Simon McGarr

Solicitor at https://mcgarrsolicitors.ie. 
Director at https://datacomplianceeurope.eu 
Writes newsletter https://thegist.ie
Art https://pixelfed.social/Tupp_ed

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2025-02-06 19:39:31

Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
You can watch the live totals for each country if you scroll down the page to the link for “View All Countries”
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

2025-01-18 09:16:43

What will happen to these hormone filled, juiced up, consequence insulated billionaire men when the first of them dies of something normal and incurable?
Will they panic, at the uncontrolled finality to their lives or imagine their peer’s death as a personal failing they don’t share?

2025-01-10 10:21:16

The problem with the Tory government being a decades-long parade of the grotesque is that we forget that those parade floats ground real people under their wheels.
https://mastodon.online/@Geri/113802980538184936

2025-01-01 19:12:11

The Dept of Symbolism putting out some hack work.
https://mastodon.social/@BNONews/113754283764179834

2024-12-19 07:26:46

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Looking forward to hearing of OpenAI’s response to the EU’s data protection regulators telling it to delete the ChatGPT models.

2024-12-19 07:25:59

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I’d say the list of potential regulator actions to deliver consequences for that unlawful processing of personal data as part of training data would chill the blood of any AI company.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/678/297/050/903/927/original/7708060599521f94.jpeg

2024-12-19 07:25:05

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You can read the post for the nuts and bolts but two main things jump out at me from this.
1) No large language model currently existing seems likely to have met the test for lawful processing of personal data.
2) The regulators plan on breaking these black boxes open to prove it/ find out

2024-12-19 07:18:37

Nobody asked for it, but I did it anyway.
A quick overview of the effect of yesterday’s EDPB Opinion (No 28/2024 for those keeping count) on the consequences for AI models built unlawfully using personal data.
https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2024/12/18/overview-on-edpb-opinion-28-2024-on-personal-data-in-ai-models/

2024-12-18 20:47:07

The possibility of my going to Charlotte, South Carolina in my middle future for a few days has emerged.
Please share literally any and all thoughts, knowledge, experience or good food places for this location if you are hiding them in your brains.

2024-12-16 22:37:28

Coffee sizing choices at the BounceBack Cafe on Thomas Street.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/664/894/061/819/882/original/1d5a798653dd54b1.jpeg

2024-11-29 09:20:12

Today is polling day in #GE24
Six constituencies have a risk of electing a far right headbanger to the last seat
To avoid, I recommend No 1 to
Dublin Bay North: John Lyons
Dublin Central: Gary Gannon
Cavan Monaghan: Pauline Tully
Dublin NW: Rory Hearn
Cork N Central: Mick Barry
Galway West: pic
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/565/499/932/606/956/original/50abb625624a166a.jpeg

2024-11-24 20:17:01

“voters see something about Harris in that video. He walks away from the woman when she questions his personal sense of his own virtue.
You can't talk to him unless you first acknowledge he is a good man. It is a low-key Trumpian trait in its self-centering.”
https://www.thegist.ie/campaign-gist-2/

2024-11-16 20:08:17

Hello fellow humans!
I have four tickets to go to see the famously good Talking Heads concert movie
Stop Making Sense
In the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield at 10.15pm
Tonight!
And I’m giving them away.
Maybe to you?

2024-11-13 17:57:34

Not arguing with the thrust of the post, but the suborning of the US Supreme Court means that *nothing* is illegal if the executive branch doesn’t want it to be.
https://mastodon.xyz/@hughrawlinson/113475192054162433

2024-11-09 22:04:58

“I think we should be looking at deportation more rather than free legal aid and prison, which some actually find quite comfortable”
I see. Thank you for illuminating your views, SF Integration Spokesperson. Deportation without legal representation. Got it.
https://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-immigration-2-6537275-Nov2024/

2024-11-09 03:09:09

Who says there’s no innovation these days?
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/450/794/667/477/845/original/02b612402a34884e.png

2024-11-08 09:44:02

At least Pandora had Hope at the bottom of her box.

