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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Morris as the newsreader on The Day Today

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 14h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 1d

People are always saying that the only thing of equivalent geopolitical and historical importance to a Fianna Fáil leadership heave is the century-long struggle between the Russian and British empires for power and influence in central Asia.

A screenshot of an Irish Times headline which reads "Jim O'Callaghan will bide his time but the great game is on"

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the Irish government running a Your Country, Your Call v 2.0, asking the public to chip in ideas on what to do with all the deserted data centres.

Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 1d

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by
poxes, poxes, poxes, poxes
coming in in all directions

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 1d

It often feels as if they're less interested in winning something than they are in signing up for anything where they'll be given opportunites to moan about how oppressed they are.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 1d

I figured that was why they'd started up their 'spoil your vote' campaign even before Gavin dropped out. Now they can add the number of spoiled votes to the number of votes for Boaty McBoatface Gavin and claim they're all *really* votes for Maria Steen, or something equally weird like that.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

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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Dr Conor Reidy FRHistS @conorreidy.bsky.social · 2d

news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

Pentagon drawing up plans for a US 'special military operation' in Norway.

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

news.sky.com

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

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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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2d

Great choice from the photo editor there, the living personification of the 😬 emoji

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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The Hand that Rocks the Jaydle @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely but also in there: the minister was speaking at the launch of Ruhama's annual report. Let me just Google them real quick.

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 3d

As I said when this came up first, if you're going to criticise this kinda of thing, you better have an alternative to the entire concept of prisoner rehabilitation lined up

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 3d

The Minister for Health has described as "completely unacceptable", comments by presidential candidate Catherine Connolly that she "would have to think about" hiring a convicted rapist to work in the Áras

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 4d

Probably best ignored but I do think it's notable how the Irish Times' politics desk has turned itself into a sort of Skinner box for a tiny minority of *very noisy* turbo-Catholic conservatives, rewarding them with attention whenever they so much as brush against any of the levers.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 4d

Two Irish novelists have now done more to break the blockade and end man-made famine in Gaza than the entire UK government.

(Naoise Dolan on the flotilla and Sally Rooney with her words and deeds)

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
jrnl.ie/6838266

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

jrnl.ie

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 5d

'Oh come on guys, just one more tiny hit. What harm could it do?'

A screenshot of an Irish Times headline which reads "Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure"

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5d

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 5d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 5d

It's telling that lots of people who talk about the rule of law in Ireland are not bothered by a legally protected State database being violated to influence an election because the candidate in question is one they don't like.

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 5d

I think we've all seen in recent days how readily our private information will be accessed and shared if it's politically expedient #Spéirgorm

Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 5d

They say it’s to protect children, but this new EU law would let AI scan every message we send.
That means our private moments; photos, chats, confessions, could be monitored forever.

action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

#speirgorm

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 5d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 5d

I need one of these to wear when the cops ask about my husband who has gone missing under suspicious circumstances.

An old Hollywood sheer dressing robe with fluffy cuffs.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 5d

This is an interesting stunt for the DPC to pull which verges on questioning the accuracy of Prime Time's reporting.

Anyone who watched the programme will have seen Barry Walsh looking at a cluster of RTB-derived dots on a map of the Leinster House complex and saying 'That's my office.'

Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 5d

We told the DPC about this. It has known for years.
But yesterday it released this in a statement - perhaps in an attempt to absolve itself from the location scandal shown on national TV recently.
The statement is incorrect.

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