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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 06/10/2026

And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Aoife Martin @lockdownbookclub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@cethanleahy.com you are now an artifact in the Museum of Twitter.

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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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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

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Christ Himself accepted the death penalty

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Eve @evegoldenwoods.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think Americans and Europeans should be legally banned from making snide comments on this until they look up the extent of US election interference in Brazil over the past few months

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impressive piece of AI slop here. Apparently, Patrick McGoohan in his later years looked remarkably like Vincent Brown...

YouTube video of characters from Braveheart then-and-now, clearly AI-generated and managed to use a likeness of Vincent Brown instead

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a stretch, but playing the match because it’s an ineffective protest not to *might* be an argument if the government were actually being decisive about doing what it thought *was* effective, rather than doing nothing more than empty speeches at the UN.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have first hand experience of a man stopping another man’s violence and that being the only thing that would stop his violence towards me. Violent and misogynistic men won’t listen to women, but they may well listen to other men.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that we're all (ahem) using the term SI for the hyped thing, can we establish that it's abbreviating Statistical Inference? This to me is a far more accurate description of the technology.

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine how sad your life must be to never ever see music as something that brings people together in a community.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My gf got her eggs frozen last year and now we’re looking into freezing some embryos and if things keep going according to plan, fingers crossed, in a couple years we’ll freeze a whole baby

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a model case study for “here’s how to murder, you can do it to a child, and they won’t even say you did it they’ll just say the victim got in the way of the weapon”

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She was struck by a driver. We will keep having these tragedies if we don't challenge the culture that forgives drivers at every turn even though they are what makes roads dangerous.

Headline: Woman (30s) hospitalised with serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle in Dublin.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026

"Banter" First line: A senior Northern Ireland nurse who humiliated a junior female colleague by pulling down her scrub trousers has been struck off. He was also convicted of sexual assault but that was quashed on appeal and he was convicted of common assault.

Senior nurse struck off for humiliating colleague in ‘a bit of banter’

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Something that's always left out of these discussions by Irish newspaper columnists calling for accomodating loyalist groups is that in their ideology and their actions, the Orange Order is a vile and bigoted hate group. It doesn't exist to celebrate any culture, it's all about hatred of others.

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why are we always so much better at ostracising those who name atrocities than those responsible for them?

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.

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Gareth O’Connor @garethoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“feel it would be wrong to participate” - Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu statement on Instagram

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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The offside rule in football: by virtue of where he is standing, refusing to play the team of a genocidal Israel, Gavin Bazunu has just played every other Irish squad member, the FAI, UEFA, and the Irish government, offside.

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"You played Nazi Germany in the 1930s, why not us now" isn't the gotcha they think it is...

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The speed camera is ruining people’s lives! As opposed to the reckless drivers, who just want what’s best for everyone.

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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The respect I have for Gavin Bazunu is immense. 24 years old with his career ahead of him and he made a decision that every other person in safer positions of power above him failed to have the courage to make themselves. A true representative of Irish people everywhere

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Proud of them. 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

unoriginal thought but we need to give every public servant in the country a taxsaver ticket and a bicycle, never pay a cent in car expenses again, and watch how fast shit gets done

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rees-Mogg has now outflanked Andy Burnham & Shabana Mahmoud from the left…!

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The System Integration community might have opinions on this.

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm just remember the amount of useful idiots who thought tech bros banging on about free speech were sincere

Headline: Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

this 💯

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The NI Justice Minister who signed up for a ban on puberty blockers for trans kids and hid in a fridge during three pogroms is posting furiously on Elon Musk’s platform about **checks notes** transphobia and her, a cis woman being a target. I give up.

Naomi Long MLA @naomi_long • Sep 17

Today I was deliberately misgendered by a transphobe masquerading as a women's rights protector; protection that seems only to apply to women they agree with.

I get asked (disingenuously) to define a woman by "biological realists"; yet a subset are happy to imply I'm a man. >

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If you're serious about women's rights, heads up.

Attacking trans-inclusive, cis women by questioning their womanhood isn't the win you think it is.
It reinforces the suspicion that, if we don't conform and comply with your views, we'll be next. And biology won't protect us.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

She said, at various points during the court case, she regretted coming forward. “Nearly every day sitting in that chair, I regretted it ... It was horrendous ... I was very frightened.” Amazing woman.

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a remarkable self-own for the entire concept of self-regulation. Thank you for your service.

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sweden's Social Democrats on target to get 99 seats in parliament (out of 349). That's their worst result since 1928. In March, Denmark's Social Democrats had their worst election result since 1903. What to they have in common? Mimicking "hard line" right-wing policies. It's a recipe for disaster.

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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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Luis @lbruno.org · 12/09/2026

ofc, because i'm on an airplane's WiFi powered by fucking spacex , bsky.app doesn't resolve one wonders why ofc once i put up my vpn which forces my own private DNS, it now magically works

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Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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