Colm Flaherty
@cjayfla.bsky.social
Here for the chat. Politically agnostic, MAGA & ACAB are the same anarchist craziness to me, but Brian Thompson trespassed on rail lines & got hit by a train.
Just saw the @underthedesknews.bsky.social story. Stick a fork in @billgates.bsky.social, cos he is *done*.
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just saw the @underthedesknews.bsky.social story. Stick a fork in @billgates.bsky.social, cos he is *done*.
I’ve always had a version of this knocking around my head, but now I can give the quote properly.
“If you want to hear the worst concepts humanity can concoct, ask the Left how or ask the Right why.”
“If you want to hear the worst concepts humanity can concoct, ask the Left how or ask the Right why.”
December 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve always had a version of this knocking around my head, but now I can give the quote properly.
“If you want to hear the worst concepts humanity can concoct, ask the Left how or ask the Right why.”
“If you want to hear the worst concepts humanity can concoct, ask the Left how or ask the Right why.”
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www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
The Gaeltacht’s biggest Airbnb landlord is British company Sykes Holiday Cottages. Established in 2002 and based in Chester, it has 276 live listings on Airbnb, with 53 in the Gaeltacht. Experience Dingle, the second-largest Airbnb Gaeltacht landlord, has 49.
The Gaeltacht’s biggest Airbnb landlord is British company Sykes Holiday Cottages. Established in 2002 and based in Chester, it has 276 live listings on Airbnb, with 53 in the Gaeltacht. Experience Dingle, the second-largest Airbnb Gaeltacht landlord, has 49.
Airbnb Gaeltacht expansionism: 88 percent listings increase
To truly understand Airbnb expansionism in Ireland look to the Gaeltacht.
www.ontheditch.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...
The Gaeltacht’s biggest Airbnb landlord is British company Sykes Holiday Cottages. Established in 2002 and based in Chester, it has 276 live listings on Airbnb, with 53 in the Gaeltacht. Experience Dingle, the second-largest Airbnb Gaeltacht landlord, has 49.
The Gaeltacht’s biggest Airbnb landlord is British company Sykes Holiday Cottages. Established in 2002 and based in Chester, it has 276 live listings on Airbnb, with 53 in the Gaeltacht. Experience Dingle, the second-largest Airbnb Gaeltacht landlord, has 49.
Now if only they’d apply this logic to road building.
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Now if only they’d apply this logic to road building.
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Le gaélique, qu’il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l’antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues modernes, vecteurs d’expression de poètes contemporains.
Cnuasach nua @marcasmac.bsky.social faoi chaibidil
Le gaélique, qu’il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l’antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues modernes, vecteurs d’expression de poètes contemporains.
Cnuasach nua @marcasmac.bsky.social faoi chaibidil
Ecosse : parution d'une impressionnante anthologie de la poésie gaélique contemporaine
Le gaélique, qu'il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l'antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues
www.breizh-info.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
www.breizh-info.com/2025/11/28/2...
Le gaélique, qu’il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l’antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues modernes, vecteurs d’expression de poètes contemporains.
Cnuasach nua @marcasmac.bsky.social faoi chaibidil
Le gaélique, qu’il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l’antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues modernes, vecteurs d’expression de poètes contemporains.
Cnuasach nua @marcasmac.bsky.social faoi chaibidil
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
The new rules and regulations will not affect tenants that have been in place before March 1 and after that date, they will see a six-year tenancy agreement put in place
Renters could be facing an even more uncertain market in the months ahead of new tenancy rules that are coming into effect
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
Apparently Gerry Hutch is standing for election.
If your reaction to this is anything like “lol”, and you decry the insertion of grift culture into democracies across the globe, you haven’t learned a fucking thing, have you?
If your reaction to this is anything like “lol”, and you decry the insertion of grift culture into democracies across the globe, you haven’t learned a fucking thing, have you?
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Apparently Gerry Hutch is standing for election.
If your reaction to this is anything like “lol”, and you decry the insertion of grift culture into democracies across the globe, you haven’t learned a fucking thing, have you?
If your reaction to this is anything like “lol”, and you decry the insertion of grift culture into democracies across the globe, you haven’t learned a fucking thing, have you?
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I love this so much. And on Sunday, when the archaism of Press having a weekly paper is laid bare. I think a lot of votes for Connolly came from the hatchet jobs a week beforehand in the Irish Press trying to “some critics say” some deluded bullshit the weekend before.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I love this so much. And on Sunday, when the archaism of Press having a weekly paper is laid bare. I think a lot of votes for Connolly came from the hatchet jobs a week beforehand in the Irish Press trying to “some critics say” some deluded bullshit the weekend before.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Quite a headline.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Quite a headline.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Hm. Just read a disability activist say they (singular) doesn’t like the term “disabled people” because it dehumanises them, preferring “people with disabilities”.
All well and good, but when you’re attacking other (members of the group) you’re denying them their agency to decide for themselves...
All well and good, but when you’re attacking other (members of the group) you’re denying them their agency to decide for themselves...
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hm. Just read a disability activist say they (singular) doesn’t like the term “disabled people” because it dehumanises them, preferring “people with disabilities”.
All well and good, but when you’re attacking other (members of the group) you’re denying them their agency to decide for themselves...
All well and good, but when you’re attacking other (members of the group) you’re denying them their agency to decide for themselves...
Thank Christ. He shafted SF-FF voting Republicans with the talking down of Unity vote preparation only after the election was won.
Members of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party are actively talking about Taoiseach Micheál Martin's leadership, a senior TD has said.
Some FF TDs discussing Martin's leadership, says Lahart
Members of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party are actively talking about Taoiseach Micheál Martin's leadership, a senior TD has said.
www.rte.ie
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thank Christ. He shafted SF-FF voting Republicans with the talking down of Unity vote preparation only after the election was won.
Jaysus seeing some hot takes about Connolly on #speirgorm. Cool the boots lads. She got in for the lack of a better candidate. She got all those firsts because there was only two candidates. (I’ve been away & I’ve no idea what the coverage is doing).
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jaysus seeing some hot takes about Connolly on #speirgorm. Cool the boots lads. She got in for the lack of a better candidate. She got all those firsts because there was only two candidates. (I’ve been away & I’ve no idea what the coverage is doing).
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#StormBenjamin has been named by the French Met Service for low system passing to South of Ireland tonight and will bring wet and windy conditions to parts of France and Southern England tonight and Thursday. Some big seas too so ferries may be impacted.
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#StormBenjamin has been named by the French Met Service for low system passing to South of Ireland tonight and will bring wet and windy conditions to parts of France and Southern England tonight and Thursday. Some big seas too so ferries may be impacted.
You know what? If the Coolock-is-full, McGregor fan crowd take this up, this might be a win-win for us….
The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.
October 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You know what? If the Coolock-is-full, McGregor fan crowd take this up, this might be a win-win for us….
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
I’m resigned to Connolly becoming President next week but I worry about what that’ll mean for the already abysmal understanding of Defence in this country.
I mean, how would either candidate comment on something like this? (In general that is, I’m not on about this story, it doesn’t concern us)
I mean, how would either candidate comment on something like this? (In general that is, I’m not on about this story, it doesn’t concern us)
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’m resigned to Connolly becoming President next week but I worry about what that’ll mean for the already abysmal understanding of Defence in this country.
I mean, how would either candidate comment on something like this? (In general that is, I’m not on about this story, it doesn’t concern us)
I mean, how would either candidate comment on something like this? (In general that is, I’m not on about this story, it doesn’t concern us)
Hey @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, what say you on this? Is this how you’d call it or is there more to the tale or to refute it?
The paradigm should be pretty clear by now.
The fascists do something indefensible or obviously crazy, they frame it as “concerning” while obscuring the danger.
Anyone anywhere brings up reform and you get nonstop coverage of how “dangerous” it is.
It’s consent manufacturing.
The fascists do something indefensible or obviously crazy, they frame it as “concerning” while obscuring the danger.
Anyone anywhere brings up reform and you get nonstop coverage of how “dangerous” it is.
It’s consent manufacturing.
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, what say you on this? Is this how you’d call it or is there more to the tale or to refute it?
Allow comments you COWARD*!
(*not really, yer grand)
(*not really, yer grand)
October 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Allow comments you COWARD*!
(*not really, yer grand)
(*not really, yer grand)
I’ve respect for Catherine Connolly, but every time she mentions the ”military industrial complex” it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Because only only one other bunch talks about arms supply like that:
Solovyov who once claimed Ukraine was near collapse now admits there’s no exhaustion in sight.
“We underestimated what’s happening. We thought NATO just sent finished products. But now the Military-Industrial Complex is outside Ukraine. Our strikes aren’t decisive. There should be no illusions.”
“We underestimated what’s happening. We thought NATO just sent finished products. But now the Military-Industrial Complex is outside Ukraine. Our strikes aren’t decisive. There should be no illusions.”
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I’ve respect for Catherine Connolly, but every time she mentions the ”military industrial complex” it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Because only only one other bunch talks about arms supply like that:
Just had a thought.
using #AirBnB in a housing crisis is like using scab labour. I wonder if there’s an equivalent term.
Now I realise I owe @unaminh.bsky.social a “you were right”. I remember we had a row in the Old Place, fado fado.
You were right. Scab is not a slur, but they r crappy people.
using #AirBnB in a housing crisis is like using scab labour. I wonder if there’s an equivalent term.
Now I realise I owe @unaminh.bsky.social a “you were right”. I remember we had a row in the Old Place, fado fado.
You were right. Scab is not a slur, but they r crappy people.
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just had a thought.
using #AirBnB in a housing crisis is like using scab labour. I wonder if there’s an equivalent term.
Now I realise I owe @unaminh.bsky.social a “you were right”. I remember we had a row in the Old Place, fado fado.
You were right. Scab is not a slur, but they r crappy people.
using #AirBnB in a housing crisis is like using scab labour. I wonder if there’s an equivalent term.
Now I realise I owe @unaminh.bsky.social a “you were right”. I remember we had a row in the Old Place, fado fado.
You were right. Scab is not a slur, but they r crappy people.
Budget day in Ireland, and I’m in a workplace with the TV festooned with a Tory ”the judges are anti border!” row on followed by an “I’m so sorry” sympathy piece from Stephen Lawrence’s killers.
Fuck Sky News. Fox News in nappies.
Fuck Sky News. Fox News in nappies.
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Budget day in Ireland, and I’m in a workplace with the TV festooned with a Tory ”the judges are anti border!” row on followed by an “I’m so sorry” sympathy piece from Stephen Lawrence’s killers.
Fuck Sky News. Fox News in nappies.
Fuck Sky News. Fox News in nappies.
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here's something else that's been living rent free in my head
how often have I fallen for it
how often have I fallen for it
It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
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October 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
here's something else that's been living rent free in my head
how often have I fallen for it
how often have I fallen for it