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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 18h

A very large number of people in the West still believe that Israeli occupation of Palestine and southern Lebanon and Syrian territory can be solved via Israeli elections, that majority of Israeli voters would choose peace. It's like expecting the war in Ukraine to end through Russian elections.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 14h

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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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Keits @keits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This isn't an accident. Its LLM and Image/VideoGen's biggest marketing success.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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Lynn 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...

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How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland

The 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

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the state has been in breach of its obligation to provide disabled children with assessments of need within six months for almost twenty years, which is as long a statutory right for disabled children to get an assessment of need within six months has existed

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And again, gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory - all university level subjects - you are not going to encounter them at primary or secondary levels. What these muppets want is to shut down any age appropriate discussion of sex, sexuality & identity in 1st & 2nd schools.

Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitle

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another illustration that the new hardline immigration policies are completely vibes led and all about vice signalling, not evidence led in any way.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is lovely.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Edgar Allan Hoe @dlcrumbdump.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 9 cops that were involved in the killing of Ibrahima Barry were all declared innocent today and we’re supposed to believe the police and justice system in Germany isn’t deeply fucking racist. Fuck this country. On so many fucking levels.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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TheGamer @thegamerweb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.

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Inside Rockstar's Union Busting Trial

We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.

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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man it's like, really annoying to be someone who cares about AI usage in the FGC because we got people hyping up SF4 rollback and XDZW when both were slapped together with AI, oh but the person who made SF4 rollback says they don't like the term "vibecoded" because they had a plan, fuck outta here.

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 01/10/2026

you should believe women, and take accusations of misconduct seriously. if you want to be a moral person, you really don't have a choice in the matter.

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Moss @soothemoss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

would appreciate help with getting food this week, any amount helps

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know what to say. This is just awful 😞

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Today, LGBTQI+ organisations, community members and allies in Ireland are standing alongside the LGBTQI+ community in Turkey to say that they are not alone." Read 👉 buff.ly/8b6M8YS #GCNnews

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching cis people across the water go weak at the knees over Burnham who used some nice words in a speech is kinda wild tbh. Already his track record on trans people and the north of Ireland is abysmal like. The signs aren't good.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the banning-plastic-straws of the planning world.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why yes, of course you can build out your gigantic 72,500 m2 energy and resource-sucking data centre, but be sure to “encourage staff to use public transport, cycling & walking”. Beyond parody from the crack squad at An Coimisiún Pleanala. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Dublin Comic Arts Festival @dublincomicarts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's time to start our exhibitor thread for the October edition of DCAF! A quick reminder of when and where – 11th October in Bohemian Football Club, Dalymount Park, Dublin 7. Let’s MEET OUR ARTISTS!

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This story has really annoyed me. These tech billionaires LARPing as aristocrats bestowing their noblesse oblige on the local peasants. Just think about how many sports clubs you could fund if you taxed Facebook properly.

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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bored of this now. Leave disabled people alone you fascist cunts.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey so in case you don't want to do the math, I've got you. 0.00006934% That's how much 150000 is of Zuck's estimated between worth of 254.4 billion.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The Just Transition Commission, an independent body set up by the Government in 2024, said it is 'particularly concerned' about the planned fare hikes at a time when €100m a month is being spent on cutting excise duty cuts."

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Minister rejects calls to scrap planned public transport fare hikes as €100m-a-month fuel excise cuts continue

Climate Minister Darragh O’Brien on Tuesday morning defended the upcoming fare increases

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

David Courell and members of the FAI Board are due before the Oireachtas Sports Committee at midday on Wednesday. We will be outside Leinster House from 11.30am, join us. They must not cross the Palestinian picket line again, they must not play apartheid Israel on Sunday. #StopTheGame

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Discussion poster as seen in Vancouver.

A black-and-white poster on the city pole that says Community can we have a safe route for our kids to walk back to school
City: no a driver might get mad

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i always think seeing a friend really in their element, doing something they enjoy and excel at, is one of the greatest joys in life. and one of the coolest things about getting older is that folk have had time to get SO good at stuff

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sincerity is a precious resource The people providing it are just as valuable It would be far better to leave the world behind having reinforced the values you lived by and actually standing for something, than to spend your life painting over everything meaningful with irony and indifference.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look at the state of this shite! 14 steps for a hrt script with a committee deciding if you're able to make decisions for yourself about your own body. They want to force these rules on private healthcare and you can never be free of the bastards. This will make the wait-list 50yrs within 5yrs.

Lots of flowery language around trans healthcare that means nothing

A Draconian set of rules to try and control trans people's Bodies

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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026

if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒

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Còmm slots 0/1 @milliafeet.vip · 23/09/2026

Còmms open. Offering plain sketches, no colour, like these two for roundabout 20€, based on complexity.

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