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Hugo Fitzpatrick

@hugofitz.bsky.social
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38, Irish 🇮🇪, (Town) Planner, Transport enthusiast, Cinephile, LGBTQI, lefty, nerd. 🍉

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Phil Murphy @crashtesterx.bsky.social · 8h
This is the most money hungry bullshit I have ever seen from the EU that again does not give two shits about people who don't live in populated areas. And once again the environment will probably be used as an excuse while they give tax cuts to their buddies building data centres.
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 18h
“Had Kerry accidentally assembled a civilian road-safety investigation unit? Residents were counting collisions, measuring footpaths, recording speeds and cross-referencing design standards – effectively doing the evidence-gathering long abandoned by Government” 💯 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
irishtimes.com
Sinéad O'Sullivan: What one Kerry road tells us about road safety
An impromptu civilian road safety investigation unit emerged in Kerry, where residents counted collisions, measured footpaths and cross-referenced design standards
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met
Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 18h
I have cellulitis in my right elbow. Started last Friday, and the pain got so bad I had to go to a doctor on call on Sunday. I've been on antibiotics and painkillers for 4 days (ish) and it's still not healed. I can't comfortably use a computer, and I got a sick note for 3 days.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Cycling In Kilkenny @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is bizarre that some people will still claim human driven climate change is not real. Yet here we are just about to enter Oct and the UK is expecting daytime temps of 26c and nighttime temps not to drop below 20c. Insane.
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It astonishes me that those of us whose laptops contain confidential work info (in my case student marks, personal info shared via email etc) haven’t been told by our employers to absolutely under NO circumstances download or activate these things (including Copilot on our emails)!
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why, every year, the whole of Ireland is required to celebrate the Puck Fair. We can’t just say that hauling a goat into the air for days on end is something just for Kerry. We are a united country, which is why we have airborne goats everywhere.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
rte.ie
Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Senõr Mouse @bythor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So true: "Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it." Since I sold my car the way I see the world has changed. Cars everywhere. Fossil fuel burners (most of them, still), noise, smell, p-space they take, the priority they get at traffic lights. 🤓
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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every piece of Government advice is telling them to Stop the Fare Hikes The Just Transition Commission is urging public transport fares to be maintained at an affordable level to reduce the National Carbon Footprint Please Email your TD’s!! 📧 www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
independent.ie
Coalition urged to scrap public transport fare hikes as €100m-a-month fuel excise cuts continue
The Government is being urged to halt planned public transport fare hikes amid warnings that climate action and the cost of living should not be pitted against each other.
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trans athletes are a tiny % of all athletes. Fewer than 10 out of >500k US college athletes identify as trans. I don’t hear anything abt them haze raping. Yet, 1 in 5 women will be raped during their time in college. How about bitching against frat houses who drug & gang rape women & get away w/it?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
"Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night." [Times]
Ireland accuse Israel fans of racist abuse
Paul Rowan - Irish Football Correspondent, Debrecen

Idah was the subject of chants by the Israel fans
Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night.

According to a Football Association of Ireland (FAI) spokesman, Jayson Molumby heard the chants before halftime and the midfielder asked the German referee, Harms Osmers, and the fourth official, Florian Exner, to “listen”.

Because Uefa’s protocol in that situation is to say the word “racism”, European football’s governing body said that no immediate action — such as a warning over the PA system — was taken.

However, the FAI has now said that it will go through the footage to find out if there is any evidence of the alleged abuse and, if so, demand a Uefa investigation into the treatment of Idah, 25, who plays for Swansea City.

There were also reports of confrontations in the tunnel between players, with the Israel captain, Manor Solomon, taking exception to what some Irish players were saying and the opposition bowing their heads during the Israeli national anthem.

In an angry rant after the game, Solomon vowed to get “revenge” on Ireland when the teams meet again on Sunday.

“They said nonsense [to us] during the game, I don’t want to talk about them,” Solomon said. “If I say what I think about them, I’ll probably be banned for a few games so I don’t want to say. Of course they hate us and we don’t like them. I’m already looking forward to the next game against them. What they did with the anthem? I’m not interested in them, we have a country that is ten times better than theirs, stronger, an amazing country with amazing people.
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An asteroid caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. Dinosaurs like Colm McCarthy are determined to see the human species suffer the same fate.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After Sheeran, use of a threat like this cannot be ruled this out.
Daniel Lambert @dlLambo
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Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team the UK.
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How grim and predictable from faceless agents profit in the background.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hooray, thoughts
p1: “Finally, some time alone with my thoughts.”

