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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hi Tone Books invite you to the launch of Acts of Defiance by Rose Comiskey on Thursday, 28 May at 6.00pm at Photo Museum Ireland, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"Some people will prefer to use this channel, especially if they’re not confident of their level of English & would prefer Spanish or French." There is no option to use Spanish or French. I apologise for getting your name wrong. I assumed you were a techbro and misread Edna as Enda.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Brendan is very clearly only available in English. The moniker that your parents foisted on you doesn't affect my point, nor does your gender.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Good man Enda, you are as confident and inaccurate as your beloved AI. Brendan is only available in English. Note the butcher's apron to indicate this on the app.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

GenAI is pure unadulterated shite. 100% inaccurate garbage BY DESIGN. You don't seem to know anything about this tech despite the spewing of app specs. Also, the app is only available through English so your use case is moot.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

GenAI is built on stolen data. It is criminal, amoral and ecologically unsound. Stop swallowing techbro fascist shit. #SmartDublinMyArse

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Fuck off and take the AI slop fella with you. Just hire actual tour guides you witless dullards.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Pointing out what Thom is doing is not cancelling Thom. Thom is being ridiculous and he deserves to be told that. You're an idiot.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Harris saying "we will not stand idly by" while doing exactly that. Ireland is the second largest purchaser of goods and services from Zionist Israel. Sickening. @micheal-martin.bsky.social @simonharrisireland.bsky.social @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @finegael.bsky.social

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"Data from "AI-aestheticed" advertising shows it attracts at least six times more reader attention than previous benchmarks, and more than 12 times conversion to e-commerce interaction." Can Nadim share the source of this 'data'? I won't hold my breath. @thebookseller.com

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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The Irish Times claiming AI slop is a photograph of Ardnacrusha workers on site from 1929. Why not just fill the paper with text gobbledygook as well, or is it only the visual that you treat with contempt? No publication with a shred of integrity would allow this to happen. @irishtimes.com

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Oh, there's another Johnny Ray? I don't have the BBC at the moment. Ignore me. #There'sonlyoneJohnnieRay

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

He's referenced in Dexy's Come On Eileen: Poor old Johnnie Ray Sounded sad upon the radio Moved a million hearts in mono Our mothers cried Sang along, who'd blame them?

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You cede victory and concede defeat.

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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thrilled to take delivery of our new Gorse Editions title, New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham. Readers will be familiar with Alan's work from his pieces in the journal & on our website. Pre-order details to follow. Cover art: @hitoneie.bsky.social. With thanks to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

David, the Ds have been at this shite for years and barely managed to get any Cs to their side in either the local or general election. We don't need to pander to the fears of a small and ignorant minority. The people's views on this aren't represented by a bell curve. There are far more As and Bs.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You're in the UK. Your infrastructure is shite because of Tory scum not because of immigrants. Switch your brain on you daft English git.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What exactly are your concerns about 'uncontrolled' immigration? I'll hazard a guess that they're based on ignorance or racism or possibly both. Btw, the notion that it is uncontrolled is far right nonsense.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Sorry, I missed that. Do you discuss the physical and technical attributes of the original document anywhere? Historians tend to elevate the textual and ignore the physical attributes of source material. It may stem from a sense that the physical characteristics are 'style' rather than substance.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Interesting that the physical and technical aspects of the archival document are not considered information. - Was it handwritten - Was it printed - Was it copied - Was it transmitted - Was it stamped - Was it signed - Was it forged - Was it redacted - Was it damaged - What typefaces were used …

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Americans ranked 10th in Irish citizenship applications in the most recent intake. The top ten is: India UK Brazil Romania Poland Philippines South Africa Nigeria Pakistan USA

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It won’t play well with Micheál Martin, but visiting Trump at the White House is not just futile, it’s completely counter-productive.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It's not that complicated. Young British men are turning to fascism because British identity is inherently supremacist and built on the vilest history of imperial, colonial and genocidal actions over hundreds of years. <Are we the baddies? gif>

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I don't have any children. Any other insensitive personal attacks you want to launch?

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good man Zeph, top effort. Your work is here for all to see. Slán go fóill a chara.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You wrote: "critical thinking, morality and ethics are in my mind the most vital of human core values" I suggested that morality is too amorphous a concept to be a core human value. You are the one who looks like an imbecile and shouting and miscalling my nationality isn't going to fix that.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wrong again. You haven't engaged with or countered any of my arguments.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm Irish. Saying that "morality is a core human value" shows that you have never done any critical thinking.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The Nazis thought their actions were moral. English imperialists thought their actions were moral. MAGA believe their actions are moral. Morality is relative. It should be treated with suspicion whereever it raises its head.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Homework for Zeph: Do some critical thinking about how morality is framed and weaponized to justify injustice and exploitation. Readings: Any history of colonialism or slavery. Key concept: Morality as central piller of supremacist ideologies.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I know, I've become the thing I hate, a boring old (male) fart – it was way better in my day shite. I don't believe any of that. But, to be very tedious, warehouse rave has a very specific connotation and I feel it's being used in this case to 'ravewash' privilege. Sorry, I'll bore-off now.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Privately educated Brits have made me a middle-aged man ranting at the internet. Fuck those bastards, I'm better than this.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I can guarantee that the events you refer to as 'warehouse raves' weren't anything like a warehouse rave. I've been to both, there is zero comparison. Rave was dead by 1994.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Warehouse raves my arse, unless her posh school had access to a time machine.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language." Cont. of quote from A Portrait. A poignant evocation of the loss of a language through colonialism.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Supremacist, for your information: I don't speak English because it is a superior language. Nor should you infer that me speaking English is an endorsement of the language. "I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit." — S. Dedalus, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Some Irish were complicit in your Empire but we were victims more than beneficiaries. The death of 1 million people, 1 million more forced to emigrate. Laws against the ownership of property, the speaking or teaching of the language. Sectarian murder and mayhem. Have you ever visited the country?

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

More nonsense. We might be 'losers' but we aren't responsible for genocides, famines slavery and cultural theft, vandalism and destruction. We don't give a shit about being big boys. I'm sorry you have a small manhood. Enjoy washing your car on Sundays and complaining about nimbys.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You made ignorant and bigoted comments about a country where British misrule lead to the death of 1,000,000 people and now you're getting upset that I called you out on it. Violence is the only language that you supremacists understand. #BritBullyBoyBollocks.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Tickled your fascist nerve, huh? Might is right to scum like you. Starmer is very quiet today. Your vile 'empire' was a prime inspiration to the Nazis. You were only on the right side by fluke not by ideology. <Are we the bad guys?> GIF

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You are confusing Jane Jacobs with Lewis Mumford. Fairly obvious that you are adverse to reading books. #CantFartHigherThanYourArse

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hello old chap. Any chance of enlightening us poor Paddies of the issues with the implementation of the GFA? ps, did you enjoy bullyboy Trump using exactly your argument about us Micks to humiliate Zelensky? To paraphrase "the weak are losers so they have no right to exist". #SupremacistScum

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What are you on about? How has the GFA not been followed? The language is coming along fine, as is our music, literature, film and visual arts, thanks. Unlike the UK which is in cultural decline. I was an Anglophile in my youth but not anymore. Brexit showed your arses. Small-minded philistines.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

So the supposed security you are providing for us is actually security for yourselves? Aren't we the smart bucks to have the foolish Brits foot the bill. On the other point, it appears your command of the English language is failing, ain't gof a clue wot ur on about gov.

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Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Full outline of the questions on the Irish census: www.cso.ie/en/census/fa... Bore-off bigotboy.

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Detailed Look At Census Questions - CSO - Central Statistics Office

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