Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinGavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 3hThank you to everyone who supported and shared this. It is with great sadness I can share that @eoghan.eurosky.social died in Berlin this morning. He will be *sorely* missed. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. 4258
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 3hWhen they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 171109463
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 6hI agree! I keep conveying this reasonable advice to the fascists, but they keep assaulting the people having lunch, setting fire to the café, starting a pogrom, slashing lifeboats in the sea, attacking non-white people in the streets , etc. For this failure to cure ideological bias, I blame the left 56816
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 6hMost of the UK’s neighbours have conversion therapy bans France Spain Belgium The Netherlands Germany Norway Portugal & around 30 others incl; Vietnam Argentina Canada Samoa Conversion practices are psychological & physical torture most often targeting trans children. Sonia Sodha disgusts me. 715939
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDrewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 20hI've said it before and I'll post it again: we should embrace and deify TREMORS as much as we do JAWS.bloody-disgusting.com'Tremors' Kicked Off the 1990s With the Decade's Own 'Jaws' [We Love '90s Horror]The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different 611509247
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinBrian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 20hI put in 4 entries into a local camera club print competition (they were for public exhibition in Waterford today). I won the damn thing! (Won the Intermediate category: all 4 shots got top marks). I'm flabbergasted & delighted, and I am getting a medal for winning! 1511915
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 17hJack Nicholson & William Shatner in a 1966 episode of “Dr. Kildare.” 501137126
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinBrian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Terrible long distance photo on my phone. But here’s a Kingfisher underneath the Castletown River Bridge in Dundalk this morning. #Speirgorm 51096
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 18hWhat strikes you about the resident' protest scenes is the sheer craic that is going on, with trad bands doing sessions and little girls dancing. And then cut to some auld lads on the verge of death in bowler hats like something from two centuries ago baffled the croppies won't lie down. 0141
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 18hHearing @caseynewton.bsky.social say he’s planning to start posting on Twitter again hit me harder than I expected. What the hell 1121
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinJane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love that the more famous CMAT gets, the wider the blast radius gets for Bertie Ahern’s roasting. It also helps that he definitely cares about this. I hope witnessing entire arenas singing his name pejoratively makes him feel the first shame of his life 65711
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinWendy 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 912375
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinCarol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 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 413293
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'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 14116
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinKatieGeeks @katiegeeks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026hey friends... can't believe i'm saying this is 2026, but the video for the new rolling stones song may be very relevant to some of your interests (if your interests include Alexander Skarsgård) youtu.be/3e5LxvRZjVw?...youtu.beThe Rolling Stones - Mr Charm (Official Video)YouTube video by TheRollingStonesVEVO 77020
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 03/10/2026The future of America is that there are five cities: * San Francisco * Da Pope-icago * Acela Corridor Megalopolis * Cascadia * MegaDenver 1717919
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026The most successful ethnic cleansing and genocide campaign in world history, is the United States takeover of North America. There were almost 100 million Native Americans living here. Now you can go to a place named something like Ohio, or Malibu, or Miami, and not see a single native American.🤷🏿♂️ 17319
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026This is a central nazi belief on a level that most Americans cannot comprehend. Because Adolf Hitler genuinely expected England to stay out of WW2. Because he saw kinship with England. Because members of the British royal family were full-blown nazis. Hitler was just copying England, bar 4 bar. 916142
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026since this has come up a few times i want to just say: he's completely lying about how responsible he is for how the zizians turned out. they took classes at CFAR, his recruiting front, and their core schism-disputes were with Michael Vassar, one of Yudkowsky's periodic lieutenants 116710
Reposted by Paddy O’Loughlindepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4852571249
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinGerry McDied 10 years ago, on a night just like this @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 061
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Aside: Speirgorm can we take a moment to acknowledge just how much the old LLS title sequence *absolutely* slaps... 45310
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 40119333100
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinAoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Always funny when people get pissy about, of all things, *work to rule*. They are still doing their jobs, to the letter of the law in fact. That is causing problems is a serious indictment of how much extra people are expected to do in their job. 311648
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Don't think I've seen it reported anywhere that the Dublin District Family Courts have not been sitting for the past couple of days due to a work-to-rule 01110
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinMaria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only reason this is necessary is a small group of extremists have painted themselves as representing all Protestants in the North. And the media, particularly in the Republic, has mostly let them get away with it. 2133
Reposted by Paddy O’Loughlinsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it. 15837197
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability. 471450343
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Aside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms?? 1626732
Reposted by Paddy O’Loughlinmmrilla @mmrilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today's Meme from @desveaux.bsky.social 618285
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinLynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#speirgorm Re the Cornell case, this isn't just an American thing or a frat boy thing. It happened here too. And this is one that got to trial. Most don't. I hope Jane Doe gets justice. But as women know only too well. She might not. www.theguardian.com/news/2018/de...theguardian.comHow the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided IrelandThe long read: After a trial that dominated the news, the accused were all found not guilty. But the case had tapped into a deeper rage that has not died down 22917
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinFallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, would you look at that! The owner of the Last Ditch bar is saying that the accusations against Noire in that Boston Globe article weren't true. He never called for the bar to be "firebombed." The clear purpose of the hit piece was to cause problems for queer and disabled people. 16021
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDavid @crookedknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does AI whip the llama's ass? I submit to you that it does NOT. 17315
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is. 1153083
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441720334
Reposted by Paddy O’Loughlinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i can't think of another instance of the release of an extended director's cut hurting a movie and director's reputation as much as DONNIE DARKO's did 3729516
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinClaire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures 13291125
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026Spectre is my favorite vulnerability class because it’s inherent to the way the system is built, and the only real way to fix it for good is to burn it all down. As an anarchist, I can appreciate that 614919
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Evergreen 81934613
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 01/10/2026The Office of Public Works (OPW) has been renting residential properties to its staff and retired workers for only a fraction of their market value, an audit by Revenue has found. jrnl.ie/7179368jrnl.ieOPW renting properties to staff and retired workers for a fraction of their market valueThe audit of how the OPW manages its 92 residential properties produced a long list of damning conclusions. 2117
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinJessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like I have so much I want to say but it’s just this incoherent ramble. But do you know how much it weighs on me to be the one woman on staff at GameSpot? To be one of VERY few women in the industry? To be one of ever fewer moms? To walk into press events and be the *sole* woman? 161026134
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11846891166
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691715606
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This was the argument of my grandfather's book, Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake Says right at the beginning, he's against it absolutely for moral reasons, but he ain't here to talk about any of that Published in 1974 922235
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinzOz 🇵🇸 @zozimus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Greatest country on Earth” folks. Barbaric, vindictive and cruel. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTennessee death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after attempted execution, lawyer saysHer lawyer says Pike is being "provided life-saving measures" after two syringes of pentobarbital. 043
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026WTF is he talking about? Unions have been trying to talk for months, if not longer, and the government has just dragged its heels 2164
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 30/09/2026Industrial action by over 100,000 public sector workers in Ireland doesn’t even make the front page of the public broadcaster, RTÉ. And what it does say includes a lot of misinformation from the Irish government who are the ones refusing to enter negotiations without preconditions. #SIPTU #Speirgormrte.ieOver 100,000 public sector workers begin work-to-ruleMore than 100,000 public sector workers in areas such as health, education and local authorities have begun industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule. 1309
Reposted by Paddy O’LoughlinPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 26/09/2026whatever is going on inside large language models I no longer want to know about it 9445
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2qmeigsng3rhkgmqihius4g/bafkreia7cdisf6qfj6fetyejhbmojfdwomrxs6pib6za3zu377t6pfypry)
