Alan Dunne
@aldunne.bsky.social
Arts appreciator • Bad runner • Follower of unsuccessful sports teams • Climate action, sustainable transport, unhealthy levels of Laois content
🌍 Dublin
🌍 Dublin
when you read a headline like this it's impossible not to think about all the warnings that commentators in the mid-2010s were making about the housing bubble, and B*rtie saying he didn't know why critics don't kill themselves
The State's fiscal watchdog has estimated that almost half of the corporation tax collected by the State is paid by three multinationals
Three multinationals pay 46% of corporation tax - Ifac
The State's fiscal watchdog has estimated that almost half of the corporation tax collected by the State is paid by three multinational companies.
www.rte.ie
February 19, 2026 at 8:05 AM
when you read a headline like this it's impossible not to think about all the warnings that commentators in the mid-2010s were making about the housing bubble, and B*rtie saying he didn't know why critics don't kill themselves
February 18, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Arteta won't be sacked over tonight's result but every manager is going to be sweating about dropping points against Wolves between now and the end of the season
Wolves are going to be relegated with one of the worst points records in #PremierLeague history but it's going to be hilarious taking out a manager or two along the way when owners have a hissy fit that they dropped points against us
#WWFC #EPL
#WWFC #EPL
Forest sack manager Dyche after four months in charge reut.rs/3Mkz7rU
February 18, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Arteta won't be sacked over tonight's result but every manager is going to be sweating about dropping points against Wolves between now and the end of the season
top of the league timewasting for 2½ minutes of injury time while leading against bottom of the league before conceding an OG equaliser is the most unique karmic shit that you could rarely if ever hope to see
😗👌🏻
#PremierLeague #EPL
😗👌🏻
#PremierLeague #EPL
February 18, 2026 at 10:25 PM
top of the league timewasting for 2½ minutes of injury time while leading against bottom of the league before conceding an OG equaliser is the most unique karmic shit that you could rarely if ever hope to see
😗👌🏻
#PremierLeague #EPL
😗👌🏻
#PremierLeague #EPL
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God there's always some new fresh hell
The advertising regulator has said that AI-generated images in property ads are "not likely to mislead" if properly flagged, after criticism of some listings online.
jrnl.ie/6960437
jrnl.ie/6960437
Estate agents are using AI photos to 'show potential' and the ads regulator says that's fine
A buyer would have to spend “a fortune” if they wanted to recreate the AI images, said Kieran McCarthy, presenter of the RTÉ programme Heat My Home.
jrnl.ie
February 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
God there's always some new fresh hell
in Killarney for the night and for dinner had Irish stew and a pint of Guinness to make sure I fit in with the locals (American tourists)
February 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
in Killarney for the night and for dinner had Irish stew and a pint of Guinness to make sure I fit in with the locals (American tourists)
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Scifi led us to believe the threat from AI systems would be sentient robots enslaving populations or triggering nuclear war.
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 18, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Scifi led us to believe the threat from AI systems would be sentient robots enslaving populations or triggering nuclear war.
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
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Marlon Brando and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia on the set of the film Désirée in 1954.
February 18, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Marlon Brando and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia on the set of the film Désirée in 1954.
Scifi led us to believe the threat from AI systems would be sentient robots enslaving populations or triggering nuclear war.
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 18, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Scifi led us to believe the threat from AI systems would be sentient robots enslaving populations or triggering nuclear war.
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
Instead we have dumb systems that are just as dangerous because they're using all the available components, electricity, water & money that their makers can throw at them
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I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
February 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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me and my friends would've killed delivery drones with hammers I can tell you that much
Dublin City Council officials have circulated a position paper on the use of drones in city. Drone delivery company Manna looks poised to start flying from a base in Glasnevin – and the paper suggests council officials have no plans to stop it. www.dublininquirer.c...
Dublin City Council circulates position paper on use of drones in city
Drone delivery company Manna looks poised to start flying from a base in Glasnevin – and the paper suggests the council has no plans to stop it.
www.dublininquirer.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
me and my friends would've killed delivery drones with hammers I can tell you that much
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Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes.
Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!
Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes.
Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!
Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!
Weeks after the problem started the DPC announces an investigation. This is like calling the guards when your house is being robbed and them not showing up until days later so, probably about right
Irish data watchdog opens probe into X over Grok images
The Data Protection Commission has announced that it has opened an inquiry into social media platform X over the use of the AI tool Grok to generate sexualised images of adults and children.
www.rte.ie
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Weeks after the problem started the DPC announces an investigation. This is like calling the guards when your house is being robbed and them not showing up until days later so, probably about right
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please watch this, and think about the fact that the Irish government wants to fast-track the building of a LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary, bypass normal planning procedures and controls, and restrict the ability of any party to challenge them on it in the courts
I think you should show this film to all politicians in Germany who think that LNG is a great idea.
