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From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Plate 53 Easdale Island, Argyll And Bute The smallest of a cluster of slate islands in the Firth of Lorn, Inner Hebrides, Easdale experienced a peak in demand for its slate in the 19th century. At this time, up to 500 people lived & worked on the island. By 1960s...

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 18h

This book is superb. A must read.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 21h

As many Classics students will be studying Greek tragedy this semester, I feel obligated to repost this modern adaptation of Oedipus Rex. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkM...

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Oedipus the Movie *WARNING: contains vegetable sensuality* (2004) short film

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 22h

I would like all of these items.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 23h

Less of a bug, more of a selling point.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 23h

Work to rule is the 'value' you get for the money you pay. If you want more, pay more. They didn't complete the previous agreement and they didn't bother setting up anything new.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 23h

Value for money, he says? Also, "any new deal that emerges would protect lower-paid workers, who he said did “particularly well out of previous agreements”." Has he missed the bit about inflation crippling people because wages don't keep up?

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 23h

Opportunity to have your say: the Global Climate Observing System Status Report and High Priority Action Plan are now in open review until Nov 25th. The link to register thanks to our friends @ipcc.bsky.social is at: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/gco... 🧵

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

They won't though. They just pay lip service to decency. ... a fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

You can tell a lot about how deeply someone has thought about human cognition, consciousness and the nature of the mind by how readily they attribute those things to AI.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

One of my workplaces is staffed entirely by PhDs. The office kitchen has a sign by the toaster. It reads: Please do not butter bread before placing in toaster. Lemme tell you. Signs like that don’t happen because ONE person did it ONE time.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

he could immediately fund more than half of this by scrapping the €150m allocation for "AI upskilling"

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Are they going to do anything? Not likely. Israel could threaten a nuclear attack and they'd still do nothing.

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Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'

Alt: Alan Partridge Shrugs

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Thei did the Masshe? Thei did the MONSTERE Masshe? Yn thys economye?

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Untitled νοῦς game @pneumismatist.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The year is 2032. The Irish Defence Forces are air dropping copies of Conversations with Friends over Britain. US Vice President Mario Lopez leads the hunt for Ms. Rachel's ragtag team of well-read resistance fighters in the Appalachian mountains. Work on the Dublin Metro Link has yet to begin.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

One of the many joys of supervising a PhD is that it gives you a good excuse to read things you've been meaning to read for ages. Got to round out what has been a hectic week by reading this excellent piece from Jagjeet Lally on Fenians, Islam and anti-imperialism. academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

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‘Mahomedan Fenians’: Anti-Imperialism, the Islamic World and Irish Republican Thought, c.1848–1885*

Abstract. If Irish republicanism (or Fenianism) after 1848 was sometimes articulated through the critique of British imperialism in Afro-Asia, by the 1870s

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 16/10/2026

What's the point of negotiations if there isn't a commitment in advance to give an inflation-busting pay raise to workers who have seen their real incomes eroded by 5% over the last few years? #FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I've just been looking at other work by this Ukrainian sculptor, Volodymyr Tsisaryk, really striking. I love this piece.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

When I was caught smoking at the ripe old age of 10, my dad sat me down and gave me a big lecture while he sat there smoking. I was also not impressed, so I get it. And I do count it as hypocrisy if you're asking people not to use GenAI while using it yourself.

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Treat Harvard Scientist like a former scientist, Irish man says.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A direct experience of what it's like to be on the receiving end of oppression and dispossession, administered by the unyielding, stony-faced representatives of those convinced of their own righteousness. youtu.be/KZivwbaUsnI?... Riveting. A brave documentary.

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5 Broken Cameras | Official Trailer

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

A new Matthew Herbert album (always cause for celebration in my house) made entirely from samples related to items in food banks. There are now more than 2800 food banks in the UK. matthewherbert.bandcamp.com/album/theukh...

