Aoḋán Ó Conġaile
@tinydonkey.bsky.social
My dad got hit by a car last year (he's fine, gardaí couldn't do anything, no footage) and he cycles with lights, high vis, reflectors, bright colours. You'd see him a mile off. It didn't matter against a dickhead in two tonnes of metal.
I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My dad got hit by a car last year (he's fine, gardaí couldn't do anything, no footage) and he cycles with lights, high vis, reflectors, bright colours. You'd see him a mile off. It didn't matter against a dickhead in two tonnes of metal.
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I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
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Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Woman given suspended sentence over cyclist's death
A woman whose husband was killed whilst out for a Sunday cycle on the Malahide Road in Dublin last year, has said no words can ever change how brutal it has been since she lost him.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
AI slop is bad, don't get me wrong. But the Internet was in rapid decline in late 2022 anyway, this going from the fire to the frying pan
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
AI slop is bad, don't get me wrong. But the Internet was in rapid decline in late 2022 anyway, this going from the fire to the frying pan
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It's not asylum.seekers they can't deal with. It's their own failure.
Applications for Asylum are down some 40% on last year too. That the government cant deal with a misery 3000 applications shows how useless they are.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It's not asylum.seekers they can't deal with. It's their own failure.
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The landlord parties (FG, FF and Independent Ireland) have just voted to leave renters in the cold.
They have blocked our Bill to introduce minimum BER standards in the rental sector to stop renters being left in cold, damp and mouldy homes.
They have blocked our Bill to introduce minimum BER standards in the rental sector to stop renters being left in cold, damp and mouldy homes.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The landlord parties (FG, FF and Independent Ireland) have just voted to leave renters in the cold.
They have blocked our Bill to introduce minimum BER standards in the rental sector to stop renters being left in cold, damp and mouldy homes.
They have blocked our Bill to introduce minimum BER standards in the rental sector to stop renters being left in cold, damp and mouldy homes.
"Ireland would think differently about Russia if they were where Estonia is!". Yeah probably. Different things are different. I don't think Poland worries much about the good Friday agreement to be honest.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"Ireland would think differently about Russia if they were where Estonia is!". Yeah probably. Different things are different. I don't think Poland worries much about the good Friday agreement to be honest.
Genuinely, how are "luxury" brands getting away with this. It looks like shit. It looks like a scam. You are paying 6 figures for this? For this? Fuck range Rover anyway, but at least be evil competently! Fuck!
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Genuinely, how are "luxury" brands getting away with this. It looks like shit. It looks like a scam. You are paying 6 figures for this? For this? Fuck range Rover anyway, but at least be evil competently! Fuck!
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Wonder how long before this is considered a threat lol
maybe you can use the chatgpt therapy app
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wonder how long before this is considered a threat lol
Christmas achieved. Now to hide it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Christmas achieved. Now to hide it.
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When people come on here to complain about a post they saw on Twitter.
![Homer walking in to the room holding a skunk while wearing a shirt that says "no fat chicks"
Caption:
MARGE, I GOT SPRAYED BY THIS SKUNK.
[ Hissing ] OH, LOOK. IT'S DOING IT AGAIN.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:563xatvyvdh3bni3pzciaf2o/bafkreifyaofm5zelrw6r7xip4v3jjegfzoqsoavseu6buvoiebz2gkf3uq@jpeg)
November 15, 2023 at 2:55 PM
When people come on here to complain about a post they saw on Twitter.
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For people unaware and playing/streaming Where Winds Meet, it uses GenAI for NPC chat bots, and let's you import a photo of yourself and a voice clip for character creation, which I'm sure I don't need to explain why that is fucked up
And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃
And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
For people unaware and playing/streaming Where Winds Meet, it uses GenAI for NPC chat bots, and let's you import a photo of yourself and a voice clip for character creation, which I'm sure I don't need to explain why that is fucked up
And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃
And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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There's no funding to reopen the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare. The All-Island Rail Review recommended reopening this. It's only been closed since 2010 and is being maintained. Would have been huge for regional development.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There's no funding to reopen the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare. The All-Island Rail Review recommended reopening this. It's only been closed since 2010 and is being maintained. Would have been huge for regional development.
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Do not - I repeat - do NOT, even out of curiosity, pull the handle on the side of your toilet. I just did, and a gush of water’s erased everything. A lifetime’s turd collection, gone.
December 12, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Do not - I repeat - do NOT, even out of curiosity, pull the handle on the side of your toilet. I just did, and a gush of water’s erased everything. A lifetime’s turd collection, gone.
youtu.be/KR-xyYf53yQ?...
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
1961: Should IRISH IMMIGRATION to BRITAIN be Restricted? | Panorama | World of Work | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
youtu.be/KR-xyYf53yQ?...
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
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“Do we need to zone all the land? Could we as a council buy land at agricultural prices & then zone it & have land for our own people in Co Laois who want to build a house on it”
💯 ..councils can buy land at agricultural land values & lever that for affordability www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-l...
💯 ..councils can buy land at agricultural land values & lever that for affordability www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-l...
Plan to buy up Laois agricultural land to tackle housing crisis
Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald has raised the idea to address zoning and housing
www.ireland-live.ie
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Do we need to zone all the land? Could we as a council buy land at agricultural prices & then zone it & have land for our own people in Co Laois who want to build a house on it”
💯 ..councils can buy land at agricultural land values & lever that for affordability www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-l...
💯 ..councils can buy land at agricultural land values & lever that for affordability www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-l...
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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It has to be named after Maureen Sweeney, the Irish meteorologist who gave the Allies a critical weather report before D Day.
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It has to be named after Maureen Sweeney, the Irish meteorologist who gave the Allies a critical weather report before D Day.
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Being given out to by a newspaper based in the only country we've ever fought a war with on our own soil for not being heavily armed enough these days is certainly something. I wouldn't mind but if we were armed to the teeth these cunts would be writing pieces about how dangerous we are
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Being given out to by a newspaper based in the only country we've ever fought a war with on our own soil for not being heavily armed enough these days is certainly something. I wouldn't mind but if we were armed to the teeth these cunts would be writing pieces about how dangerous we are
Can't have a children's hospital. Can't have a decent public transport system. Can't have public housing. Can't have public services full stop. If they spent money on a fucking boat before any of that stuff the govt wouldn't be worrying about the Russians.
But critics argue that Ireland, awash with cash from a corporation tax bonanza paid by global firms with big operations in the country, is using its neutral status to duck its 21st-century responsibilities.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Can't have a children's hospital. Can't have a decent public transport system. Can't have public housing. Can't have public services full stop. If they spent money on a fucking boat before any of that stuff the govt wouldn't be worrying about the Russians.
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I will take this dumb take as a flimsy springboard to show the absolutely exquisite apple pie that my friend made of me and my husband for our wedding
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I will take this dumb take as a flimsy springboard to show the absolutely exquisite apple pie that my friend made of me and my husband for our wedding