p2:

p3:

p4: “This is horrible.”
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our spineless government and the useless FAI left our national team manager so exposed that he’s getting harangued by Israeli media. Great work everyone.
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watching The Airport Chaplin with Hugo Weaving. 2nd episode and this is an "Irish passport". Ah yes, Dark Green and a Celtic symbol. Not European maroon brown and a harp...
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
dublininquirer.com
The Oireachtas leans into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech
Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/09/2026
Dogs or livestock could die if they ingest harmful toxins at Lough Derg, while people could be susceptible to vomiting or liver damage if they swallow the water while swimming, a Tipperary councillor has warned
rte.ie
Warning over algal bloom after detection at Lough Derg
Dogs or livestock could die if they ingest harmful toxins at Lough Derg, while people could be susceptible to vomiting or liver damage if they swallow the water while swimming, a Tipperary councillor ...
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I believe a united island should be a new nation. I want a new constitution, new social contract, a protection against minority govts reigning over us. I don't care too much if the flag changes, or the song. That should be for the Republic, whatever comes should be it's own thing.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/09/2026
maybe rare for YOU
An Instagram post by urbavancouver saying rare boobies have been spotted off Vancouver Island
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let me get this straight... It's okay when Mayor Mamdani gifts a lottery of 10,000 tickets a month to theatre and opera (for everyone). But when the Irish govt is giving €100 of cinema vouchers to only teenagers, it's bad... Hmm. Yeah, we lost something in transposition as always.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/ce0...
A grid of 9, 3 per row, starting top left.:

Top row
Half-Life 2
Civilization 2
Open TTD

Middle row

Sim City 3000
Cities: Skylines
NIMBY Rails

Bottom row

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2
Earth 2150: Lost Souls
Starcraft
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So what's your take? "I think no one under the age of 40 should be able to own a home in Ireland"
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 24/09/2026
This story was unbelievable. The whole country is crying out for more enforcement, for more use of technology to make our roads safer (5 roads deaths this week), yet a @labour.ie TD is giving out about a speed camera and defending people who break the law.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The journal gives us a flavour: “An example given in the study is that “the activities of surgeons and paediatricians” at a hospital “are assumed to be dependent” on a data centre if it is located within 50km of one.” www.thejournal.ie/government-d...
thejournal.ie
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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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, the world is that mad now.
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
70,000 people dead. Gaza has been razed to the ground. And, Government expects people to be able to access documents. Why are they making the visa process so impossible when colleges have their arms open to welcome these students?
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
So what *is* WIRED Women? It started as a joke at our weekly happy hour; we laughed at the idea of turning a historically dude-loving publication into a women’s rag—a tongue-in-cheek way to highlight the sorry state of women’s advancement in fields like tech and science.
wired.com
Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue
No one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will.
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Steve @lollercake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I suggest we refer to all cars as "challenger 3 tanks" until the news stops calling e-motorcycles "e-bikes"
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 10/09/2026
New official greenways of Ireland website launched by the Department of Transport! This has been a long time coming and badly needed to get some much need info out there about all the greenways we have in Ireland #GreenwaysIreland greenways.gov.ie
greenways.gov.ie
Homepage - Greenways Ireland
Welcome to the official Greenways Ireland website—a central hub for exploring our growing network of scenic, sustainable trails.
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We published an investigation into how Russians still have access to global payment systems despite all the sanctions. Please share!
pravda.com.ua
"Mastercard for travelling, Visa for shopping": how Russians get round financial isolation
"Our plans are the same as they have always been. Our firm position – not to work with the aggressor country – remains unchanged," Tetiana Chorna, Visa's country manager in Ukraine, told Ekonomichna P...
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 21/09/2026
4 people dead on Irish roads in the last 24 hours, but the Irish Independent here covering the real menace on our roads.
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm getting a 403 error trying to access the Dept. of Housing website this morning. So either it's undergoing maintenance, or they don't want certain ips to access it right now. Either way it's a little odd.
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Govt to remove environmental assessments for certain developments’ ‘no environmental screening for projects up to 250 homes, basic screening up to 750 homes, full EIA will only be required for developments above 750 homes’ ..yet more “quick-fix” deregulation for profit www.rte.ie/news/politic...
rte.ie
Govt to remove environmental screening for developments
The Government is expected to remove the need for environmental assessments for housing developments of up to 250 units by the end of the month in a bid to speed up house building.
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you meet so much inertia or opposition to Active Travel and the chokehold of car dependency, you realise you've just grown up to fill every 90s hippie stereotype: 🚲☮️✌️ Anyway I'm buzzing to see @tomflood.bsky.social tomorrow evening!! #ActiveTravel #WaronWalking
A tie-dye, ponytailed hippie character from the Simpsons, telling Principal Skinner (who has just complained about the price of gasoline) "it sounds like YOUUU are working for your CARRR. Simplifyyy, maaan!"
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Hugo Fitzpatrick @hugofitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sin é, it's Sin é for a pint
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 18/09/2026
That reminded me of the first time I heard him talk: ‘Beware of people-washing’ 👌🏻 www.sorenhave.dk/twitter/?twe...
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