2024-11-01 17:31:12

Here I am in 2019, warning that trying to build an internet regulator out from the BAI was a culture disaster.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/bai-not-appropriate-body-to-regulate-social-media-videos-data-compliance-europe-1.3935598
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/408/885/919/109/883/original/f35d19dadfc85a0f.jpeg

2024-10-30 09:10:14

Russia might want to think twice about introducing the idea of exponential sanctions.
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/113395556291599961

2024-10-20 08:06:29

Tom Baker, in the 1970s, asked about the idea of a woman playing the Doctor.
The answer (“a good idea”) to the question is then expanded to consider the culture of the BBC and then just men of 1970s Britain in general.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/338/717/632/580/596/original/1b9a107e99a2a16e.jpeg

2024-10-16 08:12:11

Imperial fantasies of dominence become extra excited -like water molecules as they heat- when there is a war.
Of course, you may see people gleefully calling for genocide. This is something of an easy tell.
But watch out also for people solemnly intoning that we must be take courageous, but hard, (unspecified) choices. These are also hoping people get murdered, while keeping a veneer of respectability.

2024-10-13 11:55:28

The promise of power can hold a political ship together as it approaches harbour. But once that mirage vanishes and everyone realises the ship is on the wilderness of the High Seas, the Captain has no promise left of loot to divvy up.
That’s when you may as well just mutiny or abandon ship.

2024-10-12 15:19:26

Today’s Gist on Tory Leadership Candidate Robert Jenrick
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-theatre-of-the-absurd/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/295/121/641/148/718/original/2948daec52569f8b.jpeg

2024-09-30 08:55:22

"the main reason for people presenting as homeless in Dublin this year is not that they were leaving direct provision or newly arrived from abroad, it’s because they were evicted. And they found themselves evicted because the Government lifted the eviction ban"
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/09/30/una-mullally-immigration-is-not-the-main-factor-driving-homelessness-evictions-are/

2024-09-23 23:36:16

Prompted by the Taoiseach saying harmful things about powerless people for personal gain
From April 2023
The Gist: Where did the houses go
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-where-did-the-houses-go/
On Fine Gael’s unique approach to just not building houses.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/189/491/034/000/940/original/077be1ad2f53a8af.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/189/491/317/622/710/original/177d8c9bb78d199a.jpeg

2024-09-11 11:29:45

The Govt has no plans for the 13 billion Apple windfall because the officialdom refused to acknowledge it acted wrongly and so would not allow plans where it lost that argument to be addressed.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0911/1469499-reaction-to-apple-tax-ruling/

2024-09-04 14:48:28

Musk's X announced it would feed Twitter users' content to train their Grok AI model.
This was illegal under EU law.
The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Today it folded.
Just in case you wondered how these things go.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/09/04/high-court-dispute-between-x-and-data-regulator-is-resolved/

2024-09-01 09:43:36

“there are two far-reaching planned codes-regulating on internet speech coming soon from Ireland.
Taken together, they may upturn many of the assumptions we have learned about using the Internet, not just in Ireland but also- as the Irish Regulations have effect on the huge tech platforms based here- across the whole EU.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-here-come-irelands-speech-police/

2024-08-31 21:19:28

Meanwhile, BlueSky is Brazil’s site now, everyone else just lives in it.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/058/720/218/632/768/original/28ab8117b94a0bcb.jpeg

2024-08-20 08:06:29

I would like to apologise for cycling and never having received a driving licence in the first place.
I am a burden on you all, as the Irish State’s absolutely car-brained latest messaging has informed me.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/993/316/497/292/479/original/92a0386f2e69d19d.jpeg

2024-08-18 10:11:29

Will someone please write the thing on the U.K. riots having been planned and modelled on the Dublin Nov riot because of their success at spooking the political system into anti-immigration rhetoric?
I do not want to. Let someone who is very good write it and then I can read it and nod and point at it.

2024-08-18 10:08:02

I recently discovered that this was not an “old timey movie camera” emoji and I have had to do a lot of reassessments of my correspondence as a result.
🫂

2024-08-17 15:01:20

“Both greasy strivers like Rufo and also your more warped and willful elected officials on the right all understand their jobs this way and behave accordingly. If they seem somehow unlike actual people, if they are too big and too mad and too much, it is because they are now full-time content creators, and so actually not quite like actual people at all.”
On Republicans becoming a party of content creators, not politics.
https://defector.com/men-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown

2024-08-11 23:18:12

I have bad news about newspaper websites.
https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers/112945934731330654

2024-08-05 00:23:44

Now this is something to look into. One may buy Facebook ads for all sorts of things- I’ve bought them to promote a book I published- but there are rules on funding political advertising.
https://www.thejournal.ie/josiah-burke-family-facebook-ads-enoch-burke-tds-cliips-6450558-Aug2024/

2024-08-04 12:52:08

Ireland’s political, policing and media responses since the Nov 2023 riots Dublin created a model for the U.K. riot tour of street Nazis.
As reported, Dublin’s Nazi nests even provided some of the provocateurs.

