Helen ^_^
@myvirtuallife.bsky.social
Chased trends all the way into neuro diverse. Got to be down with them damnable young'uns.
...Oh oh and I have 2 cats, They are the King and Queen of Ireland, no take backs.
...Oh oh and I have 2 cats, They are the King and Queen of Ireland, no take backs.
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This headline should read "Musk is monetizing his child abuse imagery generator."
X has limited access to image generation and edit functions on its AI tool Grok to paid subscribers.
X limits image edit functions on Grok
X has limited access to image generation and edit functions on its AI tool Grok to paid subscribers.
www.rte.ie
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
This headline should read "Musk is monetizing his child abuse imagery generator."
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Grok was one of the most downloaded apps in Ireland this week. Here's my explainer on the generative AI tool that is now creating illegal images of women and children
Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery
Elon Musk-owned Grok app has been widely downloaded following news it could create illegal sexual images and videos
www.irishtimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Grok was one of the most downloaded apps in Ireland this week. Here's my explainer on the generative AI tool that is now creating illegal images of women and children
Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Regulation too slow to stem tsunami of AI-generated child sex imagery
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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My word.
The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.
The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
My word.
The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.
The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.
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This is *still* going on by the way and it is incredible how little attention it's getting from media, politicians and others who are usually falling over themselves to talk about AI, women's rights and/or child protection
Two days later and the nonconsensual sexual material generator still hasn't been turned off, at this point it's time to start arresting people
If you want to see what the main use case for AI is to the average consumer, open Twitter, go to the @grok account and click on the "Media" tab
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
This is *still* going on by the way and it is incredible how little attention it's getting from media, politicians and others who are usually falling over themselves to talk about AI, women's rights and/or child protection
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People keep claiming it's a "better window to the world" but actively posting and engaging on a platform where interactions and content are now effectively interchangable with 4Chan and whose own AI puts images of children in tiny bikinis on demand is a choice. There are far less harmful windows.
January 2, 2026 at 8:36 AM
People keep claiming it's a "better window to the world" but actively posting and engaging on a platform where interactions and content are now effectively interchangable with 4Chan and whose own AI puts images of children in tiny bikinis on demand is a choice. There are far less harmful windows.
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'The Brits are at it again': Kneecap says appeal against dismissal of terror charge against Mo Chara begins later this month jrnl.ie/6915625
'The Brits are at it again': Kneecap says appeal against dismissal of terror charge begins this month
Last September, a UK judge threw out terror charge brought against Kneecap’s Mo Chara.
jrnl.ie
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 AM
'The Brits are at it again': Kneecap says appeal against dismissal of terror charge against Mo Chara begins later this month jrnl.ie/6915625
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Greystones gets new trains. You get ghost-buses.
The Department of Transport has ordered 100 energy-efficient DART carriages to replace the original fleet in service since the DART opened in 1984
DART fleet to be replaced with energy-efficient carriages
The Department of Transport has ordered 100 energy-efficient DART carriages to replace the original fleet in service since the DART opened in 1984.
www.rte.ie
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Greystones gets new trains. You get ghost-buses.
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📃 NEW PUBLICATION 📃
I’m very happy to see this article published in the latest issue of @meejatheory.bsky.social. The article conceptualises the generative role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics and is available to read open access here: lnkd.in/ew5jr-Yh
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I’m very happy to see this article published in the latest issue of @meejatheory.bsky.social. The article conceptualises the generative role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics and is available to read open access here: lnkd.in/ew5jr-Yh
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December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📃 NEW PUBLICATION 📃
I’m very happy to see this article published in the latest issue of @meejatheory.bsky.social. The article conceptualises the generative role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics and is available to read open access here: lnkd.in/ew5jr-Yh
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I’m very happy to see this article published in the latest issue of @meejatheory.bsky.social. The article conceptualises the generative role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics and is available to read open access here: lnkd.in/ew5jr-Yh
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Reposted by Helen ^_^
"The bill is deliberately drafted in such a way to ensure the government will never have to hold a referendum on investor courts ever again."
We all know why the government doesn't want to bring this to the people. They know people are against it, which is why they want to quietly push it through.
We all know why the government doesn't want to bring this to the people. They know people are against it, which is why they want to quietly push it through.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"The bill is deliberately drafted in such a way to ensure the government will never have to hold a referendum on investor courts ever again."
We all know why the government doesn't want to bring this to the people. They know people are against it, which is why they want to quietly push it through.
We all know why the government doesn't want to bring this to the people. They know people are against it, which is why they want to quietly push it through.
