CALL OUT: Pre-Loved Play Doctor Kits Needed!
Our Teddy Bear Hub is nearly ready to open its doors, a magical space where little ones help care for their cuddly patients through empathy, imagination, and play.
We're on the lookout for:
Doctor kits
Stethoscopes, bandages, hospital-themed toys
Anything that helps our teddies feel better!
Have something to spare? Let us know! Your preloved toys can spark big moments of kindness, care and creativity.
Sozialgericht Hamburg: auch Geflüchtete haben Anspruch auf menschenwürdiges Leben. Merz sollte draufschauen!
Der Versuch, #Dublin-Geflüchteten alle Leistungen zu streichen, ist rechtswidrig.
Danke @Freiheitsrechte für den Kampf gegen Entrechtung und Ignoranz!
https://freiheitsrechte.org/ueber-die-gff/presse/pressemitteilungen-der-gesellschaft-fur-freiheitsrechte/pm-erfolg-gegen-leistungsausschluss
https://www.europesays.com/2005174/ The fracturing of Ireland’s far right – The Irish Times #ConorMcgregor #dublin #ireland #JustinBarrett #TuckerCarlson
Good. Fuck you, Sinn Féin, and your continued chauvinism and bigotry.
"Sinn Féin faces ban from Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin march after statement from party's health spokesperson."
https://www.thejournal.ie/trans-and-intersex-pride-sinn-fein-ban-6681254-Apr2025/
https://www.europesays.com/2002393/ Deep-cover Soviet spy in Ireland posed as travelling salesman and chess buff – The Irish Times #austria #Chess #dublin #fermanagh #ireland #Russia #UnitedStates #VladimirPutin
https://taz.de/Dublin-Ueberstellungen/!6079240/ #Dublin-Überstellungen
#Abschiebungen nach #Griechenland wieder möglich
Bislang wurden fast keine #Flüchtlinge nach Griechenland zurückgeschickt. Das #Bundesverwaltungsgericht stellte nun fest, dass dort keine Verelendung alleinstehenden, männlichen, gesunden Flüchtlingen drohe keine Verelendung, keine extreme materielle Not. (...) Möglichkeit durch Arbeit Geld zu verdienen, insbesondere in der #Schattenwirtschaft, also in der #Schwarzarbeit.
Or get down there, if you're into it: he's asking students about J1 visas and the USI's statement issued today.
Beware! Newstalk's Henry Keane is prowling DCU's Glasnevin campus.
I'm still finishing up the slides for my talk that I'll be giving next week at DjangoCon Europe 2025 
I've got some music playing in the background from Irish bands that I've always listened to: U2, The Cranberries, Van Morrison 
I try to connect with Ireland and Dublin through music 
Is this something you do before a trip or a conference? 
BTW I wait for you for my talk 
https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/25/djangocon-europe-2025/
Broken tech, torn clothes, wobbly furniture?
Fix it at the FREE Repair Café this Sat (19 Apr) at TOG Hackerspace, between 2–6pm! 
Volunteers from @tog will help you repair your stuff — no experience needed!
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-cafe-tickets-1277906194829?aff=oddtdtcreator #RepairCafe #Dublin
Now listening to Emily Duffy from Hope & Courage Collective talking about reporting the far right’s tactics and talking points.
At the Freelance Forum conference in Dublin about to listen to Karlin Lillington’s session “Skynet for Journalism? Dealing with ‘Artificial Intelligence’”
#Ireland - The rise of repair cafes: ‘It’s not sustainable to keep buying new stuff’
A resurgent repair culture has a bottom-up energy, but change is also coming from the top, with the EU’s Right to Repair Directive
by Sylvia Thompson
Mon Jan 20 2025 - 05:00
"At repair cafes across the island of Ireland, volunteers fix small pieces of furniture, household electrical appliances and clothing at community venues for free. This movement, which started about 10 years ago – but stalled during the Covid-19 pandemic – is gathering pace again as a kickback against the perils of #overconsumption and as a response to #environmental and cost-of-living crises.
"Tomorrow afternoon, in an industrial unit in #Dublin12, a repair cafe will take place, a community event in which a group of volunteer fixers will repair everything from broken toasters, kettles, coffee machines and air fryers to garments needing new zips or buttons.
"The #DublinMakerRepairCafe in Unit 2B, Motor City, Kylemore Road, #Dublin 12, is one of a number of repair cafe gatherings held throughout the island. Volunteer #fixers also show up for repair events organised in "#CommunityCentres, #libraries and third-level colleges.
" 'I’d do a repair cafe every weekend if I had enough volunteers. I can’t meet the demand from libraries, county councils and community groups,' says Jeffrey Roe, a software and hardware engineer who also runs Tog Hackerspace, which hosts the D12 repair cafes four times a year.
"He says there are three types of people who turn up with broken items to be repaired for free at these community events.
" 'There are the environmentally conscious people who want to get things fixed rather than consume more valuable resources by purchasing new things,' says Roe. 'There are people who want things fixed for sentimental reasons – say a food mixer their mother used or a toy they played with that they want to give to their children. And then, there are the cost-conscious people who find the cost of getting something new too high.' "
#RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#RepairCafésIreland #SolarPunkSunday
They have some pretty cool illusions at World of Illusions in #Dublin. This one’s a black and white photo with a coloured grid superimposed. You perceive the image in colour. (Zoom in to see the details.)
The tearooms that Dublin City Council built in Palmerston Park have been finished for months now with no sign of a tenant and the council won't open the toilets to the public without a tenant there to look after them. #Rathmines #Dublin @dublininquirer
Samuel Beckett claimed that he was born on 13th April 1906, Good Friday, in Foxrock, County Dublin. His birth certificate says that he was born on 13th May.
He was awarded the the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Drop-off points in 
Mask up 
