Donagh Ó hArgáin (sé/é)
@donagh.bsky.social
anarchitect/academic:
socio-spatial equity +
regenerative tourism-futures.
*Rotterdam or anywhere
Erasmus Universiteit - Hogeschool Inholland
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socio-spatial equity +
regenerative tourism-futures.
*Rotterdam or anywhere
Erasmus Universiteit - Hogeschool Inholland
oifig.eu linkedIn.com/in/donagh
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
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A landlord has appealed the council's refusal to scrap a Newmarket market space. If it can’t use the spot instead for a convenience shop, it’s just going to have to let it lie vacant, its appeal said. dublininquirer.com/2...
Landlord appeals council refusal to scrap Newmarket market space - Dublin Inquirer
If it can’t use the spot instead for a convenience shop, it’s just going to have to let it lie vacant, its appeal said.
dublininquirer.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A landlord has appealed the council's refusal to scrap a Newmarket market space. If it can’t use the spot instead for a convenience shop, it’s just going to have to let it lie vacant, its appeal said. dublininquirer.com/2...
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Vacant and derelict properties need to be seized and refurbished. Emergency measures.
More than 14,500 vacant properties identified in Dublin city centre
More than 14,500 vacant properties identified in Dublin city centre
New figures from An Post’s data company GeoDirectory show a fifth of the buildings have been vacant for more than four years
www.irishtimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Vacant and derelict properties need to be seized and refurbished. Emergency measures.
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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"The couple behind the Dublin Inquirer on keeping “a terrible idea” alive for 10 years"
For love and local news: The couple behind the Dublin Inquirer on keeping "a terrible idea" alive for 10 years - The Currency
The seeds of the Dublin Inquirer were planted at a dinner party in Kyrgyzstan in 2009. Sam Tranum was teaching journalism at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek when a colleague invited...
thecurrency.news
February 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"The couple behind the Dublin Inquirer on keeping “a terrible idea” alive for 10 years"
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These wonderful buildings were funded and built by communities. We need a joined up approach with the state and religious communities to plan for new, appropriate re-use that is mindful of the past but continues to serve communities in new ways.
‘It will be deeply sad’: Monks reflect on closure of Waterford monastery after almost 200 years
‘It will be deeply sad’: Monks reflect on closure of Waterford monastery after almost 200 years
Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and will close this weekend
www.irishtimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
These wonderful buildings were funded and built by communities. We need a joined up approach with the state and religious communities to plan for new, appropriate re-use that is mindful of the past but continues to serve communities in new ways.
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The original inspiration for the neighbourhood mapping project was this @claudiadalby.bsky.social article (dublininquirer.com/2021/09/29/i...) and this animation by the late Nick Perry (@historyofstokey.bsky.social) of 80 people's drawings of the boundaries of Stoke Newington...
January 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The original inspiration for the neighbourhood mapping project was this @claudiadalby.bsky.social article (dublininquirer.com/2021/09/29/i...) and this animation by the late Nick Perry (@historyofstokey.bsky.social) of 80 people's drawings of the boundaries of Stoke Newington...
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They should invent a life that isn't spent in daily worry that you're not doing enough.
January 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
They should invent a life that isn't spent in daily worry that you're not doing enough.
Listening to a podcast and getting triggered by work guilt every time I hear the word research. #academicchristmas
December 27, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Listening to a podcast and getting triggered by work guilt every time I hear the word research. #academicchristmas
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Hard to keep track of how many countries “the only democracy in the Middle East” is bombing
Netanyahu warns Yemen airstrikes will continue after WHO chief caught up in airport attack – Middle East crisis live
Netanyahu warns Yemen airstrikes will continue after WHO chief caught up in airport attack – Middle East crisis live
Head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was at Yemen’s international airport when it was hit
Here are some of the latest images coming out of Yemen following the deadly Israeli airstrikes yesterday:
Welcome back to the…
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Hard to keep track of how many countries “the only democracy in the Middle East” is bombing
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Heather Marsh may just have some of the most important political/ social ideas that most people are unaware of.
“Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity.”
