Terry McDonald
@terrymcdonald.bsky.social
Scéirí woman. She/Her. Works in a library, lives by the sea
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
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Tubridy: I'm just a boy, standing in front of a country, asking it to love him again
Ireland: Er, have we met?
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Ireland: Er, have we met?
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‘I feel I’m ready to hold hands with Ireland again’
Actual quote from that IT interview.
O Connor just read out the pertinent parts and finished with that and no comment and straight to break.
Actual quote from that IT interview.
O Connor just read out the pertinent parts and finished with that and no comment and straight to break.
January 17, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Tubridy: I'm just a boy, standing in front of a country, asking it to love him again
Ireland: Er, have we met?
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
Ireland: Er, have we met?
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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Ducking the blame and still can't admit he is as culpable as anyone in RTE because he was the one actually profiting from it. Not being able to admit that is why the talks broke down. Ryan Tubridy is the reason I did not pay my TV license for two years (along with many others I would guess).
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Ducking the blame and still can't admit he is as culpable as anyone in RTE because he was the one actually profiting from it. Not being able to admit that is why the talks broke down. Ryan Tubridy is the reason I did not pay my TV license for two years (along with many others I would guess).
WTH is that @irishtimes.com interview with Ryan Tubridy all about? Sacked from Virgin Radio and paving the way for a return? Remember all the people who stopped paying the license when the scandal broke? Be careful @rte.ie !
January 17, 2026 at 8:22 PM
WTH is that @irishtimes.com interview with Ryan Tubridy all about? Sacked from Virgin Radio and paving the way for a return? Remember all the people who stopped paying the license when the scandal broke? Be careful @rte.ie !
Other institutions please follow!
Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Other institutions please follow!
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🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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Have these people considered that Simon Harris is making fools of them?
January 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Have these people considered that Simon Harris is making fools of them?
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For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 AM
For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.
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Just to say the tickets for this are going so if you’d like to hear Iarla Ó Lionáird sing in the Heaney country, and me talk a little with @neilhegarty.bsky.social about the poet’s late work, we’d be glad to see you in Bellaghy of a Saturday night.
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Ticketbooth
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January 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Just to say the tickets for this are going so if you’d like to hear Iarla Ó Lionáird sing in the Heaney country, and me talk a little with @neilhegarty.bsky.social about the poet’s late work, we’d be glad to see you in Bellaghy of a Saturday night.
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I honestly don't understand how Irish politicians, or any part of our government, can justify the continued use of X for official communications. Someone, please explain it and...
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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What a voice. No one sang "The Banks ..." quite like Seán. RIP.
January 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
What a voice. No one sang "The Banks ..." quite like Seán. RIP.
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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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Founded in 1948, @antaisce.bsky.social is Ireland’s oldest environmental charity, now says in all that time, it has never faced a threat to its ability to fulfill its legal functions regarding planning on a par with current government proposals.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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An Taisce urges public to object to ‘unlawful’ caps on judicial review fees
Heritage and environmental charity says Government’s proposal is a ‘significant attack on civil society and public accountability’
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Founded in 1948, @antaisce.bsky.social is Ireland’s oldest environmental charity, now says in all that time, it has never faced a threat to its ability to fulfill its legal functions regarding planning on a par with current government proposals.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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B’Tselem warns that organized, state-backed settler militias are driving Palestinians from their land with violent attacks across the West Bank.
By Yair Dvir, B’Tselem spokesperson
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
By Yair Dvir, B’Tselem spokesperson
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January 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
B’Tselem warns that organized, state-backed settler militias are driving Palestinians from their land with violent attacks across the West Bank.
By Yair Dvir, B’Tselem spokesperson
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
By Yair Dvir, B’Tselem spokesperson
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
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Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell?
We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night.
Try it for yourself here
oilwell.app
We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night.
Try it for yourself here
oilwell.app
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell?
We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night.
Try it for yourself here
oilwell.app
We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night.
Try it for yourself here
oilwell.app
Thanks for the reminder!
January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Thanks for the reminder!
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Calling all LIS students and unemployed library sector workers! Don't miss out on our discounted €50 tickets for #ASL2026 on 24th March in @ria.ie, Dublin. Join us for networking opportunities, insights into library innovations and best practices and more. Register at aslibraries.ie/asl-conferen...
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Calling all LIS students and unemployed library sector workers! Don't miss out on our discounted €50 tickets for #ASL2026 on 24th March in @ria.ie, Dublin. Join us for networking opportunities, insights into library innovations and best practices and more. Register at aslibraries.ie/asl-conferen...
FFS. Grok is DISGUSTING
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 AM
FFS. Grok is DISGUSTING
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This is what the world thinks of us.
"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is."
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2026.
"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is."
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2026.
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
This is what the world thinks of us.
"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is."
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2026.
"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is."
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2026.
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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These guys can't even come together and get all Irish state bodies to stop posting on X just in case that'd annoy the richest asshole in the world, and you all thought they take legal action against it?
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
These guys can't even come together and get all Irish state bodies to stop posting on X just in case that'd annoy the richest asshole in the world, and you all thought they take legal action against it?
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know, I know, times are tough and money is short but as we find ourselves increasingly in a world where stories are censored and the corporates buy up shelf space with their discounts.
If you are able please do support Independent publishers.
@northernfiction.bsky.social
If you are able please do support Independent publishers.
@northernfiction.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
know, I know, times are tough and money is short but as we find ourselves increasingly in a world where stories are censored and the corporates buy up shelf space with their discounts.
If you are able please do support Independent publishers.
@northernfiction.bsky.social
If you are able please do support Independent publishers.
@northernfiction.bsky.social
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I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
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Powerful vested interests and their allies in government just hate judicial review being available to the great unwashed.
Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview
Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview
Not the most important thing. But this contract was - probably unlawfully - awarded without competition. But the Court of Appeal, under pressure from the Tories over our VIP lane judicial reviews, said there was no public interest in who Government awards contracts to so there can be no challenge.
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
January 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Powerful vested interests and their allies in government just hate judicial review being available to the great unwashed.
Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview
Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview