Dave Mathieson

@tinydbass.bsky.social

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Likes jazz, cycling and software development. Opinions my own only and don't reflect anyone I work for, know, am related to, make eye contact with.

A scene from Young Frankenstein where somebody says "werewolf?" after hearing a wolf howl, and the cart driver says "there wolf. there castle"
A screenshot of met.ie (Irish weather service) showing cold temperatures, wind and heavy rain in May
Old picture of an elderly man on bike
Screenshot of Met.ie weather page showing 28km/h easterly wind in Oranmore, Galway
Picture of woman on bike with caption "Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.'
Cartoon in which peasant is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and smartarse nerd replies "yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent"
joke old-fashioned poster from Viz magazine with an old woman and holding a baby, both smoking. Caption: "TABS...they're never too young to start. Doctors recommend weaning onto tabs at six months. Publlshed by the Beer, Tabs and Skittles Information Council"
Cartoon showing two women happily cycling in normal clothing in somewhere that looks like Amsterdam. One woman is saying to the other "if anyone proposed this in my town I'd kill them"
The vast majority of residents across the State’s five main cities want increased investment in cycling infrastructure, even when that results in less road space for cars, the NTA’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index has found.
It might even be worse than that. Making it more difficult to bring cases to judicial review is likely to reduce the kinds of challenge that you actually want to happen: those where there is genuine public opposition to a project, or where severe environmental danger has been ignored. But it won’t have anything like the same effect on cynical and strategic objections, brought by people whose real concern is property values, and whose budget to spend on procedural and legal battling is supported by those same property values.
A spoof advert from Viz comic for a service that teaches you how to walk like a Manc
Screenshot from Irish Independent with headline: "'We have to do everything to spare people that trauma': Taoiseach pledges 'renewed' focus on road safety following 190 traffic deaths in 2025"
Timeless by Goldie
A copy of "Gallivanting With Words (How the Irish speak English)" by Colm O'Regan
A picture of Dutch pro cyclist Mathieu Van Der Poel
An Apple II computer
realtime bus information showing a lot of cancelled buses for an already infrequent route that links on of Galway's main suburbs with the city center
A sandcrawler vehicle from Star Wars
Cover of "Four and More" album by Miles Davis
Apple 2 computer