Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 13hthe reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 7889462141
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialKarl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 18hI’d be willing to bet money that Dublin City Council will grant Lyft a monopoly license for the replacement Dublin Bikes scheme. I think this is a very bad idea for many reasons. I am calling on the council to learn some lessons from New York. #dublin #activetravel 11711
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18hHydroponic barley grows in 7 days, soil-free and weather-proof. Cows love it, farmers save, and feed is evolving. Original post 15713
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...prospect.orgFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American ProspectA Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States. 233317957
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialTea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I hope this gets the attention that it merits - "people who had spent the full first 1,000 days of life under sugar rationing had a 33% lower risk of being diagnosed with anxiety than those born after rationing ended." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comThe generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years laterFrom blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on health 32510
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Worth a reread given Trump's threats against LA: 110645
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialGrace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 07/10/2026From the AI bust, a new set of Mega Big Tech companies will emerge – with even more power than they currently command. These companies would not just control markets – they would control entire societies. They would be hegemonic. The ultimate capitalist planners. open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...open.substack.comWhen the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than EverThe AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised enough to benefit from the concentration of power that will follow – we need to get organised enough to resist. 14022
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994532972
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialLouise @selkies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is good! I looked it up after hearing Aoife Barry on @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and I'm glad I did, I think it was well organised and laid out, and as always I like when something is by and for my exact demographic (and references Irish twitter canon) 073
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialDaryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 04/10/2026Well 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 513141
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There has to be a point where the court says 'This is fucked up, we are not participating. 1135
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026BREAKING: White House “monitoring” a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Five hospitals are reportedly under compulsory quarantine. Russian media reported an accident at a state biolab, which killed a lab worker. Pneumonic plague has a fatality rate of 100% unless treated within 24 hours.axios.comScoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in RussiaAdministration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios. 46248133
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5440551217
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026Your 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 912475
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-... 222591
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen 830366
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialOrla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026‘CANARY ISLANDS USE IRELAND’S EU PRESIDENCY TO PUSH FOR #HOUSING RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN BUYERS’ .. Denmark does this, there’s no reason Ireland couldn’t too gazettelife.com/news/canary-...gazettelife.comCanary Islands use Ireland’s EU presidency to push for housing restrictions on foreign buyers - Gazette LifeCanary Islands President Fernando Clavijo is asking Ireland to support measures that could limit foreign purchases of second homes in the Canary Islands. 1153
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialMarc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It rained, very mildly, today, for the first time in weeks, yet strangely France's long-running drought still gets very little press coverage. In one of the richest countries in the world there are tens of thousands of people without tap water. 011
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This week’s Last Word on environment with @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social coming up within the hour. We’ll be discussing UK plans to plant trees to abate extreme weather, plus #climate fuelled Swiss glacier meltdown as global ocean heating accelerates. 183
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJohn Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...smithsonianmag.comThis High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It BiodegradesEighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution 317073
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about. 07013
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Must-watch short on the Bandung movement, when global South countries challenged imperial power in the world-system. More relevant now than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDU...youtube.comWhat happens when countries stand up to the superpowers? | Bandung 1955YouTube video by Al Jazeera English 18130
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FORTY-TWO BILLION. Anthropic lost FORTY-TWO BILLION dollars in one year. The inevitable world-changing, ultimately efficient technology that everyone wants apparently. 23118
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the banning-plastic-straws of the planning world. 23716
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet 17189271751
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember: the hype IS the product. 713223
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why, every year, the whole of Ireland is required to celebrate the Puck Fair. We can’t just say that hauling a goat into the air for days on end is something just for Kerry. We are a united country, which is why we have airborne goats everywhere. 811339
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It literally is the role they were then exercising. 032
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Long after the names of the cowards and quislings in the FAI are forgotten, the name Gavin Bazunu will be remembered as a byword for courage and integrity in standing up for justice in the teeth of a savage genocide. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...irishtimes.comIreland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAIGavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered 17519
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7Eyoutu.beApocalypse is hereYouTube video by Naomi Klein 12419150
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352223815
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 18772113003
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government. 612669
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialBetcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Raise all the alarm bells, y’all 033
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Come and See. bsky.app/profile/char... 22517
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialStan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If reports are true that Irish players are being threatened that they'll never play for US owned clubs in the UK if they pull out of the Israel game, then that's a great argument for getting US money out of European football. 351131234
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialMicheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just to say what complete scumbags the FAI and Micheál Martin are for putting Irish players in this position. 14235107
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 26/09/2026Who’s lobbying their former colleagues - and about what? Our new analysis shows the revolving door between politics and lobbying in Ireland. We identify 63 people, including Taoisigh, Táinistí and ministers, involved in lobbying those they once worked alongside. jrnl.ie/7170656tjrnl.iehttp://jrnl.ie/7170656t 035
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The new Irish flag will just be white. It's more convenient because we can wave it at the tech giants and multinationals we're supposed to stand up to. It has the added symbolism of representing the civil war parties' idea of what an "Irish" person looks like. 04710
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialDavid Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 6240115
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026unoriginal thought but we need to give every public servant in the country a taxsaver ticket and a bicycle, never pay a cent in car expenses again, and watch how fast shit gets done 15815
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026cute photo op. incidentally I spent 10 minutes trying to find a picture of the Taoiseach using public transport in Ireland and guess what 1110339
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialkelly @earley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand 612151
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026Watching Jim O'Callaghan pander to every prejudice in the Facebook comments, watching the government pander to every demand from the Meta board. As above, so below. noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 0146
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hate speech doesn’t end with words. 0148
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialSahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school. 81344325
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026‘90% of executives believe AI has not yet boosted productivity at their companies.‘ Fortune Magazine, August 2026 31511
Reposted by @mcwattly.bsky.socialPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For those who have forgotten: Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara - whose teammates and extended family members have been killed - has asked Irish players, coaches, fans and broadcasters to boycott the games against Israel. 06039
