AveTeresa
@aveteresa.bsky.social
I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found.
Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive.
Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive.
Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
David Norris told me I have the soul of a poet.
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
David Norris told me I have the soul of a poet.
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
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🏗️“David McWilliams’s characterisation of lawyers as “talkers” rather than “doers”
He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🏗️“David McWilliams’s characterisation of lawyers as “talkers” rather than “doers”
He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
He decries legal process & points to Chinese projects. Four bridges collapsed in China in 2024 killing 42.. In 2024 Ireland recorded its lowest-ever number of workplace fatalities”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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When I swim I look like a knobbly beach ball. People often comment on my buoyish gourd looks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
When I swim I look like a knobbly beach ball. People often comment on my buoyish gourd looks.
Like, it used to be “pic or it didn’t happen”, now it will be “3 unimpeachable eye witnesses or it didn’t happen”.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Like, it used to be “pic or it didn’t happen”, now it will be “3 unimpeachable eye witnesses or it didn’t happen”.
The jiggery-pokery with AI images makes a text-based social media platform all the more loveable to me. And like, be fussy! If the thought of sharing a beverage with them IRL has no appeal, don’t follow them. Block early, block often - you’ll still meet interesting people from all around the world.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The jiggery-pokery with AI images makes a text-based social media platform all the more loveable to me. And like, be fussy! If the thought of sharing a beverage with them IRL has no appeal, don’t follow them. Block early, block often - you’ll still meet interesting people from all around the world.
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It continues to be fucking maddening to me that we actually *do* have a technical solution to the problem of not being able to tell if an image is AI generated/edited (the Content Credentials standard that digitally signs content), but neither Apple or Google have bothered to properly implement it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It continues to be fucking maddening to me that we actually *do* have a technical solution to the problem of not being able to tell if an image is AI generated/edited (the Content Credentials standard that digitally signs content), but neither Apple or Google have bothered to properly implement it.
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Nobody will believe anything anymore, and I don't think that the destruction of trust will be a benign development.
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Nobody will believe anything anymore, and I don't think that the destruction of trust will be a benign development.
What would I do without this bot? Always there for me when times get hard [which seems - and not just for me - to be quite often these past 10 years or so (for starters, glares at Brexit & Trump, those who empowered, those who exploited)].
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
What would I do without this bot? Always there for me when times get hard [which seems - and not just for me - to be quite often these past 10 years or so (for starters, glares at Brexit & Trump, those who empowered, those who exploited)].
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I wrote back then that the social web is arguably the most powerful medium to effectively disseminate propaganda in human history. And that letting such limited, self-serving individuals have this much concentrated power and influence was never going to end well.
February 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I wrote back then that the social web is arguably the most powerful medium to effectively disseminate propaganda in human history. And that letting such limited, self-serving individuals have this much concentrated power and influence was never going to end well.
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For those who don't know: adding "-ai" to any search will give you non-ai answers.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
For those who don't know: adding "-ai" to any search will give you non-ai answers.
D’you know what’s really annoying me. I open a pic on my phone to show someone, I try to zoom in on the detail I want them to see and I CAN’T! A function I’ve had for years and use multiple times a day is gone for a prompt to ‘Edit with AI’ - I DON’T WANT TO EDIT, I WANT TO ZOOM!
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
D’you know what’s really annoying me. I open a pic on my phone to show someone, I try to zoom in on the detail I want them to see and I CAN’T! A function I’ve had for years and use multiple times a day is gone for a prompt to ‘Edit with AI’ - I DON’T WANT TO EDIT, I WANT TO ZOOM!
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The cables have been co-opted into a discourse that doesn’t respect their marine, technical and material realities. It’s made easy because the general media audience doesn’t know much about them.
But honestly, once you know even 3 or 4 things about cables, esp materially, it all sounds silly
But honestly, once you know even 3 or 4 things about cables, esp materially, it all sounds silly
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The cables have been co-opted into a discourse that doesn’t respect their marine, technical and material realities. It’s made easy because the general media audience doesn’t know much about them.