2024-08-02 21:24:44

Meanwhile, when it comes to US firms…
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112894499916418266
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/894/533/933/999/194/original/e2931e9244bc4fc7.jpeg

2024-08-01 20:08:07

Classic Gist: The Irish State announced its new plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU, amongst other mad things. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wtf-commission/

2024-07-05 21:08:16

Oh. A disappointing way to find out I wasn’t picked.
https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/112735759658034295

2024-07-04 21:53:26

I like that the U.K. governments issue an official list of stooges to be rewarded as they are thrown out of office.
Keeps everything nice and clear.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2024

2024-06-27 20:21:18

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@npub198t…hasj Clothes are very prone to this, I have noticed in recent years.

2024-06-24 06:31:47

This is an excellent piece by @npub1smd…655a in the Irish Times on the (designed) political effect of personal abuse.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/06/24/the-vile-abuse-of-eamon-ryan-has-chilling-effect-on-climate-action/

2024-06-22 17:43:37

Florida Cancels Culture
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/ron-desantis-veto-arts-funding-florida.html

2024-06-22 08:41:06

I have conscious memory of this change in Dublin’s weather since 1981 (when I started noticing things like weather).
It is, in case we ever lose focus on it, the main story of our lives- the backdrop against all the things we’ve seen and done and will see and do in the future.
This is bad.
#climatechange
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/659/376/518/715/915/original/55283abeaf907c69.png

2024-06-21 22:04:53

I have read this, and am unpersuaded by this explanation. https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112656785055031817

2024-06-21 06:46:28

Reddit’s positions were no-hopers. Tumblr wasn’t likely, but had some chance. But both missed the point that the definition used is hugely broad. Not only are they both captured but potentially scores more are too.
Including(whisper it) this place.
>>Reddit and Tumblr challenges against media regulator over online safety code dismissed
https://www.thejournal.ie/high-court-dismiss-reddit-tumblr-challenges-online-safety-code-6415273-Jun2024/

2024-06-19 10:18:54

Interesting from an Irish perspective. Only a few years since Minister O’Gorman argued in favour of sealing records of Mother and Baby homes for 30 years.
https://mastodon.world/@article19/112642558677876865

2024-06-18 18:28:29

If you have ever found yourself kicking your heels, at a loss for a decades long collection of Irish writing, a reminder that Tuppenceworth.ie is still online, over twenty years since it first appeared in some hand made html pages assembled using Dreamweaver.
From 2005:
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2005/04/25/latte-drinkers-and-racial-demagogues/

2024-06-13 22:41:48

New Gist: A Safe Pair of Hands
On the distractions of Just So stories about election results. And perhaps suggesting some uncomfortably basic alternatives.
This is the Gist:
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-safe-pair-of-hands/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/611/721/202/285/950/original/3ee33aa56775ca0d.jpeg

2024-06-11 19:35:38

Fellow spends years mocking and griping about people who ride bikes, only to find his political career determined by Green Party transfers.
PR-STV, the democratic Karma machine.

2024-06-09 20:49:59

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@npub1sfl…gczt That is lovely

2024-05-31 09:32:48

As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.
Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.
If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.

2024-05-29 19:35:46

I guess it’s only a matter of time before ChatGPT starts to tell us it can be legal to kill children.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112525718401042184

2024-05-28 10:17:53

https://labyrinth.zone/objects/f119f172-d61c-4c0c-ac5f-59148a4aecd5
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/518/199/303/612/632/original/b325874b2fcc8dd6.jpeg

2024-05-27 20:13:21

If you ever find yourself writing the sentence “It is possible to kill children legally” please never write another sentence again.
That’s you done now. No more need be heard from you.
If you publish the sentence, please go out of business.
There isn’t even

2024-05-23 20:30:24

An abstract painting
I called it Untitled 1
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/492/296/276/530/144/original/08e1ef7a64873e05.jpeg

2024-05-23 20:23:33

A drawing I did of my wife
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/492/269/311/874/583/original/a31f608c58c9eb49.jpeg

2024-05-23 08:01:18

This report says the U.K. data protection regulator is asking Microsoft questions (oh boy, are there questions) about their little spy camera that collects a record of your PC use. The product, called Recall, was announced as an exciting new part of Windows.
But Ireland’s DPC is the EU-wide regulator for Microsoft.
I want to hear from them, now, on what they are doing about this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

2024-05-22 17:38:31

I see.
“Ms Foley said she would consider bringing forward new laws that would ban sales to under-13s if a voluntary scheme is not successful.”
Thought experiment: how many *not on contract* (as no contracts with minors already) smartphones are currently *purchased by* children aged 12 and under?
This is just wind.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41400511.html

2024-05-21 09:17:57

Interesting piece of administrative information from TCD.
Poorly managed Institutions react to challenges with amazingly predictable emotional responses, following a pretty reliable model of threats, bluster and then collapse.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/478/327/453/762/367/original/d6fbea36c93f04e9.jpeg

2024-05-19 00:48:08

Saturday, sunshine and Holy Communions have combined to bring me multiple simultaneous competing neighbour back garden karaokes.

