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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22h

This is why I say that in the age of AI, it is imperative to be pro-human. Accuracy is not the measure of the value of literature. It is whether your intended audience, other humans, feel seen, recognized, moved by your work. This is what makes work human. This is not something AI can capture.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's actually terrifying reading this and seeing how it all is spelled out so plainly. And still, AND STILL, they won't even recognise it as an issue, never mind addressing it.

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Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

62% of people who voted to #repealthe8th cited ‘a woman’s right to choose’ as the primary reason for their vote. How’s that for democratic legitimacy?

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Shocker as the physical embodiment of Ireland's ills points finger away from him and his ilk, who caused untold distress and countless suicides, to marginalised groups. May this walking talking pus filled big toe never know peace.

Irish Examiner headline.
"Bertie Ahern on video: Ireland has 'too many immigrants'; 'I worry about Africans'
A video, which appeared to be taken during a by-election canvass in Dublin Central, was shared on social media"

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Much like Irish media playing up party's like Aontú. Reform gets a disproportionate amount of air-time from Brit media.

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 08/05/2026

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like neoliberal renter capitalism. For the love of God, just build offshore wind farms & battery storage. www.businesspost.ie/politics/ire... #IrishPol

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Ireland and US tech giants ‘should team up to build nuclear reactor’

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When you are too rich to know how normal people survive

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Just a note to political parties contesting the Dublin byelection that, rather than sitting silently on the sidelines, you need to come out and condemn Hutch's racist comments on immigration. In a democracy, it's not enough to be not racist; one must be actively anti-racist. Silence is complicity.

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It is a pity the Dems can’t vote for someone to lead the party and messaging in off-years. The GOP have benefitted from having one leader over the past 10+ years. The Dems messaging is scattered depending on who is favoured by the media at the time.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

A circular diagram showing how Far Right Narratives are fed into Platform Aplification algorithims, and then media and commentary take up the points thinking them representative of public discussion, leading to the political system reponding and adopting some of them. This leads to a shift in the real public's perception of what matters, and ends in a ligitimisation of those fringe positions.

"This report tells us two things. The first, and most important, is that most people are decent and that the more they are exposed to discussions of controversial things, the more likely they are to decide to support the decent position.

The other thing it tells us is that we have political and media institutions which are completely incapable of recognising when they are being targeted by foreign interference campaigns. "

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

SECTION 2 - FAR RIGHT NARRATIVES
Ireland vs. Outside Ireland
COUNTRY BREAKDOWN
Republic of Ireland
Outside Ireland
240k (25%)
720k (75%)
Outside Ireland Breakdown
United Kingdom: 180k
United States: 160k
Australia: 100k
Canada: 80k
France: 60k
Germany: 50k
India: 40k
Netherlands: 30k
Spain: 20k
Fig 2: Far-right narratives by country of origin
Foreign Bots, coming over here, stealing local nazi jobs

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Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Sad to see yet another vehicle donated to a disability service plastered with name of the service and donating organisation on the outside. Why do disabled people have to be publicly identified as recipients of charity when going about our daily lives? Why do donors ask and service providers allow?

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026

Starmer really telling on himself when he says his touchstone for deciding the appropriate level of police brutality is what he learned in a police operations centre in ... Northern Ireland.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I don't want to hear another fucking word about how the war in Ukraine exemplifies Ireland's need to abandon neutrality when we're throwing their refugees to the mercy of Ireland's housing "market". If our solidarity can be expressed with bullets but not beds it is devoid of humanity. #spéirgorm

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026

This isn't just a social media problem. News media opinion pages are full of unrepresentative voices who do not reflect the majority of the population, while others are very clearly under-represented, minimized or ignored www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Most Irish people reject far right despite strong social media presence – report

Network of 89 public pages and profiles on Facebook publishing racist and far-right talking points with a follower count of over 2.2m

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ed Balls, ex Labour MP, husband of current Labour government minister, and life-long Labour activist, interrogating the leader of a rival political party [Zack Polanski] on a flagship national TV show But sure, nothing questionable, corrupt, or conflicted about that at all, apparently

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Let me tell you what the prick who hoards housing in your rural community is taking from you by forcing my family out. The guy who runs your kids' after school chess club. The couple who bring young people back into the local pub to play board games on your quiet nights. A yoga teacher.1/n

