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Emma Rua

@ealadubh.bsky.social
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Finally flying in the mythical sky so bluee🦋 Éireannach 🇮🇪 Foghlaimím Gaeilge 💚 Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Iníon na Teamhrach The Land & all our relations are Sacred (Pp is Scout)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 8h
how long are we gonna pretend that this stuff isn't malware? Every story this year about ai "getting loose" is just every classic "hackers took over my computer!" story ever. Gawd this is all so stupid
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 7h
The Muse avatar looks like a Temu Labubu crossed with one of the characters in that “Dumb Ways To Die” railway safety advertisement.
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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 18h
The IPA (career diploma mill for Irish public servants) teaches no social theory on public sector management courses apart from rightwing ‘classical’ economics which indoctrinate public choice & all that. Textbooks were by the likes of 2 guys behind Bush W efforts in US to privatise Social Security
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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 12h
I feel like more people out there really should know about this one. It helps explain a lot #speirgorm
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'That fainting couch' @culturalfatwa.bsky.social · 12h
Much mouth watering stuff but esp enjoyed this 'And if Oracle raises more debt, it runs the risk that two ratings agencies could downgrade it to “junk,” immediately forcing investment funds and indices that cannot hold junk debt to dump it, turning it into a “fallen angel”.
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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 📚 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 12h
People getting diagnosis and treatment??
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Moira Rose: That's Wonderful! (Schitt's Creek)
ALT: Moira Rose: That's Wonderful! (Schitt's Creek)
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 14h
The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 13h
Billionaires dont pay taxes - they toss out trinkets.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12h
A book that has gotten a lot of attention but never as much as it deserves is Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. It’s an insider view of Meta’s venality: they promoted the European far right in order to stave off regulation. And it’s sadly conspicuous that journalism about Meta is a non-factor.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12h
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17h
that additional child benefit, or any similar anti-poverty measure, would have provided a greater economic stimulus than the VAT cut, which went straight into the pockets of business owners in a thriving industry rife with worker exploitation and some of the worst wages in the country.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17h
I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16h
he sits on said committee with his party colleague Brian Brennan, a former hotelier turned hospitality consultant. just as a TD with stock in his former employer, gong.ai, is the current chair of the Committee on AI.
gong.ai
Gong - Revenue AI OS
Gong Revenue AI OS helps your entire GTM organization win. Drive growth with multimodal revenue signal processing, specialized AI agents, and purpose-built applications.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16h
the head of the Vintners' Federation at the time of the last general election was John Clendennen, an FG councillor running in said election. he was elected as a TD and appointed to the Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. the call came from inside the house, etc.
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 16h
This is a very good point. The ESRI data showed that the sector wasn't in crisis at all yet the government did this on the basis of hearsay and interviews with whining hoteliers. They didn't need to blockade anything, their interests were viewed as automatically paramount.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16h
I'm researching the previous owners of a pub from the late 1800s and have ended up reading about Lord Darnley, who "eschewed all romantic and intimate relationships, as he believe he was a teapot and it might damage his 'spout'"
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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 16h
Mam made the front page, which would delight her! Funeral arrangements/condolences are here: rip.ie/death-notice...
Front page story in the Carlow Nationalist, "Trailblazing Margaret was the first female reporter in a local paper."
