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Magdalena Miedl aka espressozitron @mmiedl.bsky.social · 16h

"There is something revealing in the gap between the masculine fantasy of protection and its reality: the fantasy requires a stranger, an obvious villain, a moment of uncomplicated heroism. Reality asks a man to believe a woman over his friend."

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

The climate crisis has reached the stage where only radically left-wing solutions have any hope of working. We've been trying to coax polluters to change their ways under capitalism for decades and it hasn't worked. Environmental politics ARE left-wing politics.

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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 08/10/2026

Catherine Martin introduced a guaranteed income scheme for artists. Patrick O'Donovan couldn't get your 16-year-old a cinema ticket.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you think Trump’s “musings” and “jokes” are not worth headlines, no matter how shocking or offensive they may be, then you haven’t been paying attention. The past decade and past week show they're too dangerous too ignore. My new piece at @contrariannews.org www.contrariannews.org/p/dont-dismi...

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Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’

No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet again, for those at the back - RTE should be entirely funded from the public purse and removed from the advertising market, with a primary focus on quality journalism, culture, the Irish language and providing a platform to Irish writers and artists, and not two-bit entertainment "concepts".

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The cut to Carbon Taxes shows how fundamentally unserious this government is about climate action. The defining challenge of our time isn’t placating angry tight-wing men, it’s trying to keep this planet habitable.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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notjewelosco.bsky.social @notjewelosco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you ever think about how society looped back to medicinally branded sodas

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The solution to all this is to remunicipalise waste collection. It is absurd that foreign corporations get to dictate how household waste is managed in Dublin. It should be under democratic control.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've been subjected to "it's not necessarily racist to have genuine concerns about migration" my whole life. This is technically true, in theory, but I have never once observed it in practice.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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cinife.bsky.social @cinife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is disguising, but not NEW, there have been CGI adverts featuring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. Acting like this is exciting is just AI hype.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At what point will the blatant racism of this government be called out for what it is?

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Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday I demanded answers from the Minister about the Irish Government position on shocking proposals to give AI companies access to our personal data which are being negotiated right now on Ireland's watch. The public across EU want rights protected & more regulation of AI and big tech not less!

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the relevant caselaw here is shaping up to be Rylands & Fletcher. If you collect up any inherently risky material or item on your property and it then escapes and causes damage, it creates strict liability. ie, you do not have to prove liability, you go straight to quantum of compensation.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 18/09/2026

It is funny that the AI industry is facing its biggest existential threat which is people just kind of getting bored of hearing about it.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As Terry Pratchett regularly highlighted, "privilege" means "private law". One rule for me and another for you. O' Callaghan is working hard to exacerbate that inequality and hurt those who effectively live and contribute as second class citizens in Ireland. It's just plain racism #spéirgorm

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Citizenship a privilege, says minister ahead of overhaul

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

thank god we solved clean water, air, food supplies, housing, employment, childcare, medical care, and education

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For the past few decades: Liberals: "It is absolutely absurd for [marginalised group] to expect anything in return for their vote, get serious you unicorn wanting mentally ill children." Also liberals: "We have to pander to white fiscally conservative bigots or we'll lose!"

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tr0mp: "There should be a united Ireland' Pundits: "Wow. What a statement. What does this mean? Do we have America's support for a united Ireland? Is it a dig a Burnham? It is a tactic for mid-term votes?" Tr0mp 2 days ago "I was pulled from the rubble of 9/11"

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

a CEO can say literally anything in this country and it’s treated as news. it doesn’t matter if it’s remotely true.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are constantly told that it is the working classes that are railing against migration in Ireland and two of the most vocal voices for harsh immigration controls, Jim O'Callaghan and Michael McDowell, are from what has to be one of the wealthiest constituencies in Ireland...

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week

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New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders

Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Sometimes I feel old for remembering when the tech industry’s primary product wasn’t death threats

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is noticeable that whenever the Irish government says it wants to become more like our European neighbours it's never about things like rent controls, tenant rights, workers rights, public health care and always about thinks like the border regime and militarisation...

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anliathanach.bsky.social @anliathanach.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This. 100% this. I really think the public don't fully know how addicted politicans, spads, and pol corrs are to social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook.

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Ray Cunningham @ray-cunningham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am shocked, shocked

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Richard Cubitt @richardrcubitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once again, the biggest problem with violent far right thugs making our streets dangerous is not that they might not vote Labour.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I sincerely believe the fight to avoid a return to full-fat fascism is over without ever having started. Bc the Sensible Moderates of the political media class decided, long ago, it wasn't in the interests of their careers or bank balances to oppose the fash. So instead they capitulated. Instantly

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As a relatively new Irish Citizen, this is so disappointing. It smacks of some surface-level attempt to look tough on immigration. If you haven't a parent or grandparent, getting citizenship is difficult, time consuming and often very expensive already. This is lousy politics.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Because in a history course, my job is to teach students how to read sources themselves, how to analyze them themselves, how to write about them and craft arguments themselves. It's like you're asking a personal trainer to include a fork lift as part of the free weights routine.

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