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Think it's important to recognise that he said the quiet part out loud: "we don't want many cyclists and forcing them to wear hi-vis and helmets is a means of limiting numbers." I would hammer every similar politician with this.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The revealing part of this is that he clearly thinks there's too many bikes, and that he clearly knows that insisting on useless safety gear will discourage cycling.

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The two results that keep coming up, study after study, is that universal basic income and taxing the rich do all of the good things their advocates say, to almost ridiculous levels, and none of the bad things their opponents say, to almost ridiculous levels.

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There's a book about this, I believe...

Not to mention, how does a game ever have a competitive element if everyone is playing a different game?

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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It will certainly change you into someone with almost €25 less.

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I wonder, though, if this is a lot different than rich people throughout the ages who would hire nannies and send kids to boarding school rather than spend time with them...

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

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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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The overriding one for me is Game of Thrones. The ending was so un-earned that I can't find the start entertaining anymore...

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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.

Jack Posobiec

@JackPosobiec
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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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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Never fails to amaze me how many pricks get described this way...

Would you say that 1-to-1, they were surprisingly down-to-earth and quite funny?

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

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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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 · 01/10/2026

Doing a bit of research on this at the moment. Apart from the hypocrisy, they're pushing a boulder up a hill, given the massive negative prejudice on trades here compared to academic degrees, to the extent that parents routinely tell teachers not to even discuss them with their classes.

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Do they charge per bag? Strikes me that if it were free, then the pressure to fill large bags would disappear. When I lived in Utrecht, there was no bin day, we had communal underground bins that you would throw bags into, so you did that whenever a bag was full, but nothing was especially large.

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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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Not even just that, there's also the cultural record of a massive song that defines a summer, or a generation, or whatever moment you might think of, where the pure joy is everyone joining in because of a common touchpoint.

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mRNA is hard to ignore, mind you...

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

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

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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.

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

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

Sorry for your loss Izzy. Wish you every strength and comfort.

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Reading Nerd Reich at the moment. God, it's really something to have the whole timeline laid out like that

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

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

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

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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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I read somewhere else that it's about a presumption of freedom of assembly, but of course, you could argue the same about the residents and yet they may find themselves arrested.

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