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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 11h

Man, I can't wait to go outside, commit so many crimes in rapid succession; and have court unquestioningly take ChatGPT as my alibi. A grand day out. #spéirghorm #ireland

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

Maple colour, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #AutumnWeek 🍂

Painting of a tree in a kandscaoe. The tree has bright red and orange autumn leavers

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If we could get endangered wildlife to run around a race track they'd have a better chance at getting support from this government.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Believes that the practice of concealing the face in public spaces and premises open to the public poses an unacceptable challenge to public security, identification and effective law enforcement; supports, therefore, all national measures aimed at prohibiting full-face coverings (niqab or burqa) in public spaces and premises open to the public as a necessary step to ensure social cohesion, public safety and the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in particular women

whereas separatist narratives, systematic victimhood, antisemitism, anti-Christian hatred, hatred of Israel, conspiracy narratives, challenges to secularism, the use of religion as a tool of social control or the contestation of equality between women and men may constitute markers of ideological radicalisation or Islamist influence;

whereas the ongoing investigations into suspected electoral fraud in Borlänge and Järva, Sweden, illustrate the particular vulnerability of diaspora communities to organised attempts at electoral influence; whereas such vulnerabilities may be exploited by malign foreign actors or transnational ideological networks pursuing covert agendas

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 07/10/2026

To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?

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To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter

Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've said it before. A Government party isn't your team to root for, it's a utility provider. You don't have to like them, you just pick the one that works best. The utilities that keep giving you some of your own money back are the ones acknowledging a failure to provide the service you requested

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ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can I just say how irresponsible to the point of nonsensical coverage about this manufactured "debate" was in the media for the last year and that in a functioning society raising thresholds for INHERITANCE TAX would be treated as ridiculous

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026

The current private contract for Oireachtas broadcasting lapsed at the end of 2025, but the holder agreed to roll over for a year as there were no bidders to take it over. Staff have long sought to be treated as civil service equivalents, but the Oireachtas itself says this would treble the cost

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026

📺📻 Broadcast coverage of tomorrow’s #Budget2027 speeches has been cast into doubt, after an unknown number of workers at the Oireachtas broadcasting unit - who are largely freelancers who must take other jobs during recesses - told the Oireachtas they intend to take strike action tomorrow…

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An interesting exchange on how to react to Slop-as-evidence at the Oireachtas. Oireachtas committees hear from people with all sorts of views, and by definition, many of them diverge from each other. But they are actually their views. The people who come in expressed them.

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 04/10/2026

Well done Jennifer Whitmore! Oireachtas Committee testimony created solely from AI should most definitely not be accepted as expert opinion. 📽️@jen_whitmore_td & @social-democrats.bsky.social on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DeCetuV... #IrishPol

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whatever your feelings towards the pope, it is very funny to think saying "no one elected you" is a big gotcha to a fella whose election was a massive big deal to a whole global religion and beyond

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Always funny when people get pissy about, of all things, *work to rule*. They are still doing their jobs, to the letter of the law in fact. That is causing problems is a serious indictment of how much extra people are expected to do in their job.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aside: Speirgorm can we take a moment to acknowledge just how much the old LLS title sequence *absolutely* slaps...

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tiramisini are #RecipeOfTheDay! I’m not normally a fan of the smaller portion, but there’s not that often a call for a full-size Tiramisù, and these always hit the spot. www.nigella.com/recipes/tira...

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Tiramisini

Some say, challenging more generally accepted ideas about the provenance, that tiramisu was invented in a casa chiusa (a house of ill repute) to give the working girls a pick-me-up, as the name (tira-...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Engineeringdude @engtechnic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'it's a tool, you need to learn to use it', ok, but in using it, I see more people who extensively use it spend more time and make worse results than if they didn't, and since it's being called a 'tool', I'll call it a bad tool, and what do you do with a bad tool, you throw it away

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Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One more reminder about this! I'm having great fun writing questions and putting together physical rounds

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are two simultaneous anti-choice protests raking place right now outside City Hall, 20 feet apart, one for the Catholics and one for the Protestants. This place has its drawbacks but ypu have to concede there is a rich seam in the comedy mines.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

If fuel taxes are to be cut then I want those supporting (govt/tds/protestors) those tax cuts to state what other public services/projects are going to be underfunded/cancelled to pay for those cuts. Let the electorate know the cost of those cuts. And then seen how much support they have #speirgorm

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Across the political divide do WM govts specifically look for people who know nothing about NI and are tone death to its history to hold the position of SoS? Because they’re amazingly consistent if they aren’t trying.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"it's just 35 men with no bands walking down a road" it's just 6 extra minutes and no rioting

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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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Colin McGovern @cmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"You played Nazi Germany in the 1930s, why not us now" isn't the gotcha they think it is...

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Christy @christymcm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu is an Irish hero

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is genuine bravery from Bazunu. Shame on his team mates for failing to support him

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Outstanding music placement in Homes Under the Hammer today. I yelped!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘The decision was taken that we would have somebody in that seat for every single speech, including the one that you’ve mentioned.‘ They say it like it’s a point of principle. Like THAT’S the principle that matters.

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Nick Royle @nickaroyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was great to listen to @tomflood.bsky.social ‘s talk on communications and road safety in TCD last night. And I have a letter in the Irish Times today which shines a light on how careless driving is just kinda accepted.

Letter to the THE IRISH TIMES.
Sir, - Seán Canney, the Minister of State with responsibility for road safety, stated at an informal meeting of EU transport ministers in Dublin Castle on Monday that "99 per cent of the people on the roads drive with due care".
May I ask where these roads are? Because they sound idyllic - perfect for cycling my primary-school children to school.
In contrast, on our 2km commute this morning, I counted 11 cars in the bus lane, seven drivers looking at their phones in traffic, one woman putting on her make-up and another eating her breakfast. And at least five drivers speeding at least 20km/h or more over the speed limit. - Yours, etc,
NICK ROYLE, Blackrock,
Dublin.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 16/07/2026

Sooner or later, for everyone on the planet, Lego will release a set that’s irresistible for you personally

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The mighty Siobhán McSweeney was presented with a print of my Gráinne Mhaol piece by the very lovely Kevin McGahern for her hard work on #TraitorsIRL, after she mentioned that Ireland's pirate queen Gráinne was a big style inspiration for her incredible outfits this season. No better woman! 👑

Photo of the bould Siobhán McSweeney in a room with light blue and white patterned wallpaper and a wooden floor, holding a framed print of mine of a linocut of Gráinne Mhaol.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #TheTraitors

The image of Gráinne Mhaol on the print.

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