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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 20m

I spoke to an awful lot of people who are both better informed and smarter themselves this week, and the consensus was that Ukraine and the EU's fate is right now largely dependent on what kind of winter we have.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 23m

Trump has just thrown Putin an economic lifeline at a absolutely pivotal moment. The implications of this decision may define global geopolitics for the next century...

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 2h

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

You're not fobbing him off on Dublin. Not even D4 would take 'im.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

Unfortunately, that's negated by his Corkian blood and heritage.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

Irish solidarity with striking unions still goes strong 52 light-years from Earth and 400 years into the future.

Miles O'Brien; "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

There's a certain type of Irish politician and patriot who seems to think there's a statue of William Martin Murphy and not Jim Larkin on O'Connell St.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of people's responses were genuinely along the lines of "Bluesky is American, and people from outside of America should remember that before they post something like this"

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Mr. Sheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 2h

Truly one of the great days!

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

Last year the Fianna Fail candidate, Jim Gavin resigned suddenly from the Irish Presidential election (held on October 24, 2025). Connor posted the above and immediately attracted *furious* Americans, who felt he should have clarified he wasn't talking about Gavin Newson....

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

We 🫡 @conorsmith.ie's total commitment to the bit.

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Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
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By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters
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3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about?
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Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion?
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Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion?
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You seem upset. Who's Gavin Newsom? We're discussing Jim Gavin.
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Looks like this fight against international Putin loving fascists is going international.
And who the fuck is Jim Gavin?
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Jim Gavin was a nominee in the Irish presidential race, until he pulled out at the weekend due to a scandal whereby he owed a former tenant
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Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Is this a joke?!?
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie • Oct 7, 2025
Not really, I think our President has done a great job over the last fourteen years. But the bit about the constitution is

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Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
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You must be a rapist pedophile felon insurrectionist traitor nazis. An enemy of the USA.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie • Oct 6, 2025
The USA? I live in Ireland and this post is about Ireland. I fail to see why you're talking about the

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 06/10/2025

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 2h

The anniversary of the finest piece of Bluesky trolling we have ever witnessed passed unnoticed. For shame.

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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This event is being promoted by pages manned by Richard Inman (Tommy Robinson's man in the north) and 'pipe bomb pastor' Clifford Peeples. The 'Immigration in Light of the Bible' document produced by Lords Work Trust calls for "mass remigration" and perpetuates White replacement conspiracy theory.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Technically? The Louisiana purchase in 1803 did help fund the Napoleonic Wars

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This US administration has already spent between $55-200 million funding think tanks and lobbyists in Europe to promote its “values and goals”. We have little to no idea where most of this money is being spent. It’s a dark money campaign to undermine European democracy

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

…Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Australia, Angola, East Timor, Argentina, Iran (again), Iraq (again), Afghanistan, Poland, Chad, Nicaragua & Panama (again), Grenada +++

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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics

Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“The US government would never interfere in foreign country” is a statement that will come as a surprise to the people of Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Greece, Albania, Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Iran, Iraq, Laos….

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US lobbies allies to cut ties to anti-disinformation conference over panel critical of Washington, sources say

The US State Department lobbied Canada and European allies to withdraw support for an anti-disinformation conference because ‌it included a panel examining Washington's role as an alleged information ...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have a chapter about the regulation of misinformation in a forthcoming book. The big question, unanswerable, is what to do when governments and social media companies both use and support misinformation as part of their very essence.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does this mean the proposal re weakening citizen’s privacy right to favour AI companies has been shot down?

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Update: Germany will not support the current compromise text on the Digital Omnibus. Jasper Bennink, Ellen O'Regan and Anouk Schlung learned this from government circles. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The bulk (80%) of the money the Irish government give to the racing industry is in the form of prize money (ie race winners get the cash), which is an *objectively* an inefficient and unfair way to distribute government subsidies…

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 07/10/2026

The main takeaway from this year’s #Disinfo2026 conference will be about Streisand effect.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rather curious, to say the least!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

always a good time to reup this www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...

The problem? Among other things, it’s not true. There is no censorship. There is no complex. There is no viewpoint discrimination. The administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 07/10/2026

@globalaffairs.canada.ca - can you tell us why you pulled support from this important academic #disinformation conference at the last minute? Despite high profile gestures of solidarity with the #EU, it seem pressure from the #USA still scares you.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? www.dublininquirer.com/to-counter-a...

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To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter

Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The US government and its actors are engaged in a sustained attack to undermine Europe’s ability to protect our democracies, and society. Because we are holding both the US government and big tech accountable.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Dosage is the collective noun for a group of Independent Ireland TDs…

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We should not look up to billionaires and seek their fickle and capricious “generosity”, we *should* tax billionaires into oblivion….

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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can't wait to spend less time with patients and more time doing efficiency paperwork

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Get in babe, we're doing the dodgy dossier again.

Dossier reveals Saddam is ready to launch chemical war strikes

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Cyprus within missile range

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This feels like something that should be within the remit of a public service broadcaster…

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026

The current private contract for Oireachtas broadcasting lapsed at the end of 2025, but the holder agreed to roll over for a year as there were no bidders to take it over. Staff have long sought to be treated as civil service equivalents, but the Oireachtas itself says this would treble the cost

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026

📺📻 Broadcast coverage of tomorrow’s #Budget2027 speeches has been cast into doubt, after an unknown number of workers at the Oireachtas broadcasting unit - who are largely freelancers who must take other jobs during recesses - told the Oireachtas they intend to take strike action tomorrow…

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who supported and shared this. It is with great sadness I can share that @eoghan.eurosky.social died in Berlin this morning. He will be *sorely* missed. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Checking in on the Brazilian election results

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Bogshuffler 🪿📷 @bogshuffler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣 HUGE GOOSE PHOTO NEWS!📣 My photo 'Zonkling' has been chosen as one of the 43 finalists for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards! Amazing and surreal, as they had 10,000 entries from 112 countries and the coverage is international and massive!🪿📷 www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/10/2026

Lula still trailing by a fair bit but Bolsonaro is under 50% *BRAZIL HEADS TO PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The posh British person made Tucker Carlson look stupid” Firstly, Tucker Carlson could be outwitted by the puzzle section of a kids menu. Jacob Rees Mogg is a deeply unpleasant British right wing reactionary, who made a tidy fortune advocating for Brexit while privately betting against the UK.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Jacob Rees Mogg…

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early Velvet Underground gig, the band turned up, were informed by the owner what time they’d be performing and how long sets were, prompting the drummer to announce “no one tells me when I start playing my music and for how long” and immediately…

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found a ticket stub for a gig from 1998 recently. Doors open at 11am, my immediate instinctive reaction 25+ years later was, “but that’s bedtime!”

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