Ciaránavirus
@sarklor.bsky.social
Depressed goblin nightmare boy.
Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
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Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
https://www.sarklor.ie/
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Ciaránavirus
@sarklor.bsky.social
· May 6
At a time when some are turning in on themselves – Ireland will continue to engage and to look outwards.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
This wretched coward should live his remaining days in fear over his refusal to stand up to the genocidal Israeli regime.
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There's something so insane about the fact that the app stores will, to the best of their ability, prevent you from accessing consensual pornography while letting pornography that is, by default, nonconsensual pass with a shrug
A review of the app stores “found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store…”
Apple, Google host dozens of AI ‘nudify’ apps like Grok, report finds
A tech watchdog organization found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store.
www.cnbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
There's something so insane about the fact that the app stores will, to the best of their ability, prevent you from accessing consensual pornography while letting pornography that is, by default, nonconsensual pass with a shrug
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saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you
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NTA continues to force Irish Rail to stay on X despite child sexual abuse material scandal
Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority…
Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority…
NTA continues to force Irish Rail to stay on X despite child sexual abuse material scandal
Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority (NTA) is continuing to hold Irish Rail to a contractual obligation to post updates and to reply to messages on the platform formally known as Twitter. The NTA's lack of movement on the issue reflects the Irish Government's position to stay on X, but the authority did not answer questions relating to whether there has been any mandate from Governmenal level or if it would remove the contractual obligation put on Irish Rail as a public service obligation provider.
irishcycle.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
NTA continues to force Irish Rail to stay on X despite child sexual abuse material scandal
Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority…
Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority…
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Body cams for government thugs are a joke obviously but here's my compromise idea: shock collars for government thugs
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Body cams for government thugs are a joke obviously but here's my compromise idea: shock collars for government thugs
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Once again trawling through the intimate messages of a married couple, which they’re required to submit for a Join Spouse visa to be issued, feeling embarrassed on my behalf and anger on theirs. Why on earth do civil servants at the Department of Justice have any entitlement to read these #speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Once again trawling through the intimate messages of a married couple, which they’re required to submit for a Join Spouse visa to be issued, feeling embarrassed on my behalf and anger on theirs. Why on earth do civil servants at the Department of Justice have any entitlement to read these #speirgorm
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Listening to a thing about meeting the right person where the narrator says "we only have to be lucky once", which presumably was not the angle that the IRA Army Council was going for
January 27, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Listening to a thing about meeting the right person where the narrator says "we only have to be lucky once", which presumably was not the angle that the IRA Army Council was going for
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Nobody is ever *solely* a transphobe. You never hear somebody described as an otherwise-compassionate, sane and insightful person who has this weird anomalous transphobic blind spot. It's usually their most visible bigotry because (in the UK, certainly) it's the most tolerated.
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Nobody is ever *solely* a transphobe. You never hear somebody described as an otherwise-compassionate, sane and insightful person who has this weird anomalous transphobic blind spot. It's usually their most visible bigotry because (in the UK, certainly) it's the most tolerated.
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checking in on rednote to see what ppl in china are saying about minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
checking in on rednote to see what ppl in china are saying about minneapolis
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Thinking about that brief moment in the early pandemic when the government actually reached out to help us, no strings attached, AND how quickly they yanked it all away when they realized that we might get used to being cared for
Do not get it twisted. The REAL change we are seeing right now, and which we need to sustain, is the revealing of how much we have the power to care & provide for each other in ways the state has continually abdicated its supposed responsibility to do in order to consolidate power.
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Thinking about that brief moment in the early pandemic when the government actually reached out to help us, no strings attached, AND how quickly they yanked it all away when they realized that we might get used to being cared for
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This sums up so much of the root of problem, huh.
January 27, 2026 at 6:42 AM
This sums up so much of the root of problem, huh.
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Ireland: the country where a gap in legislation that led to yokes being legal for a day was dealt with more haste and concern than an open forum website that generates CSAM on command
The Government is exploring strengthening laws covering AI deepfakes, the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence will hear
Govt to explore strengthening AI deepfake laws - cttee
Minister of State with responsibility for artificial intelligence Niamh Smyth will tell the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence that the Government is exploring strengthening laws covering...
www.rte.ie
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Ireland: the country where a gap in legislation that led to yokes being legal for a day was dealt with more haste and concern than an open forum website that generates CSAM on command
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That really was his Lil ass huh
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
That really was his Lil ass huh
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Sharing again, because we still haven't passed the threshold.
