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Philip K Hole

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Senator Tom Clonan is a former Officer in the Defence Forces. He knows this stuff inside out.
irishexaminer.com
The spin and misinformation around the triple lock is eye-watering
Suggesting there is ‘no link’ between the triple lock and our neutral status is akin to suggesting there is no link between the steering wheel and the brakes on a car, writes Senator Tom Clonan
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok rte, pile of shit season as it was, you get a tv licence this year. #traitorsirl
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Keepie uppie vs keep ye down
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Peter Branigan @peterbranigan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A 6% increase in public transport use, roughly four times the population increase Record numbers using the trains in the history of the state Today's announcement about a public transport price increase is a farcical failure of policy, completely incoherent #Ireland #ClimateEmergency
transportforireland.ie
Passenger Journeys Up 6% Across the TFI Network in 2025
The NTA today announced that 6% more passenger journeys were made across the TFI network in 2025 when compared to the previous year
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I asked my girlfriend if Pluto was smaller than the moon. "I don't know" she said. "Maybe it's just very far away".
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jean Paul Sartre did not write a 1,000 page phenomenological ontology, that he'd been thinking about for years, in the space of four weeks while taking speed just for today's press to say ADHD is made up.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Using Meta's Ray-Bans, it’s possible to identify a stranger's full name, home address and personal details within approximately one minute simply by looking at them on the street."
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...
404media.co
Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Meta using disabled people to justify the obscene pervert glasses & the disgusting violation of privacy for everyone, everywhere. Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers. It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion. #spéirghorm novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
novaramedia.com
Meta Used AI to Target Disabled and Pregnant Workers for Layoffs, Lawsuit Claims
Dozens of workers are suing Meta over claims it used AI to identify workers for mass layoffs, with those taking disability or maternity leave disproportionately targeted.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
“Developers are capable of incorporating privacy into the principles of inclusive design and using inclusive design to build their tools—particularly those they are going to market to the disability community—limiting the need for trade-offs. With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
techpolicy.press
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 12/08/2026
I read the article. I take the pill he took, and based on that experience, if I'm completely honest, I don't think he took it. I think he's lying.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/08/2026
A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public. jrnl.ie/7122123
jrnl.ie
Concerns over supporting data centres ahead of transport or housing scrubbed from government report
Several aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector were later cut from the final version released to the public.
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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There's a lot of issues all wrapped up in here obviously, but the extent to which some English people believe that the Irish are lower ranked subjects, who should be forced in line by coercion (economic or otherwise), is never less than staggering to me.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I find the claim HIGHLY dubious. Any future invite only ecosystem would benefit a lot from starting as far away from California as possible. Start in Madagascar.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I wasn't convinced that data centres are using *that* much drinking water, but the refusal of the government to even look into it makes me way more suspicious tbh
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Minister McGrath unilaterally agreed to every public service desk jockey being given Microsoft's Co-Pilot at a time when it had no recognisable value proposition or justifiable use case, with TOS saying that it was "for entertainment purposes only".
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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 17/07/2026
Multiple Irish State agencies are using software for internal messages that runs directly on the computers of companies they are tasked with investigating and regulating. Most of them come from a country with a history of global surveillance, unjustified military aggression and genocide enablement.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 15/07/2026
Commentator was saying a bunch of stuff in German I was not following until he said, in carefully enunciated English, "sixty years of hurt"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...
independent.ie
Minister dined with Meta lobbyists at US ambassador’s residence amid US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech
Peter Burke’s intimate dinner with the tech giant’s reps was aimed at discussing ‘the digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency’
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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 10/07/2026
Hit the data centres with the nighttime restrictions first. If you try to look at a website after midnight you just see Aertel instead.
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Orla Kelleher @orlakelleher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
IT op-ed by @aideenod.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social & myself arguing that President Catherine Connolly should refer bills that undermine the Climate Act & flout childrens rights to Supreme Court @maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
You could for example do commercial law, like Jim O’Callaghan did, where you can charge approximately the same amount for an hour of your time that he’s now paying for an entire criminal case start to finish
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Fair.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm anticipating a huge amount of Euroscepticism and a slow swell of support for Irexit across the political spectrum of Facebook, Instagram and, God help them, Threads users over the coming months. The only tool I have is deriding the platform users. It's really past time to push people off them.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What's it like inside your head?
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Cork LUAS 🙅‍♂️ CMAT (Cork Metropolitan Are Transit) 🙇‍♂️
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Kevin @yellingatsoccer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It's ridiculous that I'd look like less of a sex offender if I had mirrored aviators.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Lmao, get fucked
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"What is striking is not just that deprived areas host some data centres: it is that they host almost all of them. Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically-deprived areas."
tasc.ie
Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are in economically-deprived areas
In March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026).
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 03/06/2026
The Irish Times view on the Government’s data centre argument: how not to make the case
irishtimes.com
The Irish Times view on the Government’s data centre argument: how not to make the case
The figures earnestly recited by Minister for Finance Simon Harris deserve scrutiny
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The FT has a sensible article pointing out that none of the AI industry’s sums add up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The impossible maths of the AI boom
giftarticle.ft.com
The impossible maths of the AI boom
The IPO of big sector companies is probably nothing more than a transfer of investment risk to retail investors
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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
great overview of the AI Ready debacle by @elaineburke.bsky.social for The Journal www.thejournal.ie/readme/artif...
thejournal.ie
AI not so ready: The government's new tech literacy platform needs some improvement
AIready.ie, the new government-backed platform aimed at improving AI understanding among older users, while well-intentioned, has some initial design challenges.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Former" Go on, tell us more.
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Irish far-right are making speeches about migrants at their fuel protests.. meanwhile: 'Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all its urban homes combined, according to official figures.' Amazon AWS, Google, Equinix, Microsoft, Digital Realty, Edge Connex..
theguardian.com
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets
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Seán @regrone.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I've been accused, without fail, of being a hired actor whenever a fash demo in Cork calls for a counter. These guys just openly admit it to reporters.
John Morley is the presenter of Galway Talks on Galway Bay FM.

