lovely local pottery place got done over last night (including a smashed window) by some vile people, go buy their wares! They have lots of nice things for the upcoming season, including gorgeous ceramic tree decorations, and you can order online if you're not nearby: brookwoodpottery.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My lovely local pottery place got done over last night (including a smashed window) by some vile people, go buy their wares! They have lots of nice things for the upcoming season, including gorgeous ceramic tree decorations, and you can order online if you're not nearby: brookwoodpottery.com
Calling on @lukemcmanus.bsky.social to fire up his handycam for the Dublin Central by-election 2025. It will the electoral documentary equivalent of Terminator 2 - bigger, louder, even more explodey.
For those who haven't seen it already, check out Luke's brilliant www.rte.ie/player/movie...
For those who haven't seen it already, check out Luke's brilliant www.rte.ie/player/movie...
The Locals
A documentary on the 2024 local elections, set in one ward: Dublin's North Inner City. Watch The Locals on RTÉ Player for free
www.rte.ie
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Calling on @lukemcmanus.bsky.social to fire up his handycam for the Dublin Central by-election 2025. It will the electoral documentary equivalent of Terminator 2 - bigger, louder, even more explodey.
For those who haven't seen it already, check out Luke's brilliant www.rte.ie/player/movie...
For those who haven't seen it already, check out Luke's brilliant www.rte.ie/player/movie...
About twitter / X - it's no longer a social network, it's a discourse-poisoning megaphone for a drug-addled misanthropic billionaire who wants to return us to the rule of kings.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
About twitter / X - it's no longer a social network, it's a discourse-poisoning megaphone for a drug-addled misanthropic billionaire who wants to return us to the rule of kings.
Can’t believe I’m whinging about op-eds in the Irish Times again, but this is dire stuff. I grew up in the 80s in a household with a minority religion and the notion that the Catholic majority were a tolerant live-and-let-live bunch is NOT how I remember it www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: A McCarthyite fervour has overtaken Ireland where Israel is concerned
The issue I have is not that Ireland is pro-Palestinian - its people’s rights and future must be protected - but that it is so aggressively anti-Israel
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Can’t believe I’m whinging about op-eds in the Irish Times again, but this is dire stuff. I grew up in the 80s in a household with a minority religion and the notion that the Catholic majority were a tolerant live-and-let-live bunch is NOT how I remember it www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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A deeply depressing read. The poor child at the heart of all this, and her family. This is where the panic merchants are bringing us.
m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
m.independent.ie
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A deeply depressing read. The poor child at the heart of all this, and her family. This is where the panic merchants are bringing us.
m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...
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On today's Dodder walk we discovered a seal in the river. #SpeirGorm
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
On today's Dodder walk we discovered a seal in the river. #SpeirGorm
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John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
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This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Our Dublin Campaign will be distributing NTA bike lights soon.
Keep an eye on our social media channels for updates on where & when & similar events across the country.
If you’d like to help us distribute bike lights check out the link below.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/winter-bike-...
Keep an eye on our social media channels for updates on where & when & similar events across the country.
If you’d like to help us distribute bike lights check out the link below.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/winter-bike-...
Winter Bike Lights Campaign Launched in Dublin
The Four Dublin City and County Mayors launched a Winter Bike Lights Campaign yesterday. The campaign will be expanded nationally by the Irish Cycling Campaign this winter, with many of our local grou...
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Our Dublin Campaign will be distributing NTA bike lights soon.
Keep an eye on our social media channels for updates on where & when & similar events across the country.
If you’d like to help us distribute bike lights check out the link below.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/winter-bike-...
Keep an eye on our social media channels for updates on where & when & similar events across the country.
If you’d like to help us distribute bike lights check out the link below.
www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/winter-bike-...
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
How is this colossal weirdo the Euro Commission President? This is demented stuff.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
How is this colossal weirdo the Euro Commission President? This is demented stuff.
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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"SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET"
Danny Healy-Rae strolls back into the Dail chamber, perhaps from a very nearby watering hole, to disrupt Jennifer Whitmore's contribution to debate.
#Irishpol
youtu.be/eDXCNafXOVM?...
Danny Healy-Rae strolls back into the Dail chamber, perhaps from a very nearby watering hole, to disrupt Jennifer Whitmore's contribution to debate.
#Irishpol
youtu.be/eDXCNafXOVM?...
'Sit down and be quiet" - Dáil row during Mercosur debate | Newstalk
YouTube video by Newstalk
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET"
Danny Healy-Rae strolls back into the Dail chamber, perhaps from a very nearby watering hole, to disrupt Jennifer Whitmore's contribution to debate.
#Irishpol
youtu.be/eDXCNafXOVM?...
Danny Healy-Rae strolls back into the Dail chamber, perhaps from a very nearby watering hole, to disrupt Jennifer Whitmore's contribution to debate.
#Irishpol
youtu.be/eDXCNafXOVM?...