LOTR The Return of the King 3pm, Rathmines (Dublin), back when the cinema floor was so sticky you were afraid you might leave without your shoes. 4 people there; me, a fellow loner and a Dad with his tiny baby, in a pram. Tbf the baby slept through it all and I got to enjoy every second in peace :)
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
LOTR The Return of the King 3pm, Rathmines (Dublin), back when the cinema floor was so sticky you were afraid you might leave without your shoes. 4 people there; me, a fellow loner and a Dad with his tiny baby, in a pram. Tbf the baby slept through it all and I got to enjoy every second in peace :)
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friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
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Right-wing media and so on don't actually like Linehan; they just hate trans people. If this loser is willing to destroy himself on the altar of their obsession, that's a sacrifice they are more than willing to make. Publishing his self-destructive ravings is irresponsible on so many levels.
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Carl using his "particular set of skills" to show the Department of Housing's lack of them. Oh yeah, and Liam Neeson's idiocy thrown in for good measure. 💯
"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential."
This week's column, more personal than usual.
This week's column, more personal than usual.
Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing
Narrated by Liam Neeson.
www.thejournal.ie
December 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Carl using his "particular set of skills" to show the Department of Housing's lack of them. Oh yeah, and Liam Neeson's idiocy thrown in for good measure. 💯
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A lot of people are getting calls from 0044 numbers these days. I can't advise strongly enough, DO NOT ANSWER CALLS FROM THESE NUMBERS: those are UK numbers. You are at a very real risk of talking to an English person
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A lot of people are getting calls from 0044 numbers these days. I can't advise strongly enough, DO NOT ANSWER CALLS FROM THESE NUMBERS: those are UK numbers. You are at a very real risk of talking to an English person
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
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Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Scandalously at 1am, the government has just pushed through a law with far reaching ramifications.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scandalously at 1am, the government has just pushed through a law with far reaching ramifications.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
It allows them to sign up to a parallel court process only accessible by corporations. There they can sue Ireland if we do anything to interfere with their "right" to profit.
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🪧Current new build 2-bed apartment sales price in Europe
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🪧Current new build 2-bed apartment sales price in Europe
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
Dublin €600,000
Belfast £189,950 (€216,000)
🇬🇧Manchester £299,995 (€341,000)
🇫🇷Le Mans <hour from Paris
from €159,100
🇩🇪Essen <hour from Düsseldorf
Large 1-bed €265,500
🇵🇹Porto Large 1-bed €240,000
🇮🇹Turin Large 1-bed €190,000
links below
Even a blind cat will know what you are trying to work on. The ultimate saboteurs!
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Even a blind cat will know what you are trying to work on. The ultimate saboteurs!
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Like the Coca-Cola ad it's just a collection of random scenes with different random characters spliced together cos they can't get it to do anything else. They can't get it to do a narrative with central identifiable characters, settings, costumes etc. It's all just random crap shoved together
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Like the Coca-Cola ad it's just a collection of random scenes with different random characters spliced together cos they can't get it to do anything else. They can't get it to do a narrative with central identifiable characters, settings, costumes etc. It's all just random crap shoved together
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Been asking this same question since Musk went to the Dark Side. It's amazing the number of Irish government institutions, TV and radio stations, and businesses that are still clinging on to this rancid platform. You are the company you keep.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Been asking this same question since Musk went to the Dark Side. It's amazing the number of Irish government institutions, TV and radio stations, and businesses that are still clinging on to this rancid platform. You are the company you keep.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
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Mark my words. They will not stop with trans people. ADHD and autism are already openly on the list of targets of these fascists.
You can be guaran-fuckin'-teed the women and gay folk throwing trans/nb people under the bus wouldn't be spared the same treatment, either.
#spéirghorm #ireland
You can be guaran-fuckin'-teed the women and gay folk throwing trans/nb people under the bus wouldn't be spared the same treatment, either.
#spéirghorm #ireland
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Mark my words. They will not stop with trans people. ADHD and autism are already openly on the list of targets of these fascists.
You can be guaran-fuckin'-teed the women and gay folk throwing trans/nb people under the bus wouldn't be spared the same treatment, either.
#spéirghorm #ireland
You can be guaran-fuckin'-teed the women and gay folk throwing trans/nb people under the bus wouldn't be spared the same treatment, either.
#spéirghorm #ireland
Truly one of the most stunning buildings I have ever had the privilege to visit. Hours pass like minutes there.
RIP Frank O. Gehry, thanks for creating such beauty.
RIP Frank O. Gehry, thanks for creating such beauty.
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Truly one of the most stunning buildings I have ever had the privilege to visit. Hours pass like minutes there.
RIP Frank O. Gehry, thanks for creating such beauty.
RIP Frank O. Gehry, thanks for creating such beauty.
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Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.