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Ultan O'Connell

@mangoultz.bsky.social
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Video game enthusiast, but in like, a pleasant way. I go by MangoUltz in other places. Ireland.

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 8h
Athan is one I've never heard before
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Grace @gracekind.net · 20h
Martin Luther speech bubble meme
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 8h
looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.
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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 8h
So there has been a trend in recent weeks of flyovers getting as low as possible above the stadium and, uh, it will be interesting to see what ends up reversing that trend
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 11h
I'm glad that the fact the complaint alleged the article framed trans women as predators and the Sindo responded by saying it didn't present trans men as predators did not go unremarked upon. providing a transphobic defense for a transphobic column is wild
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h
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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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 14h
F1 shitshow this morning
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A WOMANS BODY IS NOT YOUR TESTING GROUND FOR LEARNING BOUNDARIES OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
possession subway scene
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine uploading your kids photo to the thing they're using to make kiddie porn.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"[T]he story that company leaders told was one of AI agents escaping confinement and setting out to jointly commit a felony. The story that was masked was ... [OpenAI]'s negligence in employing basic security protocols."
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
man and woman in enormous yellow foam cowboy hatsNorm MacDonald on SNL in an enormous yellow foam cowboy hatHomer Simpson in an enormous orange cowboy hat with a camera at the Kwik E Mart
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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Phil Pirrello @philpirrello.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS’ 20th Anniversary today, @sepinwall.bsky.social did a deep dive with Jason Katims on the making of the show and got some trivia about the “Mud Bowl” episode I’ve never heard before. This is a must-read: www.televisionacademy.com/features/onl...
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Friday Night Lights at 20: Jason Katims on How He Turned NBC’s Underdog Football Drama into a Modern Classic
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
A federal judge in Oklahoma said a police search of the license-plate-reader system Flock amounted to “indiscriminate mass surveillance.” The order reflects a growing distrust of Flock, and The Post has reported dozens of cases involving police misuse.
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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Robert Kraft absolutely Streisanded himself.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
tell 'em, girl
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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oddly this story is not being covered on the BBC.
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first poster featuring the Michelin Man, aka Bibendum, designed by O'Galop in 1898. The slogan "Nunc est bibendum" means "Now is the time to drink." Bibendum toasts with a goblet of nails and broken glass while rival tires slump beside him, because the Michelin tire "drinks up the obstacle."
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 02/10/2026
A further 10 sets of infant remains have been recovered as part of the ongoing excavation of the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. It brings the total number of infant remains recovered from the site to 109. jrnl.ie/7180588
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Further 10 sets of infant remains recovered during Tuam excavation
The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention said all ten were found in coffins in a section of land which was excavated by hand.
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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El Gyōretsu @carnyvore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas
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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 01/10/2026
Hey, the president is just asking AI about secret president stuff, to a machine owned by a company that doesn't have security clearance for president stuff, and who knows how they're gonna use that info. 🙃
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
Breaking news: The Trump administration is airing campaign-style TV ads using money Congress approved for border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty, according to records.
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're watching UK Celebrity Traitors and Jess just turned to me when Ross Kemp was on screen and said "I always confuse him with the guy from Eastenders, Phil Mitchell" Reader, the look of smug disbelief on my face as I got to deliver the news to her
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"That math ain't mathing here..."
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now feels like a good moment to share that the FAI never updated their site to link their 2025 Gender Pay Gap report and have consistently not replied to me when I've asked for it...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the second time that an “s” (or a lack thereof) has been a major deal in the AI space this week #IYKYK
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 30/09/2026
The 2026 winner of Fat Bear Week has been declared. Over 100,000 people voted for their favourite jrnl.ie/7177733
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Winnie the Paunch: The 2026 winner of Fat Bear Week has been declared
The winner secured more than 100,000 votes.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
squidward in a darkened room, looking out the window at spongebob and his best friend having fun outside
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"thinking 10 wolves will guard all the sheep" *TRUMP: THINKING ABOUT COMMITTEE OF 10 PEOPLE TO WATCH OVER AI
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wind was really bad all evening and it was just dying down and the power went lol
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The playbook is painfully obvious
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OutKast's SpottieOttieDopaliscious stuck on my head after Lanterns this week. A classic.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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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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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits 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.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Thanks for reminding me of this.
A short history of traffic engineering show walk, cycle, transit and car routes over time with cycling and walking getting worse.
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