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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

protip: before you boot a pro-Palestinian act off your tour, you should probably make sure that your OWN BACKING BAND aren't founding members of an organization called "Irish Artists for Palestine"

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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decapiKate @katemck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In our 32 county socialist republic there will be no golf

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Stephen Root make us proud

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Collin Murr @collinmurr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Sorry, Liz. I thought she was that lady who keeps losing the songwriting Oscars.”

Tweet about Carole Radziwll saying she was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. A picture features the two of them and Jane Krakowski

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The genocide did not end. It has merely entered its slow motion death phase. And this has helped Israel stay largely under the radar in much of the Western media.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

1 Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2. A five minute walk from Dáil Éireann.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.

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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
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- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Before today, the thought of Micheal Healy Rae popping a cap in someone's ass conjured a very different image #spéirgorm

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sometimes the key lies in the past bsky.app/profile/dona...

Journal headline:

Mark Zuckerberg 'looking forward' to spending time in Ireland after buying castle in Waterford

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can a billion billion biros become a Border Collie?

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Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Still my favourite opening paragraph of any interview (by Vincent Browne).

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Mazza 🌈 @minorchord.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It has been utterly nauseating watching Hansard get a quasi State Funeral and a mountain of gushing eulogies from people who knew. I'm glad Niall and others have told the truth about him.

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reacher is after getting very cheeky. Don't get me wrong, the beatings are still top tier Art. But they're already going to hospital, Reacher. Manners cost nothing.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How women in the Irish music/comedy/arts/entertainment industry in general don't go completely insane is beyond me. Same issues over and over and over. How many have been subtly, quietly pushed out or felt they had no choice but to abandon careers. How much talent have we silently lost.

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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a brutally honest blog about grooming and abuse in the Irish music scene. Content warning

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

I am aware there are journos looking to talk to those who were teens targeted by GH but honestly the vitriolic abuse seen online from mostly men, would certainly put me off speaking up, and I am fairly thick skinned. Seems we have learned little from how Annie Murphy was treated. #spéirgorm

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 04/08/2026

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is really depressing. Neko Case doesn't name names, and nor does she need to, but I believe her. If anything, she tends to be honest to a fault--this post illustrates exactly what I mean--and abso-fucking-lutely does not hold back (except for said dude's name). [ht: @rahnealexander.com]

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IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'A company town in all but the brass band'. Superb and depressing.

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Rose Mullen's The Mummy 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fuck it. I am sick to the back teeth of people today saying they never heard Glen Hansard was a groomer so therefore those of us who did hear it shouldn't talk about it. He groomed teenage girls. He was well known for it in certain circles. He would give out burner phones for them to text him from.

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Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Isn't it weird how alleging dodgy behaviour when someone is alive is met with threats of defamation lawyers and doing it when they're dead is undignified and unfair. It's almost as if, stay with me on this, people just don't want to know.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s ok to feel torn when someone dies whose art meant a lot to you but who was accused of predatory behaviour during their lifetime. I have those feels about Bowie. It’s collaborationist to try to shut up people who don’t have your nostalgic view of the deceased and care more about the behaviours.

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cólz @colz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Good day to avoid RTE by anyone, anyone who has been mistreated, disbelieved, told to shut up, and betrayed

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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Interesting timeline split between people who know and people who don’t

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I saw Devil Wears Prada 2 over the weekend and really feel that if they going to with an Australian sitcom star as the love interest, they should have gone big or gone home.

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I really loved Post-Troymatic Stress Disodyssey.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

With some big film directors pushing genAI, we're seeing the 'It's-just-a-tool' line again. Over 30+ years of writing and art, I've used loads of tech as tools. They all had one thing in common: they gave me precise control over my work. GenAI is like trying to cook using other people's leftovers.

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Genuinely reprehensible of @newstalkfm.bsky.social to give Al Porter his latest PR whitewash, considering they know full well what he got up to while at their sister station Today FM.

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Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just like RTÉ to spend all that money and still put on a repeat.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

SFFG all too long staring in the windows of the gentry.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Far right influencer Michael McCarthy knowingly and willfully uses his public platform to incite abuse and harrassment against others, and even to silence a journalist. I can prove it because I’m the journalist he silenced, and I kept screenshots of our messages. leftinthelurch.net/2026/07/06/i...

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I Let a Far Right Influencer Silence Me

Far right influencer Michael McCarthy knowingly and willfully uses his public platform to incite abuse and harrassment against others, and even to silence a journalist in one case. I can prove it b…

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The richest man in the world is again publicly telling his hundreds of millions of followers that he supports the vigilante murder of his political enemies followed by the killings of immigrants, all to the crickets of any mainstream media attention.

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Absolutely agree. I've been saying this for a while now. Adorable animal was the last wholesome category on the Internet and AI has utterly fucked it.

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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

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