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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 1h
I am once again asking you to listen to whatever the hell Victor Jones is youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3h
At Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral album listening party in Dublin
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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 4h
They are a modern take on the old Codd bottles. You trap the marble in the groove while drinking. I have one of those modern ones my daughter gave me last week, plus this one ...
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 5h
Indian style soda. Why the explosive opening method? Why the glass ball inside it?
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This pisses me off so much. If shut off, it will be decades before we can collect comparable data.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Waiting For The Barbarians Poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Talk about the newly found aperiodic box at 6pm Irish time www.gathering4gardner.org/news-2026-09... cc @cardcolm.bsky.social
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
11 people murdered to get marching here and it’s reduced to both sides need to behave. We mean nothing to these people and have to pay taxes for the privilege of indifference
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When a band you like is used in the ad for a company you don't like youtu.be/s6zVUvmkyvA?...
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Henry Rollins on selling out.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Talk about the newly found aperiodic box at 6pm Irish time www.gathering4gardner.org/news-2026-09... cc @cardcolm.bsky.social
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The best piece of TV ever www.rte.ie/archives/201... #cryptozoology
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The Monster Of Whitewood Lake
The people of Nobber have known for years about the monster of Whitewood Lake.
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Catherine @bythesilverbirch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Publication day for my latest knitting pattern! 🧶 This is the Inside Outside Cowl, designed to use up sock yarn leftovers. The knitting is very simple, but with a clever trick or two to turn leftovers into a wearable and versatile cowl. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Inside Outside Cowl pattern by Catherine Djimramadji
Do you have sock yarn leftovers and want to knit something other than more socks or a mitred square blanket with them? This pattern makes use of one simple but clever technique to combine leftovers in...
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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Matt Parker - Update on Ridiculous Calculations of Pi - G4G16 February 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=epdk...
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Matt Parker - Update on Ridiculous Calculations of Pi - G4G16 February 2026
YouTube video by G4G Celebration
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Girls perform better at reading tests than boys. The education system isn’t working for many boys and we are all worse off for it. Source: buff.ly/IoDFSVW
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Morello as Gaeilge youtu.be/lDFzlqhgpMU?...
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Tom Morello - "UNCONQUERED (Feat. KNEECAP)" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Tom Morello
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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m also loving the new Gurriers album. Now I’m listening to Trá Pháidín’s Cloch’s Claí and it’s absolutely cracking too. What a day for Irish music.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The WWF said farmed salmon can present a threat to wild salmon by transferring viruses and parasites, while if farmed salmon escape they can compete with wild fish and interbreed with local wild stocks." www.thejournal.ie/darina-allen...
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Darina Allen among famous chefs calling for ocean-farmed salmon not to be served in restaurants
The increase in farmed salmon in recent decades poses a threat to the environment and wild salmon populations.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is another great album released by an Irish band Trá Pháidín today. youtu.be/Sxn-v7nytiE?...
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Trá Pháidín - 'An Béal Bocht' (Official Video)
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...
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Burst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on path
The issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens.
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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New albums from Gilla Band and Gurriers out tomorrow. Tickets acquired to see both of them too. Some great Irish music out there these days.
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Eoghan @eoghantpoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two big new albums from Irish bands out on Friday. Gilla Band have made their loudest, weirdest one yet and seem happier than ever with where they’re at. Meanwhile Gurriers are eyeing ever-bigger stages while shouting loud and proud about their politics substack.com/home/post/p-...
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On their new albums, Gilla Band and Gurriers are going in different directions
Pugnello and Nobody’s Coming to Save You are both released on Friday, September 25.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing TV, but I advise considerable caution if you are going to watch this for the first time.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales" www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
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Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales
The once-bankrupt chain is attempting a holiday-season comeback as nostalgic adults and teens drive a boom in old-fashioned physical playthings.
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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two beers involving Rascals on the blog today: one pilot brew and one collaboration thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/09/toge...
Rascals Rotbier.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@cardcolm.bsky.social 3d Einstein tile found www.quantamagazine.org/updates/tran...
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Racehorses stopped getting faster 70 years ago
Kentucky Derby and other races times
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Map by me of Tic-Tac-Toe around Europe with links to the sources at odon.at/en/data-stor...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
I don't see how this ends well. At the very least, hyperscalers are going to be hit with massive depreciation and write-off penalties. Most of NVIDIA's revenues will never make the customer any money. The longer this continues, the greater the pain. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-...
At the very least, hyperscalers are going to be burdened with brutal depreciation charges or onerous write-offs for years to come, whether their capacity turns into revenue or not. CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda and every other neocloud is set on the highway to Hell, with ballooning debt that can only be paid via contracts that are dependent on a few AI labs and a company so capricious that it renamed itself after the Metaverse, burned $77 billion, then killed it two years later. 

