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Adrian

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Broken middle-aged 🇦🇺 software engineer living in 🇮🇪. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him. Zero tolerance for racism. Let trans people be 🏳️‍⚧️. Free Palestine 🇵🇸.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The yellow heart emoji ⟨💛⟩ is mistakenly displayed as a pink "hairy heart" ⟨a pink heart symbol with marks representing short hair.⟩ in Google's Android 4.4 mobile operating system (released 2013) because Google's emoji art team misinterpreted the dots in Unicode's black-and-white reference images ⟨Heart symbol with dots.⟩ as being hair stubble. In reality, the dotted pattern is simply used as a colorless way to represent the color yellow (in accordance with heraldic hatching).
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Ranch Devereaux @thejacko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actually, sorry, I genuinely do think less of you if you’re still posting or sharing shit from X
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film
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National Emergency Briefing
A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...
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Bee 🐝 10/18 🎂 @beepetty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you can't sacrifice one part of the population and expect everyone else won't be sacrificed as well. we are all human and you can't separate someone else's human traits as disposable and expect humanity to be fine. this is why we aren't free until we are all free
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every single word of this. www.theguardian.com/music/commen...
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alan Kohler today on failure to curb global warming... "One of the key reasons for that failure has been the cynical opposition & denial by Rupert Murdoch & his media companies in order to make money, which has meant that the issue became a totem of right-wing politics" #auspol
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The world has gone mad! Folks getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said "I oppose genocide" 🇬🇧 That is fucked up! The majority of those arrested have been pension aged women, often with disabilities. Do these folks look like terrorists? Shame on you England. #Free 🇵🇸
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Roger Gall "Israel has killed at least 4 times the number of civilians and 25 times the number of children as Russia, as Britain continues full sanctions on Russia while refusing any meaningful sanctions on Israel." Please RT this until Burnham's Labour Govt stops talking & acts. Thanks
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You’re worth it. Maybe you’re born with it. Maybe it’s a congenital defect.
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Penny Wong is having ineffectual expressions of feelings, yet again. What a surprise, from the lesbian who vocally toed the ALP party line of opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I well understand that the toxic UK media don’t give a shit, but here’s a suggestion: When a terrorist act occurs, publish nothing about their identity or motives. The entire point of their terrorism is to have you do that.
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Imagine the response if terrorists or Russia caused this many deaths. For comparison, terrorism killed just 2 people in France in all of 2025.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 21/07/2026
Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tbh this is why this feels perfect for what it is. It somehow makes perfect sense that in a FIFA WC final they’ll sing about peace and love while the host country bombs Iran
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bizarre framing, @news.rte.ie.
RTÉ News headline: “End of heatwave confirmed with record still unmatched”.

Article continues: “The weather station in Moorepark, Co Cork, has recorded a provisional temperature of 24.9C
today, meaning this spell of warm weather has not equalled the longest heatwave on record in Ireland.”
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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.
A screenshot of an article snippet featuring a photograph of J.K. Rowling credited to Twocoms / Shutterstock.com. Below the photo, a heading reads "J.K. Rowling" followed by "Net worth: $1 billion." Two paragraphs of text follow: "Before she was a best-selling author, 'Harry Potter' creator J.K. Rowling lost her job as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International because she was caught writing creative stories on her computer while on the clock. She used her severance to begin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Today, Rowling is a billionaire, thanks to the book series that has sold over 500 million copies and a blockbuster film franchise."
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
celebs walking muppets: thread
Dakota Johnson walking Rowlf instead of her dog.
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are all Belgian today. 🇧🇪
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Fuck yes!
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In six days god created heaven and earth. On the seventh day, in the interest of balance, Laura Kuenssberg interviewed satan.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 19/06/2026
Explaining the utility of robust regulation to a libertarian is like trying to explain particle physics to a hamster. It's incredibly simple: if companies can get away with ripping you off, they will.
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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So here for the transgender insurgency.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I want nothing "Australia" jfc even the fucking immigration crackdown was sold as "Australian-style", just enough with the Australian stuff
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Kellaweena @kellalena.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Revenge isn’t enough, I want their fitted sheet to keep popping off
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 04/06/2026
The crimes against humanity and the environment in #Gaza and #Lebanon continue. Refuse to look away. act.gp/4tU2GjC
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
LGBTQ+ people don't have more rights now because liberals in the west were kind enough to give it to them. Pride used to be a riot. Now that it's no longer as safe to try and co-opt a movement brands all show their true colors and stop pretending they care about human rights
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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
even by his meagre standards, it was an extraorindary week of buck-passing by the Taoiseach #speirgorm
But the Taoiseach has warned that any boycott may have "no impact at all" on Fifa or Israel. Taoiseach Micheál Martin claims that sanctioning Aughinish Alumina would cause more harm to the European Union than to RussiaBringing in cost-of-disability payment is
'complex', Taoiseach tells Dáil
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
M Martin has become the embodiment of fighting to maintain the status quo, no matter if it is good or bad. His refusal to concede any change can be better than stasis is building pressures throughout the society. When he goes, they will vent.
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John @johncnj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I really don’t know why they call it a pill organizer since I seem to be doing most of the organizational work.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Best of luck to Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
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🥟 @mandu-x.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Show me a place of business described as "we're like family here" and I'll show you an HR department that has seen some things
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Adrian @adrian-h.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I bought my first modem in 1984, when I was eight years old, and I’m still far less online than most people here.
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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
REMINDER: Eurovision starts tonight, and Israel is still in. Don't play along. Boycott it. Culture should never be used to whitewash genocide, settler-colonialism and aparthied. #esc #eurovision #boycotteurovision #esc2026
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Mick Brooks @mick666.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.owenjones.news/p/new-york-t...
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New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape
Palestinian testimonies should have been enough
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)
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Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show
that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024.
79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024.
Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.
The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024.
80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.Research Framework
Ireland in Focus draws on multiple sources of data to provide a clearer understanding of how hate, disinformation and far-right mobilisation are evolving across Ireland in
2025. This includes H&CC's analysis of far-right developments in political organising, informal networks and far-right agitators, giving insights into how narratives, mobilisation and organising strategies are emerging and shifting.
company Dynata. The data was independently weighted by Ireland Thinks using demographic and methodological controls such as age, gender, ethnicity and voting behaviour at time of poll fielding to ensure representativeness and statistical robustness. The consistent methodology across both waves allows for reliable year-on-year comparison of sentiment and social trends and the large sample size gives high levels of statistical significance.
Ireland in Focus also draws data from 89 communities' crisis responses (49 in 2024 and 40 in 2025) supported by H&CC to capture how local communities responded in real time to moments of tension, protest and disinformation.
Ireland in Focus, assesses public attitudes through two large, nationally representative, anonymous surveys conducted in 2024 and 2025, each with approximately 3,000 respondents via independent polling
The consistency in design across both years provides a robust basis for tracking how attitudes are shifting - making this one of the first datasets of its kind in Ireland to capture changes in public sentiment over time. Finally to understand how narratives were spreading and evolving in the public sphere, narrative benchmarking was analysed using a commercial social media research tool.
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