Even the trailer left me deeply affected, even though I already knew so much about it.
Germany is explicitly named as an externalizer of “death.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtA...
Even the trailer left me deeply affected, even though I already knew so much about it.
Germany is explicitly named as an externalizer of “death.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtA...
Gaslit Trailer
YouTube video by Greenpeace USA
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
please watch this, and think about the fact that the Irish government wants to fast-track the building of a LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary, bypass normal planning procedures and controls, and restrict the ability of any party to challenge them on it in the courts
Never mind a social media ban for u16s, it's middle-aged weirdos on unmoderated SM forums who need to have their phones taken away.
Our younger generations on the other hand are growing up with friends from all kinds of backgrounds: they're not scared of or intimidated by a multicultural Ireland
Our younger generations on the other hand are growing up with friends from all kinds of backgrounds: they're not scared of or intimidated by a multicultural Ireland
TheIRFU saidit is investigating the "cowardly" online racist abuse of Cork man Edwin Edogbo after his Ireland debut against Italy on Saturday jrnl.ie/6958561
IRFU investigating 'cowardly' online abuse of Edwin Edogbo
The 23-year-old Cobh man made his debut for Ireland against Italy.
jrnl.ie
February 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Never mind a social media ban for u16s, it's middle-aged weirdos on unmoderated SM forums who need to have their phones taken away.
Our younger generations on the other hand are growing up with friends from all kinds of backgrounds: they're not scared of or intimidated by a multicultural Ireland
Our younger generations on the other hand are growing up with friends from all kinds of backgrounds: they're not scared of or intimidated by a multicultural Ireland
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When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
February 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
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The proposed LNG terminal in Ireland is quite simply a form of tribute to be paid to the US. It will not improve Ireland's energy security and will increase both CO2 emissions and consumer costs. Let's spend the money on decarbonisation instead (will our bosses in Washington let us?).
Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn
Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps
evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps
evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
Solar, heat pumps ‘lower cost’ path than LNG for electrification, says NZGBC
A new report argues New Zealand can meet its looming energy shortfall by accelerating rooftop solar and electric hot water
evsandbeyond.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The proposed LNG terminal in Ireland is quite simply a form of tribute to be paid to the US. It will not improve Ireland's energy security and will increase both CO2 emissions and consumer costs. Let's spend the money on decarbonisation instead (will our bosses in Washington let us?).
Maria Steen is proof that if you're middle class and wealthy enough in Ireland you can cosplay as a politician while holding the most batshit beliefs possible and the media will fall over themselves to let you have a platform
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Maria Steen is proof that if you're middle class and wealthy enough in Ireland you can cosplay as a politician while holding the most batshit beliefs possible and the media will fall over themselves to let you have a platform
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There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who will never see a football match again and our spineless coward of a Tánaiste @simonharrisireland.bsky.social thinks it would be too big of a burden on our lads to miss a single tournament
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who will never see a football match again and our spineless coward of a Tánaiste @simonharrisireland.bsky.social thinks it would be too big of a burden on our lads to miss a single tournament
please watch this, and think about the fact that the Irish government wants to fast-track the building of a LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary, bypass normal planning procedures and controls, and restrict the ability of any party to challenge them on it in the courts
I think you should show this film to all politicians in Germany who think that LNG is a great idea.
Even the trailer left me deeply affected, even though I already knew so much about it.
Germany is explicitly named as an externalizer of “death.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtA...
Even the trailer left me deeply affected, even though I already knew so much about it.
Germany is explicitly named as an externalizer of “death.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtA...
Gaslit Trailer
YouTube video by Greenpeace USA
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
please watch this, and think about the fact that the Irish government wants to fast-track the building of a LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary, bypass normal planning procedures and controls, and restrict the ability of any party to challenge them on it in the courts
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The Grimsby Town pitch was a *little* muddy as they lost to Wolves 1-0 in the FA Cup.
February 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The Grimsby Town pitch was a *little* muddy as they lost to Wolves 1-0 in the FA Cup.
he's a white supremacist in his bones and if you drive one of his cars or post on his website or use his broadband satellites you're as good as one yourself
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
he's a white supremacist in his bones and if you drive one of his cars or post on his website or use his broadband satellites you're as good as one yourself
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The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
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infra is red
ultra is violet
I could tell you more about the electromagnetic spectrum
but I don't want to spoil it
ultra is violet
I could tell you more about the electromagnetic spectrum
but I don't want to spoil it
February 14, 2026 at 12:22 PM
infra is red
ultra is violet
I could tell you more about the electromagnetic spectrum
but I don't want to spoil it
ultra is violet
I could tell you more about the electromagnetic spectrum
but I don't want to spoil it
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Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues.
It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues.
It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...
It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...