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Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine the pitch for this show: "It's a watchdog program with me ringleading a bunch of young guys in suits. We'll do hard-hitting investigations between showing phallic vegetables and a dog that says "sausages". Half the country will watch every Sunday."

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify

Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

love this 1620s vision of luxury ... macaroons ... parmesan ... swan!

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Steve Schulze @sschulze.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still makes me sad that we got so close to a Spielberg produced, animated Monkey Island movie

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there going to be a pretend goalie?

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact that he believes that evil implies competence tells you all you need to know about this guy.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"We each have responsibility to radically re-evaluate our own complicity in their power." I'm not normally one to recommend marking books but The Nerd Reich requires several different colour highlighters - there are so many quotes you will want to refer back to. My thoughts, condensed:

Absolutely essential to understanding what is happening in America, and the wider world, right now. Durán is an excellent journalist who, without hyperbole, lays out the facts, the timeline, and the men (it is mostly men) who are at the core of the concerted effort by intersecting parties to destroy America in its current form. He puts a spotlight on the motivating ideologies active in Silicon Valley, and how they connect and empower a disproportionately influential group of men (it is mostly men) in venture capital, crypto, Project 2025, the Republican Party, a new wave of "Christians", the military industrial complex, and a handful of billionaires. It is a clarion call to action, and ultimately hopeful. Durán offers broad solutions to set us back on the right path, as societies and as individuals: "We each have responsibility to radically reevaluate our own complicity in their power."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking forward to this book & their optimistic approaches to the situation we are in.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starting soon www.totallydublin.ie/festival/bal...

Free
FESTIVAL OF HISTORY
- 2026 -
Part of Dublin Festival of History
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 5.00 - 6.30pm
The Sue Ryder Shop, Five Lamps, Dublin 1
The Village that Vanished The story of the North Strand
Bombing with historian
Brian Tracey
Brian Tracey.
Bram Stoker Bloodlines
The family story behind Dracula with historian and genealogist
Douglas Appleyard.
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Bram Stoker Bloodlines
Douglas Appleyard explores the Dublin family history and extraordinary legacy of Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula.
Sue Ryder Shop, Five Lamps
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Things are stirring.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me, an intellectual, judging my family for watching Traitors while I read.

Me, an intellectual, meme image of a snooty 18th century gentleman with ruffled white collar and cuffs wearing a brown suit

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s a place in Clare which the English call Lisfarbegnagommaun. In Irish it is called Lios Fear Beag na gCamán, the ring fort of the tiny hurley-wielding men. Some say that mushrooms growing nearby made the little lads visible.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From the deerstalker to the séance. Arthur Conan Doyle’s last novel was intended to convert readers to spiritualism and help avert the apocalypse, but has bewildered publishers and readers ever since. I spoke to Prof Christine Ferguson to find out more: www.thenational.scot/culture/2656...

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From séances to print: The strange journey of a lost Conan Doyle chapter

YOU’VE surely heard of Sherlock Holmes, but what of The Land Of Mist? Over a century after his creation, Arthur Conan Doyle’s deerstalker-clad…

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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So delighted to see this feature on my new scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist In today’s National! Thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for the interview!

A newspaper article with a photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More from my PISA report dorking: Average reading scores for OECD-23 countries have plummeted from 501 in 2012 to 466 in 2025. Similar drops for math and science. What does a 35-point drop mean? The OECD says 20 points is about what 15-year-olds typically learn in one year.

Chart showing average PISA test scores for OECD-23 countries from 2000 to 2025. They are steady/rising slightly from 2000 to 2012, then decline sharply.
E.g., reading was above 501 in 2012, 492 in 2018, 482 in 2022, and 466 in 2025.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can’t recommend this book highly enough. Absolutely loved it. Tied together disparate dipshits from N*zis to Jacob Rees Moggs’ father through to Thiel, broligarchs, crypto & AI tools & the grifter in chief. Read it & tell everyone about it.

THE NERD REICH
SILICON VALLEY FASCISM
AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY

Gil Durán

Bright red book. The Berlin TV tower is in the background. And the Berlin skyline looking west from AlexanderPlatz

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A thread of election posters from Berlin this week. Random order. Non-headshot posters only. Forgive my translations in the Alt text. TW AfD bullshit.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A thread of election posters from Berlin this week. Random order. Non-headshot posters only. Forgive my translations in the Alt text. TW AfD bullshit.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Continuing our Surrey odyssey to arrive at Gibbet Hill and the Devil's Punchbowl near Hindhead. The Sailor's Stone marks a grisly murder in 1786; the milestone was placed by a turnpike company on the then London to Portsmouth road. (Details in ALT text)

Ford on track with wooden pedestrian bridge in wooded hollow

ERECTED
In detestation of a barbarous Murder
Committed here on an unknown Sailor
On Sep. 24th 1786
By Edwd Longeon, Mich’l Casey, and Jas’ Marshall.
Who were all taken the same day
And hung in Chains near this place.
Whose Sheddeth Man’s Blood by Man Shall his
Blood be Shed. Gen. 9 ver. 6
Inscription on the back
THIS STONE
was ERECTED
by order and at
the cost of
James Stillwell Esq’
of
Cosford
1786.
Cursed be the man
who injureth or removeth this stone.

