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Brendan

@brendan69.bsky.social
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Watching my small plot in Co Armagh rewild itself. Knows less and less about more and more. Profile pic is me, a lifetime ago. Header is the backup and garden.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 12h
Statement by the President of the International Criminal Court, Tomoko Akane, regarding sanctions imposed by the United States. youtu.be/WbISkI6vPxI?... This Judge embodies dignity and determination.
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ICC rejects US sanctions against the institution
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23h
Gallant is wanted for trial at the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...
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What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 09/10/2026
FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⚖️ Defend our Courts ⚖️
Judges of the International Criminal Court. Highlighting those under US sanctions.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
26 plus 6 equals 1
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ministry of Truth
Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 05/10/2026
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.
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Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 05/10/2026
My answer to this multiple choice question I posed myself is option 2. A canonical hypersyntax is not what comes out of the training process, but functionally defining it can illustrate why the model is a resultant phenomenon of corpus + training, not an emergent phenomenon of scale.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
Collage of different prints from my online storeClose up of the Irish Aquatic Life printLinocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside itImbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We have nearly 1500 names now. Last day to sign
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A very thoughtful thread. Purely as an interested observer, Boxo's explanation of the "resultantist" view makes far more sense to me than belief in some magic intelligence (that isn't understood) emerging in LLM's.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Israel, Hedges said, “is admired by the far right because it has turned its back on humanitarian law and uses indiscriminate lethal force to ‘cleanse’ its society of those condemned as human contaminants”.'
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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A party of government in the South is on the brink of delivering a ‘blueprint for a unified island’ - with constitutional change now centre stage. Drumcree is miraculously revived. Go figure.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ireland: 418% increase in refusals of study visas for Palestinian students this year.
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Palestinian student visa refusals to Ireland rise 418% this year
Most of the students had secured fully funded places at Irish universities, with appeals and four High Court challenges now underway
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms??
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the plausible point, don't you find that if you use a chatbot for a subject on which you are knowledgeable that the output gets less and less plausible the more you dig? The 'close enough/good enough' attitude has me exhausted.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We're working musicians who made a principled decision, and the financial and professional stakes are very real in all of that. "But we are really not the story here, and I would always want to bring it back to the people of Palestine and the plight of our Palestinian brothers and sisters."
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Beoga 'remain friends' with Ed Sheeran after tour exit
Niamh Dunne of the Irish trad band Beoga has told RTÉ Radio 1's News at One that the group "remain friends" with Ed Sheeran, despite their decision to leave his North American tour in solidarity with ...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here's some fun stats as the english (fecking finally!) get around to talking about a new EU referendum. 1975: 17,378,581 Britons voted YES to staying in Europe. 2016: 17,410,742 Britons voted LEAVE. Difference: 32,161 votes.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A crowdfunder has begun to support the people of Garvaghy Road in their resistance against the Orange Order's bullying shite.
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Help raise £5000 to Support the residents, local community centre and the people on the Garvaghy Road – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Support the residents, local community centre and the people on the Garvaghy Road. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe time for big Gav to rethink and get with the direction of travel.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The DUP has been hinting at further destabilising the never-stable Stormont as a means to get its way. This is not surprising, given wrecking and riling up bigotry is all the inept and scandal-riven party has to offer."
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There has been so much comment on the Gravaghy Road protests being illegal. That call isn't as simple as reading out the relevant bits of the PPA 1998 were a spontaneous and peaceful demonstration is at issue. The counter protesters have Art 11 ECHR rights: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-17...
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hard to imagine how this doesn't lead to further tragedy.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Volkswagen has agreed to sell an under-used factory in Osnabruck, western Germany, which will become a military manufacturing hub in a joint venture with an Israeli-based defence investor.
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Chris Barks @chllsp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ha,ha,ha. Really? They singing songs about him
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pick a side: A. People attacking the International Criminal Court B. Judges at the Court
Trump Netanyahu PutinSanctioned ICC Judges Prost , Bossa, Alapini-Gansou
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Portrait of Trump
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Maybe this sheds some light on it... bsky.app/profile/prem...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thought experiment: 1. feed into your training data lots of things you stole on the internet, including recipes for biological weapons 2. sell your product without checking you didn’t accidentally steal dangerous information to use as your training set 3. act surprised
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very brave of you to write this and greatly appreciated. I am saddened that your mum, and your family, had to go through this horrid experience. In a civilised society there must be a way for people to maintain dignity and have their wishes respected at the end of life.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Apart from the disturbing output, environmental and social damage, plagiarism etc, AI can be useful is an interesting justification for use. Detractors point out that child labour and asbestos were also useful.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not a laughing matter but "Big boats, just far away" 😂😂😂
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He'll ignore or laugh at that topic and blame an underling. Just as he laughs here bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No-one coming to save UK from Reform etc. Going to have to stand up for yourselves again, à la Cable Street.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
12 years driving EVs, can confirm tyres do not wear faster - unless you drive like an idiot, in which case it matters not how your vehicle is powered.
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Dr Susi Arnott @susiarnott.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
"...The Israeli embassy referred to the warning by Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, who said: “If Britain acts against the state of Israel, the state of Israel will act against Britain. We have the tools.” He added: “The period is over when people act against the state of Israel and the […]
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Made in Ireland! I don't have much call to solder, though have had a couple of mains powered soldering irons. However, this little iron has been my go-to for around 30 years. Still works a treat, no built in obsolescence here. Made in Carlow (won't hold that against them). portasol.com/gb/
An image of a classic orange butane powered soldering iron labelled as RS Components.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I was part of the 1% in 2015, but have to play catch up on solar/battery/heat pump.
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Maybe not in the same league, a farm owner told me that eggs from his farms in Northern Ireland are transported to England for boxing. Then sent via supermarket distribution centres to end up on shelves back in Northern Ireland. Food miles, and miles and miles.
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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How it started: AI is going to make us all wealthy, and no one will have to work. How it’s going: you don’t need that measly pension of yours, do you?
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Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Ethel Caterham has become the first person in recorded history to reach the age of 117 and is one of only 13 people in recorded history to reach the milestone." What? Is this AI generated or I am losing the plot?
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CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*Shares appreciated* Dear BlueSky, our drinking water comes from just beside here (Lough Neagh, County Antrim) Otters, kingfishers, swans, cormorants and more call this home Due to a near-collapsed local government there are few solutions Please raise awareness @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Boat on algae-covered river Football on algae on river
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