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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11h

Zelenskyy has given up pretending to believe in Trump's bona fides

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Kevin Moran @kmoranwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Doomsday Club: Bog Bodies is out now! Join Conan, Jack, Jerry and Yash on the school trip from hell 🧟👻 @theobrienpress.bsky.social

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.

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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I retrospectively add them to the list and then tick them off. Otherwise you’d swear nothing ever actually gets done!

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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not at all. ‘Fear gorm’ is a black man in Irish: because ‘an fear dubh’ is the devil, and people of colour are humans like any other. Much less racist than Conrad!

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why yes, of course you can build out your gigantic 72,500 m2 energy and resource-sucking data centre, but be sure to “encourage staff to use public transport, cycling & walking”. Beyond parody from the crack squad at An Coimisiún Pleanala. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Notice here how people from the North don’t actually exist in his mind. The people “looking to be outraged” are down here, the existence of actual residents being intimidated hasn’t even occurred to him.

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big Gav Statement

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026

if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is beautiful writing about what happens when strangers on the internet narrativise you, based on 30 seconds of video 👇

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of Musk’s DOGE mini-mes

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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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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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like, if you wouldn't even consider changing the anthem, which is all about fighting after all, or other symbolic things which don't impact on the pocket, then you're saying we really don't care about their beliefs at all. It's hardly showing good faith.

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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I find it dispiriting that so few people in the republic are willing to consider changes to the status quo. We would be asking people who don't identify with us to become part of our nation, and should be willing to admit that them joining would change the nature of the country.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for?

AI: EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of Al companies
Artificial Intelligence / 21 September 2026
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAl, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data "in the context of Al" should automatically be lawful.
There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens "in the context" of Al. Schrems: "Under these proposals, the profits of Al companies would trump European's fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans." All this is happening despite the key figures of Al corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.

Transport costs and mental health also remain prominent concerns.
More than seven in ten adults believe Al will make it harder for young people to find secure employment over the next five years, while 83% support stronger government regulation of Al.
Just 17% of young adults said they believe the Government is doing enough to support them through the cost-of-living crisis.
"These findings should serve as a wake-up call," said Grace McManus, Policy and Campaigns Manager at NYCI.
"Too many young people feel that the chance to build a secure and independent life is slipping out of reach," Ms McManus said.
The polling was conducted by RED C, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,010 adults, including a cohort aged 18-24.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Freddie knows he is adorable and is quite chilled about it.

Freddie the dog chilling on the edge of a sofa

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026

If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Street Smarts For Republicans”, by Matt Groening, 1995.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can we call it apartheid now

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘We’ve invested heavily in this new technology. All employees have to use it. You have no choice in this.’ ‘Wow, sounds like you really trust it.’ ‘We hadn’t finished. ON NO ACCOUNT SHOULD ANYONE TRUST THE NEW TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE TO USE.’

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ivanobrien.bsky.social @ivanobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My son had BA lose his luggage on the way to Norway: luckily had a fully-stocked overnight bag. After engaging for a couple of weeks they moved to saying "never heard of this issue" despite previous contacts, then ghosting him. Incredibly poor customer service from what used to be a premium brand.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I suspect there may be some more collective spine finding now that the Dems are on course to take both Houses and Trump is looking very lame-duck-like.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘Gender critical’ transphobes have spent the last decade creating a narrative that trans youth are both trans *because* they have mental health issues, and that being trans *causes* mental health issues! 🤔 No. Transphobes are just adding extra stress on trans youth through their relentless bigotry!

bbc.co.uk

Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The question is, why will the AfD being comprehensively *crushed* by the left in Berlin not be reported in the media nearly as much as the AfD “success” in Sachsen-Anhalt…?

@Wahlen_DE
18 Uhr Prognose
Abgeordnetenhauswahl Berlin
20. September 2026 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen für das ZDF
Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2023
26,0%
(+13,8)
20,0%
(-8,2)
15,5%
(-2,9)
12,0%
(-6,4)
13,5%
(+4,4)
5%
5,0%
(NEU)
CDU EVP
Senat
2023: 28,2%
SPD
S&D
Senat
18,4%
GRÜNE G/EFA
18,4%
LINKE LINKE
12,2%
AfD
ESN
9,1%
BSW
NI
n.k.
Prognose
Partei
EP-Fraktion
Letzte Wahl
8,0%
(-5,6)
Sonstige
13,6%

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@irishtimes.com Can you please learn to distinguish between e-bikes (legal, safe, convenient, limited to 25km/h, you have to pedal) and electric motorbikes. The picture is of the first type, the story is about the second www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

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Man and teenager arrested after reports of e-bikes being driven dangerously in Belfast

Police chief commends actions of officers that ‘prevented further immediate danger to road users’

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/09/2026

Ed Sheeran ditched his friend on the demands of a right-wing billionaire and has the nerve to say "in these situations, you really find out who your friends are" and " I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me." You abandoned them. You had all the power here.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most insightful thing I heard about business was an academic saying that the corporate dream is that their customers should cheerfully hand over 10% of their disposable income for the rest of their lives.

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week's comic: The Big Picture

For millennia…

Barbarism prevails, might makes right

Dominant religious groups persecute “heretics”

Racial hierarchy entrenched

Gender hierarchy entrenched

Non-straight people ostracized

Finally in the second half of the 20th century
Woman: At last, a bit of fairness and equality!

And then…
Pompous guy: Here’s an outside-the-box idea! What if we tried traditional hierarchies?

©2026 Jen Sorensen

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These people are always even worse than you think they are

Paragraphs from the article, detailing Trump's narcissistic behaviour

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