Aoife O'Driscoll
@aoifefodriscoll.bsky.social
Irish. Feminist. Parent. Bon vivant. Environmentalist. Tired.
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read this book and none of you were in it
January 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
read this book and none of you were in it
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Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
The AI Minister Niamh Smyth is seeking an urgent meeting with bosses of X over its Grok feature, which can generate sexualised deepfake images. She says the function is “disturbing and deeply worrying”
#VMNews
#VMNews
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
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Once again failing to find sufficiently powerful thermal bras for this weather, and once again putting forward this prototype
January 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Once again failing to find sufficiently powerful thermal bras for this weather, and once again putting forward this prototype
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Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA
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Horrifying. I have no idea why the far right is allowed run riot over Ireland. They get less than 1% of the vote, they are mostly ppl with historical convictions for domestic abuse & drugs. There are less than 200 active ones. Law & order needs to be upheld & far right gurriers held accountable.
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Horrifying. I have no idea why the far right is allowed run riot over Ireland. They get less than 1% of the vote, they are mostly ppl with historical convictions for domestic abuse & drugs. There are less than 200 active ones. Law & order needs to be upheld & far right gurriers held accountable.
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm
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Dreams of an Ireland once again rich in wild places and life.
We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding
We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Dreams of an Ireland once again rich in wild places and life.
We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding
We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding
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If you are feeling down and like a bit of a failure, remember that the guy who failed children with scoliosis and mishandled the children’s hospital to the tune of €bn’s is now the min for finance. You got this!
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
If you are feeling down and like a bit of a failure, remember that the guy who failed children with scoliosis and mishandled the children’s hospital to the tune of €bn’s is now the min for finance. You got this!
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Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
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It feels apt that a dead woman science writer gets the last word on this jerk.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It feels apt that a dead woman science writer gets the last word on this jerk.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Records of great spotted woodpecker, extinct in Ireland for centuries, but which reintroduced itself naturally to the east coast and has been moving west ever since.
Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time!
Nature CAN come back!!
Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time!
Nature CAN come back!!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Records of great spotted woodpecker, extinct in Ireland for centuries, but which reintroduced itself naturally to the east coast and has been moving west ever since.
Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time!
Nature CAN come back!!
Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time!
Nature CAN come back!!
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painfully true as of today.
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
painfully true as of today.
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Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
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Middle aged men love to drop that they’re “not exactly woke 😏” like it makes them some rebellious bad boy.
What?! You’re a 43 year old Irish white fella who works in sales and you have similar opinions to Newstalk commentary no wayyy 😮
What?! You’re a 43 year old Irish white fella who works in sales and you have similar opinions to Newstalk commentary no wayyy 😮
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Middle aged men love to drop that they’re “not exactly woke 😏” like it makes them some rebellious bad boy.
What?! You’re a 43 year old Irish white fella who works in sales and you have similar opinions to Newstalk commentary no wayyy 😮
What?! You’re a 43 year old Irish white fella who works in sales and you have similar opinions to Newstalk commentary no wayyy 😮
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In Oct 2020, socially distanced & in the Oireachtas’s temporary pandemic home, TDs voted to seal the records of survivors of state and church abuse for 30 years. Heather Humphries voted with the Government. Catherine Connolly voted against.
www.independent.ie/opinion/jenn...
www.independent.ie/opinion/jenn...
Jenny Maguire: Catherine Connolly offers rare hope to disillusioned voters like me
The important moments in our history tend to happen far from Áras an Uachtaráin. You would be better looking towards Dáil Éireann, at meetings behind closed doors, or even at crowds gathered in stre...
www.independent.ie
October 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In Oct 2020, socially distanced & in the Oireachtas’s temporary pandemic home, TDs voted to seal the records of survivors of state and church abuse for 30 years. Heather Humphries voted with the Government. Catherine Connolly voted against.
www.independent.ie/opinion/jenn...
www.independent.ie/opinion/jenn...
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Catherine Connolly skipped parts of Ulysses #Smearthebejaysus #Smearthebejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Catherine Connolly skipped parts of Ulysses #Smearthebejaysus #Smearthebejaysis
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More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.
They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.
They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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Four ladies at the seaside, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. From Writing In The Sand, a celebration of the life of beaches in north-east England, 1973-98.
October 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Four ladies at the seaside, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. From Writing In The Sand, a celebration of the life of beaches in north-east England, 1973-98.
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Dide (contemporary British artist)
"Portrait of a Sculptor," 2024
Oil on canvas
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Portrait of a Sculptor," 2024
Oil on canvas
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
September 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Dide (contemporary British artist)
"Portrait of a Sculptor," 2024
Oil on canvas
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Portrait of a Sculptor," 2024
Oil on canvas
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal
September 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal
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Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision?
It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie
Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie
The director general says the corporation is "aware of the concerns" around Israel's participation.
www.bbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision?
It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.
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RTÉ says Ireland may not enter Eurovision 2026 if Israel is taking part.
Statement out today follows similar stances taken by Spain and Slovenia in recent days.
Statement out today follows similar stances taken by Spain and Slovenia in recent days.
September 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
RTÉ says Ireland may not enter Eurovision 2026 if Israel is taking part.
Statement out today follows similar stances taken by Spain and Slovenia in recent days.
Statement out today follows similar stances taken by Spain and Slovenia in recent days.