Reposted by GAVIN PRIORShady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence. 91222414
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORJack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves 8160106
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORPhilip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ireland imports 80% of its wheat. Not great food security. Concentration on livestock farming elbowed Irish wheat out. Imported wheat and flour add considerably to the cost of living crisis. But new crop science opens the door to Irish grown wheat. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/clip/...rte.ieFood Security: BreadOnly the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to b... 825276
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533481491
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORZandra, probably @zandra-wpg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Everyone agrees that dogs have intelligence and personality, right? But when a dog gets away and hurts someone, it’s their owner’s responsibility. They can be fined or charged, and in the worst cases the dog is put down. So why treat chatbots/agents differently? The owners should be accountable. 16223
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Whatever you do, don’t try to stop punching yourself in the face. The synthetic bot army of fake people on X will shout at you unless you keep punching your own nose, good and hard. 21310
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239591780
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act. 9933324
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This really is a remarkably positive story - done in the face of massive right wing media opposition too Burnham should take note 18947249
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it 4319112
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026“You have to give up your privacy & anonymity online because there’s just nothing we can do about the open web getting bait-and-switched into an unregulated global social experiment that gamifies the worst behaviors of humanity for the profit of two billionaire freaks” is just not a great pitch. 41279389
GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Playing my first show in 2 years this Saturday in Belfast. wegottickets.com/f/20707 000
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORYellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Our croplands produce enough calories to feed 14.5 billion people! BUT 40% of the calories go to livestock — who produce just 5% of our calories, while making 15% of all planet-heating pollution. drawdown.org/insights/we-... Precision fermentation lets us change the math, and feed more people. 8255105
Reposted by GAVIN PRIOREoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026A conference is taking place in Dublin on Thursday 11th to highlight a MASSIVE threat to Irish nature. Judicial Reviews have been a critical means for local communities to challenge wrongful, damaging environmental decisions, but they're going to be severely restricted by legislative changes. 110244
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORAlex Pigot @alexpigotireland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Interested in Ireland remaining a democracy - if so then read this as by their unrepresentative actions, our government appears to no longer act as if we are as described below: www.antaisce.org/news/the-end...? But this is not the only example - next up is the #TripleLock and Irish #Neutrality.antaisce.orgThe end of environmental public interest litigation?In a highly Trumpian move, the Government yesterday signed new regulations which will all but bring an end to public interest environmental litigation in Ireland. 0129
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORDublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 17/04/2026The father of a disabled child has been refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex. He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.dublininquirer.comFather of disabled child refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complexHe has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out. 65738
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORAveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026A lot of folk still don’t know that Aramark own (super fancy) Avoca, as well as providing food services for Direct Provision Centres. Very easy not to go to Avoca, I reckon. Public opinion got them out of NGI, after all. 55541
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026 604980930
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:bloodinthemachine.comHow to quit SpotifyThis Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative 7953302835
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Think the Tony Blair Institute looks sinister? You've not seen anything yet. Crucial investigation by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...democracyforsale.substack.comInside the Tony Blair InstituteA former PM, tech tycoon Larry Ellison and Britain's data - what could go wrong? 42711364
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORKrim Kram @krimkram.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Newest batch of CDs are finally here. All orders are shipping now (including to US). Despite the delays and associated headaches, I'm super proud of this batch and delighted to finally have the physical CDs out in the world. Hope they find good homes and sound ears x 0123
GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I get to work with children who've had delayed access to treatment and I see how it grinds parents down. Anyone becoming a parent could find themselves in this situation. Our government doesn't care about our children or our future. www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...irishtimes.com‘It’s so deeply unfair’: Lankum singer Radie Peat on the lack of supports for her autistic daughter‘You ask yourself, will she ever say mama’ - singer and Lankum musician told she must wait until July 2028 for services 000
GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 28/01/2025An utterly unique, next level DIY venue. One of the best I've ever played in. 000
Reposted by GAVIN PRIORCities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Last call to sign up to the Cities and Memory email list to get exclusive early access to more than 200 amazing recordings of UNESCO World Heritage sites as we launch our first major project of 2025, Sonic Heritage. Callout coming to the email list on Friday! citiesandmemory.com/sign-up/citiesandmemory.comSign up - Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound ArtSign up to the Cities and Memory email list for a free album of some of the finest sounds of 2016 from all over the world. 0114
GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A gammy summer has left us with a greenhouse full of slow-to-ripen tomatoes. Another way to look at this is as a massive crop for green tomato pickles. The frost told me it was time to pick them all. I've also started pickling unripe tomatoes recently. #farmerinthecity 010