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Dubliner, now Dallasite.

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Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · Jul 7

A question - what is it in the Irish tax code (or the broader set of incentives faced by property owners in Ireland) that makes it more lucrative to leave so many proprieties derelict rather than to develop them for retail or, even better, housing?

Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · May 15

I was fortunate enough to work with Denis at the ESRI in 1982-84 for my first job out of UCD. Nice to see his memory being honored like this.

Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · May 9

"every penny spent on regulatory compliance is a penny not spent on lawsuits"?

Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · May 9

Have you talked to a Cowboys fan any time in the past quarter century?....:-)

Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · Apr 16

My 1.5 seconds of fame around minute 7 in the graphics www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zQ0...

Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · Apr 9

#booksky

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · Jan 21

Through Waterford-born Nobel prize-winning Physicist Ernest Walton (1903-95), Ireland has a better claim than the United States to having been the first (along with New Zealander Ernest Rutherford and Englishman John Cockroft), to have "split the atom". www.atomicarchive.com/history/manh...

The Atomic Solar System

The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb.

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Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · Jan 2

As for New Year's resolutions, Samuel Beckett had it right: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Mark Wynne @markwynne.bsky.social · Jan 2

Or W. B. Yeats in The Second Coming:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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