Ruarc Sorensen

Thirty-ish year old Irish Software Engineer

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@Clearpreso Where the M50 at?

[Ed Fidgeon-Kavanagh @Clearpreso]

@emilyross people don't realise the message it sends. Something along the lines of if your friend handed you a birthday card, and said "I wrote you a special message inside", but it's just the pre-written stock message that comes with the card

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@HMcEntee And then do what exactly?

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

Fish couldnt form an opinion about the movie he just watched and is looking for reviews online to at least understand the ending.

[Great British Getty Images @shitbritishpics]

Actor Jimmi Harkishin attends a party at The Imperial Hotel August 4, 2003 in Dundalk, Ireland. (2003)

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@fingalpimpernel "Chicken fillet rolls cost about three quid and pints were under a fiver. If you had €50 in your pocket, you felt like a rich man. Nightclubs were sticky and sleazy, but we had the run of the place." You can *feel* the Pulitzer already being awarded!

[Jason O’Mahony🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @jasonomahony]

The Marylou-Schrödinger Fiscal Paradox: the north of Ireland is chronically underfunded by the Brits yet will not cost the Irish taxpayer an extra cent in a United Ireland.

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@ProgressIreland Problem is that the impact is elastic relative to the wealth of the individual. Will €1000 mean much to a wealthy resident of Foxrock? I'd imagine pooling the money and, say, creating new park, tennis court etc would make people happier? Things they cannot "buy" individually

[Napaleo @newpeteV1]

@IrishPoliticsNL 506 charities registered in Donegal.

One for every 350 people.

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@danobrien20 So oddly my takeaway from the debate around this is that dominant media view is that prosperity is BAD. Feeling seems to be that the pie should stay small, but we ensure no one can build wealth, rather than increasing the size of the pie. Dominant narrative across the EU vs US

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

The cat tries to use telepathy to cheat on the test, but the duck didnt study either.

[Flying Couscous 🇫🇷 @flying_couscous]

Les 4 sont là, c'est vraiment impressionnant à voir

[👑 Queen the Notary 🖋️ @itsFATSbee]

@kitosan

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

Tired: district heating
Wired: district aircon

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@Keyes Probably your whole raison d'être, but a question: "How can Japan do things like this, and why can't we?"

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@Keyes This is the maddest aspect of current debate on Irish ISAs (or equivalent). We seem so unused to the idea that personal investment in equities can generate real wealth. Backing Irish companies *must* be better than just trusting our banks to decide!?

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@mcmnorris Totally agree. All of the successful models (Copenhagen, Vienna, etc) are realistic that tenents must contribute a fair share. We now have more cost rental here, but moving some of the cost rental into historical social housing thinking will be hard.

[Ruarc Sorensen @RuarcSorensen]

@ProgressIreland I don't see the desire to adopt "technocratic" approaches like this in Ireland? I think we're stuck with transport agencies begging the minister for all the money.