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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

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Ti Gyenbo Gréviste. Beltalowda. Insulaire. @belovedyemaya.blacksky.app · 10h

Tous ces enfants à Gaza qui ont des maladies des peau, des irritations, des problèmes respiratoires à cause de la pollution, à force de dormir sur du sable, à cause des fumées de cuisson, des poussières de bombardements, tous ceux morts de chaud ou de froid...
C'est de la torture collective.

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flowers (is Very Aware of spina bifida) @kittenfurcoat.bsky.social · 10h

if you’re doing any in-person sex work, it’s important to know what popular models of these glasses look like; hell, inspect the client’s glasses if you want to. this shit is awful.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

Cool how one of the most prevalent tech stories now is “here’s how to be a creep and/or convincing fraud.”

How I Used Smart Glasses to Trick a Bartender Into Giving Me a Free Drink

How smart glasses can be used to con, cheat, and manipulate—and how to spot if someone is doing it.

lifehacker.com

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 19h

"...trying to read votes covered in overt racism and ones that wrote-in Elvis Presley as making the same political point is simply not a credible narrative. And it shouldn't be given any credibility just because the people who want to make it do so standing on top of their very large handbags."

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

New Gist, In which I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...

Catherine Connolly: What do I know?

Back at the start of these Gists I said that Catherine Connolly was having a mare of a campaign. This, of course, was because I am an idiot. And, in this case, I was a particularly shameful kind of idiot. Like the most flabby-minded middle aged golf bore at the end of the club bar, I mistook my media diet for reality. Shame on me.

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Chris B. @tenderchris.bsky.social · 1d

Please kill me

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 11h

Irish media outlets should be reflecting on how they have a single transferable article that all their various competing columnists are sharing and what that implies about the breadth of their actual contribution to the public

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 12h

Fintan O'T says the President has "a hollow crown" and "meagre mandate"

He doesn't compare turnout from past elections, which is wise as those facts would spoil the desired effect.

I've nit experienced an election here where so much effort was expended on day 1 to delegitimise the result
#áras25

Connolly cannot be unaware that she was also soundly trounced by the real winner: indifference. Hers is a hollow crown. For after this unprecedented election, a very large body of the Irish citizenry is left feeling un-presidented.

Most of the electorate was insufficiently enthused by any of the three candidates to bother voting. Add in the huge number who spoiled their votes, plus those who gave their number one to Gavin as a protest against the poor range of options on offer, and the mandate for the new first citizen looks bleakly meagre

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

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Your Amazon driver may start showing up with smart glasses on - why that's a good thing

The glasses can help you get your packages quicker, while keeping drivers safer.

www.zdnet.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

The key thing here where she observes that there was unity and purpose in hounding out the left but now that’s done, there’s just… nothing there. And that’s true, there are few ideas, there’s no project and no purpose beyond sustaining themselves in office while snagging a sweet post-politics gig.

$The Labour right is fracturing The party's right wing won the peace after the Corbyn wars. But do they know what they want now? By Morgan Jones$

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

Really not going to get into it, but in 2025 it should be obvious that giving creepy-ass companies more data on you, even data you consider *innocuous*, is a very bad idea. The aggregation of said data, the assumptions made about you, and how that will be used to your detriment are well documented

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 18h

Nobody is saying that a coordinated effort by the far-right doesn't warrant further attention. It's a growing problem that many of us have been warning about for years. But the predictability of the pivot to centering right-wing anger at a moment when empathy and dignity won out is depressing.

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 20h

100% correct. These ludramáns have had seven years to organize themselves to get a nomination on the ballot. That's plenty of time to find like-minded small-minded public reps to support their candidates
#aras25

Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 21h

Recent Aras elections saw multiple candidates get through process via Oireachtas or local authority support - 1997 had 5 candidates, 2011 had 7 and 2018 had 6. There is no need to change the system because the 2025 motley crew were late to process, poor quality or not serious about running at all.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 22h

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Oireachtas may have to look at changing the process by which a person gets on the ballot in presidential elections, which he described as "restrictive".
jrnl.ie/6856687

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 17h

Reform’s claims keep colliding with reality:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6750qjp9vo

Worcestershire County Council considering 10% tax rise

The county council is asking people for opinions on large tax rises next year to cover deficits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · Jun 19

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 1d

I think about this a lot.

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lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social · 19h

Yes! This campaign's visuals were thar barr! Just the perfect mix of traditional & modern, colours sublime, font go hiontach, knotwork mo chroí
Only bum note was the posters with the grey background
More of this please
#aras25 #áras25

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 22h

Irish shopfronts, Celtic symbols and the tri-colour were among 26-year-old Anna Cassidy's inspirations for the Connolly campaign. jrnl.ie/6853384

Designing a winning campaign: We spoke to the 26-year-old behind Catherine Connolly's graphics

Irish shopfronts, Celtic symbols and the tri-colour were among Anna Cassidy’s inspirations.

jrnl.ie

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 18h

Our politicians cannot ignore the spoiled votes. But that doesn’t mean we should change policies to include their demands, it means that progressive and centrist politicians should take on and combat the lies that has made those voters feel that way
#spéirgorm #áras25

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 22h

So it wasn't considered politically sensitive when he met Eugene Terr'Blanche, Daniella Weiss, the Westboro Baptist Church, or Californian neo-Nazis? I wonder what that tells us

Bray @front-line.bsky.social · 22h

If you weren't already boycotting #BritishAirways here's another reason:
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview

Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 21h

Just pointing out like an awful pedant that this isn't daylight savings time. The summer is daylight savings time. We have returned to standard time. And I love it.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21h

What if your entire society had been designed to deliver power to you and then, across a short trip of decades it all went away?

This is the common experience of church moaners here and white racists in the US.

In the UK they didn’t lose power, they just went mad at the thought of it happening.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h

Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training.

Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.

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Sarah @sarahskeeter.bsky.social · 21h

Tech bros looking at the fact that some fields have a "biggest contributor listed first" convention and some have a "biggest contributor listed last" convention and coming up with a lazy, useless way of addressing that seems very much on brand

Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 22h

This also totally fails to account for different fields having different norms. In astronomy, the last author slot is meaningless (and is almost certainly someone who didn’t contribute all that much). 🔭🧪

Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 1d

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

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Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 22h

This also totally fails to account for different fields having different norms. In astronomy, the last author slot is meaningless (and is almost certainly someone who didn’t contribute all that much). 🔭🧪

Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 1d

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

www.nature.com

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 21h

Both parties routinely make promises on immigration that they just can't keep, refusing at all times to engage with any kind of policy complexity that might offend what they imagine popular sentiment to be

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