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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20h

"Some Hollywood actors played up in my pub last night."
"Have ya barred 'em?"
"No, but his wife, Penelope Cruz was there."

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't that just "a meeting"?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently it's some kind of passive benefit where crimers won't do criming if they know people can see them, and passers-by will be reassured by this.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 6h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

I mean really we should be paying the hotel for their munificence.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

I think the most ludicrous one I've heard recently was using it as an argument against pedestrianization because if the street is full of cars, the people in the cars provide "surveillance".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

Bench in a public space: disorderly, anti-social, probably being sat on by drunks and loud teenagers. Bench behind a nice fence with "respectable" people spending money: safety, "eyes on the street", reassuring, beneficial to the public realm.

Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 6h

What's sad is the "antisocial behaviour" itch is a strong one with some local authorities and other bodies e.g. it's used to justify closing permeability between housing estates etc (more driving instead, cool!). So it might get traction.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 6h

We don't want to make Nick Clegg sad, do we? So lets all join hands and walk into the ocean and admit that the era of human creativity has come to an end.

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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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

"It it would improve the public
realm by promoting the principles of natural surveillance “eyes on the street” and instil a sense of safety
for people using the streets adjacent to the recessed colonnade throughout the day"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

I just looked at their application and they are making the dubious claim that Liffey Street is awash with anti-social behaviour and having their guests sitting in the fenced off area is a safety enhancement. 🙄

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

Aerial Cirque! A woman in work who goes there organized it!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 6h

DON'T DIE MARY (also I am going to an introductory aerial class tomorrow, so both thought of you and suspect I might die myself)

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 7h

"We have concluded that enormous trucks going past your house are a natural phenomenon, like the weather"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 7h

(also unsurprisingly much more sensible - if exasperated - reaction from @karlstanley.bsky.social)

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 7h

The response from the traffic engineer in this is infuriating. "Sorry, yeah, but all that traffic needs to go somewhere so it might as well be on your very narrow road. Sadface."

IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 8h

Residents block street to protest inaction of Dublin City Council to tackle rat-running

Residents of Dublin's Richmond Road staged a protest this morning, blocking off the road due to inaction on what they say is an increasing volume of rat-running in the area. They say they face daily road rage,…

Residents block street to protest inaction of Dublin City Council to tackle rat-running

Residents of Dublin's Richmond Road staged a protest this morning, blocking off the road due to inaction on what they say is an increasing volume of rat-running in the area. They say they face daily road rage, near-misses, increasingly aggressive driver behaviours, an increased volume of traffic, and the growing air and noise pollution that comes with it. After much delay, Dublin City Council has presented a report to residents and councillors ruling out even a trial of…

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 10h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 10h

Ooh, must go, I love Ethiopian food. Including the delicious edible facecloth pancake thing.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent work!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 11h

I still occasionally have nightmares about having to hand in a thesis, usually featuring me realizing just before it's due that I don't really have a topic.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 11h

(was discussing this this morning with Mr L, who also found second year a bit of a wall but then mocked me because my feeble arts wall did not involve "spending hours on end turning brain inside out trying to understand quantum mechanics")

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 11h

Also had a bit of a Come To Jesus moment via second year exams and the realization that my time-honoured tactic of "last minute cram, hope native cunning will carry me through" that had worked since primary school ... did not work.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 11h

I was kind of a little from column a, a little from column b, I definitely worked much harder in third and fourth year than first year ("ooh I'm in college") and second year ("pints? pints!").

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 12h

I work in IT and literally use the skills I developed in my English and History degrees daily: organising information, researching, assessing critically, making arguments, explaining things clearly.

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone and anyone needs to read this from @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's utterly, properly brilliant.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 12h

English and History here, but otherwise same, and same.

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