But honestly, once you know even 3 or 4 things about cables, esp materially, it all sounds silly
But honestly, once you know even 3 or 4 things about cables, esp materially, it all sounds silly
Name the Metro after him instead: Lemass Transport…
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Name the Metro after him instead: Lemass Transport…
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Taxi drivers are set to escalate their campaign against Uber’s new fixed-fare model after their union said no stakeholder responded to their ultimatum to engage in talks by yesterday evening.
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Taxi drivers to hold new protest later this week as dispute over Uber’s fixed fares escalates
A protest will be held in Dublin on Thursday evening.
jrnl.ie
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Taxi drivers are set to escalate their campaign against Uber’s new fixed-fare model after their union said no stakeholder responded to their ultimatum to engage in talks by yesterday evening.
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
Drivers will stage another major protest in Dublin this Thursday from 4.30pm.
jrnl.ie/6884888
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Everyone likes reading stories of doctors having their state-paid fees cut, because there’s a presumption services can just continue to be provided for less. It’s always a saving.
But people don’t like elderly cancer patients who can’t find a GP.
It’s the same story- one told from cause & effect.
But people don’t like elderly cancer patients who can’t find a GP.
It’s the same story- one told from cause & effect.
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Everyone likes reading stories of doctors having their state-paid fees cut, because there’s a presumption services can just continue to be provided for less. It’s always a saving.
But people don’t like elderly cancer patients who can’t find a GP.
It’s the same story- one told from cause & effect.
But people don’t like elderly cancer patients who can’t find a GP.
It’s the same story- one told from cause & effect.
I have to get up so stupid early on the days I don’t wfh that the rabbit isn’t awake enough to dance around me as I serve her breakfast. Buses more regularly than every half hour would mean I’d only be waking up now: even a minute past 6 is just more civilised than any time on the other side of it.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I have to get up so stupid early on the days I don’t wfh that the rabbit isn’t awake enough to dance around me as I serve her breakfast. Buses more regularly than every half hour would mean I’d only be waking up now: even a minute past 6 is just more civilised than any time on the other side of it.
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Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
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In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
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Trump voting men rank having children as their highest priority in life, and rank having emotional stability dead last. Those poor children.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump voting men rank having children as their highest priority in life, and rank having emotional stability dead last. Those poor children.
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In Ireland, more properties were bought this year by landlords than by people hoping to live in them. Mostly large landlords, not the sainted mom and pops of it all. People who already own tens or hundreds of properties bought even more of them. They're not fleeing the market, they're destroying it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In Ireland, more properties were bought this year by landlords than by people hoping to live in them. Mostly large landlords, not the sainted mom and pops of it all. People who already own tens or hundreds of properties bought even more of them. They're not fleeing the market, they're destroying it.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
When Gmail came out, I was confused by “never have to delete anything”. Early tech users are memory-aware. Those working in graphics/media even more conscious of at least each KB. When clearing my inbox, I haven’t always had time to take the extra steps to delete, but my Archive is still quite tidy.
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When Gmail came out, I was confused by “never have to delete anything”. Early tech users are memory-aware. Those working in graphics/media even more conscious of at least each KB. When clearing my inbox, I haven’t always had time to take the extra steps to delete, but my Archive is still quite tidy.
The bus that’d get most people on the Kiltpper side of the 82 into town for 8am has been cancelled. If they were lucky to find out in time, like I was, they can be half an hour early. Else, they will be half an hour or more (cos traffic builds) late. Thank you Dublin Bus. You understand commuting.
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The bus that’d get most people on the Kiltpper side of the 82 into town for 8am has been cancelled. If they were lucky to find out in time, like I was, they can be half an hour early. Else, they will be half an hour or more (cos traffic builds) late. Thank you Dublin Bus. You understand commuting.
Someone send this paper to Mícheál Martin so he’s prepared! elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Someone send this paper to Mícheál Martin so he’s prepared! elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...