iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20h

We’ve had to listen to some very unimpressive TDs talk shit about public sector workers needing to prove their worth and up their game. Meanwhile the sight of an almost-empty greyhound track and the yelping of mistreated animals gets them humming the national anthem as a tear rolls down their cheek

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 18h

And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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matt howes @mh8748.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My dad is in a care home. He's 77. His formative years were in the late 60s. He liked the Rolling Stones But all the pictures in his care home are of Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth and Spitfires - way before his time! People have a very skewed idea of what 'old' is!

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta hosted senior Irish Government officials & regulators at an event titled "Ireland as a Trusted Digital Regulatory Hub". Ireland's former regulator who sued all other EU data regulators to avoid investigating Meta was a speaker. (She now works for Meta's law firm.) lnkd.in/p/dYg9TPnk

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Orange Order have applied for a parade in Portadown ONCE A WEEK for the last 28 years. [via Reddit] #speirgorm #garvaghyroad paradescommissionni.flexigrant.com/downloadfile...

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This guy's not wrong.
According to paragraph 9 of the Parades Commission's determination:
Portadown District LOL No. 1 have complied with each and every determination issued by the
Commission since [1998], of which there are over 1.300.
That's over 46 determinations from the Commission per year over the 28 years, almost 1 per week.
For 28 years. | guess the brethren of Portadown LOL No. 1 take a couple of weeks off every year for
Christmas, summer holiday in Benidorm, etc. Then they get right back to harassing the Parades
Commission. And it finally paid off.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/09/2026

A man and a woman have been charged with perjury following an investigation by gardaí into evidence filed in Conor McGregor's failed appeal against a civil court jury’s finding that he raped Nikita Hand

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Man, woman charged with perjury over McGregor appeal

A man and a woman have been charged with perjury following an investigation by gardaí into evidence filed in Conor McGregor's failed appeal against a civil court jury's finding that he raped Nikita Ha...

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Fergus Kelly @ferguskelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adopting the same PR tactics as Shell in Mayo eh?

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not sure if I can even remember the last time there was a perjury case in Ireland.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The Just Transition Commission, an independent body set up by the Government in 2024, said it is 'particularly concerned' about the planned fare hikes at a time when €100m a month is being spent on cutting excise duty cuts."

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Minister rejects calls to scrap planned public transport fare hikes as €100m-a-month fuel excise cuts continue

Climate Minister Darragh O’Brien on Tuesday morning defended the upcoming fare increases

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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

“We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." Prof Peter Thorne, Climate Change Advisory Council

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Government urged to stop treating 'extreme events as one-off emergencies' by climate council

The Climate Change Advisory Council released a damning statement accompanying its latest report, preparing for Ireland’s Changing Climate.

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure about these Enid Blyton reboots.

Five arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can someone who is good at negotiations explain to me why capitulating to these guys didn’t placate them? Please my country is dying

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always see criticism of The Matrix's idea of using humans as batteries because it just wouldn't scale/produce enough energy. I rewatched it last night and Morpheus literally says they use humans AND A FORM OF FUSION. I'd forgotten that, so has everybody else!

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It took the cops 2 hours to attend an incident in my estate this week where a woman was endangered by a gang of youths. Will anyone notice?

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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

'The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created across education, health or social sectors, if the resources used expanding data centres were directed elsewhere.'

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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims

The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Micheál Martin riding the subway in New York when at the same time increasing public transit fares in Ireland

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 23/09/2026

Unfortunately Labour and the Social Democrats joined with the government to vote down our call for: Stop the planned public transport hikes Replace carbon tax with taxes on big business and wealthy Price caps on essentials Energy credit Cut rents

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

this is absurd. the Irish government has consistently shown it favours big tech over ordinary citizens

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Kevin Wilson @curiouslykevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Toocheke dev has released an option to pull a tapas site into a wordpress website using their plugin. Wordpress isn't the only option when it comes to websites, but this feature should make it a lot easier for people to make the switch to a website if they want.

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First thing I scream at any young artist asking me for advice.

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was back in the mid 2000s I first met @eoghan.eurosky.social I was fresh in the Examiner as a production journalist and he was one of the first colleagues I met there. We became fast friends with a shared interest in tech, and how it applies to journalism.

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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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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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In purely practical terms the Ministers for Enterprise and Finance should be leathering the head off the Minister for abject racism for trying to economically screw up the country. It’s wrong on human, moral, intellectual and decency terms. It’s corrosive to society. And it’s economically illiterate

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well done SIPTU. RTÉ sports department refused to travel to cover the Ireland v Israel fixture, moved from Dublin to Serbia. Ireland is a tiny nation but I remember how a boycott of south African Goods by workers in Dublin snowballed into a huge anti apartheid movement in 1980s. #speirgorm

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SIPTU backs RTÉ staff boycott of Israel fixtures and pledges support to other workers

SIPTU has welcomed reports that a refusal by RTÉ staff to play any role in the upcoming UEFA Nations League matches involving Ireland and Israel means that if the games go ahead, any RTÉ broadcast of ...

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 16/09/2026

The National Transport Authority has confirmed that bus and train fare hikes will lead to fewer people using public transport. An Oireachtas committee was told that for every 10% fare increase, passenger numbers fall 3%. jrnl.ie/7164363

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NTA confirms that bus and train fare hikes will lead to fewer people using public transport

The NTA said for every 10% fare increase, passenger numbers fall 3%.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Will Stancil is the kind of gullible dumbfuck who also thought Teddy Ruxpin was talking directly to him.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Ms. Rachel thing is instructive because ppl just vaguely talk about her being antisemitic so as to avoid articulating her original offense: daring to feature in her videos a 3 year old whom the IDF blew the feet off of

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if you doubt a ruling class could possibly be this world historically wrong I'll note that "We have nothing to fear on the part of the Negroes; they are tranquil and obedient” and “We sleep with doors and windows wide open. Freedom for Negroes is a chimera” are quotes of a slaveowner in 1790, Haiti

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 16/09/2026

Twelve children were among the 21 people killed when an apartment building collapsed due to damage sustained in earlier Israeli strikes. The six-storey building, which had four apartments per floor, crumbled overnight onto nearby homes and tents in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City. jrnl.ie/7164815

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Children among 21 killed after Gaza building collapses due to damage sustained in earlier strikes

Dozens of people remained missing or trapped under the rubble.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

macklemore calling kraft's bluff is so good

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Years from now, I will still think of this one and have a good chuckle.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎵I'm in love with the taste of soup🎵

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