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Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 4h

This aerial shot tells you all you need to know about the support the Garvaghy Road has. The residents and their supporters, which include Catholics, Republicans, real Nationalists (not far-right plastic 'patriots') and others all stood shoulder to shoulder today against orange order loyalists.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 4h

I do tend to think that having strong opinions of any sort on Daylight Savings Time is a major signal not to take you seriously on anything else, but "because the PGA Tour says so" is by far the dumbest reason I have heard for such an opinion, in a crowded field.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 5h

(sighs) So, oil is assessed on two key metrics

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 15h

How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve wondered about LLMs being net-positive on the info space, since the people who tend to trust them are people who would otherwise be getting their info from Facebook groups, WhatsApp forwards, and quora LLMs tend to require the liberal bias that comes with reality to function.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 6h

LOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 6h

Cheekiness aside I do think there’s a value in a former Taoiseach who conservatives respect presenting this position as the plain facts, not some fringe opinion.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 6h

"If Bertie Ahern goes for the presidency, I will actually make it my personal mission to make sure that he doesn’t win"

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Yusufdikec at Paris 2024 Olympics with Betosfer

ALT: Yusufdikec at Paris 2024 Olympics with Betosfer

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 8h

I love that the more famous CMAT gets, the wider the blast radius gets for Bertie Ahern’s roasting. It also helps that he definitely cares about this. I hope witnessing entire arenas singing his name pejoratively makes him feel the first shame of his life

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 17h

Imagine if Suella Braverman tried telling Phil Lynott he wasn’t really Irish.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 03/10/2026

i thought my atproto “has a normal opinion about AI” labeler was broken but actually it’s correctly not tagging any users at all

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 15h

Government fiscal policy is now basically; Wait for It to happen.

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Reform MP Sarah Pochin sees a question of "two tier justice" in imprisoning a man who made + set off a pipe-bomb in the street for political ends Pochin must iimagine there are bomb-making terrorists we let off for other causes (ie you can explode pipe bombs for climate/Palestine with impunity)

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phenomenal question, revealing answer. Love to see it

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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026

3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training

Opinion under seal for now.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 02/10/2026

Yeah man meet this fucking guy. Meet this fucking guy who got exposed in 2016 as having given $10k to an explicitly neonazi PAC. I have gone to hell while I am still alive because I am cursed with recall of things that happened more than five minutes ago.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Given that Irish government TDs have cited Sweden's decision to introduce a language test for citizenship as justification for Ireland introducing one, it seems relevant that Sweden is finding it difficult to actually do it

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s okay to be sad. It’s okay to need help, and to ask for it. It’s okay to cry and run naked through the woods. It’s okay to take a small number of hostages if your demands are reasonable and you treat them well. It’s okay to learn and grow from the experience, and take better hostages tomorrow.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plot twist: in today's episode of The Inspector Gettier Mysteries, a swab factory technician uses her job to conceal her involvement in a string of murders.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On one hand, corporate dependency is bad for Universities, & TII's expansionism an intolerable abuse of it. On the other, not using TII is at this stage being totally unserious about academic integrity, the reputation & economic worth of yr institution's degrees, & HE's future generally ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

""I'm not the one saying it has to be 5 generations or 4. I think it is **obvious** when people have got a lineage, an ancestry which dates back a few generations" What is "obvious" (observable) is not where your grandparents were born! What is obvious (observable) is visible skin colour!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unfair, Koko knew more than 14 words

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think the PM getting public to consider the pros + cons of all potential options from late 2026 for the next 12-18 months is a much better approach than "the only option he should consider is EU membership" (including for those who would aim for that destination of membership within 5-10 years)

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Muscular Christianity, brought to you by the IT team at a midsized insurance company, every member of which smells like stale pizza rolls and has been warned by HR that you're only allowed to ask a coworker on a date one time.

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Iris van Rooij has claimed I'm "spreading misinformation" (because I thought she was a psychologist and not a computer scientist) and has decided to QT about it at least five times to her followers, who I'm blocking for "White entitled postdoc 🤮" bullshit. That...has to be against some sort of rule

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey, journals, you know what would be great? If you're going to have strict word-limits in e.g. the abstract section, CALCULATE THE WORD-COUNT THE SAME WAY STANDARD SOFTWARE LIKE MS WORD DOES. Failing that, if you *must*, allow text over the limit to be edited in the text-entry box.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in retrospect his justification of vigilante behavior should have been seen as part of a trend when the US is deporting people to El Salvador prisons to face assault and/or third party countries

Living in America, it hits different to see people from the UK trying to stop rapists and murderers in the USA from being arrested. Nice protest though. Is Gus in Led By Donkeys?

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is still at least 50% better than actually existing Evri deliveries, though?

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Bavovna Buff 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 @global-news-junkie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Britain wants its immigrants to come, work and pay taxes but draw no benefits, integrate and speak flawless English, and then bugger off after 5-10 years. And I'm sorry to say this, but the idea that anyone would take such a deal willingly is insane.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So apparently immigrants are both expected to stay transient and to integrate and I don’t know how to put it without shouting expletives but that stance is fucking idiotic

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Never has a man been such an embodiment of wearing brown shoes.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 02/10/2025

For National Poetry Day, a personal favourite of mine and one I think about more and more in these troubled times.

The Second Coming
By W.B. Yeats

Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away
Haven't changed, hadn't much to say
But man, I still think them cats are crazy
They were askin' if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
Told them you were livin' downtown
Drivin' all the old men crazy

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The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
(I said) The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given the whole apparatus of death in train before it got to them, it seems perverse to single out Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Thomas. Still, fuck Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Thomas specifically, as well as everyone else involved in this travesty.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Labour politicians speak about immigrant communities to the UK as though those immigrants are deaf and won't remember it come election time.

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