Reposted by Emma Rua Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6hfunny 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. 251676222
Reposted by Emma Rua Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 8hhow 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 041
Reposted by Emma Rua Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 7hThe Muse avatar looks like a Temu Labubu crossed with one of the characters in that “Dumb Ways To Die” railway safety advertisement. 162
Reposted by Emma Rua David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 18hThe 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 1101
Reposted by Emma Rua David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 12hI feel like more people out there really should know about this one. It helps explain a lot #speirgorm 042
Reposted by Emma Rua 'That fainting couch' @culturalfatwa.bsky.social · 12hMuch 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”. 122
Reposted by Emma Rua Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 📚 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 12hPeople getting diagnosis and treatment??static.klipy.comMoira Rose: That's Wonderful! (Schitt's Creek)ALT: Moira Rose: That's Wonderful! (Schitt's Creek) 1193
Reposted by Emma Rua Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 14hThe feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art 91590335
Reposted by Emma Rua The Onion @theonion.com · 13hCreatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-… 262823417
Reposted by Emma Rua Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 13hBillionaires dont pay taxes - they toss out trinkets. 2154
Reposted by Emma Rua Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12hA 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. 215621
Reposted by Emma Rua Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12hThis 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. 4890232
Reposted by Emma Rua Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17hthat 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. 1192
Reposted by Emma Rua Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17hI 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 23215
Reposted by Emma Rua Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16hhe 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.aiGong - Revenue AI OSGong Revenue AI OS helps your entire GTM organization win. Drive growth with multimodal revenue signal processing, specialized AI agents, and purpose-built applications. 121
Reposted by Emma Rua Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16hthe 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. 194
Reposted by Emma Rua Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 16hThis 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. 3208
Reposted by Emma Rua Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16hI'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'" 1112818
Reposted by Emma Rua Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 16hMam made the front page, which would delight her! Funeral arrangements/condolences are here: rip.ie/death-notice... 1913212
Reposted by Emma Rua Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wild 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/hcjrp5phys.orgWild honeybee populations in the EU are on the Red List for the first timePopulations 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. 041
Reposted by Emma Rua Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Model 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 165
Reposted by Emma Rua Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The #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 #Extinctionscience.orf.at70 Prozent weniger Gelsen seit 2020In 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. 062
Reposted by Emma Rua Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There 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 122
Reposted by Emma Rua Cameron Roberts @bikeademic.bsky.social · 13hThis 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.sciencedirect.com 011
Reposted by Emma Rua The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16hOnce 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 1344
Reposted by Emma Rua The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16hAlso 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 0193
Reposted by Emma Rua Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22hyou 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 03215674
Reposted by Emma Rua Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22hyou will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal 21882114
Reposted by Emma Rua Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22hyou 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 11636113
Reposted by Emma Rua Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23hi 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 10114453168
Reposted by Emma Rua WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 16hProof Manor Solomon Is Right & Israel Is '10 Times Better Than Ireland' waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2… 1219
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." 073
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 020
Reposted by Emma Rua Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16hMany people are asking.prospect.orgWhy Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American ProspectOpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them. 319461
Reposted by Emma Rua 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" 032
Reposted by Emma Rua Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15hMass shootings, multiple suicides, families torn apart by AI ‘psychosis’ and now his tech is hacking governments around the world. 07827
Reposted by Emma Rua Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 17hThis 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. 38435
Reposted by Emma Rua Fergus Kelly @ferguskelly.bsky.social · 16hAdopting the same PR tactics as Shell in Mayo eh? 054
Reposted by Emma Rua Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 16hI 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. 022
Reposted by Emma Rua Cian Ó Muilleoir @rugbykino.bsky.social · 16hLiterally (and mathematically) the equivalent of someone with €1.7m in personal assets buying a single €1 raffle ticket. 03010
Reposted by Emma Rua Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 15hHey 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. 53013
Reposted by Emma Rua Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 15hJust 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) 45914
Reposted by Emma Rua Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 14hI donate over 1% of my income to the local GAA club every year. Let him do the same and then come back to me. 043
Reposted by Emma Rua Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 15hUnfortunately this will very likely work if getting local support is his goal. He has done his homework. 3114
Reposted by Emma Rua Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social · 15hHe'll need them to cling to the railings when they finally drag him off to the Hague. 0101
Reposted by Emma Rua TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 15hA 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) 22015
Reposted by Emma Rua The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14hGavin 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...ontheditch.comComment: Thank you Gavin BazunuHe turned his character to action, in a decision that was deeply personal but also collective. 18428
Reposted by Emma Rua Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There 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. 46423
Reposted by Emma Rua Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still not as good as the wall below the grass and soil, separating Catholic and Protestant graves in City Cemetery. 271
Reposted by Emma Rua Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026My 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. 3353