Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 5hThe new boy in the gang very sleepy after running nonstop in the woods with the others. A little firecracker with lots of attitude 050
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 19hLethal injection is horrific in a very literal way but in a metaphorically fitting one - we embrace it because, while it is slow and likely painful, it doesn’t look as bad to outsiders as a firing squad 916027
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 8hThere are still some places on my book illustration course, starting at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in Dublin next week! Join us to learn about visual storytelling! It's more about communication than creating pretty pictures, so it's suitable for beginners with basic drawing skills. #SpeirGorm 098
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5hFinally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be 302642327
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling himkarlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable 512056815
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, yeesh. Now Meta and OpenAI are trying to make AI agents cute and cuddly (Muse and Dots). A little late after the AI boys have been screaming that they can kill us all: Now their killer AI Tribbles will make you a reservation for lunch then kill us all by dinner. 73610
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want you to imagine Harry Truman doing this with the Manhattan project scientists 1119131
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump on data centers: They're going to work to make the community happy 8183
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😂 Trump's new government AI chatbot is... correct!! on this answer anyway 110
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ahahahahahahaha what could go wrong wapo.st/4rGgH55wapo.stTrump launches government chatbot, urging a wary public not to fear AIWashington’s concerns are at a peak after rogue AI agents probed government websites, but the White House has focused on the technology’s promise. 120
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonChester Beatty @chesterbeatty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ever wondered what it would be like to rediscover a lost artefact? Join us on Friday 2 October and satisfy your curiosity! Tickets €6.50, find out more here 👉 ow.ly/vRgl50ZSA7m 013
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you love Bach -- or maybe are new to classical music and want to dip a toe -- this is one of the most breathtaking pieces of music ever composed, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, by one of the finest Bach orchestras in the world. NCH, Oct 10 8pm, likely to sell out www.nch.ie/all-events-l...nch.ieBach Collegium Japan plays Bach's Brandenburg Concertos | National Concert HallThe National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland. 063
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonTom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking. 27935307
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonEdward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan. 22209141
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China. 1663545635
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026If I were in government right now, this is what I would be spending all my time on: Fines, hearings, shame – none of it's changed the behavior of Big Tech. But data centers give you more leverage than you have *ever had* to force Big Tech to renegotiate its social compact with the American public. 1354
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient 81724259
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The whole Fetterman thing has been a pretty wild ride 031
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Absolutely nuts, with the platform telling the owner there was no fraudulent listing of her own property. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...irishtimes.comVisitors arrive ‘almost daily’ at my house expecting to stay in tourist accommodationMy house in Dublin was used as bait in an accommodation scam on booking.com 1133
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonIrish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We need your help. As we mark 50 years of ICCL, we're launching an urgent campaign to protect our rights, liberty and democracy. We're looking for 100 people who share our belief in rights and liberties, and our determination to defend them, to donate €500 each. www.iccl.ie/the-fight-of...iccl.ieThe fight of our lives.The rights and liberties that we have worked so hard to gain and protect are under threat. This is the fight of our lives. 145
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... 015462
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special. 8371150
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.iePublic library visits increased by two million nationwideVisits 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. 031
Reposted by Karlin Lillingtonwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt 191296387
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Meta is constructing a data center campus called Hyperion on a tract of land in rural Louisiana that will dwarf Colossus 2 — and Manhattan’s Central Park.' wapo.st/4rxkZLYwapo.stSee how data centers are changing the American landscapeSatellite imagery shows what was once farmland and desert taken over by warehouselike structures. 020
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This dog, the one who thinks the coffee table is a bed, goes to a major champion dog show in Belfast Sunday. He's 4, never been in a show, but a friend wanted to show him. He took 1st in his class, got reserve champion too, & therefore is now qualified for Crufts for life. We can't stop laughing 😂 😂 1172
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892117873
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Morning with the farrier and some being in a better mood than others for their pedicures. Eight equines happier now. Trimmed v untrimmed 060
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7459772006
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14975341459
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonTony Kavanagh @tonykavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Superb thread. Well worth your time. #Russia 011
Reposted by Karlin Lillingtonemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Call me crazy but, seven months in, that we're still not reporting, "HOLY SHIT why won't Trump appoint real experts to negotiate with Iran instead of his family and his crypto business partner" is part of why we're here. 20777247
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 24/09/2026The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created across education, health or social sectors, if the resources used to expand data centres were directed elsewhere. jrnl.ie/7165266tjrnl.ieGovernment report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claimsThe study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere. 33424
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Exclusive: 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.” 915177
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonMichael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comReference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - NatureAn updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families. 318381
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonWildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 23/09/2026Where did bats originate? A major new @nature.com study finds they most likely originated in Europe about 65 million years ago. Wildlife Conservation Society scientists contributed samples to the largest combined bat genome & fossil study ever conducted. 🌏 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release... 12917
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonIrish Manuscripts Commission @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#HistFest2026 lecture: 3 Oct | 45 Merrion Sq | 11:00 The Normandy and Ireland Settlement Connections project by @virtualtreasury.bsky.social & @jmarshallmed.bsky.social traces #Norman conquerors to their ancestral lands, drawing on manuscript sources in IMC editions. irishmanuscripts.ie/normans/irishmanuscripts.ieWhat did the Normans ever do for us? - Irish ManuscriptsWhat did the Normans ever do for us? And what has the Irish Manuscripts Commission (IMC) done for the Normans? As Ireland and Europe prepare to mark the Norman Millennium in 2027, this event explores ... 043
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026Wish I had it in writing but in 2024 I described this emerging technology as 'Bitcoin With Words' and I think I've been somewhat vindicated 28112
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh sure, we can see where this is going. Our AI overlords will soon target us from space! It’s all turning into a low budget scifi movie now Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...nytimes.comGoogle Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space (Gift Article)Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space. 121
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Order by today if you want this Saturday's mezzo box, &/or place an order for the Palestinian tea for Oct 10 (all for collection Sat in Kimmage). If you can, do please support these wonderful people & the amazing food they produce, while they struggle to make it through their short term cafe closure 012
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 23/09/2026Climate change has made extreme July conditions eight times more likely, a new study from Maynooth University has found. jrnl.ie/7170451jrnl.ieClimate change worsened Ireland's July drought conditions, new research suggestsThe study says that farmers must not treat this summer as a “one-off”. 084
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Construction capacity directed towards building data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects. This is highly irrational allocation of resources can only be reversed by a progressive, green industrial strategy. 02714
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"The El Niño is also a “postcard from our future”, the researchers said, pushing up temperatures to the level the climate crisis is projected to deliver in 20 years’ time." 😳😬 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHuge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six monthsNew report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis 043
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Visit the Isle of Man. 0699
Reposted by Karlin LillingtonJohn Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW @pewresearch.org survey (n=10,548) shows increasingly negative views about data centers in the US. Just since January, there have been big attitudinal shifts across the demographic and political spectrum. Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 212348
Reposted by Karlin Lillingtonevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026German agencies use the linked-device features in WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to receive messages without breaking encryption. cybernews.com/privacy/poli...cybernews.comGerman police read WhatsApp messages without cracking encryption45 days of Signal history may be exposed by German police messaging surveillance using linked devices, Netzpolitik says. Read what the documents reveal 712574