#BindingChaos #HeatherMarsh
#BindingChaos #HeatherMarsh
December 15, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Heather Marsh may just have some of the most important political/ social ideas that most people are unaware of.
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French cities with higher supply elasticity see lower price growth. This variation in supply elasticity is explained by variation in the restrictiveness of local land-use regulations.
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 AM
French cities with higher supply elasticity see lower price growth. This variation in supply elasticity is explained by variation in the restrictiveness of local land-use regulations.
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Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact that includes Japan, Australia and Canada.
Britain joins trans-Pacific pact in biggest post-Brexit trade deal
The accession means Britain will be able to apply CPTPP trade rules and lower tariffs with eight of the 11 existing members.
buff.ly
December 15, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact that includes Japan, Australia and Canada.
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Close-ups — this is really quite lovely
December 8, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Close-ups — this is really quite lovely
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I got a paper back from an academic publisher a week ago that had clearly been copy-edited by AI. It took three hours to unpick the issues it had caused and the errors it had introduced.
It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.
It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.
November 25, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I got a paper back from an academic publisher a week ago that had clearly been copy-edited by AI. It took three hours to unpick the issues it had caused and the errors it had introduced.
It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.
It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.
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The FINAL installment of “Field Notes: Repair" is out now, featuring dispatches from people studying, thinking about & enacting repair around the world.
The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.
Browse the series:
The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.
Browse the series:
November 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
The FINAL installment of “Field Notes: Repair" is out now, featuring dispatches from people studying, thinking about & enacting repair around the world.
The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.
Browse the series:
The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.
Browse the series:
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Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct against #Gaza.
Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide ... youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU...
Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide ... youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU...
Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct a...
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January 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct against #Gaza.
Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide ... youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU...
Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide ... youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU...
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"A lot of people invest in what they can identify with,... and when you're in a space where so many of the investors and so many of the tech creators and developers are male, I think there's probably the teenage girls space is the hardest for many [men in tech] to identify with."
Why Won't Silicon Valley Take Teen Girls Seriously?
Young women can make or break tech products, so why doesn't Silicon Valley respect them?
www.bylinebyline.com
January 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
"A lot of people invest in what they can identify with,... and when you're in a space where so many of the investors and so many of the tech creators and developers are male, I think there's probably the teenage girls space is the hardest for many [men in tech] to identify with."
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this is, de-facto, a total ban on gender-affirming care in the state of Ohio.
if all gender affirming care for every patient, adult or child, requires a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, and bioethicist, there will, quite simply, BE no gender-affirming care.
if all gender affirming care for every patient, adult or child, requires a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, and bioethicist, there will, quite simply, BE no gender-affirming care.
Breaking: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) bans, by executive order, gender-affirming surgery for minors, effective immediately. The move followed last week's veto of a broader bill. He also announced two proposed rules that will apply to all care, including adults. substack.com/profile/2269...
January 5, 2024 at 6:20 PM
this is, de-facto, a total ban on gender-affirming care in the state of Ohio.
if all gender affirming care for every patient, adult or child, requires a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, and bioethicist, there will, quite simply, BE no gender-affirming care.
if all gender affirming care for every patient, adult or child, requires a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, and bioethicist, there will, quite simply, BE no gender-affirming care.
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December 8, 2023 at 5:48 PM
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I wrote a piece about the idiocy of figures within the Irish media conflating the left and far right, back when the left were being blamed for far right protests outside the Dail. I'd forgotten its closing lines.
This was ten weeks ago. I present it now without comment.
This was ten weeks ago. I present it now without comment.
December 8, 2023 at 11:39 AM
I wrote a piece about the idiocy of figures within the Irish media conflating the left and far right, back when the left were being blamed for far right protests outside the Dail. I'd forgotten its closing lines.
This was ten weeks ago. I present it now without comment.
This was ten weeks ago. I present it now without comment.
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Every time I say “this is why we can’t have nice things” I need to remind myself that “this” is probably “private equity.”
A private equity firm recently bought overdrive, the company that manages the ebook rights for libraries, so you can imagine how that's going
December 6, 2023 at 12:38 AM
Every time I say “this is why we can’t have nice things” I need to remind myself that “this” is probably “private equity.”