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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lovely cover of La Boheme in Arabic and French by Nikotine Beirut Awesome play on words: la in Arabic is 'no' so she goes from la boheme to 'la tensani' (don't forget me) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-pT...
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La Bohème x Sabree Aleel (LIVE) - Arabic Cover by Nikotine Beirut
YouTube video by Nikotine Beirut نيكوتين بيروت
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 19h
Stunning. Thanks for that.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... Link. Thank you Hannah.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some more truths being shared about Jamie Bryson. This time from a Protestant who stands against Bryson and the shite he spouts. It's great to see people on both sides speaking out against the bigots in their community. You can follow them @cabaret_ross on TikTok and Insta
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Mairéad @mairead3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oíche mhaith @brilliantshane.bsky.social Blish @blishbarson.bsky.social Phil @philbraun.bsky.social Ciara @ciaraioch.bsky.social Siobhán @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social & Darach @darach.bsky.social Special shout out to @Cabaret_ross for clip
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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
IIIIIIII Want to beeEeeeee Anarchy
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Greetings from Occupied Athens. As Marco Rubio is visiting, we are in lockdown. The boss of our rulers demanded that Athenians are under lock and key so that he feels safe as he inspects his troops. One day we shall be free again. But not today. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...
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Rubio arrives in Athens ahead of meetings, business deals | eKathimerini.com
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Athens late Tuesday for a visit expected to see the signing of a series of deals on new US weapons purchases by Greece.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
yesterday I spoke at the TS Lombard conference on Capital Markets, and it was shocking how little investors talked about the AI bubble, at least on the stage. everyone is pretending that 40% growth in US tech stocks in the past 6 months is not a mania but God's productivity gift.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I missed Econ Twitter, so I'm launching my new Substack to provide a space for us to have a serious conversation about Anti-Fascist Economics. ✉️ Subscribe now - isabellamweber.substack.com
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Dublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TD Paul Murphy said the Irish people should not accept being "held hostage to the demands of US corporations that are using Ireland as a conduit to a corporate tax haven". Amongst other measures proposed by the party include a 10% pay increase to public sector workers, raise disability payments to
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PBP proposes tax on millionaires, corporation tax hike
People Before Profit is proposing a new tax on multimillionaires as well as increasing the corporation tax to 20% as part of its alternative budget package.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Super Intelligence Force" is the name of the club your little brother had with his two mates when they were 7 years old that you weren't allowed to join because it was a SECRET and NO GIRLS
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wot not even decomposing lettuce residue, somewhere near the back?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026
Toddler Scientists Finally Determine Number Of Peas That Fit Into Ear Canal theonion.com/toddler-scientists-fin…
Toddler Scientists Finally Determine Number Of Peas That Fit Into Ear Canal
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have read the article and still don't get it. Even with socks and sandals on. [Proud owner of a set of WWN mugs.]
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Oisin Coghlan @oisinc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This iconic photo of Bertie Ahern in the Tolka flood waters in 2002, was taken by Colin Keegan, who died in traffic collision last Saturday. Colin was kind enough to let us use the photo for free in the first postcard campaign I ran in @foeireland.bsky.social in 2005. May he rest in peace.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Im getting my covid vax & flu shot. Cant wait!!
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Flu and #Covid #vax today. Feeling woozy, headachey - but glad I did it.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quite. But... ...great to see the Shakepearean word orison being deployed again. I dunno why has stuck in my memory. Now I am racking my brain for which play it comes from. Towards the end of one? Hamlet?
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The US military fighter jets that landed at Shannon Airport on Saturday dropped missiles on Iran earlier this year. Micheál Martin lied to journalists when he said armed US soldiers – deployed for the illegal war on Iran – weren’t landing at the airport. www.ontheditch.com/fighter-jets...
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Fighter jets used to bomb Iran land at Shannon Airport
They launched a combined 35 missiles during Operation Epic Fury.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
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New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’
Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...
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DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN
YouTube video by MONKyMAN
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel is a safe haven for Jews* * as long as they commit themselves to absolute ethnosupremacy over indigenous Palestinians www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
just say the rings will end humanity, they'll be queueing around the block for the shares. Simples.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...
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Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Sure, it'll be grand."
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cheapskate sociopathy.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This tells us that OpenAI and Anthropic know that they can only cash out if they have the US government force people to use their wares.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Indian dairymen were summoned...today for allowing their cattle to stray on the paddy fields [at the top of Silom Road where it converges with Rama IV Road]." Might these "Indian dairymen" be related to the Hindu-Muslim cattle operation that founded Sri Maha Mariamman a 20 minute walk away?
A map showing the intersection of Silom and Rama IV Road as being a 22 minute walk from the main Hindu temple that served as a community center for Indian herders around the turn of the century
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirY
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AI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warnings
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
better products at cheaper prices The American, Japanese, German car manufacturers once knew this Now it seems that only the Chinese & Korean car makers know how to deliver value to customers Tesla's Market Cap ~$1500 billion BYD's Market Cap ~$120 billion cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heartening to see a strong response against this nostalgia for the Troubles. Thanks for being there, Paul.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026
I hope that people power has stopped the Orange Order today. We are in a dangerous moment with powerful forces trying to drag people back into sectarian violence for political gain. PBP will continue to stand with Garvaghy Road residents and against sectarianism.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have been thinking recently about how what Western anthropologists have called 'ancestor worship'* is significantly a practice of care of the dead. Which includes inviting their presence. * See the Dominican and Franciscans in the early Qing dynasty.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Three years without Kate. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. -Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem #fragment
a stack of letters and photos with Kate Laird, 1968-2023.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026
Latest news at Garvaghy Road is very hopeful. It appears the PSNI have told the Orange Order they won't be able to march because of the size of the protest. It's not clear if there will be an attempt later or not. Residents are continuing to protest. People power in action.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love ravens. The always feel ancient and ageless.
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wrong tree, wrong place, an Irish forestry specialism. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forests
Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 26/09/2026
Great response to our stall against any more data centres. More and more people are waking up to the cost they impose on all of us - higher electricity bills, unbuilt housing, missed climate targets. Come to our meeting Tuesday night 7pm in the Plaza Hotel.
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Fiona Murphy @fcemurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If Israel is commending you your definitely doing something wrong #stopthegame #fai #coybig #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel build-up live: Israel commends FAI for playing game saying ‘football has won’
Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu told the Irish team that he does not want to play fixture, with others believed to share his position
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seamusflynnj.bsky.social @seamusflynnj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I said this already, the Aviva has to be empty for the next game against Austria
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry, Eamonn.
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So what should fans of this kind of football do, Eamon? Boycott the next few Ireland games in protest? That, it seems to me, is the only thing that might influence the FAI.
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Malachy McKeever @malachymckeever.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The players shouldn't have been put in this position, yes... but they had a chance to do the right thing on all our behalves and they didn't. They were also happy for the FAI to go in front of the press and say as much. Very disappointed... won't be watchin Ireland for a long time now...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>
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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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prefermastodon.bsky.social @prefermastodon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mamdani's fixed smile is giving me: "Who is this unbelievable gobshite? Keep smiling..."
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 24/09/2026
Supports also need to be expanded to those who currently can't benefit - it's scandalous that there is still no minimum efficiency standards for renters, for example.
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