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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 2h

Our company had to replace laptops purchased in 2020 in order to upgrade to Win11. While 5 years might seem old to some, it’s a waste when all were still in good working order

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 4h

Bluesky operates on an open protocol: if your post (and associated images) are visible publicly, then all of that can be used to train AI systems: whether with or WITHOUT Bluesky permission

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 5h

I think the different for the tenant was that when someone is politically appointed by powerful people, you’re impact is perceived as futile. But the tenant knew that this time around, revealing the story would have big impact: as the appointment will be chosen by the people of Ireland

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 23h

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 8h

True: but for most versions, the prior version was supported for more years and the newer version supported more of the older hardware

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 20h

Hearing reports of Jim Gavin canvassers in the Wicklow mountains who are refusing to surrender.

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 9h

No, but you may have an investment in software, skills, derivative work, etc., all tied to using Windows. And if you remain on an older version, you’re susceptible to being hacked

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

He will still probably get 1-2% of the vote before getting eliminated and I think their 2nd pref votes will be transferred to the other candidates. With such a close race, it may decide the outcome of the election: based on the dumbest voters who didn’t realise Gavin was no longer running

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: “after that brave burst of independence, he carefully cut a clean line down the ragged edge of the bread and disposed of the crumbs before his wife returned home”

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

Raising the tax bands in line with inflation/ wage rises isn’t a “tax cut”. But failing to raise the bands is a tax RISE

Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

to seize property in lieu of compensation- they foreclosed on the bank branch www.npr.org/sections/the...

'Sweet Justice': A Florida Couple 'Forecloses' On Bank Of America

The story started familiarly: Two Florida homeowners were taken to court by Bank of America. But it ended very differently: the homeowners backed by deputies about to load a moving van with the bank's...

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the story of a US couple who Bank of America wrongly seized their home for supposed mortgage default. They won a court case with compensation but bank failed to pay up. Went back to court and went with the sheriff, a movers truck and a local tv camera crew

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think there’s such a thing as Long Chickenpox. I’m not disputing your long term fatigue but whatever its cause, it probably wasn’t the chickenpox

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing ghosts and revealing skeletons in a cupboard seems like a good segue?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 2d

And Italy had 2m taking to the streets + a General Strike yesterday

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