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Felicity

@fififinx.bsky.social
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She/her. Old/tired. Catminder General Proud & committed Luddite

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 6h
📢 Due to ongoing industrial action, our switchboard is currently unavailable and calls cannot be answered. For updates on exhibitions, events, opening hours and visitor services, please visit www.museum.ie Found an artefact? Learn how to report it here: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
Four locations for the National Museum of Ireland
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 6h
I could quote Carney & say that it's written in pencil, but let's face it with these nimrods, it's more likely written in crayon
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 12h
Pleeeeease buy our shitty antiquated hackable tech! Fuck off. The US is not & has never been an ally. They were only ever paid mercenaries (& not particularly USEFUL paid mercenaries)
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 14h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOgs...
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The Goons: Minnie and Henry, "There's somebody knocking at the door..."
YouTube video by John Maxwell
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 14h
IT IS LITERALLY ARTIFICIAL, you indescribably moronic amoeba-brain. It's not organic. It doesn't occur naturally (some would argue it's not occurring at all). It is entirely artificial, entirely shit. Call it Shit-For-Brains Intelligence. Absolutely no one but you think it's remotely super
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 14h
SF didn't encourage the Orange Order to spend 28 years demanding to go somewhere they weren't welcome. Most things may have 2 sides. This issue does NOT. McDowell's an unspeakable git, and his own agenda is showing
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 15h
"Only" the 2nd woman? Big whoop. How many American women have been President? How many French women? The Muslim world by no means holds the monopoly on misogyny
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itamar Ben Gvir is an absolute Kahanist scumbag shit. He has had 8 convictions in Israel for hate-related crimes. His party has only 6 seats in the Knesset, but because Bibi knows he's going to prison if he's not Prime Minister, he has outsize leverage over him Bono is still a pox, though
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh would you ever just fuck off, Newt! "Open to the possibility of a walk" me hole. Because it's not just a walk, it's a provocation, a threat, a display designed to engender fear & get a reaction. How about being open to the possibility that people are entitled to feel safe in their own homes?
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So we wait until the cheque clears & THEN we burn him out
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gee I wonder if the reason Silicon Valley is churning out tools for sex pests at a rate of knots is because Silicon Valley is infested by sex pests? No wonder Trump loves them
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I come from a cross-community family in the North, & have friends on both sides (ish) too. The reaction from the more Protestant people to the Drumcree sitch is interesting. They are FURIOUS about M-L's mug being prominent, lots of anti-SF fulmination going on, YET it has made them view a United 1/
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"by a community that never requested any of it." This is the crux of the matter. Why didn't the PSNI, the Parades Commission, NO ONE (apparently) bother their arses to speak to the impacted community? The Orange Order get to have their say, but the people on the Garvaghy Road don't. That's nonsense
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘What is behind slowdown in Ireland’s property prices? ..demand must be softening’ housing need ≠ market demand There’s a deeply flawed assumption that everyone who needs a home is in the market for a home, regardless of price It’s throwing off so much of policy www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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What is behind the slowdown in Ireland’s property prices?
New home supply outside Dublin is up but there is also a definite cooling on the demand side of the equation
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Orange Order marches in the Republic now (at Rossknowlagh for example). There is no need for a public holiday, they just out & march. Nationalists in the North use their PTO to get the fuck out of Dodge on the 12th. Loyalists in a United Ireland can do the same if they want to march, surely
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Sally The Luddite @calamityjane516.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enough with the "boys will be boys" trope. Teach your boys to be real men.
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The PSNI & the Parades Commission have serious questions to answer, BUT the fact is that the Portadown Orange Lodge has spent the last 28 years with their balls in a bundle over being told to show some decency & go 6 minutes out of their way. A *28 YEAR long* temper tantrum. That's some entitlement
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can anyone point to anything Tesla has developed since Elon stole the company that *isn't* dangerous? The man's a fucking moronic menace. But he has a really good line in flim-flam
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TL;DR: the science doesn't support their contentions. At all. The anecdotal evidence suggests they are trying desperately to compensate for their weakness, both physical & intellectual, with a quick fix because they're too lazy & stupid to address the underlying issues. Typically American
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If *nobody* wants to go back 28 years, WTF were the Orange Order at asking to go down the Garvaghy Rd? WTF were the Parades Commission at approving it? WTF were the PSNI at saying it wouldn't be a problem? Seems to me a LOT of lads are trying to drag NI back 50 years, never mind 28
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
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Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lord, I needed to see this today! A small thing happened this morning, & though small it really upset me. Then George reminded me that I am so lucky to have a home, a wee cat, food to eat, & books to read. Things most of the world would give their right arm for.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"it's just 35 men with no bands walking down a road" it's just 6 extra minutes and no rioting
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Foreigner interferes because bishops denounce... foreign interference What HAS Elon done that he's so terrified of losing his political cover? We know about the inappropriate propositioning, trying to join a paedo ring, stealing companies. He's proud of all of that. So..?
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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lord, what fools these mortals be! A Midsummer Night's Dream (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whether 35 Orangemen waddle up & down the Garvaghy Rd this morn or not, my heart bleeds for the residents. No one should be used as a pawn in someone else's war, particularly when that war ended 30 years ago. The Orange Order is a scourge
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Again, the ONLY war the US has ever won BY itself was AGAINST itself. And the liberals won it They duffed the aftermath though...
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolute tosh! Trump's invite to his boss is craven cowardice of a distinctly evil type. The best thing the rest of the G20 could do is skip the meeting. It's the ONLY right thing to do. Unsurprising the greedy Krauts don't see it that way, I must admit
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MAWriterGirl 🇸🇪🇸🇯🇮🇸🇫🇮🇩🇰🇫🇴🇦🇽🌍 @mawritergirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I were to be in the market for a car (I'm not as my disabilities make it unsafe for me to drive), & could afford a new one, this would be the one I'd go for. Not a hackable tank. Cute, easy to park, exponentially less likely to kill a child if you hit one with it
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Biggest Loser
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly this! Our coat of arms onna fleg
The historical Irish coat of arms: blazoned azure a harp or, stringed argent.
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All those people traumatised so FF/G & their friends can make coin at the expense of the most vulnerable in our society, then sneer at them for not getting up early enough
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, d'uh. Why should the EU lift a finger to help the Brits? Just like the whining about 90/180, the whinging about Sweden applying its immigration policies, this is a gammon-tantrum about not being treated like extra special little Imperialists. FAFO, bitches www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK
‘If you’re not in the internal market, you don’t get the same protection,’ says French minister of policy designed to curb Chinese competition
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As always, Simon grasps the bull by the horns & says what needs to be said. No bullshit!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yesterday I demanded answers from the Minister about the Irish Government position on shocking proposals to give AI companies access to our personal data which are being negotiated right now on Ireland's watch. The public across EU want rights protected & more regulation of AI and big tech not less!
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TechBro: I have made Artificial intelligence

