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Conor Smith

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Software engineer and proud owner of six copies of Willennium | he/him

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 4h
"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2h
There was also, for good measure, an apparent incredulous allusion to the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust. “six million is a palpable taunt,” the tweet read, displaying a hallmark of Holocaust denialism.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 10h
Btw, some of these refusals are so clearly unlawful that the Department of Justice will end up paying ***HUGE*** sums in legal fees. Jim obviously counting on that being another Minister for Justice’s problem.
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Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social · 9h
In case you need cheering up, Aaron definitely cried after reading this.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 7h
I'm Clide Larkdale, chairman of Factory Industries and I oppose these computer businesses. They don't represent the spirit of enterprise. We need to bring manufacturing back to our shores. I made my fortune on child labour. And what happened to goons? Nobody follows through on their threats anymore.
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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 8h
First day of the new diet going surprisingly well.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 9h
Strongly considering a 'project' where I watch just the cold opens of Better Call Saul and have a real fuckin good time
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 12h
Gaming show MinnMax has removed YouTuber Jacob Geller following a recently surfaced allegation of past sexual misconduct. "Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax," the show announced. "He won't be on conte... kotaku.com/jacob-geller-minnmax-you…
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Gaming Show Minnmax Removes YouTuber Jacob Geller After Recently Surfaced Allegation Of Past Sexual Misconduct
Geller is known for his video game essays on YouTube
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Lydz II @lydzmrose.bsky.social · 13h
Saying you can threaten trans people with camps? That’s fine. Telling the hard of trust and safety that there’s been an uptick in this behavior and telling him he’s to blame? Verboten, you’re suspended. Fuck this platform.
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For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase
"Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity.
> is this user toxic? undeniably yes.
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Are they threatening trans users directly?
No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy.
Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. le send trans folks to concentration camps.
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> "You've caused an uptick in people telling us to enjoy the camps you fucking piece of shit. Go fuck yourself @aaron.bsky.team"
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 14h
"if you are reading this online, you are using a data centre" is a really poor excuse to make Ireland such a hub for data centres that they're threatening the stability of our power grid, driving up fossil gas use and greenhouse gas emissions. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Debate: Should we put a pause on data centre development? Lynn Boylan vs Malcolm Byrne
Our electricity grid is under pressure, leading to calls for a moratorium on data centres
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 20h
Is there any nuance to this or is it just giving €300 million from the exchequer to Altman, Musk, etc with at most one or two layers of indirection?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.
Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.
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garth marenghi's darkcayce @cayce.zone · 12/04/2026
i heard they're lowering the age requirements for enlistment in the skeleton wars. they're gonna come yank that shit out of you while you're still alive.
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Niadh ÓMarcaigh @seamusguevara.eurosky.social · 23h
We heard you love paywalls so we put a story about a new paywall behind our paywall
Story from the Indo about The Journal launching a paywall, which itself is locked behind a paywall
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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
how soon we forget
a sim stuck in a pool with no ladder to get out
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 30/09/2026
I am an America and our Mr President does not represent how we are. Our people are good people. Our standard of living just happened, USA never hurt anybody to get that. He is bad one, not me.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol
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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot to react to here, but "rural Ireland" my arse: a low-density-suburban bungalow 700m from the middle-class housing estates of affluent east Limerick city, a middle-class suburban secondary school (that my kids attended too), professional parents. Rural like Bono's hard working class origins.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People casually using genAI instead of their own creativity or capacity for thought genuinely feels like a huge values difference now, on a very fundamental level. We do not hold the same things to be important or worthwhile.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In retrospect, it’s not all that surprising that she turned out like this. The signs were all there, as they nearly always are.
Taylor Lorenz declaring the people took Peter Thiel “out of context” when he said “If you’re evil you’re not bad. You’re actually maybe kind of good.”
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I used to find it so unrealistic that The Simpsons had the same lawyer representing *all* the bad guys, rich guys and corrupt corporations but the more I read the news the more I realize that, no, that just happens.
Blue haired lawyer from the Simpsons standing beside a projector
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/medical-bankruptcies-by-country"Always look on the bright side of life."
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you thought my characterisation of these bozos was unfair when I said "they think art is a solved equation" or that they didn't understand art:
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026
Copilot, make people come to my pizzeria. Thank you Copilot
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reminds me of that time in grade 4, when a few of us worked out how to print stuff on the library printer and we printed Licences to Fart for ourselves
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not sure "You played Nazi Germany so you can play us" is quite the killer debating point some people imagine
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026
Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."
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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I posit to you, dear reader, that Robert Pattinson is the new Nic Cage. I wrote my thesis for @avclub.com. www.avclub.com/robert-patti...
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Robert Pattinson is the new Nicolas Cage
Robert Pattinson and Nicolas Cage both get weird to find something more exciting in a landscape obsessed with realism.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Personally offended nay disgusted by an article in the local paper about a band who were formed *this century* celebrating their 25th anniversary. A grotesque demonstration of 'the passage of time' or some shit.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those that might have missed 4th grade math class, if you keep passing the same cyclist then you are going the same average speed as them and you gain nothing from making a dangerous pass.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 29/09/2026
Screenshot of a tweet that reads "[Pastabot 2000 attempts to hand me another bowl of pasta] Jesus christ not now Pastabot"
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 29/09/2026
I hope they do all start calling it this. Then AI can go back to meaning how the ghosts in Pac-Man work.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is genuinely deeply annoying how much guys like Elon Musk and Thiel get to brand themselves as tech wizards and coders and builders just by their branding, which is like thinking JD Rockefeller worked at an oil rig and designed refineries.
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 29/09/2026
He thinks the marching band scene in the Severance season two finale was gratuitous and I couldn't disagree more
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StephMac @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The amount of power that the Mayor of New York actually has is something I’m still getting to grips with.
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
posting is easy. just repeat any phrase in your head until you go insane and the funny words start flowing out of your fingers
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