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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bat box checks (under licence and before the downpour) near Ham Wall, Somerset Levels yesterday. Soprano pipistrelles about and waded though a good number of dragonflies and damselflies in the long grass, here's a hairy dragonfly and a four-spotted chaser 💚 #bats #dragonflies #nature #wildlife
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026
An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The local news has complained several times about bike lanes making it harder to find parking near a bar 🤦‍♂️
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And the day is here when #RHSChelsea opens up to Royal Horticultural Society members and other guests. We are looking forward to talking bats and gardening again after yesterday's press day launch.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
An death just like George Floyd: In Dublin, Ireland, Yves Sakila, a Black Irish Congolese man, appears to have been killed by criminal justice system actors who kneeled on his neck moments before he died. Yves Sakila mattered. Black Lives Matter. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DYfk9HWiPx...
Solidarity with the Irish Congolese community. RIP Yves Sakila.
LA COMMUNAUTÉ CONGOLAISE EN DEUIL
R. I. P YVES-SAKILA
C.C.I
Congolese Community in Ireland
Order • Discipline + Unity
C.C.I présente ses sincères condoléances à la famille éplorée et à toute la communauté congolaise.
Que son âme repose en paix.
Tu resteras à jamais dans nos cœurs.
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In our hearts forever,
never forgotten.
C.C.I - Ensemble, restons unis dans la solidarité.
Order • Discipline • Unity
Vigil Tomorrow (19/05) 12pm, Henry Street.Dinar
• IRISH NETWORK AGAINST RACISM
INAR Statement on the death of Mr Yves Sakila: Monday 18 May 2026. Dublin.
The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) is very concerned about the news that a man, believed to be Mr Yves Sakila, has died from suspected asphyxiation following his apprehension for an alleged shoplifting incident in Arnotts in Dublin on Friday 15 May. Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting. Something clearly went terribly wrong. News of the tragedy is doubly shocking as some newspapers have reported that Mr Sakila is said to have "become unresponsive" after Gardai arrived on the scene.
A very disturbing 4m44s video has since emerged which appears to show the man on the ground being subdued by several men, who appear to be security guards and management at Arnotts. One of the men is seen to shift his weight onto his knee to drive it into the neck and head region of the subdued man. The man on the ground is heard shouting in distress as several men are kneeling on his body and the men shout several times for him to "stay down" while holding his neck and pinning his body to the ground with their combined weight. By the end of the 4m44s video we have seen, the man appears motionless. Gardai do not appear to have arrived on the scene at this stage.
Shane O'Curry, Director of INAR said "At INAR we are extremely disturbed by the reports of the incident, and we extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mr Sakila. We are very concerned that this case appears to have the hallmarks of a case of excessive use of force. The death of a black man in such circumstances is extremely worrying, and we urge the authorities to thoroughly investigate all of the circumstances leading to this man's death, in order to ensure minority ethnic community confidence in the criminal justice system."
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Olga Cronin Senior Policy Officer with ICCL will be before the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Inteligence this morning. To discuss the dangers the potential threats posed by AI and the need for greater regulation. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41847087.html
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'It is truly harmful': Children's advocates 'gravely concerned' over lack of regulation of AI
Children's Rights Alliance online safety coordinator Noeline Blackwell will tell Dáil committee deepfake images can be used to 'blackmail, bully, groom, threaten and abuse children and young people'
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Save Our Bride Otters @saveourbrideotters.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This may be of interest to some of you, particularly in relation to flood schemes and the arterial drainage act. www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“On a strictly confidential basis” a senior civil servant sent a confidential draft document to a lobbyist at the billionaire Collison brothers-funded Progress Ireland – whose board includes the civil servant’s former boss at his department. www.ontheditch.com/on-a-strictl...
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Civil servant gave confidential draft to Progress Ireland
'On a strictly confidential basis.'