2024-05-09 07:17:29

#saturdaymug https://mastodon.social/@guncelawits/112401563460982442

2024-04-24 20:44:08

Ghost, the software system the Gist runs on has said it is going to build ActivityPub in, letting all you #mastodaoine subscribe to it directly here, and even comment. They even say they will, somehow, make people’s paid content work.
This is cracking news.
Aside: Leave Substack. If you don’t like Ghost, ButtonDown are also going to Federate. Pick one!
Ghost announcement:
https://activitypub.ghost.org

2024-04-20 13:28:41

You can tell the Old Testement is the product of a desert people, because when they tried to imagine the end of the world they went with “rained for forty days and forty nights”, which in Ireland is just called Spring.

2024-04-17 08:04:28

Cookie pop-ups are an irritation for the website visitor, but reflect choices made by the website’s owners.
Let’s take a look at the pop-up for daft.ie as an example of what the rarely-read text tells us.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/285/519/964/126/547/original/65d4b907b452ef68.jpeg

2024-04-16 00:46:13

Boggling, and yet completely unsurprising.
ComReg reveals Eircom manual instructing staff how to give customers the run-around so they couldn’t have complaints logged.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0415/1443631-courts-eir/

2024-04-13 08:10:13

If you mind a baby, people will have all sorts of ideas about what you should and shouldn’t do. Maybe they will be against soothers, or TV screens or, who knows, the sound of dice rattling.
Listen to suggestions, but let them settle gently like snow on you. Brush them off if you like.

2024-04-10 20:47:43

One of my quiet amusements when I go abroad alone is to visit the courts nearby.
Currently, the holder of the record for the friendliest court is the NY State Supreme Court, where a registrar and a judge spotted me looking incongruous sitting in the court and the registrar took me on a tour.

2024-04-09 19:56:22

Interesting, and persuasive from the point of view of Ireland- a nation intent on stretching the colonial language to fit.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112241992048040759

2024-04-06 07:08:29

One of Ireland’s unsung heroes is whatever genius comes up with new game show formats.
The Lyrics board (hangman-style blanked out lines. When you get it everyone in the room has a singalong)
Talkabout:
Ten hidden words on a topic. And, in one minute, you have to hit them all during an ad-libbed speech on that topic.

2024-03-28 18:49:44

Out for a sunset cycle.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/112/174/811/031/038/811/original/1d81554ccab20948.jpeg

2024-03-22 08:44:05

Hey, did you know that we have a media ecosystem unable to distinguish between large numbers and small numbers if the small numbers make a lot of noise?
https://mastodon.ie/@clickhere/112138418615160869

2024-03-10 12:47:07

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@npub15zu…s7lx #WolvesNow

2024-03-09 12:14:13

These votes both going down is a real pity. The family one was dragged asunder by the Care one.
But, really, the whole show was appallingly mismanaged. Even the practicallity of voting was awry. I was looking at two ballot papers without the question I was being asked to vote on in front of me.
Presumptious failures all over the place.

2024-03-08 12:14:14

New Gist: The Zugzwang Referendum
Ireland holds its head in its hands trying to pick a vote in today's referendums. This is the Gist.
(No moratorium on newsletters!)
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-zugzwang-referendum/

2024-03-05 09:16:28

“Sustrans surveyed a representative sample of more than 1,000 residents in each area, not just cyclists and walkers.
Across all five there was majority support for giving more space and investment to walking and cycling.
Most respondents were also in favour of 20 minute city initiatives to create communities with all services within easy reach and low traffic neighbourhoods.”
Media noise is not the same as a reflection of popular opinion. https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0305/1435992-walking-wheeling-cycling/

2024-03-05 07:15:49

Hello Roku, and welcome your premier of “An Exciting Adventure With The EU Unfair Contract Terms Directive” https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/112039897343180175

2024-02-27 09:50:45

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@npub198t…hasj Then I shall choose to count.

2024-02-27 09:49:54

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@npub198t…hasj Do I count?

