Red Rite Hand
@redritehand.bsky.social
Switzerland by way of Monaghan. Reader, writer, idler.
Writer of Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More
and Red Rite Hand OUT NOW
Writer of Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More
and Red Rite Hand OUT NOW
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If you live in Ireland, remember that in recent memory a single rugby-loving bank CEO cost the taxpayer more than every single welfare recipient in the state COMBINED. #SpeirGorm
I would rather 50 people got benefits they didn't need than 1 went without food or shelter.
Hot take maybe but I actually don’t give a shit about benefit fraud.
I give a shit about multimillionaires and billionaires existing and not paying tax on their actual wealth.
I give a shit about multimillionaires and billionaires existing and not paying tax on their actual wealth.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you live in Ireland, remember that in recent memory a single rugby-loving bank CEO cost the taxpayer more than every single welfare recipient in the state COMBINED. #SpeirGorm
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI".
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
Anyway, tech-wise, AI will have a "positive effect on productivity growth", the OBR say, with a 0.2 percentage point impact in five years
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI".
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
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Ireland's death toll for The Great Famine was estimated to be 20-30%..... There was a famine 100 years earlier with a similar 20% death toll.
The ENGLISH civil war killed about 41% of the Irish population.
The ENGLISH civil war killed about 41% of the Irish population.
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Ireland's death toll for The Great Famine was estimated to be 20-30%..... There was a famine 100 years earlier with a similar 20% death toll.
The ENGLISH civil war killed about 41% of the Irish population.
The ENGLISH civil war killed about 41% of the Irish population.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.
Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽♂️
Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt
Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽♂️
Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Just looking at the population difference by county between now and Pre-Famine numbers.
For nine counties (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo & Longford) %, the population drop between now and then is greater than the current population.
Really drives it home.
For nine counties (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo & Longford) %, the population drop between now and then is greater than the current population.
Really drives it home.
September 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Just looking at the population difference by county between now and Pre-Famine numbers.
For nine counties (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo & Longford) %, the population drop between now and then is greater than the current population.
Really drives it home.
For nine counties (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo & Longford) %, the population drop between now and then is greater than the current population.
Really drives it home.
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If the Labour Party can't batter a man who flogs gold bullion then there isn't enough time in the rest of human history for all the long looks in the mirror that would be required.
The biggest stall in the centre of the Reform conference exhibition hall… is Nigel Farage flogging gold bullion
September 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
If the Labour Party can't batter a man who flogs gold bullion then there isn't enough time in the rest of human history for all the long looks in the mirror that would be required.
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Right, if this is the state of AI information then investors should demand their money back.
September 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Right, if this is the state of AI information then investors should demand their money back.
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yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
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WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
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In a year of Labour putting major restrictions on legal immigration to appease immigration focussed voters they have gone from 35% to 19% in polls, immigration is now a higher profile issue, and both right opposition parties have moved to calling, either as leaders or as MPs, for mass deportations.
August 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
In a year of Labour putting major restrictions on legal immigration to appease immigration focussed voters they have gone from 35% to 19% in polls, immigration is now a higher profile issue, and both right opposition parties have moved to calling, either as leaders or as MPs, for mass deportations.
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This is flat out unacceptable. Shut the whole fucking thing down immediately
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is flat out unacceptable. Shut the whole fucking thing down immediately
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A Dyson sphere. He’s saying this out loud, in an actual interview.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A Dyson sphere. He’s saying this out loud, in an actual interview.
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Book publishing does not need genAI. Its only purpose will be to devalue the work of the people in the industry, making it all the more difficult for them to make a living, and lower the quality of the books produced. If any publisher uses it, that is their aim, and they should be shamed for it.
Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues.
Read our views on Bloomsbury offering its authors an opt-in licensing deal with a 20% revenue share.
societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...
Read our views on Bloomsbury offering its authors an opt-in licensing deal with a 20% revenue share.
societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...
August 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Book publishing does not need genAI. Its only purpose will be to devalue the work of the people in the industry, making it all the more difficult for them to make a living, and lower the quality of the books produced. If any publisher uses it, that is their aim, and they should be shamed for it.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Tragic that the housing crisis is constantly framed as a "migration issue" rather than a "predatory landlord class" issue.
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Tragic that the housing crisis is constantly framed as a "migration issue" rather than a "predatory landlord class" issue.
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Oh look, turns out it wasn't the mythical immigrant cloud taking all the houses, but hedge funds and other other investment scumbags.
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Oh look, turns out it wasn't the mythical immigrant cloud taking all the houses, but hedge funds and other other investment scumbags.
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#ConorMcGregor has accepted the finding that he raped Nikita Hand.
#ConorMcGregorIsARapist
RTE news : McGregor withdraws application in rape appeal
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
#ConorMcGregorIsARapist
RTE news : McGregor withdraws application in rape appeal
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
McGregor withdraws application in rape appeal
Conor McGregor has withdrawn his application to bring in fresh evidence in support of his appeal against the finding of a High Court jury in a civil trial that he raped Nikita Hand.
www.rte.ie
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#ConorMcGregor has accepted the finding that he raped Nikita Hand.
#ConorMcGregorIsARapist
RTE news : McGregor withdraws application in rape appeal
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
#ConorMcGregorIsARapist
RTE news : McGregor withdraws application in rape appeal
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
The PR agency, the publishers and the disappearing lottery winners
Lottery winners whose stories promoted casino website cannot be found.
pressgazette.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
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You cannot solve the housing crisis without lowering the cost of housing so that people can buy or rent for less.
The Government refuse to countenance lowering the cost of property income (for landlords) or property assets (for developers).
This is the bedrock of a FG & FF coalition.
They chose.
The Government refuse to countenance lowering the cost of property income (for landlords) or property assets (for developers).
This is the bedrock of a FG & FF coalition.
They chose.
June 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
You cannot solve the housing crisis without lowering the cost of housing so that people can buy or rent for less.
The Government refuse to countenance lowering the cost of property income (for landlords) or property assets (for developers).
This is the bedrock of a FG & FF coalition.
They chose.
The Government refuse to countenance lowering the cost of property income (for landlords) or property assets (for developers).
This is the bedrock of a FG & FF coalition.
They chose.