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Cal Ryder

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Much greater than my fear of the Giant Squid is my fear of the Colossal Squid.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13h
I still have a lot of “but why don’t the residents let the Order march?” Well, because they remember. A community activist from Ardoyne I won’t name, but goes under Belfast.jpeg, has compiled some of the stories. There are 21 deaths total linked to the Drumcree “dispute”.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
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New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’
Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep seeing Americans losing it over the price of petrol so I just looked up what they're paying and it's the equivalent of £1.07 per litre. In the UK it's currently around £1.73 per litre. Other than during COVID, the last time fuel in the UK was that price it was over a decade ago.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think about stuff like this a lot more frequently these days. Good thread:
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just signed - working petition link in first reply.
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Literally thought this must be an AI hoax because how the fuck would any self-respecting brand be associating their products with symbolism like this... and yet it seems this is where we are. Kinda gobsmacked tbh.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The articles she quotes here are beautiful but poignant - I haven't read the full things yet but I will, and I encourage all AI haters, resisters and worriers to read this piece.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Beautiful! Sarah Kendzior: "I do not use AI: not for research, writing, photography, or anything else. I never will. I’d rather be a ghost haunting the machine than a vampire imbibing it."
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ngl these kill me
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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very funny that Ed Sheeran, who was so keen to co-opt and monetise Irish culture, failed to take into account how ingrained support for Palestine is in a country that has suffered from famine and genocide from its overbearing neighbour (where he was born and raised)
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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah dude, I fuckin' am. That's how I know this shit is for posers and hacks.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even without the ethical and environmental issues, cannot wrap my head around the uncritical use of genAI and the likes of ChatGPT - why would you want to outsource your cognitive ability, your own capacity for thought and reason and creativity? Why are people so unconcerned about losing that?
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Enjoyed the comments here tbh
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just back from Sigur Rós with the Ulster Orchestra - ye gods, what a gig. A treat. A treasure. Phenomenal.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
2020 btw www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/a...
Extract from the Guardian: "Lipman’s hardline stance on Israel, she suggests, means that she won’t work with certain actors who support the Palestinian cause. “I won’t be going on tour with The Killing of Sister George with Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes, put it that way.”
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sharing this not just because it's important in the wider context of rigged justice and free speech, but because I know Tony Greenstein. He helped me, as he has countless others, when I was young and poor and needed legal advice I couldn't afford. 1/2
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A child attending his first-ever live concert was brought on stage by British rock band IDLES in Belfast, Ireland. When asked to say one thing to his people, he shouted “Free Free Palestine.”
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026
A phenomenal woman
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/08/2026
Definitely worth your time all the way to the end...
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah fuck, not Dolly... No point even trying to explain how it feels or pay tribute to the legend she was. An exemplary human in all she did and said. What a shitty loss for everyone 💔
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a perfect summation of the tech broligarchy
“These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a spectacular read
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2026
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Davis
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#OtD 18 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was most likely executed, during the Spanish civil war. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Appreciating what you have: not always easy, but a skill worth cultivating. And we have so much...
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 03/08/2026
"I used AI and my brain" is the new "I'm neither left nor right"
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here's what it looked like in case you would also like to send a message to AI companies
On the left side is a news article about a Data Center CEO getting ran out of Salem by local community.

On the right side is a photo of a small guillotine being transported by a cargo bike.
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/08/2026
please move to comicfury please use comicfury please get the fuck off of webtoon as fast as possible wordpress has dedicated webcomic features. you can even do it on a cheapo squarespace site. hell, TUMBLR has templates for making webcomics, just please get the fuck away from tapas and webtoon
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We do not need data centers. Predatory billionaires need data centers.
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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A new mural in Bangor by local artist Friz in collaboration with the Flip the Script girls group from YMCA North Down promoting the campaign to End Violence Against Women and Girls 📷 Connie Egan
A mural showing someone wearing a jacket that says “Girls just wanna walk home”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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