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Cian Ginty

@cianginty.bsky.social
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Editor of IrishCycle.com - runs CyclingForAll.ie - cian.ginty@gmail.com

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 16h
This is a really solid doorstep interview of Yvette Cooper, who, as Home Secretary, prescribed Palestine Action: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Michael Walker CONFRONTS Yvette Cooper On Palestine Action
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 23h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's all a bit:
Quantity of petrol found near where those Fairford blokes were arrested. 'Found this spoon, sir' from Life Of Brian.
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I nearly thought I was sick. No, it's just 16 degrees in the west of Ireland after 1am at the end of September.
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, that was fun! The cinema wasn't empty but my screen was... I think...
An empty cinema with a film on the screen showing as a man's face looking towards. He's driving a car and the background lighting is red.
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As my son would say, this @drivetime.bsky.social item on younger generations texting in sick is cringe -- loads of generations email or text in that they are sick. It is baseless to claim this is a problem with young people, but it might run well for @rteradio1.bsky.social's demographics.
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Enoching [e-noch-ing] verb Repeatedly turning up where you're not wanted. #EnochBurke #Drumcree
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me too. Pay me.
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Ron Swanson's Rage: Throwing Out the Camera
ALT: Ron Swanson's Rage: Throwing Out the Camera
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Trump knew all about this, eh?
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely nuts, with the platform telling the owner there was no fraudulent listing of her own property. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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Visitors arrive ‘almost daily’ at my house expecting to stay in tourist accommodation
My house in Dublin was used as bait in an accommodation scam on booking.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Rónán Duffy @ronanduffy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
By all means poll about the costs of unity, but I'm still waiting for the Irish Times to also frame a poll about the (inevitable) cost of joining NATO the next time they ask that regular question.
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Máirtin Ó’Caoiṁ (O’Keeffe) @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is pretty disgusting from an Israeli media personality. Here he calls for attacks on Irish citizens.
Israeli media personality calls for attacks on Irish citizens.
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Dáiligh @dailigh.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
The five stages of the One Ring’s journey to Mount Doom
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can someone who is good at negotiations explain to me why capitulating to these guys didn’t placate them? Please my country is dying
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026
Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Completely and utterly out of his depth, which is pretty standard tbf so good job Chris 👍
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026
He hasn't watched Black Mirror.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing that might or might not be obvious is that making one block "pedestrian only" reduces car traffic over a much larger area. I'm staying in the same neighborhood where I lived a few years ago, and the decrease in motor vehicle traffic is astounding.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now listioning to @rteradio1.bsky.social with a recording of a guy from the event denying that blockades which stopped fuel and supplies, and movment of people were blockades...
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
some of the attendees, including Gavin Pepper, are calling it a "monster meeting". I've not heard such self-aggrandising bollocks in my life. it's a few hundred people in a hotel
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
My time in this world is very likely to come to an end in the coming days - although I'll keep trying to push it out a bit. Huge thanks to my old friend @gavinsblog.bsky.social for these kind words and appeal on behalf of my family. Love each other. Be kind
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Gonna party like it's 1998...
Belfast Telegraph front page STANDOFF featuring an image of Drumcree church, unmasked residents linking arms to block the road, and a small inset of Michelle O'Neill
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/09/2026
While Paul Givan, NI Education Minister, obsesses over trans kids in schools - "This year, the Education Authority admitted that the school maintenance backlog sits between £600m and £800m and “could lead to school closures”." [Belfast Telegraph]
Education department moves to scrap thousands of schools’ minor works bids
The top 10pc of projects from 2017 have not yet been progressed
Belfast Telegraph16 Sep 2026GARRETT HARGAN
The Education Department and Education Authority plan to ditch thousands of applications from their 2017 minor works call — having been unable to progress the most serious top 10pc of projects which are deemed to pose “inescapable” risks.

This year, the Education Authority admitted that the school maintenance backlog sits between £600m and £800m and “could lead to school closures”.

The most recent minor works call closed in November 2017.

Out of 6,100 applications from schools across Northern Ireland, 550 — around 9pc — were prioritised as the most important.

Due to budgetary constraints only priority one works were to be progressed, those deemed to meet “inescapable statutory requirements such as health and safety, fire protection and statutory obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act”.

The top ranked projects primarily consisted of fire risk works, Disability Discrimination Act schemes, accommodation for school meals and traffic management projects.

When previously asked how many of those 550 have been completed, the department and EA were unable to provide a figure.

Hundreds of roofing applications from the 2017 list have also stood still.

That includes two schools in Londonderry which applied in 2017. St Eugene’s Primary was closed in October 2024 due to an unsafe roof and is expected to remain closed until May 2027.

Nazareth House Primary also temporarily closed in the run-up to Christmas last year because of a dangerous roof.

This newspaper uncovered that DE and EA had allowed Lisneal College, which had not formally applied, to skip the queue for a new synthetic pitch.

