Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my closest friends gave me a copy of Wonderbook. It’s on my desk right now. And yeah, one of the prerequisites for doing undone things is being a little (or a lot) different. Or, per the patron saint of different, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”. This is our time to shine. 010
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.404media.coHow AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human EmpathySherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29. 214146
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Goodnight from Terry Anderson, wondering why there’s a freezing fog inside the cab of his truck, but none on the Northmoor Road. Goodnight from the bingo on Blaxwich Pier, where tonight’s caller has unknowingly invoked the gematria of several minor demons. Goodnight from Hookland. 2636345
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram: 142103982157
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yeats’ amazing poem conveys a sense that there are vast, hidden forces at play in the world. It so suits this current chaotic moment. “What rough beast… slouches towards Doonbeg to play golf” 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Looks like there are two Che Guevaras in that line. Touché! 010
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Aspire to live in such a way that reporters write stories on why people don’t like you. 🙃 baptistnews.com/article/what...baptistnews.comWhat’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock. 1232952
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174223861
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Look, I am a huge proponent of creating art in an emotionally safe, constructive and low anxiety space. Then I listen to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and think "Okay, maybe there should be a Hunger Games scenario where 1 in 100 musicians has to do an album with their ex and someone who ghosted them". 2627
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026And the milk jug sends live telemetry back to Palantir! 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Looks like Kerry… sigh. Heaven indeed. 020
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just got back from walking my dog and listening to owls around us in the North Carolina woods. It’s overcast here but the light of the moon was cutting through the cloud cover. I swear you can feel an eclipse in your bones. 040
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 14/08/2026and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance;…. 100
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 13/08/2026That’s gotta be AI. Those eyebrows aren’t human. 000
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@404media.co on Flock’s latest attempt to build a dystopian panopticon future. 000
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Why am I hearing the Team America soundtrack as I read this? Guns on pogo sticks?!? This story needs puppets! 020
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My three-year-old was watching CNN when he turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why is the nice orange man firing the nice wine lady?” And when I told him “Because she became too woke to protect the reflecting pools,” he started crying. 241157133
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism. 719785
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 31/07/2026As a “Bill” myself I approve of this artwork! 000
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026God Fetterman is a prick. He’s like Lurch from the Addams Family only without a real tailor. 000
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I believe bribing Federal officials is now considered a deductible business expense by the IRS. 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The projection is strong in this one. 000
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ahhhhh… a Despair.com reference! They got me through the dotcom bubble! despair.com/collections/... 020
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Wait till he starts measuring dicks. You know he wants to. 000
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not. 14898922535
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.the-independent.comMillionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media 380100722985
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 06/07/2026@404media.co is doing some of the best tech/privacy related journalism out there. Thanks for boosting their work! 030
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization 13457101205
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors. 7175721235
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two 182081412
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Ben Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Past administrations did, to be fair, lie to us about their war crimes far more respectfully, and that’s what made all the difference. 0144
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026www.schneier.comschneier.comSchneier on Security 011
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Quote from Bruce Schneier's newsletter. He's one of the internet's OG security experts and knows his way around technology. Which makes this quote land even harder. “If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems.” 122
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Douthat is at best a stenographer to the regime. “Hold power to account? I’d lose my access!” Disgraceful. Where’s our Hunter Thompson? 000
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Joe Rogan looks like the main character in a Twilight Zone episode who is about to learn a terrible lesson 10208538916
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It should not feel as epically satisfying as it does to add a member to my Microsoft Office Family Plan. Hours spent battling the horrible UI, the conflicting prompts, the security challenges that time out. I felt like fucking Indiana Jones when my wife said, “yeah, I’m on now.” #fuckMicrosoft 020
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 04/06/2026That’s what Guinness is for, more piss. 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 02/06/2026WTAF? An academic institution asking the Trump regime’s NLRB to overturn their employees vote to unionize? A vote they encouraged? I grew up in academia and I don’t even know where to start. 011
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished. 318899
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The Pixar-Tarantino mashup we know is coming! The animated “Reservoir Dogs” is gonna be sick. 010
Reposted by Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Every state should do this 421936
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Sleepy Joe’s Walter Reed Sleeper Cell - activated! LOL. 🙄 040
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It’s possible that we’re not angry enough about the purchasing of our political class. 010
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Chad Thundercock? Isn’t that K$sh Patel’s Pornhub alias? 040