OS benchmark added 1950; 267m above sea level.

From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpike roads not only to guide travellers but also to help coaches keep to schedule. This one located on the original route of the old London to Portsmouth road. From 1748–1873 the road was owned by the Kingston-upon-Thames to Sheet Bridge Turnpike Company. Shows Hyde Park Corner at 30 miles distance, Godalming 7 miles and Liphook 5 miles

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David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1808 mezzotint by William Turner depicting gibbetted remains on Hind Hill, Surrey. In 1786, 3 sailors robbed & beat to death another sailor who'd bought them food & drink. They were hung & their bodies then gibbetted. The site was long considered haunted. #folklore #gothic #history #art #weird

Mezzotint depicting a gibbet suspending two cages on a distant hill. The sky is overcast and sheep are in the foreground.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026

The phenomenal singer-songwriter Jesse Welles just wrote a song called "The Nerd Reich" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...

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The Nerd Reich

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leaving Berlin after a great Tinnitus Research Initiative meeting. It was great to be welcomed as the patient voice & to outline the dramatic impact my cochlear implant had on severe tinnitus. Lots of future potential for research that will eventually switch off tinnitus for lots more people 🤞🤞🤞

Group of people pose for a photo in an old anatomy style lecture theatre.

TINNITUS RESEARCH INITIATIVE CONFERENCE BERLIN | 16-18 September 2026
Brian Cleary
Ireland
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Badge dangles in front of Berlin TV Tower

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What happens if the baddies in @gilduran.com’s The Nerd Reich get their way? What will borders look like with Network States? What kind of oppressive regimes does the future hold?

Bright red paperback. THE NERD REICH. SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY. GIL DURÁN

Photo taken from the former state hotel, now Park Inn Alexanderplatz in East Berlin. Cityscape in the background. Most prominent are the tv tower with its sphere mounted on a spire design. Red and white radio/observation tower at the top. Beside that there’s the Marienkirche a beautiful red tiled church with aged copper on the spire and golden-painted clock face

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us this Friday, 18 September, for a free guided tour of Ireland's oldest public library. Tours run every 15 minutes from 5:30-8:45pm. No booking required. culturenight.ie/event/cultur... #CultureNight2026 #CultureNight #CultureNightDublin

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apartheid, pure and simple

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A taste of some of the new titles from @theobrienpress.bsky.social. Especially excited about Irish Gothic!🦇

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Next week. All welcome!

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?

Beautiful women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. The semi-mythical Helen of Troy is the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition. Cleopatra was a main character in that great hinge point of history: the collapse of the Roman republic and the creation of the Roman emperor. Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette – by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney – scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties, redirecting the House of Tudor twice.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Looking at this in a new light as I make my way through @gilduran.com’s Nerd Reich. Journalists- please expose this playbook and the path that these folks want to take.

Gil Duran’s Need Reich book with a bright red cover on a cafe table in Berlin. Zeit fur Brot. The TV Tower is in the background

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Low Interhotel East Berlin doorways.

Man with red hair and a black cochlear implant processor. The top of his head is above the height of the door frame.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This 🎯 Audio levelling is hugely important with hearing loss.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beoga records, merch and tickets: www.beogamusic.com/store Aaron Rowe records, merch and tickets: www.aaron-rowe.com#merch

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finding Gibbet Hill Thurs 24th Sept 7pm G019 Human Biology Building University of Galway From sudden hearing loss to finding a lost Bram Stoker short story, this tale ranges from Stoker’s mother, Charlotte, to research preventing hearing loss in vulnerable newborns. All welcome! #SpeirGorm

Paul McKinley 3 Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm paper Sheet size 52.8 x 59 cm, 2024 Edition of 50 + 2 artist proofs Three children gaze into the distance in a pastoral scene looking through a gap between some trees at a sunset sky in blue and Orange watercolour wash. Two are girls wearing incredibly decorated saris and one is a boy wearing pants and a tunic. The foreground, children and forest/countryside are all drawn in black ink. https://rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/

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