He told RTÉ that the protesters yesterday wanted to “get attention to their cause via the rolling protest, but they’ve called off that element and it’s very much targeting the fuel depot”.

Morley said protestors told him “they want to stop all the oil coming in and out of Galway, to bring the Government to its knees to act on their demands”.

He added that some of the hauliers protesting told him that “it was cheaper to pay themselves and their five drivers to park up at the fuel depot, than it would have been for them to be hauling large pieces of freight around Galway and the country yesterday”.
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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's baffling to me how Ireland is only on 65.30% of our quota for this (see citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...) given our apparently vehement support of Palestinians. If you've not signed yet, do it, and get 5 friends to do it too. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#... #speirgorm
citizens-initiative.europa.eu
Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This minister seems to believe that the State has no responsibility with regards to preventing a company, based here in Ireland, from providing the tools by which child sexual abuse material has been generated by its own paid subscribers. A truly bizarre thing to say. jrnl.ie/6921190
jrnl.ie
X not responsible for child sexual abuse images, individual users are - Media Minister
The minister argued that technology is moving too fast for laws to keep pace.
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Jesus Christ
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I know it’s not the same. But Simon Harris gave several interviews over the Christmas where he spoke about the impact online abuse has had on him and his family. We have Jim O’Callaghan looking for digital i.d’s. So to see this CSAM obfuscation is pretty informative and infuriating.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Nothing says you have quality products your customers love like threatening to kill their friends and family if they switch providers.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Wikihow-ish image of a Frog swimming with a scorpion on its back;
"But now we shall both surely drown", said the Frog.

"Lol" said the Scorpion, "LMAO".
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 13/12/2025
#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie
A grey cat with text: “Our beloved Ernie is missing. Richmond road/clonliffe road. Reward if found, call 0892533727 Please share”
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
dlvr.it
Paul Hosford: The Government says it’s not them — it’s us. But is that really why nothing gets built?
Record NDP funding promises transformation, yet transport and housing projects continue to drift as political choices and systemic delays collide
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Philip K Hole @pcerm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I feel like the parent of a disappointing child. I thought you were better than this, Firefox. And I wanted everyone else to think so too.
Screengrab of an excerpt from an instant message containing a link sent from a browser. The screengrab is close cropped on an insertion from the browser reading "Sent from Firefox 🦊" followed by a link to Mozzilla.
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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Timmy Dooley is a landlord and has declared income from properties in Rathfarnham and Ringsend. The cheapest one bed listed in daft in these places is 1600 a month. He also owns land in Co. Clare. #speirgorm
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New gif for "oh no how sad never mind"
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