A #thread on how utterly useless Dublin City Council is at managing our city, in particular the public realm. No other major European city seems to get so much wrong, so often. I'm honestly not sure what Dubliners have done to deserve Councillors & a Council that are so incompetent.

🚨"Who exactly does the @MetPoliceUK work for ma'am? Our citizens, or Boris Johnson?" 🚨 (Location: New Scotland Yard. Sound on)

I’m this guy now ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🚨🚨 #BREAKING Cabinet plans to scrap most restrictions from tomorrow. 👩‍🎨 Towns and urban areas to be painted red 👩‍🦰 Hair to be let down 🌱 Mandatory sowing of wild oats to take place across the weekend 🛢 Barrels of laughs to be distributed 🐳 Whale of a time to be had

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Covid19 was up to 13 times deadlier than flu especially in over 50s when it first appeared, but immunity and Omicron made it like flu, although it’s still 2 times deadlier in over 60s.

"When all the traffic disappeared, you got this experiment in what is possible. There was a moment of reimagining our city. I think people are conscious that Dublin lets itself down." Street clutter should be easy to solve, but it's getting worse: thetimes.co.uk/article/b2c50b…

Amazing work from Dublin City Council here, whose ongoing efforts at gradually and deliberately disimproving every last aspect of our city's public realm are now at so advanced a stage that they are gaining notoriety in the foreign press. theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…

DCC’s world - thousands of bollards, signs, electrical boxes and over loaded bins, but no owner-approved wall art…

Some thoughts on the scenes we're seeing on social media of armed Russians, confronted by unarmed, protesting Ukrainians, being pushed back. Again, these are just insights from someone watching from afar, who just happens to know Ukrainians and Russians and Soviet mythology 1/

Many ask why the SAS planes are standing still. Why are the pilots frustrated? How to emphasize that the strike isn’t to demand more pay - but something completely different? #sas #flysas #strike #pilots #norskflygerforbund

In 2013, on average, 7 children and teens were shot dead in the US every day. I picked a random day that year and wrote about all the kids who who were gunned down. Today the average is 12. It's a disgrace. It is also the anniversary of their deaths. May they all rest in peace.

Brand-new space photo of Dublin. Interesting to see how the Liffey flows into the Bay, and out to the sea. Hi res: bit.ly/3PwHGwO European Space Agency

This time-lapse video shows how a stop motion clip is made: hours of work for 15 seconds of animation [📹Justin Rasch: buff.ly/3ZgGyRv]

Gorillaz got the "Clint Eastwood" beat from a preset on a 1980s portable electronic music instrument:

The possible threat of industrial action is on the cards after Aer Lingus pilots with IALPA rejected a pay proposal The Labour Court has recommended a hike of 9.25% Pilots say they haven't had a pay increase since 2019 and are looking for 23.8% Virgin Media News

Over the weekend, our members proudly picketed in solidarity with the pilots of Aer Lingus. Pilots around the world are united for fair wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job, and as the world’s largest pilot's union we support our colleagues at IALPA.