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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 3h
I’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
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Kjell Kamfjord @kjellkamfjord.bsky.social · 20h
Remember how the Corona virus allegedly escaped a Wuhan bio lab? Imagine if the lab claimed the virus went rogue. Noone would consider the virus super-intelligent.
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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 20h
Same. It's so out of reach, and as you rightly say, this assistance is only set up for and accessible to A Certain Type of Person. Definitely not the type of person that needs it the most.
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 17h
When I was, I shit you not, 25 I got told by a young lad of 20 who'd recently joined work as a graduate that there was a 'generation gap' between us. People are mental
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
FOR TOO LONG HAVE MIDDLE INCOME WORKERS BEEN NEGLECTED, say the parties that have governed for over 100 years and held the Minister of Finance portfolio since 1997
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ive never seen anything more southside
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
The TL;DR is that the circumstances have to relate specifically to the individual and not to general country conditions. Another way that applicants from Gaza are being screwed.
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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We call on the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs to bring the Minister for Justice to the table, and to resolve this appalling injustice for all students concerned before the 15 October deadline to secure evacuation. #GazaStudents #Ireland academiaforpalestine.org/2026/10/05/p...
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Press Release: ACADEMICS CALL ON TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN AND MINISTER HELEN MCENTEE TO INTERVENE WITH JUSTICE MINISTER OVER GAZAN STUDENTS
Tomorrow the High Court will begin hearing the Minister for Justice’s defence against judicial review challenges brought by four Gazan students who were refused visas despite having university plac…
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cities are sanctuaries. Dublin was, and is, the city that held me, took care of me & loved me as a young LGBTQIA+ person in the harsh climes of an awakening Ireland in the 1990s. Such a marvellous place with people who forever changed my life 🙏🏽✌🏽🏳️‍🌈 Dublin City forever ❤️ #spéirghorm
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026
🆕 The Oireachtas says it has been assured by the private operator of its broadcasting unit that tomorrow’s coverage will proceed as planned
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Irrelevant but I love the name of that subreddit
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 05/10/2026
Just wait for it... The Irish government is using its Presidency of the European Council to push for Big Tech's profits to take precedence over the right to data protection. The use of personal data “in the context of AI” would automatically be lawful in their proposal. Everyone should know this.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This 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
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/10/2026
📺📻 Broadcast coverage of tomorrow’s #Budget2027 speeches has been cast into doubt, after an unknown number of workers at the Oireachtas broadcasting unit - who are largely freelancers who must take other jobs during recesses - told the Oireachtas they intend to take strike action tomorrow…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re in ireland, and in the market for a guitar (or need repairs), I can highly recommend Some Neck Guitars www.someneckguitars.com #spéirGhorm
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Vintage Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars and Acoustic Guitars
Buy, Sell and Exchange Vintage Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars with modern and valve amps. Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Martin.
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That's actually shite, 50's a big one! They're all big ones but anything divisible by 10? They need to make themselves available.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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John McGuirk • @john_mcguirk • 1h
Myself, @OdohertyI64991, @DavQuinn, @danobrien20, @OHanlonEilis and @LPerrins have a weekly free state west brit cunt club dinner if you'd like to join. More than welcome.


Greachán O'Ceallaigh
@MightBe
The lady's you tagged here mighty wanna think twice, you're under investigation for sexual harassment after you allegedly felt up a colleague at a dinner event.


John McGuirk ® @john_mcguirk

She should be so lucky.
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@MightB...• 12m • ...
Never gonna beat those creepy vibes, are ya Jawn?
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm so grateful for this pushback. I'm grateful to be seeing widespread pushback against AI because of the cost to the environment, our wallets, and our rights, but I'm worried that too few people are pushing back because it undermines our trust in expertise and experience. #spéirgorm
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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
The depths you have to plumb to make an Irish person side with the *head of the Catholic fucking church*
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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are many things to resent weaselly AI bros for but today's is making me side with the Pope again. I'm a traumatised Irish person, I shouldn't have to sit here saying "well he is making one of the stronger intellectual public contributions" or "actually he is technically elected" FREE ME
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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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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Israel team is well within its rights to honour their dead in this way, but it's also another example of the FAI getting handed their arse thanks to their cowardice, arrogance and non-existent comms strategy. Their meaningless "protests" were bound to fall flat from the very beginning.
Screenshot of a tweet from the Israeli Football Association that says: 
@UEFA
 has approved the Israel Football Association’s request for the national team to wear black armbands in tonight’s match against 
@IrelandFootball
 in memory of those murdered in the October 7 massacre.
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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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Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social
A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision. 
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
The Citizens Information website is often wrong but the fact people are relying on AI instead of it is even worse. God forbid the government should fund legal advice from properly qualified human beings
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On Philipburgh, there, that seems like a particularly crazy decision by the council?
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon's European headquarters is less than 15 minutes walk from Dáil Éireann. Government ministers and departments declined to shut down their accounts when he turned the company into a manufacturer of child sexual abuse images earlier this year
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They even say they are only 'adjacent' to this field, this is wild
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💯 this!!!!
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's a lot to take away from this. Where to start? Love the comment particularly.
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The comment!!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Abortion is reproductive healthcare, because sometimes having a child can literally kill you. And I cannot tell you how it angers me that at the same time, Black women like Tierra Walker dying, RFK cut funding for research into infant and mother mortality, to fund his security detail.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Receiving lifesaving medical care" after a botched execution is the most American thing I can possibly imagine.
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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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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's exactly it, your brain refuses the logic that you could be *so* betrayed
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't even think it's denial exactly, it's such a straightforward 'this wasn't supposed to happen and so my brain can't process it' and the reaction is just so delayed.Took me 5 years to speak myself and it wasn't denial, I didn't have the words or the tools to put any kind of a mental shape on it
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Cannot begin to describe the rage of seeing clients refused citizenship over Mickey Mouse infringements when actual government bodies ROUTINELY flaunt the law with ZERO consequences #speirghorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
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Tusla in breach of High Court special care direction again over capacity issues
Retention remains a problem in units where 10 staff members per child can be required
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unencrypted??? Da fuck??
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Think I'll save this post! Usually if I leave it too late then I'm trying not to snack *while* I cook. Shocking I know!!
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My neighbourhood WhatsApp has them too, they advertised our street BBQ with one when like we've loads of great photos from down the years and no one in them has 6 fingers!
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Miridescent @miridescent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't get this, I am not a remotely artistic person but I just think the AI signs are off-putting in their own right, regardless of where you even stand on AI. They're just bad, too busy by far!!
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Prolly the worst place to ask this, but if you're a small business in Dublin who have used AI to create flyers/posters/menus for your business, I'd would like to hear from you.
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