2024-02-25 10:53:28

New Gist: Facing Facial Recognition Down
Just how badly did the Oireachtas Justice Committee hearing go for the proposed introduction of facial recognition tech to An Gardaí?
"One way to gauge if a piece of legislation has been successfully drafted is whether the state's data regulator, civil society, a wealth of leading international academic experts and the representative for an entire legal profession comes in and points out that it would be illegal. "
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-facial-recognition-technology-doesnt-work/

2024-02-22 08:47:10

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@npub15zu…s7lx More ‘People Behind Desks’.

2024-02-14 08:55:37

The other big news from yesterday was that it turns out the two newest Data Protection Commissioners have been appointed.
It turns out that the top global experts were both already working as civil servants for the Irish State.

2024-02-13 23:34:05

I have been to contentious Oireachtas Committees and constructive ones. This one was definitely a Constructive meeting.
Both Gov and non-Gov representatives quizzed the panel of speakers, including the Garda commissioner, on both the practicalities of facial recognition technology and the Legals.

2024-02-12 21:44:10

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@npub15zu…s7lx V amusing follow up.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-coimisiun-na-mean-is-big-mad/

2024-02-12 21:41:38

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@npub15zu…s7lx We’re ahead! https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wtf-commission/

2024-02-10 20:17:30

An excellent thread there from @npub193f…u6xr to which I would just add- I think there was a visceral horror in discovering that institutional power literally counted for nothing on Mastodon.ie and that, such power as existed was in the hands of people who were completely outside of that institutional power framework.

2024-02-08 13:07:47

Just checking in on the state of the UK:
I see.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/111/896/013/264/594/670/original/88988a759666a8e9.jpeg

2024-02-06 00:46:15

A while back I was contacted by someone who had been a victim of fraud. Using the Art 15 GDPR procedure and expert assessment, we were able to demonstrate the bank had been negligent (no, no details).
We got back the significant sum which they had lost- from the bank.
The bank denied liability - until they didn’t.
A good few months work.

2024-02-04 19:36:20

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@npub198t…hasj I would be very slow to recommend my job, but it is heartening to know others have a less alloyed experience.

2024-02-04 19:30:02

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@npub198t…hasj this is an excellent presentation (though a number of slides would not apply to me)

2024-02-03 12:36:55

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@npub178h…hyhr I love these. Can’t pass one without wanting to buy it. Similarly, I love little boxes of movable type letters rubber stamps for printing. Irresistible. So far, having never needed to write a ransom note, I have never found any use for them. But I do not care.

2023-12-22 18:49:10

White House Declaring an end to the decades-old war on weed.
https://mastodon.social/@MattHodges/111624290936045566

2023-12-22 10:51:28

Someone has decided to make their dog a Cover Star and then stick them up around the city.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/111/623/686/352/875/631/original/25fb0726c46adb79.jpeg

2023-12-22 08:50:14

Friends,
As someone who has a small newsletter that I am proud of, may I ask you- yes, you, Substack customer-to go to any of the alternatives.
1) Making money from publishing Nazis makes you a Nazi publisher. Not complicated.
2) That company is likely going to go pop, and you don’t want to be there when it does.
3) If you want to send your messages for free, use Wordpress.com’s newsletter. If you want to charge, GhostPro or beehiiv are cheaper and less all-in on Nazis.
https://ghost.org/concierge/

2023-12-21 19:54:42

Today’s office Christmas dinner ended with a dessert which could never be described as a mere trifle.
(The Pig’s Ear, Nassau Street. Unqualified recommendation)
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2023-12-19 09:43:09

If you have children and would like a *different* set of witch and wizard books for them, I am here to help.
First up, The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
This has the added benefit of introducing all the other books Diana Wynne Jones wrote, which are also amazing. Read them all.
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2023-12-18 23:22:48

“You see, I met a very short man at a crossroads who told me he could grant wishes and I’d always wanted to be a movie director…”
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2023-12-16 21:05:47

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@npub178h…hyhr I loved the novelisation of the Time Monster as a child, and have never seen the series. Let me me know if it picks up.

2023-12-16 10:42:38

The primary issue I have with the Stephen’s Green Centre demolishment is that the shops on the top floor currently have such little footfall that exceedingly niche and odd shops can afford to live there, moments from Grafton Street. If you need to buy a chess set made of bamboo or a really long legged trouser, you will make the trip in the lift.
This is the very thing the landlords hate.

2023-12-14 22:24:31

Given they both share a building, I wonder how Met Eireann and the Klingon High Council get on in the canteen.
(The Klingons get it for the night shift)
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