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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: Trump awarded Nobel Pissed Prize

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 1h

Nobel committee subtweeting Trump

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1h

Three Sisters at Dublin Theatre Festival: Saoirse-Monica Jackson gives a sharp turn in a fresh take on Chekhov

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s honed adaptation shifts towards surreal comedy

www.irishtimes.com

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 2h

These are the serious people, the grown-ups in the room, pragmatically and responsibly managing a trade-off between doing the right thing and doing what their supporters want

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 2h

ROGD is like those accounts of road accidents where the victim (other vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist) "appeared out of nowhere"

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2h

Nevertheless, Genspect continues to bandy about Littman's junk science concept of ROGD as if it were a valid diagnosis. Unlike the AGP myth, which targets trans women, the ROGD pseudo-diagnosis is largely used against young trans men & nonbinary youth who are depicted as easily influenced...

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 16h

LLMs tell the time with the same mechanism as a stopped clock.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22h

Less than 24 hours after the European Parliament voted to ban plant-based foods across the EU from using names like “burger,” “sausage” or “steak” — the institution’s canteen in Strasbourg served up a “vegan burger” as its healthy lunch option.

EU Parliament votes to ban veggie burgers — then serves them for lunch

The ink was barely dry on the European Parliament’s prohibition across the bloc when its own chefs dished up “vegan burgers,” leaving lawmakers choking on the irony.

www.politico.eu

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of people are reporting that leaves are falling off trees in every single area that Catherine Connolly has visited recently. Coincidence? Maybe. But can we take that risk with the presidency?

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 23h

I keep saying his entourage should invent a No-Bell prize and stage a ceremony to award it to him; he won't know the difference and it would keep him quiet for 3 or 4 days.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 1d

Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @mariafarrell.bsky.social
crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/c...

Chat control in Europe, an open letter to the Irish Minister who wants to scan all our messages — Crooked Timber

crookedtimber.org

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 1d

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

😭 help . I planted a beefsteak tomato thinking it was going to grow bits of cattle flesh but it was just tomato. I'm so confused, the EU parliament needs to help me. I've been tricked and mislead

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

EU 'veggie burger' rule change will impact the following foods:

• Buffalo Wings
• Toad In The Hole
• Fish Fingers
• Deviled Eggs
• Caeser Salad (unless it contains at least 33% ancient Roman dictator)

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 1d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 1d

I knew this was going to happen, once her sister took on the brother as an apprentice.

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · Feb 8

5/ Fun fact: Edgeworth, AH Bowley, & Edwin Cannan were keen cyclists, but Edgeworth annoyingly liked to chat math shop A Lot on their rides. Cannan is reported to have said "Bowley, let us go a little faster, Edgeworth cannot talk mathematics at more than eight miles an hour."

Not Edgeworth unfortunately - Ronald Fisher and William Sealy Gossett ("Student") before going on a bike ride

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · Feb 8

#OTD 8 Feb 1845 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth b (d 13 Feb 1926) Guy Gold Medal 1907, President Royal Statistical Society 1912-14. For many years one of VERY few RSS members interested in mathematical statistics. @royalstatsoc.bsky.social /6

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2d

They literally fact-checked the lyrics to a CMAT song.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2d

If Catherine Connolly was spouting such delusional fuckwittery, you can be damn sure she would be fact-checked!

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 2d

Narcissism.