We are at 77%.
This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public
#Speirgorm #Speirghorm
#JusticeForPalestine
We are at 77%.
This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public
#Speirgorm #Speirghorm
#JusticeForPalestine
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Sharing again, because we still haven't passed the threshold.
We are at 77%.
This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public
#Speirgorm #Speirghorm
#JusticeForPalestine
We are at 77%.
This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public
#Speirgorm #Speirghorm
#JusticeForPalestine
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"we interpreted our politics through the lens of the wizarding world" is some of the finest grade A, plutonium tipped, fuckwittery that I've ever heard.
Less rights for Harry Potter fans now.
Less rights for Harry Potter fans now.
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
"we interpreted our politics through the lens of the wizarding world" is some of the finest grade A, plutonium tipped, fuckwittery that I've ever heard.
Less rights for Harry Potter fans now.
Less rights for Harry Potter fans now.
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Reminder that British journalists have a weird fetish for Harry Potter because it's a fantasy world where nobody mentions how fucking weird it is that everybody was privately educated in just five schools
January 27, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Reminder that British journalists have a weird fetish for Harry Potter because it's a fantasy world where nobody mentions how fucking weird it is that everybody was privately educated in just five schools
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For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…
The fundamental problem is that we have no effective regulation of the media here, our public service broadcaster is just very obviously regime media and our major privately run news publications are all owned by billionaires with editorial agendas that distort reality and degrade human rights.
Reading about the rise of Reform while living in the self-immolating US feels like an out of body experience. That anyone outside the US could look at a country collapsing in on itself and say, “Yes, some of that for us please!” is just surreal.
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…
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In the last 24 hours the FGFF Irish govt have voted against a vacant house bill and have proposed a bill that would increase rent and make the #HousingCrisis even worse. I'd really love to know how the fuck people keeping voting them back in.
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
In the last 24 hours the FGFF Irish govt have voted against a vacant house bill and have proposed a bill that would increase rent and make the #HousingCrisis even worse. I'd really love to know how the fuck people keeping voting them back in.
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If you want an image for the Taoiseach prostrating himself before fascists again in six weeks time, here's one I made last year
i have rarely felt more shame at my country's craven, spineless excuse for leadership
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you want an image for the Taoiseach prostrating himself before fascists again in six weeks time, here's one I made last year
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I have felt increasingly out of step with mainstream Judaism over the past several years, but I cannot imagine how you could work at a Holocaust Museum and envision your role in this way. I just cannot imagine.
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I have felt increasingly out of step with mainstream Judaism over the past several years, but I cannot imagine how you could work at a Holocaust Museum and envision your role in this way. I just cannot imagine.
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Apparently, it doesn't matter if the United States is an authoritarian fascist regime murdering and disappearing those with the misfortune to cross paths with ICE. Our political representatives will still show up with the begging bowl filled with shamrock.
Absolute moral bankruptcy.
Absolute moral bankruptcy.
Nine ministerial visits to the United States for St Patrick’s Day - the Taoiseach slated to visit Philadelphia as well as the traditional trip to Washington. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Apparently, it doesn't matter if the United States is an authoritarian fascist regime murdering and disappearing those with the misfortune to cross paths with ICE. Our political representatives will still show up with the begging bowl filled with shamrock.
Absolute moral bankruptcy.
Absolute moral bankruptcy.
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Bang of : Ellis Island officials express concerns that Irish immigrants seeking to join family members in the United States are not proficient in the English language and will therefore be unable to integrate into mainstream American life.
Sinn Fein really can fuck right off.
#SpéirGhorm
Sinn Fein really can fuck right off.
#SpéirGhorm
If you want to live alongside your kid or partner, Matt Carthy wants to know if you speak English well enough/integrated enough to deserve that 🙄
![SF Matt Carthy asks the MoJ: 1740. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any language or integration criteria applies for family reunification visas; if there are any proposals to amend or introduce any such criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1517/26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mpti336baxu2g4db5eibpbpm/bafkreig5gnil5zizqboh2fxjskh73oh6aw7qzyfgmpiajdqv5f6h2hahqq@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Bang of : Ellis Island officials express concerns that Irish immigrants seeking to join family members in the United States are not proficient in the English language and will therefore be unable to integrate into mainstream American life.
Sinn Fein really can fuck right off.
#SpéirGhorm
Sinn Fein really can fuck right off.
#SpéirGhorm
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It's okay to bully a government. A government isn't people.
January 27, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It's okay to bully a government. A government isn't people.