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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ

@baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy
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Not a cyclist, but gets about on a bike. Also a car and motorbike owner. Londinium. Also on the Sky site at @baoigheallain.bsky.social Bio Pic: my daughter at […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.ie/@baoigheallain, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]
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Pax Americana
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software www.theregister.com/columnists/2026… EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
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EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
🇪🇺 Private chats and emails reported via #ChatControl 1.0 are ending up in #Palantir systems - scandalous! This includes direct messages on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, as well as emails via Gmail. Details […]
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026
In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
They certainly should be strongly discouraged (banned) from driving in. That would give them another perspective.
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
In South Korea, supermarkets often offer bananas at varying levels of ripeness so customers can eat them over several days and reduce food waste.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
The teen has come home from uni to vote tomorrow morning, then straight back to uni. Proud of her doing her civic duty.
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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve1…
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
The teen is off to university and she wanted to go by bike. I offered to take them (her and her friend) but they were determined to find their own way.
Two teenaged girls cycling bicycles. One with panniers, the other with a seat bag and shoulder sack.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
#US withdraws forces in #Iraq as balance of #power shifts to #Iran US #military forces are departing from bases in Iraq Wednesday following 2 decades of US involvement that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi #civilians & thousands of US troops, & leaves a battered but […]
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/117355964… This is indeed the problem. The people want you to investigate and prevent crime. Not spending time raising our insurance premiums.
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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Google Satellite image of Gaza.
Completely flattened city blocks, claimed to be Google Satellite image of Gaza.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]
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sturmyarcher3.eurosky.social @sturmyarcher3.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
banned for life right? Connors had a record for 64 offences, including nine dangerous driving allegations in Ireland. He had nine offences for being uninsured and, in 2021, in Britain, had been sentenced to six years for conspiracy to burgle' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ballyfermot driver jailed after killing Wrexham woman while fleeing police
Lydia La Polla's life was "needlessly cut short, not far from her 25th wedding anniversary".
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Things change. Voting has consequences.
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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Today is #carfreesunday in Brussels. Largest pedestrian area in Europe, for one day a year. Everyone's out on their bikes, roller skates, or just running or walking. But the most impressive part are the children. So many! Children of all ages, on tiny bikes, steps, skates, skateboards... You […]
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cob @cobrate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
96/🧵 -> #monde : faillite hydrique #eau + centres de données #datacenters + déclin de la #démocratie = recrudescence #guerre conflits liés à l' #eau à l'avenir + remontée de bulles de bitumes trop chaud dans le goudron = routes à reconstruire #btp quand […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Les centres de données ont un impact environnemental considérable. 
caricature de Fergus Boylan. 

Dessin humoristique montrant l'arrière-cour d'une maison. Deux personnes se tiennent à côté de diverses poubelles, tandis que l'une d'elles dit : "Non, ça va dans la poubelle verte. Allez, le gouvernement veut vraiment que nous fassions bien les choses". Derrière l'arrière-cour, on aperçoit d'énormes centres de données de Google, Amazon et Meta.

Plus de dessins : cartoonmovement.com
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
This is exactly what it's like to cycle in the UK.
A narrow street with monstrous cars parked on the pavement on both sides and another car driving down the centre.  Drivers of all cars are shouting at cyclists about how they're inconveniencing them or posing a danger to others.
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
No comment needed.
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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

Quoting: secretary Marco R...  @SecRu... - 5h
This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump’s vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cos...

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TC Won't Give In To Lies @tcatinreality.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Another obvious need Private jets are pure luxury, except in the rarest of security situations. As such, they should carry very heavy luxury taxes - on purchase and on operation. In zero instances should they be a tax-avoiding business expense. #TaxTheRich Private jets pollute up to 14 times […]
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kurtsh @kurtsh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Fox: 63% of voters feel the Trump administration made the economy worse. Voters would prefer Democrats to win in November. (courtesy of FactPostNews) #foxbusiness #trump #vote
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@wsj/latest-from-the-… "Measles-Related Death" is the new "Officer-Involved Shooting".
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Elaine Baker @elaineactivism.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
How do Irish political parties do in walking the talk on de-platforming X and engaging on the open social web and Irish Fediverse (mastodon.ie) ? #Mastodaoine @xodus_online
Table showing which Irish political parties have removed X and included Bluesky and Mastodon icons on their websites.  Green Party have done all three actions, Social Democrats, Labour and People Before Profit have done some, and Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have done none.  Learn more at http://xodus.online
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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during […]
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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/11727370983125… Well. I didn’t know much about Macklemore before, but now I know he is a brave, principled individual worthy of respect. I have no idea if I’ll like his music, but am going to buy some just to show that taking this sort of stance can also lead […]
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
"Where do the Fascists get their intel on where Refugee families are?" www.civilserviceworld.com/professio… #Fascists #HMRC #CivilService #UKPol #UKPolitics #PatriotPlatform #AntiFascism
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HMRC staffer jailed over extreme right-wing hate posts
Thomas Webster gets two-year sentence for antisemitic, racist and homophobic messages promoting white-supremacist views and violence
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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
If the American electorate is stupid enough (quite possible I'll point) to allow Republicans to retain control of Congress and they do send out those $5,000 checks, if you cash it you'll be sent to jail after/if Democrats retake power over our Department of Justice btw.
18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was
willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117235… Be honest it wasn’t drivers who originated the fear. It was technically illiterate journalists (often in service of the fossil fuel industry) who looked at how long their mobile phone batteries lasted and assumed an EV was just a […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026
There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Loads of fighting age people in burkas invade our coast and cause massive disruption. I thought Patirots hate that?
A crowd of black-clad men in balaclavas marching
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Moriel 🏳️‍⚧️ @moriel.chaosfem.tw.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I want this t-shirt. If you don't get it, read the alt text.
A black t-shirt being worn by a man.  On the shirt, in a rainbow of colors, are the names of several chemical elements:

Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

If you replace the names with their chemical symbols, they spell FUCK TRUMP
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
This one will hurt: I love 1Password as a product. But I'm the son of a concentration camp survivor. I will not give money to companies that align themselves with nationalism, and certainly not ethnic cleansing. Completely disappointing, @1password […]
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By Land And Sea dot ie @bylandandsea-ie.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
New on ByLandAndSea.ie - a map of all the ferry routes to and from Ireland - with all operators on one map! bylandandsea.ie/ferry-travel-options
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Ferry travel options
Here are all the different ways of traveling out of or onto our island without flying (or sailing yourself of course)…… all on one map. Below are individual maps from the ferry operator…
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
I get putting "Lake America" on US users' maps. Whatever, it's his country now. But why does the rest of the world – all of which call it Lake Ontario – have to have "Lake America/Lake Ontario"? If Iran decides to call the Straight of Hormuz "The Straight of Trumps Defeat" are Apple going to […]
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