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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes

straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Data centres are a cancer on nature and local communities. Yet their electricity consumption in Ireland is almost 10x the European – and well over 10x the global – average.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently reading “The Darkening Age” by Catherine Nixey and it is very good. Really shows the evils of Christian zealotry at the later stages of the Roman Empire and causes one to consider how much it set humanity back.

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 29/09/2026

Are you looking to apply for the Astronomy PhD program at the University of Washington this cycle? Please look at our website and see the new Expression of Interest form!! astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy is accepting applications to our graduate program for Fall 2027 admissions.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone in a STEM discipline, I really abhor the kind of messaging that Mark describes. The messengers aren’t people who actually care about STEM. It’s really a shorthand for “do something practical, focus on your relation to the labor market”.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The messengers generally look down on most scientific inquiry unless it’s a very specific form of applied science. We can’t let these folks divide us; in the end, much of STEM has more in common with the humanities and social sciences than with, e.g., business.

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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We made a bit of a bargain with the devil by selling the sciences as being technology precursors and as having rigorous evaluation metrics, unlike Those People There

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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been thinking recently (in the wake of similar discussions in math regarding AI) that the practice of the "hard sciences" is a lot more humanist than generally let on

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this referring to this whole weird thing where Irish institutions get a faculty member from fees incurred by Chinese students taking classes in China taught by irish faculty? Free faculty is cool, but 100% of their teaching is in china? Seems sus.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My mom keeps her toaster in the downstairs closet (nowhere near the kitchen). Does this make her some kind of super Protestant?

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dude same. If I saw 20 yr old me today I’d fucking hate him.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just sitting right here for no particular reason at all. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Photo of a shorthaired tabby cat sitting on the snowy railing of a porch, sitting as close as possible to a snow covered bird feeder.

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 16/09/2026

LOL

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1) trans kids aren’t preventing anyone from getting scholarships 2) your kid isn’t getting a scholarship bro. You should be angry that college costs what it does, not angry at a child for competing with your child in soccer.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(This is two months old but just crossed my timeline, sorry, I just want to address this) American parents have a disorder of some kind where they assume that there is a realistic chance their kid will get an athletic scholarship. Reality: less than 2% of high school athletes get scholarships.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anyone who attended this deserves to be blacklisted from all aspects of Irish life.

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's some figures, apropos of nothing. Median cost to retrofit a mid-terrace is €55,250, rising to €60,805 for a semi D. Median salary in Ireland is €41,500. Senior minister salary is €217,136.

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bus Eireann charging 2 of us €15 single from Cork to Macroom really shows how much this country cares about getting people out of cars No option to buy return on bus Bus 3/4 empty If we'd a car it would cost €11.00 return on fuel 6 times price This government hates public transport #speirghorm

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t believe there is such a thing as “AI literacy”. To use it effectively you need to already have the skills/knowledge which you are outsourcing to AI, so you can critically analyze and understand the results. It is the university’s job to provide this knowledge/skills

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Using AI in the classroom does not teach these things. Quite the opposite in fact as we see students that utilize AI perform systematically worse on exams as those that do not. I don’t think exams are themselves an accurate metric, but this systematic difference is telling.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So there’s this idea that universities must adopt AI in the curriculum in order to prepare students for the workforce. Let’s ignore for a min the fact that UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT FOR JOB TRAINING. How do you use AI well? The key is being able to think, reason, and critically analyze the results.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is there an example of a university president that’s competent? Asking for a friend.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

2) England is a rare exception. During the 2010s many other countries (including the other 3 UK nations) changed tack, experimenting with ideas like transferrable skills instead of focusing on tried-and-tested disciplines and methods. It looks like those experiments have failed.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sorry something must have been lost in translation, they're saying you don't need to speak Irish to be Minister for the Gaeltacht (representing the native Irish speakers of Ireland and their very specific interests), but you DO need to speak Irish if you just want to live in Ireland and are foreign

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My sys admin for my little research server left and there’s no replacement but today I found he had a nice script to create a new user. A live video of me right now after running the script:

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Alan Cumming in GoldenEye: I Am Invincible

Alt: Alan Cumming in GoldenEye: I Am Invincible

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A propos the proposed Irish language requirement, remember that even the former Minister for the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys couldn't speak Irish.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was reflecting on how horrible it is to use the Irish language of all things as a means to keep people from citizenship.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's hard to overstate the audacity it takes for Fine Gael to romanticise the hustle-culture made necessary by their failings. I want to vote for the party who promise to support people so we can "get home in time to spend quality time with family and friends".

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Those who get up early every morning and go to work in a car" he surely meant. Also, this is such ridiculously stale rhetoric. The work landscape has changed. If you mean hard-working ppl, say that. If you just mean you're giving us a budget that benefits men in finance jobs, we already knew that.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This was always the lazy way out, doomed to fail. Provide kids + parents w resources, activities, places to exist for free. Give people a sense of purpose + community. Prosecute those who hurt kids (not make them president). You can’t take away kids’ online communities and not give them alternatives

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Who ordered the basket of disappointed kittens? Postcard from my collection, mailed 1904.

Black and white photo of four kittens spilling out of a basket that seems to be partially full of hay. They’re all short haired, and there is a black haired tuxedo, two tabbies, and what looks like a white and calico. They all look grumpy and disappointed.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the richest countries in Europe and the citizens have nothing to show for it. Worst public transit, in addition to poorly funded higher ed, research, and infrastructure. Time to get FFG out of gov.

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The Journal FactCheck @factcheck.thejournal.ie · 03/09/2026

While the internet is filled with arguments denying the effects of farming on climate change, it is worth delving into one argument that methane from cow herds is harmless, as featured in a video whose popularity has endured online.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And if they misspell it they might be British ;)

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ronald D. Moore presents the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form to Murderbot: “All Systems Red”, written by Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, directed by Roseanne Liang, based on the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Apple TV). #HugoAwards

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