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wild honeybees in the EU are now classified as endangered. Without swarms from beekeeping operations, models estimate free-living colonies would decline by about 56% in 10 years. doi.org/hcjrp5
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Wild honeybee populations in the EU are on the Red List for the first time
Populations of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) are under immense pressure in the wild in Europe. New research published in Conservation Science and Practice from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart and Agroscope in Zürich shows that there are frequent occurrences of honeybees in the wild in Europe.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Model estimates are one thing. They err on the side of least drama. Real insect counts show that we kill 63% of all insects in only 3 years now. We will lose ALL insects, a whole #taxon, in 10 years. It's like climate scientists who look at models but deny observational data. #Extinction #NTHE
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The #EU killed 70% of ALL insects, also mosquitos, since 2020. What happens to flowering plants when we have killed a whole #pollinator #taxon soon? No more #sex. What happens to us? #NTHE #Extinction
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70 Prozent weniger Gelsen seit 2020
In Österreich steht in diesem Sommer voraussichtlich keine große Gelsenplage bevor. Denn in den vergangenen Jahren ging der Bestand der Hausgelse stark zurück. Als Grund gilt der Klimawandel.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are no "large, widely distributed #wildlife populations". Even large populations like cows have inbreeding depression. The data below is from 2018-2020. The human population was 7.6 bn then. Today, it's 8.35 bn. Europe killed 70% of ALL insects since 2020. DNA & biomass collapse = #Extinction
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Cameron Roberts @bikeademic.bsky.social · 13h
This is why I think recent progress in plant-based meats (impossible burgers, etc.) are really just the other side of the rewilding coin. Displace enough beef consumption and rewilding happens almost automatically. I wrote a paper on this. We could potentially free up billions of hectares of land.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16h
Once again all it takes to get left wingers to adopt a an antisemitic nazi meme is drawing a very thin line through "Jews" and hastily scribbling "Israel" above it. Your solidarity is being twisted, you are being memed into using their terms, you are being played for absolute fools
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16h
Also tbh if you feel you need to react for these to criticise (or insult) Israel when there are so many easy ways to do so, at best your imagination has been deeply stunted by being cooked in an online stew, at worst your motives become incredibly suspect
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will not be rewarded with: - sexual and/or romantic favors (sliding value scale relative to the chastity of rescued woman, however this can be applied to any woman, no matter how biblically libidinous) - government-issued tshirt, hat, or badge indicating you are “one of the good ones” - parade
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h
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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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 16h
Proof Manor Solomon Is Right & Israel Is '10 Times Better Than Ireland' waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Emma Rua @ealadubh.bsky.social · 12h
#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Gaza #SaoirseDonPhailistín 🇵🇸 "While Israel had no joy shooting on goal in the 3-0 defeat on Sunday, when it comes to shooting children dead, the Israeli army’s X-wc (expected war crimes) is horrifyingly prolific."
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Emma Rua @ealadubh.bsky.social · 13h
"The loser Irish government’s policies has led to nearly 18,000 people living homeless in Ireland, the IDF’s military actions has displaced 1.9 million people in Gaza and 360,000 people in Lebanon. No contest.* #SpéirGorm #SaoirseDonPhailistín 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h
Many people are asking.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Rasmus Fleischer @rsmsflschr.bsky.social · 16h
"Respect for the law could literally be written into the source code of a model … This is not a situation where AI models evade or escape the control of their creators. It seems more like they are just mimicking the creators, becoming adept at finding the same shortcuts"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h
Mass shootings, multiple suicides, families torn apart by AI ‘psychosis’ and now his tech is hacking governments around the world.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 17h
This story has really annoyed me. These tech billionaires LARPing as aristocrats bestowing their noblesse oblige on the local peasants. Just think about how many sports clubs you could fund if you taxed Facebook properly.
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Fergus Kelly @ferguskelly.bsky.social · 16h
Adopting the same PR tactics as Shell in Mayo eh?
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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 16h
I can imagine two motions at each of the clubs' next AGMs. 1 promising never to raise concerns or objections about the Zuckerbergs' activities in the local area, and the other to return the money with an impolite note advising them where to put it. I know which one I'd vote for.
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Cian Ó Muilleoir @rugbykino.bsky.social · 16h
Literally (and mathematically) the equivalent of someone with €1.7m in personal assets buying a single €1 raffle ticket.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 15h
Hey so in case you don't want to do the math, I've got you. 0.00006934% That's how much 150000 is of Zuck's estimated between worth of 254.4 billion.
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Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 15h
Just did some quick maths (divide his net worth by 150000, then divide my yearly income by that number). This is the equivalent of me donating 0.009c (in euro, or 0.01c US)
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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 14h
I donate over 1% of my income to the local GAA club every year. Let him do the same and then come back to me.
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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 15h
Unfortunately this will very likely work if getting local support is his goal. He has done his homework.
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Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social · 15h
He'll need them to cling to the railings when they finally drag him off to the Hague.
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 15h
A general appeal. If you are an author of any book or books available from Irish publishers (via Gill Distribution, Áis, Poolbeg etc) we'd love to (a) sell your books (b) publish your thoughts on your books, publishing, writing - anything - on our shop blog. (1/2)
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14h
Gavin Bazunu maintained his connection to all of us opposed to this match. He was also able to act, facing implicit and explicit threats. He turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective. Thank you. www.ontheditch.com/comment-than...
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Comment: Thank you Gavin Bazunu
He turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective.
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are two simultaneous anti-choice protests raking place right now outside City Hall, 20 feet apart, one for the Catholics and one for the Protestants. This place has its drawbacks but ypu have to concede there is a rich seam in the comedy mines.
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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still not as good as the wall below the grass and soil, separating Catholic and Protestant graves in City Cemetery.
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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My son's girlfriend lives in the heart of the Glenanne murder triangle. Tonight I had to have a conversation with him about being careful on that road if things kick off. I am so so fucking angry that I had to do that. How dare these people unleash more trauma and fear on us.
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