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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 35m

I'm going to offer the prediction that neither will happen.

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3h

As he seems these days not to be able to to tell the difference between speaking out loud and inner thoughts, we may get a glimpse in the coming days.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3h

#MícheálMustGo

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3h

His current ambition is to neuter the Courts. He has a Constitutional problem with that though.

Thread. bsky.app/profile/joen...

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3h

Those pesky Courts are in the way says Taoiseach.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 4h

His framing it as it needing someone "with vast resources" for it to qualify as a SLAPP is telling.

He knows the purpose of the suit, and (at least in those tweets) he doesn't claim otherwise.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 19h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 5h

This, by the way, is mostly why the #AI bubble has grown so large and why when it bursts it's going to cause such great havoc.

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 5h

It's amazing the number of people who work in IT and who don't have even the slightest hint of curiosity regarding how, y'know, IT things work.

- "I'm too busy. I don't have time to learn how that works!"

- "And, yet you're going around telling everyone you're the expert?"

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 5h

Of course, he has also been told many many many times, no doubt, that the growing divisions in society are being brought about in no small part by Climate Change.

#MícheálNeedsToGo

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 5h

It's amazing the number of people who work in IT and who don't have even the slightest hint of curiosity regarding how, y'know, IT things work.

- "I'm too busy. I don't have time to learn how that works!"

- "And, yet you're going around telling everyone you're the expert?"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16h

This is why mandatory online age verification is bullshit.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h

2. The Australian report, titled “Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people,” is the latest in a swelling body of literature debunking some of the most harmful myths propagated by the project—one laced with politically-charged and frankly shoddy pseudoscience.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 18h

Looking to the not-immediate future -- next month, or next year, or 2029, etc. -- I just cannot see Miller being permitted to retire peacefully into obscurity[1]. I can only see an ignominious end to his influence in public life.

[1] ... and then, of course, I remember Henry Kissenger.

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 18h

With great power comes ... a great opportunity for some serious fun!

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 20h

The best of the original 3. Hands down.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 20h

So ... from the comfort of my couch, I can shut Dublin down with one click?!?!?

#SpéirGorm

A screen shot of the irishrail.ie live trains screen with a big button labeled "Pause Live Trains" and an arrow drawn pointing at it where I have added "!!!?"

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 20h

Well, of course it has to be Cellar Door.
bsky.app/profile/eibh...

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 21h

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 20h

Today is 2025-10-09, the sun sets at 17:41:56 (18:41:56 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 36 mins and 13 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 1d

Clear proof that Starmer's Labour is progressive.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 1d

That is some seriously fucked-up trolling.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 1d

For some very lucky people every day is #BringYourDogToWorkDay
#DogsAtWork: a short thread

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

The Dead Kennedys are the real DK.
I’m second.
@davidakaye.bsky.social and Dave Kramer are tied for third.
Donna Karan is a distant fourth or more.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 1d

Watched it last weekend. Was really looking forward to it. Can't recommend it, unfortunately. (Though it was lovely to see Uma Thurman after so long).

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 1d

#Selfhosting upgrades today:
- #Matrix #Synapse 1.139.0 -> 1.139.2
- #Element Web v1.12.0 -> v1.12.1

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 6d

#Selfhosting upgrades today:
- #SynapseAdmin v0.11.1-etke47 -> v0.11.1-etke48
- #Matrix #Synapse 1.138.2 -> 1.139.0

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 13d

#Selfhosting upgrades today:
- #Element Web 1.11.112 -> 1.12.0
- #Matrix #Synapse 1.138.0 -> 1.138.2
- #Forgejo 12.0.3 -> 12.0.4
- #Nextcloud 31.0.8 -> 31.0.9 (which happened on the 17th Sept; I just forgot to commit the config change until today)