Reposted by Gráinne LynchDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 30124063882
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAnnie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well that's what we're all going to call it now 03411
Reposted by Gráinne LynchIreland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well done to Ken Early, Irish Times and Second Captains, for pointing out the total hypocrisy of the Israeli FA who said sport and politics don't mix even as the captain of the apartheid state's team and its fans praised its genocidal army. There is still time for the FAI to pull out. #StopTheGame 05013
Reposted by Gráinne Lynchjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1086483963
Reposted by Gráinne LynchCarol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social 413394
Gráinne Lynch @gronya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026@rteradio1.bsky.social Please consider this judgement before you invite the columnist in question to speak on the radio. 020
Reposted by Gráinne LynchCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam 721544
Reposted by Gráinne LynchKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) firstservola.deDenmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid LawDenmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026. 428692
Reposted by Gráinne LynchNational Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026⏱ Closure notice: On Saturday 3 Oct the NLI Kildare Street campus (Reading Rooms, Exhibition and Registration Office) will be closed to the public. This is due to industrial action across the public sector. www.nli.ie/news-stories... 026
Reposted by Gráinne LynchRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026subway mosaic enjoyer has logged on once again 315122
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/20261,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025.aljazeera.comIsraeli drone kills Palestinian in Gaza, settlers kill another in West Bank1,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025. 4174127
Reposted by Gráinne LynchWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Given 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 816652
Reposted by Gráinne LynchWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026Btw, some of these refusals are so clearly unlawful that the Department of Justice will end up paying ***HUGE*** sums in legal fees. Jim obviously counting on that being another Minister for Justice’s problem. 22818
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAccessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense. 04520
Reposted by Gráinne Lynchthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026when I tell you this made me so proud to have once been a nurse. 8118185
Reposted by Gráinne LynchFergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word 223066
Reposted by Gráinne LynchRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164755558
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do the stats for women! It’s 5. 615755
Reposted by Gráinne Lynchkevin @beirne.bsky.social · 28/09/202620,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge 25638
Reposted by Gráinne Lynchnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 5852682110
Reposted by Gráinne LynchMichael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m watching Gilmore Girls for the first time. I am enjoying it. They gave Emily a pair of trainers to walk about Stars Hollow and she said she “looked like a Clydesdale”. I had to google that but I did laugh when I saw what a Clydesdale is. 5612
Gráinne Lynch @gronya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This looks too pretty to be real, but it is! www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl... 120
Reposted by Gráinne LynchTJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert. 23440
Reposted by Gráinne LynchCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People unfamiliar with Austen think her romantic heroes are unrealistically dashing and charming, but that's actually the villains. The romantic heroes in Austen are usually just consistent, kind, steadfast, and at least 50% likely to be a practicing member of the clergy 71349
Reposted by Gráinne LynchSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University. 714264595
Reposted by Gráinne LynchCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2677994586
Gráinne Lynch @gronya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's not too late for the entire squad to come down with a debilitating dose of food poisoning. 010
Reposted by Gráinne LynchSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s not easy and it isn’t their fault. They didn’t want this. And now they’re just a bunch of young men left alone with their obligations and their consciences. And what a credit to them that their conscience weighs so heavy in the first place. 412422
Reposted by Gráinne LynchSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there. 416952
Reposted by Gráinne LynchGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190165428
Reposted by Gráinne LynchTaryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"the Irish Government had proposed - as part of the plans for the EU Presidency- that the rights of big AI companies to collect data on people should be recognised as a higher right than humans’ data protection rights." 😯😯😯 www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-...thegist.ieThe Gist: On (and On) BullshitI have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited that a person co... 13410
Reposted by Gráinne LynchWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103564412
Reposted by Gráinne LynchMatt Kane @mk.gg · 24/09/2026WTF. The biggest puzzle in the UK economic data (why British workers are so unproductive) was just a measuring error??? Entire economic policies have been built around fixing this, and it doesn't exist! Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comWhy your holiday is good news for the UKFor once we should thank the Office for National Statistics for its productivity reporting 02711
Reposted by Gráinne LynchMaria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'd really love to be back with my @freesafelegal.bsky.social pals for this. We called out the barriers in 2018. We've been proven right every year since, but I told you so tastes bitter when the proof is in pregnant people's suffering and heartbreak. So if someone could shout at the DOH for me.. 0710
Reposted by Gráinne LynchRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography. 21831249
Reposted by Gráinne LynchCarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026MARTIN: We can't do everything for everyone. MAMDANI: Skill issue. #spéirghorm 07116
Reposted by Gráinne LynchTara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We knew at the time that legislation and provisions didn't go far enough. Now, it's mostly people in the most heartbreaking situations who are being left behind. Come out for a walk with @freesafelegal.bsky.social on Saturday. Ah, do. 0137
Reposted by Gráinne LynchSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government. 612770
Reposted by Gráinne LynchKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 15084101898
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAuntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Last week a TD compared abolishing the 3 day waiting period to a hangover (?!?) We need to keep the pressure on to make sure we get the best abortion access we can. Join us at the Dept of Health on Saturday 26th (this Saturday) to March to the Dáil at 2pm. 03728
Reposted by Gráinne LynchAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/09/2026Photos: Gaza’s children return to class in tents and ruins aje.news/4welr2 4200126
Reposted by Gráinne LynchMillions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover 31996334
Reposted by Gráinne Lyncholgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"The civilian infrastructure that would allow Alrayyes to go to a bank or post office to get such documents no longer exists in Gaza. The Minister’s stance is irrational, unreasonable, disproportionate, discriminatory... the student's legal team argued." www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...irishtimes.comMinister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at TrinityStudent who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas 011
Reposted by Gráinne LynchKevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This should be a headline item, @thejournal.ie and @news.rte.ie 23725
Reposted by Gráinne LynchSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026At the same time that the Minister for Justice is trying to cut off our access to the economic engine of immigration, the Minister for Finance is warning about the very demographic problem immigration is solving. While ignoring its existence. 39245
![A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision.
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2qmeigsng3rhkgmqihius4g/bafkreia7cdisf6qfj6fetyejhbmojfdwomrxs6pib6za3zu377t6pfypry)
![Palestinian students attend their first day of the new school year inside a tent classroom at a school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiakipbevueim6k5z5nwhp7nz4y4zpadflmehxadsco2himfmvs2he)
![Displaced Palestinian student Samar Abu Salmi, 15, reads a list of names displayed in a school in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreihq5g3ashthsw6f7dte4dnduhe7pile7ifg4rhls7okrptbhgglvi)
![Tents for displaced Palestinians cover the yard of a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreife2bk4g4r4czt3olnscdsjnuanqb4lag2k3lxm53rh2x3fmtzuvy)
![Palestinian children sit in their classroom on the first day of the new academic year at a United Nations-run school in Nuseirat, the central Gaza Strip. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiamqqaz65xfasfc7sicpmca6p57bzg6bciyqmcsipe5ak2z5wu4fe)
