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Retired twitter a/c of an Irish, cynical, freewheeling, engineer. “Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet” - E.Musk Unfollow here = followed on 🦋

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Joined December 2010
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Replying to @VM_Phil
Hah! James Burke - hold my thermos: (Connections, Ep8) – at Cape Canaveral, FL
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With only 2 days till voting in #GE2024 @sinnfeinireland drops to the worst main party after selling out to Russia. They reject the smaller country fighting off the large invader from next door? Ireland's problems pale in comparison #StandWithUkraine️ nitter.cf/CormacS63/status/18589…
“All sides must cease current unlimited supply of weapons into Ukraine which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives” These are the words of the Kremlin AND the words of Sinn Fein This policy would leave🇺🇦defenceless at mercy of Putin who would wipe 🇺🇦off the face of the earth.
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Dublin has changed a lot since the last time they were here in 2003, but someone needs to tell Armagh that the Alfie Byrne cyclepaths are no longer a bus park. The brand new sections are being destroyed by busses today #AllIrelandFinal #freethecyclelanes
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What is it with @FineGael and killing active travel plans? @AoibhinnTormey tried to remove a cyclepath before it was built, in favour of illegal parking in Howth. Now @EmerHigginsTD wants to kill a twice-agreed transport plan in favour of the minority, car-parking lobby? #shame
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Beautiful day in #Greystones. Even got to tell two ‘Irish Freedom Party’ canvassers to Fuck Off #SorryNotSorry
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I'd like to acknowledge Elmo Muskrat for reminding me why #Wikipedia is so good, and how he has turned this this sometimes useful, micro-posting tool into a steaming pile of 💩
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Connolly Station: both up escalators are broken with no sign of repair nor signage directing people to the only working lift the far side of the LUAS. (Other lift being replaced) Do better ⁦@IrishRail⁩ Why don’t you reverse the working down escalators for customers?
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The sight from the Seán O’Casey Bridge at 9am today. #viewfromabike – at Dublin City, Ireland
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Can someone run up a quick script to load these images rather than that shite #X? abs.twimg.com/responsive-web… abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitt… abs.twimg.com/responsive-web…
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Whatcha up to (again)? Oh, just in the local train station where people can register & engrave their bike's details and see all of the many things the local advocacy group are proactive about @DubCityCouncil, @IrishCycle, @CC37fub, #france , #tours nitter.cf/r0thar/status/12010782…
Whatcha up to? Oh, just in the local community hall where people can buy, sell, try out or repair their #bikes for a whole day. @DubCityCouncil, @dublincycling should we try this? #Paris
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I won't speak ill of the dead, I'll leave it up to the Italians in Ireland who erected this little monument to Berlusconi in Temple Bar: nitter.cf/r0thar/status/38905727…
Political Discourse in the Italian Quarter #Dublin #Berlusconi @VillaCertosa
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I would like to thank @jimmy_wales for reminding me why I donate to @Wikipedia and not to a checkmark that is now a scarlet letter. This site has descended to being a danger to democracy worldwide.
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For #bikelock security, @ABUS_uk and @ABUSusa are going to have a bad social media day today. Do not buy combination locks for your bikes, they can be brute-force decoded, or worse, just looked at, like this badly designed U-lock. youtube.com/watch?v=WuBS3xYf…
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Some #bikelock ‘fun’: I’ve never cut an ‘amored cable’ lock before so curious to see how long it would last against a cheap, battery powered tool from a German discount supermarket. I reckon I could halve the time with practice ⁦@stolenbikesdub⁩ ⁦@IrishCycle⁩
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"If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport" Stigler “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a #perfect plan next week” Patton "The best is the enemy of the good" Voltaire "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." Shakespeare
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Worrying amount of snow and sleet in #DublinAirport this morning. All earlier flights are delayed and nothing has taken off yet 6am. I’ve had this situation before, no one tells us how many hours delay there will be because they don’t know themselves. 😱#DUB
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Replying to @X
@Twitter appears to be creaking at the seams. An interesting surprise this morning, no tweets from anyone I follow. #TwitterDown
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No car interiors were harmed in the recycling of the Xmas tree. #betterbybike
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“So, how’s the sea swimming going?” “Sea? Swimming?” #StatusOrange
Me showing visitors my favourite building in Trinity College Dublin... #MuseumBuilding #TCD #disenchanted
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