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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC

Labour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 24/09/2026

Immediately duvet burrito'd myself when I got home from work. Came back to consciousness there about 20 mins ago and thought my final act was going to be dictating a will over voice note to my bf 💀💀💀 #prayformojo

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 19/09/2026

"Today really needs to be a rest day Alan. Skip the walk and take a full rest day to help those vitals settle back down." "You ended up going for that walk after all" Google Health coach is disappointed in me...

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 19/09/2026

Just to clarify these are the same people who’ve been going on for years about how young people could afford houses if only they stopped buying takeout lattes and avocado toast, yes?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the "awards and honors" section of my cv

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 18/09/2026

Ah Culture Night

Homer Simpson imaging a bear driving a little car in a circus ring

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 17/09/2026

I'll be so mad if AI kills us all. We've invested so much to do it ourselves, it'd be a shame to be scooped before we get the chance.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 15/09/2026

Screaming at the TV! No logic, no sense! He's right there and they fumbled it! #TraitorsIRL

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 11/09/2026

But, yes, let's ban teenagers from the internet.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mary McAleese holds double doctorates in Criminal and Canon Law. She's a former barrister, journalist and was provice-chancellor of Queen's University. Oh, and she served two terms as Uachtarán na hÉireann. Before being elected, Patrick O'Donovan was a primary school teacher & county councillor.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Irish political parties in power looking at attempts by governments around the world to appease the far right absolutely not working

But it might work for us meme from Arrested Development

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And who will be deciding what the values of this country are? Because Micheál Martin and I have very different values. I, for example, value preventing children being made homeless over data centres. #spéirghorm

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I hate this government and everyone who voted for them! There is no demand for this except from a minority right full of hatred, this will affect thousands of families around the country including mine... heartbroken #speirgorm #howirelandworks www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

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Language test, longer residency in new citizenship rules

The Taoiseach has said new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship, including a language test, will help bring Ireland in line with other European countries.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

crazy how the government is shackled by its existing spending commitments when the poorest and most vulnerable people need some relief, but suddenly finds all these "levers" when it's their comfortable base experiencing a temporary pinch

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes, we’ve been aggressively moving towards this for some time now. This is of a piece with the press cheering on a woman ramming her car through protestors, the cops mass-arresting grannies and the whole political/media class rising up in open hate for the left. These are the fruits of that shit.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Really, what to make of this image? A metaphor for modern Britain, as the pensioners who’ve done it untold damage lash out furiously at the young people they hate partly just for being young. Raging against the dying of the light wasn’t meant to look like this, surely?

A v blue toned screenshot of Reform delegates physically attacking a protester yesterday. An old woman with short hair is grasping the protester’s long hair with both hands, obviously pulling as hard as she can and yanking the younger woman off balance, her face contorted with pain. Behind her an old man wields his walking stick - raised to shoulder height - to hit the protester’s head.

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 03/09/2026

If we block O'Connell St like the fuel protesters I'd say it'd be less than 12 hours before we'd be reefed into the Liffey.

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jesus Fucking Christ this government is absolutely fucking useless. Public transport price increases during a fuel crisis while burning over a billion on duty cut. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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LGBTQ+ STEM @lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hi everyone! The Poster Abstract Deadline is Monday! We would love to see what you have been accomplishing in the last few years since our last event! Register for the event and submit abstracts on our local website here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...

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LGBTQ+ STEMinar 2026

After a hiatus, we are ecstatic to bring back the LGBTQ+ STEMinar this 6th of November 2026 to be held in person at Queen Mary University of London.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.

Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning Britain

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 15/08/2026

Wedding ready last weekend

Photo of me smilingin a burgundy suit with a pink tie

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did a Scandinavian testicle-eating fish write this?

News headline: Scandinavian men can return to the water: testicle-eating fish is a myth, with image of a piranha-looking thing.

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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 07/08/2026

Hello, Dublin! 🇮🇪 This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows capital and largest city of Ireland. Did you know North Bull Island was the first official bird sanctuary in the country in the 1930s? www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Satellite image of Dublin, Ireland, showing the city, Dublin Bay, surrounding farmland, and the Irish Sea.

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Roa 🇮🇪🌹 @rokaiser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The New Statesmen:

When youre just trying to take a shortcut on your Ireland roadtrip but you end up in the middle of an
Irish parade

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Alan Rice @alanrice.ie · 06/08/2026

I feel like THIS COULD FIX ME. It's over for ye when my brain finally gets to defragment.

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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is well worth watching because it highlights just how impractical and awkward anti-trans policies are in the real world. Do you *really* want a world where shops are policing the biology of whomever walks into single stall bathrooms?

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You sometimes see Government TDs pointing out that Ireland isn’t unique in the world in having a housing crisis. But this graph in today’s Financial Times shows just how extreme ours is compared to the places elsewhere, which also describe themselves as a in a housing crisis.

The share of young adults living with their parents is climbing in many countries and cities, with Ireland leading the way % of people aged 25-34 who live with their parents. National averages vs major regions

[5 line graphs. Ireland’s is sharply above 40% since 2010. The rest show US, U.K., Canada and Australia. The next highest result is the US at just over 20%]

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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 24/07/2026

These are great, some very nice design concepts throughout (vote for your fav on the link below). I like the idea of using birds and nature rather than people or monuments. www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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