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Genuinely do most Americans think the rest of the world will just blame one guy and leave it at that. I mean he's the main focus but an entire country electing him, around 1/3 still supporting him and an opposition unwilling to protect their democracy from him isn't being forgotten #speirgorm

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 25/04/2026

I guess it is the traditional retreat for fleeing nazis www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

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Peter Thiel Flees to Argentina As Trump Falters

Antichrist enthusiast flies south

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Presumably in another 40 years everyone under 50 will say the new Stephens Green shopping centre is a beautiful iconic integral part of Dublin I hate the new soulless design but I'm also amused cos I'm old enough to remember we all despised the current cheap looking Mississippi river boat in 1988

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

How many solar panels could you buy for the €500m fuel supports for the blockers? How many council houses?

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Times scribbler too dim to understand how owning a second house makes her a second home owner" news

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I see we have a new "liberalism has gone too far champion" "Social media is also at work here. It has clearly melted some brains." Yes, David. Yes it has. Someone let this lad loose with an excel spreadsheet during covid and this is the result... 1/

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

To say "Ireland is full" is not to hold or outline a view - it's a formally meaningless statement of course - it's rather to make a signal to the violent minority for whom this phrase is a claim to racist and fascist solidarity. Time to stop treating II like a normal party maybe. #speirgorm

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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis."

https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I see the US media are calling the illegal war with Iran ‘war of choice’. They did the same calling an attempted coup the big lie. You would think journalists would have more respect for words. It is not cutesy or clever ffs it minimises the seriousness of the act and tacitly gives permission.

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Colman O'Sullivan @colmanos.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Solar panels that generate power from raindrops! Just perfect for Ireland

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/04/2026

We're throwing innocent people in concentration camps and letting them die, including children. Our government, in our names, with our money.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Let’s do this for all of Ireland

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm >15 years warning Irish politicians, media houses and journalists of the dangers posed by the far right, and not one of them has ever bothered to listen to me, instead choosing to make the same mistakes as every other European country Spoiler: It's going to get much, much worse. #speirgorm

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There are two rules in Irish society - 1. You don’t fuck with the Tidy Towns and 2. You do not, under any circumstances, fuck with the Muslim Sisters of Éire.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I fully support people's right to protest but I don't support far right bullshit pretending to be about farmers and hauliers and I can't recall another protest ever being allowed to bring the city to a halt for 36 hours and still going without any consequences whatsoever

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you're gonna use the term, save TACO for situations where Trump can reverse himself, and damage is financial or abstract. This is not that. This is a madman taking the world hostage, causing death and global chaos, sparing us from civilizational ruin for his own opaque reasons. No moving past it.

offmessage.net

Republicans Chose Armageddon Over Checking Trump—They Just Got Lucky

It can not be bygones and quiet relief. Democrats must try to remove Trump from power, even if Republicans block them, because he's shown he'll hold the whole world hostage.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What happens if the US Forces refuse the order? Is it a coup? Is there still a government? I don’t think it is quite as simple as just saying no. I mean, I think they should refuse to take part in a genocide but the ramifications are huge.

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yes it is the norm in my Drogheda estate too.

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Oh nice. My Nana used to grate the cheese into the coleslaw because she didn’t like having the coleslaw sliding off a cheese slice and ruining the triangle. It is delicious but you have to use a surprising amount of cheese.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

25th.

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Carol O’Riordan @carolor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Wes strikes me as man born too late, he has the manner and politics that would fit perfectly into a Thatcher Cabinet. That is the weird thing about the Overton window in British politics, things have moved so far right Labour reads Tory to me now.

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Highlight from today's research: cooling data centers already uses as much water as all the bottled water manufactured globally. They're expected to need 170% more water by 2030. 25% of humanity lacks reliable access to clean water. Jesus Christ.

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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As of yesterday, the Irish government was declaring that this wouldn't be needed

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Don’t think they hate it just because they’re “scared” of it. Personally, I hate it because it’s so consistently misleading & inaccurate.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Just a reminder 👇

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Your reminder that @finegael.bsky.social MEPs voted for this and the far right celebrated. May the dead haunt every moment of their dreams, in this life and the next.

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