The department and EA claimed that was based on health and safety grounds, but an inspection report showed that injuries could not be attributed to the old surface.

Minister Givan also approved…
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/09/2026
Call to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthy A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists....
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Call to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthy
A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists. Councillor Feljin Jose, the Green Party's spokesperson on transport, made the call after McCarthy wrongly claimed in the Sunday Business Post today that "The only available evaluation of MetroLink’s costs and benefits was released as part of the TII’s preliminary assessment in 2022."
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just in case you wanted to hate the AI industry any more:
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Dermot Looney @dlooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This guy was on the 9 o’clock news this eve. Having a fine time of it whipping everyone up. He doesn’t seem to have faced any consequences for this or several other episodes.
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They keep telling us their values...
A screenshot of Chrispher Duffy, one of the leaders/spokespeople of the fuel protest, post where he includes an image of an article re him calling Holly Cairns a "tramp" with a caption by him saying "sure you call a spade a spade"
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ireland's first retrofitted Dutch-style roundabout opens in busy Dublin area irishcycle.com/2026/09/25/i...
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Ireland’s first retrofitted Dutch-style roundabout opens in busy Dublin area
It’s not the first Dutch-style roundabout in Ireland, but a roundabout on Templeville Road in Dublin is the first Dutch-like design to be retrofitted at an existing busy roundabout. The round…
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I didn't know that's why she moved to Ireland!
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just right-clicked on my dog to view his properties but then I accidentally converted him to a PDF. Now I can't convert him back unless I sign up for a subscription. Does anyone know any free PDF-to-dog converters that aren't full of malware?
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
42% of people cannot help thinking of institutions "just let them all burn" is really worrying:
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They keep telling us their values...
A screenshot of Chrispher Duffy, one of the leaders/spokespeople of the fuel protest, post where he includes an image of an article re him calling Holly Cairns a "tramp" with a caption by him saying "sure you call a spade a spade"
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm told we need to normalise this... I'd still recommend trying it away from the quays if you've never done it before... Dublin's quays are a bit rougher, in more than a few ways, than Utrecht's cycle streets and cycle paths, where I picked up this skill!
A DublinBikes with my backpack and my suitcase beside it.A DublinBikes with my backpack and my suitcase beside it... I'm just balancing here... the suitcase should be on only two wheels when moving.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An AP survey of 1,022 Jewish adults conducted June 11 - 17 found that 44% of US Jews hold a favourable opinion of Zohran Mamdani, compared with 39% who view him unfavorably. Just 32% said they have a favorable opinion of Netanyahu. 59% said they have a negative view of the longtime Israeli leader.
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Mamdani more popular than Netanyahu among U.S. Jews, new poll shows
The Associated Press survey found growing dissatisfaction with Israel's wartime leadership, even as the New York mayor remains divisive over his views on Israel
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026
Great breakdown of all the v v wild statements in this interview
In the interview, Huang also (unfairly) attributes record renewable energy purchases to AI. He blames climate action for stalling the construction of energy infrastructure, presumably for fossil fuels.
I think we just have to acknowledge that we got ourselves really gummed up in climate change and sustainable energy, and as a result, we just didn’t plan enough energy production.
Then he proclaims that AI is “the best opportunity we have” to “turn a corner on climate change, if you want a future that’s sustainable.” He sees AI accelerating demand for clean energy in the long term. But AI already needs a lot of energy now, and fossil fuels are what we’ve got.
“A more polluting AI buildout is not inevitable.”
But renewables were already the fastest-growing sources of new electricity generation before the recent generative AI boom. It’s generally cheaper to generate power from a wind or solar farm than a new gas or coal plant. But Trump, who lined his campaign coffers with money from the fossil fuel industry, is incentivizing the development of gas and coal plants to power data centers.
And now, data centers are in turn spurring the development of far more fossil fuel infrastructure. Air pollution associated with AI could lead to up to 1,300 premature deaths and more than $20 billion in public health costs by 2028, according to a study from UC Riverside, Caltech, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's perhaps time we had the reminder that making generalisations about "cyclists" is about as useful as, say, assuming great aunts are also some sort of homogenous group who can be defined via what is just one element of who they are.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meet The Radical Irish Cyclists.🔥🔥 This was the final wall art found in the hotel c/o the incredible @ibikedublin.bsky.social @peteer-ie.bsky.social
Horizontal poster on a wall of 3 kids cycling 
Radical cyclists
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The case of Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost being debanked by the United States — having her credit cards and online accounts frozen — shows why Canada, Europe, and others need to develop their own financial systems outside of US control.
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ANALYSIS | As Canada deepens ties with Europe, could it leave U.S. banks and dollars behind? | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney last week pointed to international payments as a system that "can be used as leverage against you" before telling the EU that he sees this as an area for "deep co-operation....
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