Angels: You fucked up a perfectly good Graphics Card is what you did. Look at it. It's got anxiety.
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"On the face of it, more funding for retrofitting is a positive move. However, individuals must pay the costs upfront and later get reimbursed, so thousands of euros are needed to begin with." As always, grants in Ireland are only for those who don't need them www.thejournal.ie/heat-pump-gr...
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Could you really save money by swapping out your boiler for a heat pump? We asked an expert
A new government grant means people can get an extra €2,000 towards installing a heat pump.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Re: the latest AI news, if you design a death robot and then take it to a farmyard and programme it with instructions like "be sure not to kill anything with six legs", you cannot then say "oh, it went rogue" when it ends up decapitating every animal in the farmyard. Its failures are on you.
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Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really happy with this piece now published in the magazine "Istor Breizh" (in French), about the Irish manuscript tradition from the 11th to the 19th century. Many thanks to @rialibrary.bsky.social for allowing me to reproduce pictures of the manuscripts! istorbreizh.bzh/produit/nume...
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cos-play Nazi who already controls Twitter in control of MORE of the information system? Yeah, that's a brilliant idea
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Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean: So What?
Alt: Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean: So What?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The entire tech boom is a cult built on delusion & dogma And lies. A multitude of lies www.thejournal.ie/government-d...
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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims
The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.
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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FURTHER news that surprises no one: pervert glasses designed by & for criminals aren't all that; & Zuck is STILL trying to make VR happen. Git, or twit? You decide www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles
The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for smart glasses, which are facing backlash over privacy concerns
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