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GAVIN PRIOR

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026
If 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.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026
Would 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
Believes that the practice of concealing the face in public spaces and premises open to the public poses an unacceptable challenge to public security, identification and effective law enforcement; supports, therefore, all national measures aimed at prohibiting full-face coverings (niqab or burqa) in public spaces and premises open to the public as a necessary step to ensure social cohesion, public safety and the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in particular womenwhereas separatist narratives, systematic victimhood, antisemitism, anti-Christian hatred, hatred of Israel, conspiracy narratives, challenges to secularism, the use of religion as a tool of social control or the contestation of equality between women and men may constitute markers of ideological radicalisation or Islamist influence;whereas the ongoing investigations into suspected electoral fraud in Borlänge and Järva, Sweden, illustrate the particular vulnerability of diaspora communities to organised attempts at electoral influence; whereas such vulnerabilities may be exploited by malign foreign actors or transnational ideological networks pursuing covert agendas
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ireland 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/...
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Food Security: Bread
Only 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...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just 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.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Zandra, probably @zandra-wpg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone 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.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Whatever 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.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have 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...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among 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...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A 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.
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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This really is a remarkably positive story - done in the face of massive right wing media opposition too Burnham should take note
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'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
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Rob 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.
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Playing my first show in 2 years this Saturday in Belfast. wegottickets.com/f/20707
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our 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.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A 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.
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Alex Pigot @alexpigotireland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Interested 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.
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The 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.
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 17/04/2026
The 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.com
Father of disabled child 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.
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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A 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.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Spotify 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.com
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Think 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.com
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, tech tycoon Larry Ellison and Britain's data - what could go wrong?
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Krim Kram @krimkram.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Newest 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
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New Recipe: Golden Raspberry on Dog Rose Petals
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I 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
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Reflections TUD, Grangegorman, Dublin
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
An utterly unique, next level DIY venue. One of the best I've ever played in.
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last 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/
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Sign up - Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound Art
Sign 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.
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GAVIN PRIOR @gavin-prior.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A 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
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