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
What should you do if you find a bat in need of help? Are you working on a building and found bats? Want to put up a bat box but don't know where to start? How to make your garden more bat friendly? Our advice pages cover all the above and more: www.bats.org.uk/advice
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I want to repost this one million times
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 17/05/2026
The vampire hunt is ON! Do you have a beat up VHS, film print etc of the 1922 Nosferatu? Alexandre O Philippe and our team are making a doc about our global treasure hunt called IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. More info here, or email us at albingraufilms at gmail dot com deadline.com/2026/05/in-s...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This time of year (mid-May) is when Germany, Japan, UK, and China celebrate their national Overshoot Day. That's when the planet’s annual biocapacity budget would be used up if everyone on Earth consumed as much as the residents of that particular country. Source: buff.ly/2QAbOkn
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
With the EU struggling to cover expenses, a cut in farm subsidies of around 22% is being mooted. So richer farmers are proposing a *10-fold* increase in the minimum qualifying stocking rate, to ensure they themselves go unaffected. Nature and small farmers be damned. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
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ICMSA stocking rate proposal 'should be binned' - ICSA
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) slammed a proposal on stocking rates for the next CAP.
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Dagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"the researchers show that in terms of cost and speed, renewable energy sources have already beaten nuclear and that each investment in new nuclear plants delays decarbonization compared to investments in renewable energies" www.pv-magazine.com/2023/08/22/n...
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New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power
In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned...
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Nen || Commissions close on Oct 11 @nenthepigeon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I cannot stress it enough, but if you pledge even to the smallest tier of artists' Patreon/Ko-Fi/whatever subscription service they are using, you are already doing a lot. If you are regularly sharing art with others, reposting or sending links their way, you are already showing support and care.
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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcss.info · 16/05/2026
No alt text. Image reads: "The Future is Human, Not AI 'Higher education exists to advance human understanding, critical inquiry, and the public good - not to become subordinate to an extractive AI economy that deepens inequality and erodes democratic life. The unchecked expansion of AI data [...]'"
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"Birds are our place-makers, memory-keepers, calendars and clocks. They stitch the world's parts together: earth to sky, river to woodland, mountain to sea, country to country, hemisphere to hemisphere. Without them, things start to fall apart." Writing doesn’t get much better than this book.
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The Edge of Water / Wishlist now! @bigmoodgames.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Don't forget you can WISHLIST our game 🌊The Edge of Water🌊 on STEAM! store.steampowered.com/app/2591630/... #indiegame #indiedev #videogame #gaming #gamedev
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An old stone cabin on the farm, now immersed by wild rainforest. Nature returns.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Ireland has *immeasurably* benefited from immigration. Despite its problems (none of which were caused by immigrants) it is a vastly more interesting, vibrant - and *fun* - place than it was in the grey dreary miserable 80s thanks to immigrants. And anyone who walks through Dublin city centre and...
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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
DIFW is also introducing a new model to reduce barriers for designers and creatives. Read 👉 buff.ly/MenMu6W #GCNnews
Dublin Independent Fashion Week models. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "Dublin Independent Fashion Week becomes non-profit to reshape fashion as fundable art form. At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Persi Quach, one of our volunteer leaders, designed this banner. We can't wait to show it to you at an action soon! Want to get involved with our efforts to stop data centers? Text FWW to 23321!
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Passing 2k means I might get to be paid too! The (often deferred) dream! littledeercomics.ie
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It’s a lovely day to buy some comics I think! Here until 4 this gorgeous Saturday, trying to make May rent by Monday! Overnight online sales yesterday put us over €500 for Friday, now we just need to clear 500 Saturday and Sunday to reach 2k by Monday!
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
An *actual* attack on rural Ireland #Spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
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A Kerry town built a community around asylum seekers — now Caherciveen is losing them
Businesses, schools and healthcare providers fear disruption after long-settled asylum seekers were abruptly transferred from Caherciveen
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Beyond Plastics @beyondplastics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Listen to @judithenck.bsky.social's interview with @kalwradio.bsky.social on her new book "The Problem with Plastic": www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
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The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet
Judith Enck reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and a rise in diseases, including reproductive cancers.