I don’t even know how to write what I’m thinking without sounding alarmist…but I don’t see how 90%+ of NVIDIA’s sales ever end up generating a single dollar of revenue, and considering the amount of project financing-backed data center debt deals, there’s very little that exists to protect investors if AI compute demand never arrives. I don’t know how we don’t see tens of billions of dollars of write-downs and dead data center debt deals with every investor involved losing every penny, nor do I see how big tech avoids admitting that they wasted all their capex.

I think everybody who invests in these things ultimately loses, ranging from embarrassment and terrible earnings for hyperscalers to genuine destruction for anyone that trusted the pablum that “all useful compute will be used.” Until that happens, more and more money will be sunk into further theoretical capacity, making the eventual collapse all the more gruesome.None of this ever had anything to do with AI, and everybody who cheered Jensen Huang’s ascent in the belief it did is a mark.

What a fucking waste. I don’t enjoy finding this stuff out. I wish we’d have stopped doing this years ago. 

Not that I think we will…but even if they bail out Anthropic, even if they bail out OpenAI, there is no way to magic up the trillions needed to justify the capex, or to prop up hyperscaler growth long term. 

The longer this continues, the more promises are made, the more projects that are announced…the worse it’s going to be.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Have added another 20 paintings to my new print shop, so now there's a total of 110 paintings in there. I've put them in categories to help people browse through the regions or types they might be more interested in. All are available in various sizes fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l... #SpéirGhorm
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Turing Test paper 1950 claims telepathy. courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What happens in cases like this? Not this particular case but in general. The publisher keeps the rights and the books don't get reprinted? Or the author is the one with the rights and can reprint if the publisher won't?
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That's a big stretch
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Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here are my top 3 business ideas for September 2026. Please don't steal them and become a billionaire.
My Top 3 Business Ideas of the Month (September 2026)

1. Jean shorts that look exactly like normal jean shorts except they have zip pockets to prevent your coins from falling out when you're doing a cartwheel.

2. ZipRemind: a phone app that senses when you're about to do a cartwheel and reminds you to zip the pockets of your jean shorts beforehand.

3. Coin Vacuum: a device that picks up coins which have fallen out of your pocket when doing a cartwheel because I have no idea how to code so ZipRemind will almost certainly be a very unreliable app.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think Pete knows who it is and is trying to keep the traitors in until past recruitment time #TraitorsIRL
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The next Ed Sheeran support act announced
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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve got my copy of the silly guys zine. Petey the clown dog from ii Gracie is a very silly guy it is true. iigracie.shop/products/bir...
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Birthday Petey
Meet Birthday Petey! “My biggest dream in life is to become a birthday clown”. To date he has failed circus school 18 times. He is hoping to re enroll in September and pass with flying colours. Birthd...
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nothing I like better than getting down to some funky grooves or, if time is tight, a single groof.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Making photocopies of the "Silly Guys" fanzine for the young lad. I do not want to accidentally leave these in the photocopier
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body... I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#traitorsirl
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fay Wray had the best autobiography title ever
On the other hand
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