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Myles Corcoran (he/him)

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GT Korbin @gtkorbin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll be offering a workshop on Found Footage Stories this Saturday (Sign up in advance below!) as well as speaking on two panels on Sunday! Hope to see some of you there! 🐙
Text reading: Saturday, October 3, 2026 1:00 PM Workshop: Found Footage Formats Tucana, Starts: 1:00 PM Duration: 60 mins      GT Korbin (moderator)  In-person only Workshop Writing/Editing/Publishing  From epistolary letters, audio transcripts to ingredients written in the back of a cereal box, found format stories can be a really unique way to tell a tale. In this workshop, we'll discuss the pros and cons of writing such formats, give examples, and even end up with a short story of our own.   Maximum of 16 participants. Sign up online by 10pm Friday 2nd October or check at the info desk on Saturday before the start time to find out if there are still spaces available.  Sunday, October 4, 2026 2:30 PM  OH NO! The Story Changed Size! Pegasus 4 / Streamed in Member Portal, Starts: 2:30 PM Duration: 60 mins 5:30 PM The Science of Science Fiction (In Person) Pegasus 1, Starts: 5:30 PM Duration: 60 mins "Find me at Octocon in Cork City this weekend!
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*taps sign*
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm one of many calling on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi...
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Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Gorton and Denton result is fantastic for several reasons, but easily the funniest one is that the Tories got so few votes that they LOST THEIR DEPOSIT.
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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 27/02/2026
From today STEEPLE is running on Webtoon as a Dark Horse Original. This includes the first five issues that have never been available online before. www.webtoons.com/en/supernatu...
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Steeple
When Bilinda Baker arrives in the remote Cornish town of Tredregyn, she finds her new colleagues about as welcoming as the harsh coastline. But she soon makes friends with Maggie Warren, a very fun lo...
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
They're already there, you fucking ghouls. The only question is whether or not you care enough about trans kids to keep them safe.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If you give me six HTTP GETs written by the browser of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The thing people (and apparently the Taoiseach) somehow refuse to accept about Grok and X is that it isn’t a platform being misused or abused, it is a platform working exactly as intended by its owner. It is meant to be a racist, misogynistic, far right propaganda tool and it is
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Child Sex Abuse Material Machine might have some good uses too” is a lamentable policy position.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
ITV News: BBC to air Would I Lie To You Boxing Day episode featuring David Walliams
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de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 25/11/2025
this is mesmerizing
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Two panels from the first page  of Watchmen, with Rorschach's journal narration on top of art showing a man hosing blood off a sidewalk as another man walks by with a sign saying "THE END IS NIGH." The journal narration has been replaced with: 

The parasites that have taken over so much of our country -- pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros-funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists -- are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 02/11/2025
Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.
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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?
Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up
Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto PersioSwimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights
"Crumble"Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate
"trans" in public life by Mallory Moore
& transsafety.network
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hudson likes their pumpkin.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely 

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat 

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian 

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service 

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG 
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]
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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
And they're letting me be in charge of it - I have the Big Hat* this year. I'm very excited, and looking forward to everything we can do with Octocon this coming year. [* It's a real hat.]
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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Make sure you swing by Liz Bourke. 2 euro per hardback, 1 euro per soft back! #Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity
Collection of books sold by Liz BourkeCollection of books sold by Luz Bourke. Liz Bourke sits behind the table who has short hair and a pink medical mask.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Important thread - please read & share… 👇🏻
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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" is never a valid answer, unless the question was how to have a good laugh.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I've written to my MEPs about why I'm against the over-reaching EU Chat Control proposal. I hope you can do the same. fightchatcontrol.eu#delegates
fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/07/2025
You should stop using LLMs and generative “A.i.” This trash tech is a tool of fascism.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 15/07/2025
Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Hear, hear!
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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 04/02/2025
When a company with more money than god resorts to this instead of hiring an artist or putting together a photo shoot, it really drives home how much gen ai is about consolidating wealth
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Florence Dellerie @florencedellerie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
👁️ Je profite de l'affiche de ce film que je n'irai pas voir pour montrer rapidement quelques éléments permettant de repérer une image créée (entièrement, ou partiellement) à l'aide d'une #IA. Et comment ces éléments sont en train de créer une culture de "l'image bizarre". #IAcrap 👇👇👇
Affiche du film Marvel "Les 4 fantastiques", qui montre une foule brandissant des drapeaux et appareils photos. J'y ai ajouté des annotations montrant quelques éléments qui révèlent une génération d'image par IA et/ou une retouche avec l'assistance d'une IA, notamment ses erreurs les plus courantes : doigts manquants, incapacité à générer deux objets strictement identiques, difficulté à générer une série de motifs constants, manque de cohérence, etc.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025
NOOOOOOO!!!! fortune.com/2025/01/31/a...
fortune.com
Aldi quietly scrubbed its careers website of all DE&I initiatives
According to one employee on Reddit, information on Aldi’s DE&I efforts is now only visible on the company’s internal employee website/portal.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Damn the Introverts wall in #OnlyConnect was a nightmare.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/01/2025
Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
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christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · 20/01/2025
feeding “unacceptable” queers to the machine that eats queers will not sate its hunger
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho
Doctor Who actor Tom Baker with kittens.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you're a British citizen please sign this petition to review and slow the implementation of the Cass Report. #transrights #protecttranskids
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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
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New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 29/12/2024
framing trans rights as in opposition to women’s rights is a neat trick given that trans rights *are* women’s rights. bodily autonomy, personal agency, opposition to sex based harassment, violence, and discrimination. these are trans rights and women’s rights. attacking one is attacking the other.
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 29/11/2024
As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
a11y-ai

Accessibility explained by those impacted.

Check any website for barriers and generate the perspective of those who face them.A11y-AI is an experiment using the storytelling capabilities of generative AI to bring the impact of accessibility violations to life. It aims to inspire web professionals to take action.
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Myles Corcoran (he/him) @deetwelve.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A long but excellent article by Ed Zitron on how Tech eats human creativity and shits out 'growth' www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv... Big Tech CEOs are insatiable, power-hungry  ghouls.
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 19/12/2024
10 AM and I've already seen an op-ed from a "detransitioner" who takes until the sixth paragraph to admit they never transitioned in the first place
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