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Really important research is being done right now to see whether we’re meeting UN obligations under UNCRC for LGBTQIA+ kids (spoiler: we’re not) It’s never been more important that trans & LGBTQIA+ voices are heard by policy makers @ocoireland.bsky.social @ucc.ie Please fill out this form 👇
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The recent tragic death of Johnny Santos has given rise to calls in Dublin for Direct Vision, the standard for trucks that offers potentially life-saving improvements on city streets. But it shouldn't be only in Dublin. Here's our call- www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/its-time-for...
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It’s time for Direct Vision for our cities
The Irish Cycling Campaign strongly endorses the motion put recently to Dublin City Council by Councillor Ray Cunningham, calling for safer trucks. On April 13th, Councillor Cunningham called for…
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Dr. John Legge: "The true burden of road trauma on the health system is far greater than the fatality count might suggest. What this means is that the numbers killed don’t convey the numbers injured. For every death there are about 10 serious injuries – injuries that require hospitalisation for
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We underestimate the true impact of our dangerous roads
The real burden of road trauma on the health system is far greater than the fatality count might suggest
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Time to add top coat #1!
A brightly colored mural with a hummingbird, butterfly, sweat bee, locust border beetle, green June beetle, and monarch caterpillar, with a blue flag iris, poppy mallow,
And milkweed
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.
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Out Of The Lab @outofthelabpod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Some researchers thank her. Others push back hard. The reaction you get when you expose errors in scientific papers tells its own story. 🔍 @elisabethbik.bsky.social in our latest episode. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2zJT... . 🐀 #science #AI #fakenews #podcast #ootl
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“In my lifetime, I have witnessed a terrible decline [of nature]. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.” – David Attenborough. Let's *do* it.
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Cllr Oisín O'Connor @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The OPW spends €1.2m of our money each year on car parking for civil servants. If a bike shed costing €127,000 stands for 20 years, the OPW will have, in that time, spent €24,000,000 of our money to rent car parking for well-paid office workers. www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...
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Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces
We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.
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Chewbacula @jason1749.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 06/05/2026
European Movement Ireland’s annual poll, as usual, shows 82% of RoI residents support EU membership. But one striking finding elsewhere: residents of N Ireland are also surveyed, and 63% (!!??) would vote in favour of a United Ireland. No mainstream poll has *ever* recorded a margin like this…
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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"In calm waters and rough tides, Trans+ communities have always found a way". 🏳️‍⚧️ Read 👉 buff.ly/XmG75b1 #GCNnews
Image of a Trans+ History Week's campaign at Churchill Square. It shows a screen with water in the background, featuring the words "Change has never stood still".  It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "New campaign celebrates trans history amid hostile political climate". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
I love their little sign
Lenny putting up a sign that days Enoch Burke 672 days in prison
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
These categories are less about your desired profession (“I’m an illustrator by trade who happens to have made a comic” - Choose Comic Creator!) but a practical indicator of how many tables of comics we’ll have on the day (since we’re a Comic Arts Fest!)
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Applications for our summer @dublincomicarts.bsky.social open tomorrow (Thursday!) they’ll be open for 24 hours so don’t stress it! Rad poster by @lukeazie.bsky.social !
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is where we're at: preparing for heat emergencies alongside other disasters. As always, we call for better and more accessible relief for everyone who needs it.
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Cities are rehearsing for deadly heat. Will it help when disaster comes?
As heat waves grow longer and deadlier, cities around the world are using elaborate drills to expose weaknesses before a
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"be safe, be seen" as a national strategy for road safety is an absolute joke
Garda Galvin said Brett was wearing a high-vis jacket and helmet. It was a dry day, the road conditions were good and there were no obstructions.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New Lottery Director Stephen Donnelly Defends Winners Being Put On Waiting List waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/05/0…
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