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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026

Of all the weird recurring motifs of the stories people tell me about the AI labor wars, the *weirdest* is when bosses demand to be reassured that their contractors and workers will *absolutely* use AI to get the job done.

A worn out keyboard, cropped over the bottom left modifier keys. Posed in the image is a bearded prophet in Bronze Age robes, arms uplifted in worship.

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Mick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

1/5 New from Michael Pollan (from his book “A World Appears”): what novelists understand about consciousness that neuroscientists miss. Most brain scientists distrust the wandering mind. They want every mental effort rewarded, ideally with a publication. 🧵

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Nevermind traybakes and coddle, this could be the issue that will keep Ireland divided. The responses here go deep. 😂

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Your annual reminder to start reading now if you live in the North and want an immersive experience of #TheFireStarters The book begins about now and this year, for the first time this year, you can listen to it on audiobook whilst pacing the flag-draped streets of East Belfast.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026

Yesterday, I attended a workshop on systems thinking and political change, which included a presentation on the work of Donella Meadows, whose *Thinking in Systems* is a canonical work on the subject: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin... 1/

A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a UK Reform Party rosette. The background is an Egyptian temple, ganked from a Dore Old Testament engraving. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court.

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This by @scottsantens.com made my heart sing: a call for freedom. Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, & Albert Einstein are 3 sides of the same human triangle www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Annie Dillard was #BOTD in 1945. A brilliant essayist & sage-like on the craft of writing. Highly recommend her book The Writing Life, and her interviews are full of solid advice. "Write as if you were dying... What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon?" Also, don't save things.

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Working abroad this week and the client has quite the unusual snack options on offer

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rounding off my day arguing with AI which can’t even add up 7 numbers correctly. A vain attempt to speed up sorting my expenses and I’m now left equally incandescent and bemused

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 23/02/2026

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” A.A. Milne

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The infectious joy of being in the presence of someone talking about something they love. Great talk by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social at today’s @niscifest.bsky.social

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13/02/2026

Bands reimagined as Hanna-Barbera cartoons Mark Reynolds www.instagram.com/stuff_by_mark/

cartoon version of velvet underground in hanna barbera style

primal scream cartoon in hanna barbera style

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

In the same bin as the dj who talks over songs.

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice! What a morning at Newgrange today. The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am. 🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in! #ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice 📸 OPW Guides

Sun rising behind a large standing stone on a grassy landscape under a clear sky at Newgrange Monument.

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Writing Christmas cards with an awful ache for all those now absent over the past year.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme www.apur.org

A series of six heatmap-style graphics showing changes in pollution levels across Paris over time, with each square map labeled by year: 2007, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2024. The earlier maps in 2007 and 2010 are dominated by dense red and orange colors concentrated in the city center, with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame labeled, indicating heavy pollution. Over the years the intensity of red areas fades, especially in 2015 and 2017 where the pollution begins to spread less densely, and by 2020 the colors shift more toward yellow and green, showing significant reductions in pollution. The 2024 map is the cleanest, with the majority of the area in yellow and green tones and only major road arteries showing thin red lines, demonstrating far less air pollution. Each map includes a “2 miles” scale marker, and the visual progression highlights how bike lanes and car restrictions introduced in Paris contributed to decreasing air pollution levels throughout the city.

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Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You can get 20% off my critically-acclaimed* Scrabble mafia novel ESCAPES direct from the indie publishers Unnamed Press using the code HOLIDAY20. An ideal present for people who like Scrabble/books/death www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/... *3 critics liked it

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ESCAPEs — Unnamed Press

by Daniel Tunnard Published: October 06, 2020 ISBN: 9781951213114 Paperback $18.00

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My Bloody Valentine tonight in Dublin. Epic: sound you could touch #mbv

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A great read about 2 great people. Working with Carmel back in the day was an incredibly formative experience and I’m lucky to have had the benefit of both of their wisdom and generosity

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

An (almost) birthday treat to me from me this evening - The Köln Concert Revisited by Scott Flanigan at The Court House Bangor. I never tire of the recording so it’s fascinating to have heard it differently tonight #openhousefesrival

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 16/08/2025

Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately. There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing! andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...

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Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water

You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be confused, alarmed, or, in the worst cases, misled in harmful ways.” H/t @chrisbaraniuk.com

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Parents of 12 year olds! Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election. Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The acoustics in the Turbine Hall! www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions. Now, it has to happen in us. A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This. Elitists and gatekeepers can sometimes be the loudest voices about the arts, but the vast majority of artists, performers, and writers are not occupying rarified spaces with expensive master's degrees. They simply have the drive to create, and they work hard.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Couldn’t agree more. The writing *is* the thinking.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

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Job title: Director of Communications
Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH
Reports to: Chief Executive

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The Sounding Board @thesoundingboard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social presents a powerful challenge to us all to reimagine the world and the part each of us can play in creating it. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A tour de force from @romankrznaric.bsky.social talking about his book History for Tomorrow and so, so much more this evening at another great @imaginebelfast.bsky.social event. Still musing on these beautiful words: “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past”

The author speaking beside a lecturn with a slide displayed with the Māori proverb “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past”

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades (by @puddingviz)

A horizontal bar graph titled "Men speak most in best picture winning films," showing the proportion of words spoken by male and female characters in Best Picture Oscar winners from 1991 to 2016. The graph displays the year and film title, followed by two horizontal bars for each film, representing the percentage of words spoken by women (purple) and men (dark blue). The graph visually demonstrates that male characters consistently have a higher proportion of spoken words compared to female characters across most of the films listed.

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Listening to Cory Doctorow in conversation as part of the @imaginebelfast.bsky.social festival is a great way to begin my week. Hopeful, radical and provocative

The author and activist Cory Doctorow on screen being interviewed by Alan Meban who is sitting in an ornate red arm chair on stage

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The Sounding Board @thesoundingboard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If I think long and hard enough about this I will probably get a really helpful insight into some of the learning I’m doing on team coaching at the moment. And possibly about myself… #TeamCoaching #coaching

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Christmas comes but twice a year

A pink Christmas cactus in a white pot on a windowsill with blue sky in the background

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Áine O'Keeffe @aineokeeffe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

International Women’s Day doesn’t sit well with me. Too many cupcakes. Not enough change. Listening to women who didn’t ‘Lean In and play nice’ as an antidote www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... #IWD #riotgrrrls

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BBC Sounds - 6 Music's Indie Forever - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of 6 Music's Indie Forever on BBC Sounds.

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