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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2h

“… and by this I mean [chuckling] handing essential public services over to the private sector.”

Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who knows what's really going on here but it's very funny to imagine the mightiest military the world has ever seen being scared off by some entrepreneurial Londoners with a few vans. The 2020s equivalent of Del Boy and Rodney.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a moment to capture, & what an eye from story telling. Fond memories of a political staffer grabbing a replica Iron Age axe out of the hands of a TD at a museum event to avoid something similar after this photo was taken! RIP to a great photographer.

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Chaos, pestilence and misery today but jam tomorrow!

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Your reminder that Brenda Power is an adjudicator for the International Protection Appeals Tribunal which currently has a number of appeals before it from transgender Americans

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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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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think we might need to set up some sort of institution which we commit former political advisors to after they leave government. We can't really be having them go out into the world and do weird shit like this - it's bad for the brand

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're nowhere near the singularity until it can at least hold a grudge over decades against people from primary school whose names it's long since forgotten.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"BRITAIN BECOMES DUMP FOR THE NAXI EXILES. Scores of Jews and other exiles are being smuggled into England in small foreign ships, for £25 a time." Daily Mirror, 1938. Sound familiar?

Headline: Britain becomes dump for the Nazi exiles

SCORES of Jews and other exiles, abandoning their homes in the Nazi terror, are being smuggled into England by the captains of small foreign ships who slink inside the three-mile limit at night and put ashore their human cargoes for £25 a time.
This smuggling, once sporadic, is now a racket earning thousands of pounds weekly for captains of French, Dutch and Belgian trawlers.
It was exposed entirely at Hove, yesterday when two foreign seamen were gaoled for smuggling a German in at Shoreham harbour last Monday.
Britain's immigration officers are helpless. They know that Hitler is dumping his unwanted people here. They cannot stop other Mid-European Governments seizing on Britain's lethargy to lower their own unemployment figures.
Every day refugee Spaniards, Jews, Ger mans and Austrians are slipping into Britain Employment agencies are inundated by fran-tic appeals from foreigners who, scared by European unrest, want British security.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Btw, some of these refusals are so clearly unlawful that the Department of Justice will end up paying ***HUGE*** sums in legal fees. Jim obviously counting on that being another Minister for Justice’s problem.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This lad was long gone from Welfare by the time department officials told an Oireachtas committee this very expensive multi-channel campaign had no noticeable effect on the negligible rate of welfare fraud. But it helped make him party leader and that's all that matters.

Screenshot of Leo Varadkar holding a placard with the slogan "Welfare cheats cheat us all"

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's always thrilling to read about the affairs of our business elites. "Murdock (42) ... told The Irish Times in 2014 that he made money in school by allowing friends, including Love/Hate actor Peter Coonan, to punch him in the head in return for money."

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People are pointing out (understandably) that there’s an irony or inconsistency here, but of course there isn’t really: the entire point of far right politics is that they (favoured group) have a right to do & say what they want, and you (opponent/ other unfavoured person) have no rights at all

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nobody could have predicted the child of a tech-authoritarian surveillance-loving former prime minister / current Oracle reseller would do something like this.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the afd ban on the stumbling stones is super, super worrying this combined with jordan bardella's antisemitic messages show that the european far-right's nazi roots are still well connected

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If for some reason you would like to read a Fianna Fáil TD dispensing an intoxicating mixture of magical thinking and disingenuous industry talking points then this is the article for you.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

Here's the liquid gas industry framing its product as a "just transition". This would be sidesplittingly funny if it was not apparent that this message is getting through to politicians.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CJEU, data protection law New Advocate General's opinion: GDPR applies to erasure of records of being baptised Catholic curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

Press release summary of the opinion. Full text in the link.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One 'benefit' of living in Ireland is never having to waste time considering whether your government will comply with the demands of the mad bully king. Because you already know they will.

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did tax cuts bring more tourists? No. The answer? More tax cuts!

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

says something about the workings of Ireland's democracy that we have no mechanisms to keep the government in check on climate. Climate Action Plan delayed, public transport not funded, Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity ignored

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It sometimes feels as if almost any deviation away from the default governance mode of outright cronyism over the last 50 years has been forced by the EU. Changes often made in one area in the hope the EU won't notice a large amount of cronyism and cute-hoorism happening in another area.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The countdown to the renaming of days of the week is progressing

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The old maxim 'A solution in search of a problem' strikes again. Maybe "infinite personalized music" has been solved but I'm very, very certain the number of people who regarded the lack of it as a problem is vanishingly small.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bonjour, l'Amerique. Are many US government websites available in English, Spanish and *French*? america.gov/?lang=fr

A screenshot of the america.gov website. All the text is in French and there is a background photograph of a child lying face down on ice.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the banning-plastic-straws of the planning world.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The systems in this country for diluting, diffusing, obfuscating and ultimately disappearing responsibility and accountability are very well developed.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still find it astonishing that Sir Ian Livingstone is the only person knighted for services to the UK games industry. Film, TV and sport are constantly recognised with knighthoods, yet one of Britain's biggest creative industries has had just one.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We really would want to care more about who has the ear of our government and where their advice is going to lead.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To quote @desfitzgerald.bsky.social from only a few days ago, these lads are operating within a "theory of governance centred entirely around the work of distributing responsibility for your own failures."

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

seriously, SpaceX showed the way and Anthropic is following it. Selective leaks of the "confidential" prospectus to gin up enthusiasm for the IPO, which is wildly illegal under the federal securities laws but no one cares about that anymore www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote public good over market forces

Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new "Founder LLC" vehicle aimed at serving the common good, while insulatin...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Publication day. The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning, edited by Danielle Hynes, Rob Kitchin and Samuel Mutter. Published by Policy Press. Open access download at: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-data-pol...

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning

The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning; This pioneering book critically examines how governments, industry and civil society use housing, property and planning data, offering a vital refl...

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One would think finding out which government department and hence which minister this proposed text came from shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of our intrepid political correspondents.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, this proposal- accurately denounced here as incompatible with the EU Chart of Fundemental Rights- is the product of our Government. One of our Ministers has proposed it. Amongst other changes, it proposes that the rights of AI companies to harvest data should stand above humans’ data rights.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

This goes for Ireland too. I have not seen one single MSM journalist ask O’Callaghan, Burke, or Lawless how they reconcile their desire to cut immigration numbers with their own governmental reports showing an economic need for MORE inward migration. #speirghorm

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One to add to the pile alongside the Minister for Foreign Affairs treating a Meta lobbyist as if he's an ambassador or visiting head of state.

A screenshot of a post by Helen McEntee, Minister for Foreign Affairs, posing for a photo with Dualta O Broin of Meta. The text in the post reads "Great to meet with Meta yesterday to discuss priorities for Ireland's upcoming EU Presidency. Our discussion focused on the importance of strengthening European competitiveness, reducing unnecessary regulatory complexity, and creating the conditions for innovation to thrive. As Europe faces increasing global competition, it is vital that we support businesses to scale, attract investment and drive digital transformation across the Union."

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google event in Brussels this evening “to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency” of the EU Council. “Google is delighted to bring together Irish policymakers…” rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/irish... (they have wisely now removed some of this text)

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"A handful of men rewriting the rules of the economy and geopolitics out of greed and a hunger for power makes for a duller plot than killer robots. It’s still plenty dangerous." www.densediscovery.com/issues/408

densediscovery.com

Dense Discovery #408: When the foxes want better fences

Read the archived version of Dense Discovery #408: When the foxes want better fences.

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