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Alan Mulhall

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing
Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 27/09/2026
Lovely newish Dracula-and-Poolbeg Dublin Canvas box in Marino. #SpeirGorm #seenonmyrun
Count Dracula with an ice cream by the Poolbeg chimneys near Bram Stoker’s birthplace in Marino
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision
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Brónagh @bronaghisgay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran right now
A human mouse saying “Why would I be complicit? There’s no reason for me to do that”
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:
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We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them
This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congratulations, everyone, we made it to the end of the year, happy prom night.
Royal Albert hall, before the orchestra arrives on stage
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Say what you will about Andy Burnham but I really don't think he should be allowed to run a country after locking his nephew in that guesthouse during covid.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
unless you're waking up early to get the bus, Luas or DART, in which case you'll soon be paying 30% more per journey
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Budget to support those 'who get up early every morning'
Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said this year's Budget will support people "who get up early every morning and go to work".
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Still can't believe she won the auction that allowed Thomas Pynchon to name her boyfriend.
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Actually, I got splashed by a bus today so now I'm ok with this and I'm gonna vote fine gael.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/09/2026
Commuter groups have described increases in public transport fares as "absolutely unacceptable", accusing the Government of asking bus, rail and tram users to "in effect" cover the "astounding cost" of an extension in cuts to Excise Duty on petrol and diesel
rte.ie
Bus, rail users funding excise cuts, commuter groups say
Increases in public transport fares for adults have been described as "absolutely unacceptable" by commuter groups.
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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maintaining 100's of millions in fuel subsidies while making public transport 15% more expensive is a statement of intent and any journalist interviewing members of government not tearing them to shreds over it is utterly failing at their job or so far inside the tent they may as well be an advisor
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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Increasing the cost of public transport and banning e-scooters while we spend a billion euro making petrol cheaper for cars seems a solid way to deal with the fact Tipperary was on fire for weeks this summer
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/08/2026
Why young people hate AI even more?
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The industry is incapable of any self-reflection, but it should be obvious why this would be the case. Older gens saw Big Tech innovations that changed people's daily lives for the better and/or were at least mixed bags. Personal computers, internet, mp3 players, smart phones, etc. Someone who is 18 has seen.... what? NFT scams and crypto rug pulls. Web 3.0 hype that went nowhere. Gig economy apps that exploit workers and still charge too much for poor service. Zuckerberg's metaverse. A bunch of crap that massively enriched some billionaires without seeming to improve people's lives. Why should any young person look at big tech companies hyping GenAI—who were all pushing metaverse/crypto/etc. a few years ago—and think it would help them?
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There are birds everywhere for those with the eyes to see.
A rusty hinge on a door painted grey that looks like a beak with a pair of eyes above
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 25/08/2026
This is important
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 22/08/2026
"you probably mean this, a different thing than what you were searching for. here's more information on it" how dare you speak to me as if you were a creature of divine flesh. i curse thee, machine pretender
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"We need to charge for water to alleviate our narrow tax base" and yet not a single mention of FFG handing out tax cuts every single budget. Fundamentally unserious columnist.
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Horrifying personal discovery: after living beside one for 8 years, the smell of pizza hut reminds me of home.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
meme of the news image that says "quote from man stabbed" and "what are you gonna do, stab me?" edited to say instead "quote from man hit by boulder" and "what are you gonna do, hit me with a boulder?"
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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
lol
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/07/2026
Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
a fakje satellite image of a craterWe take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was Al-generated. In addition, we prevent image creation on harmful topics and are continually updating our protections.

One clause in there is checkable tonight, so I checked it. Google prevents image creation on harmful topics. Refugees at a border. A nuclear plant in Iran. A fatal crash on an Amsterdam street. A hospital with a bomb crater in Gaza.

Nothing was refused. No warning, no softened output, no suggestion to try a different prompt.

Now look at the rest of the answer. The watermark is Google’s. The app that reads the watermark is Google’s. The search that reads it is Google’s. Every road out of the problem runs back through the company that built it.

I understand that Google has Google products to run Google checks. Planet Earth is bigger than Google.

I put one of tonight’s clips on X and asked nobody to check it. Hive, one of th
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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 29/07/2026
Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.
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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
An account with this avatar was just knobbed.
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If I was going to start a faith-based AI company I would have called it "Machina Ex Deus".
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MARA9 @maranine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
blurry picture of cookies in a clear container with label “chipy cooie 1.80”
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wait, wouldn't this drive it underground? Like the hare coursing?
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Brave of England to field the 5 meter tall glowing red man.
Picture of a TV screen showing eng v nor and a pedestrian crossing red man glow is superimposed on the screen
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 07/07/2026
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sure Microsoft may have fired thousands of people and gutted its games division but at least it had more money to pour into Copilot, the 4th most popular AI, a product nobody wants or likes except rich executives, that is constantly losing horrendous amounts of money
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A goldfinch sits on a rusted pole with an apartment block in the backgroundThe goldfinch has taken off, with blurred wings
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Simpsons screenshot. Bart has the Playstation logo over his head, and Martin has the Dominos logo. Martin looks smug and Bart looks mad. Caption reads "(Children laughing) BART: Now, Domino's scoring off me. Oh that is it."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
'Trying to give yourself a better chance at solving the housing crisis by getting rid of targets is sort of like if you were shooting at a bullseye, missed 10 times in a row, and concluded that the problem is that you’d been doing it with your eyes open.' Surrealing is back after a gew weeks.
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Surrealing in the Years: Housing minister's war on targets comes for homeless children
Ah, sure targets only remind us how rubbish it all is anyway.
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Did Sephiroth...do this?
Broken tree stump with a sign nailed to it saying "dogs must be kept on a lead"
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are unlawfully made homeless, and complain about your landlord to the Residential Tenancies Board, they will close your complaint because you can’t give them a permanent address you live at (because you were unlawfully made homeless).
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_ rina Arternieva is homeless, ricocheting
between between different bed and breakfasts, sometimes in different counties, using vouchers provided by her local council.
In March, she filed a case with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) for alleged unlawful termination of tenancy, which she says is the reason why she is homeless.
But staff at the RTB have repeatedly said they will close her case if she doesn't provide an address.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/06/2026
herculean levels of passive voice here for what has been a butchering of thousands of livelihoods over the course of years at the hands of incompetent executives. no shade to whatever poor community manager had to write this image lol
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Alan Mulhall @laxan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
ty wikipedia
Photo of a baby in a cot from a wikipedia article, captioned "A human infant"
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Microsoft buying these studios that make wonderful prestige titles always felt off because Xbox lacks a sense of identity that lasts longer than 3 fiscal years. This contradiction was made even worse by their unwillingness to respond to the BDS Boycott in even a perfunctory way.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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