docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 2hHelen's #BirdOfTheDay choice is #BestBeaks; a bird with a beak/bill with striking colours, bold profiles or an interesting shape. Greater Frigatebird. Heron Island, Queensland, Australia 150
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 16hAny automation used in military, *medical* or other life-and-death situations must be thoroughly evaluated within its use case and paired with usage norms that keep accountability with people who have actual power to make decisions. My asterisks, radiologists please copy!theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 020
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social 's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White Pied wagtail, but in colour... 171
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Perhaps if the tax cut was passed on to the customer rather than pocketed??? 2102
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). First and last! Great-tailed Grackle 1151
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social says that oday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Bonus points for any bokeh balls! ☺️🪶📷️ Alt: #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! Cattle egret in the heat, panting! 1111
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@atlaaas.bsky.social 's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Seabirds & alt is #Airborne. So I've gone for a #Twofer Lesser Frigatebirds, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia 290
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs. Here's a pair of Tawny Eagles. 0110
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comRick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in VietnamFormer Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’ 020
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social has said that today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Raptors; any bird of prey Here's a Black Vulture gliding over a forest in Costa Rica 3100
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🪶 Rob’s chosen #RedHeads as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird with red on it’s head/beak Alternative is #Gull, any Gull will do Twofer! Silver Gull, Queensland, Australia, 1140
Reposted by docdokRoger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We elected a President we can be proud of. Not like some people. 🙄 #speirgorm #Áras25 #Uachtarán 051
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Alan's #BirdOfTheDay today is #LightAndShadow #chiaroscura Black Noddy, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia 0100
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 20/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social #birdoftheday is #CaptionThatBird. "He said wait here...!" 4313
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by Atlantic Birding is: #Elegant; any elegant looking bird African Paradise-Flycatcher doing what it does best, but so elegantly! 270
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #ODG - Owl, Duck, or Geese as today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. Here's an Eastern Spot-billed duck from Seoul last year. 0150
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social said today's Alt: #BirdyLongLegs Any bird with legs that look way too long for its body! Marabou stork in flight looking ungainly! #MasaiMara 110
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"These are not ebikes. They are illegal electric motorbikes." Irish meejah please copy!theguardian.comWhen is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter WalkerAs a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres... 020
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 15/09/2026TLDR: Two IT journalists read the SIPO returns. Call it an "investigation". #speirgormirishtimes.comMinister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and SenatorsIrish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients 050
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Per @atlanticbirding.bsky.social Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Silhoutte; any bird in silhouette Still identifiable? (Grey crowned cranes, again!) 1141
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"GP practices were closed and while the GP out-of-hours service in Donegal had been informed of the service “no referrals or telephone enquiries were received” staff shortages; annual, sick and maternity leave were not routinely backfilled and industrial relations issues prevented additional dutiesirishtimes.comSaturday hospital unit staffed by consultants saw just five patients over three monthsWeekend pilot of acute medical assessment unit reports no improvement in ED patient flow 010
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas, The Alt theme is #Robins Grey-crowned Cranes in the #MasaiMara with a well camouflaged chick in the grass ... 1100
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 12/09/2026for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BirdsInAbstract chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social Twocan play at that game! (yellow-throated), close up captive. 1181
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme Alt. is #Black; any bird with black plumage Migrating black tern, Nimmo’s Pier, Galway. 1102
Reposted by docdokAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026To use a metaphor that our Minister for Sport can understand, Mary McAleese plays *senior hurling*, while O'Donovan is warming the subs bench on the club reserve team. 1225
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. Alt is #RSTU, any bird beginning with any of these letters. Bonus points for covering all letters in main theme 😁 Rose Throated Becard!!! #costarica 1141
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"...I still think the victim-blaming Road Safety Authority has cyclists’ blood on its hands. "irishtimes.comSarah Moss signs off: ‘Being hated on the internet has begun to tint my life, sleep and thoughts’I glanced into a dark mirror world in which people (mostly men) wrote that I am vile and stupid and should kill myself 021
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Helens’s #BirdOfTheDay: #BirdBuddies - 2 different species sharing the same space!? Clay-coloured thrush and a pair of Inca Doves. #costarica 2025 #SonyRx10M4 0120
Reposted by docdoksharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Instead of this overly complex investment scheme, maybe the government could investigate why you can get 5% interest on an instant savings account in the UK while the best rate offered in Ireland is 0.25%? #speirgorm 141
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 05/09/2026🦅 Turkey Vulture Day 2026 Turkey Vulture over Nosara in Costa Rica 2025 020
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yes, Minister "Oh, that's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's been charged under Section 2a of the Official Secrets Act." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...nytimes.comIn Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff MembersAbout 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions. 010
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @alan678.bsky.social is: #InFlight, any bird in flight. Alt theme is #Grounded, any bird on natural ground. 🪶❤️ Two from #CostaRica Great Currasow at Arenal and Turkey Vulture at Nosara 1193
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social chose #snoozing at the theme for #BirdOfTheDay This Iceland gull in Galway was pooped! 070
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wordle 1,903 X/6* ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fupping baxters. 100
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I really wish that people wouldn’t import screen shots of the worst of the other place here just to show how calm Bsky is. 010
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Contrast; light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa Alt. is #Thrushes; any bird from the thrush family This is a Grey-Backed Thrush from Seoul, S.Korea, October 2025, Quite contrasty too! #SonyRx10M4 150
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White. 2 Snowy sheathbills, Port Lockroy, Antarctica, 2002 (Gntoo penguin left foreground and Adelie penguins blurred at rear. Fuji 400 ASA. 160
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #BirdsOfAFeather Any capture of a flock of birds. Someone hadn't read the "don't feed the birds bread" notice! 1111
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 31/08/2026@helenbennett.bsky.social says For today's #BirdOfTheDay it's #BirdsUpClose Any bird at close range, allowing you to see their lovely fine details! This Ring-billed gull from 2007, Galway, was typically tame. From a time when they were commoner here. 0110
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social says today's Alt. is #Blue; on the bird or in the scene Little Blue Heron, Nosara, Costa Rica #SonyRx10M4 071
docdok @docdok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Rob has chosen #BestOfTheMonth for today’s #BirdOfTheDay Very quiet month here, but the haws and sloes are coming out, so the Robin blending right in is all I have! 1111
Reposted by docdokWalking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it? 363966975