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theukhasmorefoodbanksthanbranchesofmcdonalds.com, by Matthew Herbert

11 track album

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Carefully curated resumes and social media feeds may depict academic life as a series of professional successes, when in reality it can be demanding, lonely and precarious work. Discover our collection of articles, books, blogs and podcasts: sales.degruyterbrill.com/content/me…

A few matches, one burnt out. Text in front of the matches: Mental Health in Academia. Who looks after the people who do the research?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Banning bookes ys terrible. But cutting entyre fieldes of researche by defunding universityes and closing departments doth also destroye knowledge & freedom. Universityes are the source of bookes on specialized topics. Yf you fighte booke bans, plese consider following news about universitye cuts.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

GARGLE MY BALLS, DONAL MURPHY

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m especially frustrated by the piece uncritically repeating Pangram’s “no false positives” claim when I know writer friends who have run their own work through & had it flag their 100% human-written sentences as machine-generated. We must doubt any company’s claim about its product having 0 fails.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Thinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >>

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Times doing their usual reframing of a straightforward case of an author and publisher facing the long arm of the law and deciding to stand up for their principles. So naturally, it’s time to speak to an (allegedly) racist author that was so inconvenienced the BBC ran a six-part series on her?

“Times Radio: Sally Rooney could spark ‘purity spiral’ after pulling books from UK shelves over Palestine Action support
Thursday October 15 2026, 10.10am, The Times
Sally Rooney’s decision to pull her works from UK shelves over her previous commitment to donate the proceeds of her book sales to Palestine Action is “unnerving” and could spark a “purity spiral”, says author Kate Clanchy, who received an apology from her publisher four years after her book received an online backlash for alleged racism.”

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 15/10/2026

From The Last Stand photobook. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012 On 19 August 1942, on the beach of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, a group from No 4 Commando landed with a mission to assault and destroy the German Hess battery above Varengeville, which...

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today saw a really significant strike- the biggest in, really, decades. It happened because the people in the Government (politicians and civil service management alike) had no experience with how to address a strike. It had never happened to them and they were all over the shop in responding.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gardaí Called To RDS After Reports Members Of World's Largest Copyright Theft Gang Inside Building waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/1…

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK but how will they sell any books without spines? 🤔

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 gobshite

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sally Rooney 💚🤍🧡🇵🇸👏🏻

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Neither the Irish Wheelchair Association or the International Wheelchair Basketbal Federation has responded to repeated requests for comment and clarification from me. Israel is currently blocking the delivery of 900 wheelchairs from Australian charities sent to child amputees in Gaza.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"if you don't like public sector pay go to the private sector", a chara, if private sector pay is to remain high it will be benchmarked against public sector pay. A rising tide will in fact lift all boats. If you think the public sector is so great, go leave the private sector.

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AI is software! Software cannot "go rogue"!! It simply does what it is instructed to do. If you cannot control your software that is your responsibility and displays your lack of understanding how to secure systems. I'm tired of these type of statements from AI companies.

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Tired Of This Crap Smiling

ALT: Tired Of This Crap Smiling

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In the first eight months of 2026 the state refused 58.8 percent of Palestinian long-term visa applications, up from 8.9 percent in 2025, while the combined refusal rate for all other nationalities only increased slightly from 22.3 percent to 25.4 percent Government says it’s not a change in policy

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The CEO of Ryanair making a quip that French air traffic controllers go on strike "because it's a Tuesday" got warm giggles from the audience. So that's the vibe at the AI Summit taking place during a public sector strike and which afforded all of 5 mins of speaking time to 1 rep from a trade union.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

clearly, the Irish government is completely out of touch with the Irish public. I've said this before and I'll say it again, expect this to backfire. I see it with my own students who are becoming more and more skeptical of AI every year

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Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Israel's government and army actions involving any situation with Palestinians 'shameful', Human with brain says.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13/10/2026

#OtD which most likely translates to 13 Oct c1157 BC, the first recorded strike in history was first reported. In ancient Egypt, gangs of construction workers building for Ramses III launched sit-down strikes in protest at insufficient food rations shop.workingclasshistory.com/search

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