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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

English-speaking followers! WAIT! *STORY TIME* A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…

Boulet walking in the street, compulsively noting ideas in a notebook

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Obviously having everything on the internet, this was always going to happen. At least it is a few small attacks here and there, and not a coordinated attempt to shut down all the banks, company payroll, electricity supplies, water mains, to brick cars, vans, lorries and public transport, etc […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

We need to stop associating people like this with Jewishness. It does so much damage to the religion. They are deluded people of largely Northern European ancestry with tenuous links to the middle east approx 20 to 200 generations ago, and a belief system frozen in the 1930s, who want to […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Anyone fancy appealing to the ASAI adstandards.ie, against companies selling Artificial "Intelligence"? It's a marketing term, and so existing marketing regulation should be applied.

Text taken from the preamble of the Advertising Standards Authority Code 7th edition, found here https://adstandards.ie/asa-code/

"Title: The Essence of Good Advertising

Paragraph: All marketing communications should be legal, decent, honest and truthful and should not mislead the consumer.

Paragraph: All marketing communications should be prepared with a sense of responsibility both to the consumer and to society.

Paragraph: All marketing communications should conform to the principles of fair competition as generally accepted in business.

Title: The Essence of the Code

Paragraph: The Code is applied in the spirit as well as in the letter.

Paragraph: The Code rules are indivisible; advertisers should comply, where appropriate, with all rules."

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: todon.nl/@Persona/117296612024590497 Can we move the UN out of the US? Maybe someone can calculate the centroid of the world capitals, as the location?

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

I need to find more GenZ and/or queer/trans folks to follow on Mastodon. Especially looking for more mutuals tbh. It would be nice to make some more actual friends on Fedi. Everyone should boost this to help me make more mutuals. :cyber_boost_request: And come follow me if you fit either of […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/117247024… What Ireland hasn't twigged yet since we emerged from being one of the poorest countries in Europe... That being "open for business" is NOT the way to ensure the well-being of the population. You reach a point where you need to tax […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back "Daylighted streams now pass through residential areas, parks and public spaces. Paths, small bridges, seating, playgrounds and recreational areas accompany many of them...." "... Together, however, the projects form a distributed […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

minnë insisted on a portrait for #caturday. what could I do...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

The Union Matters I don't often post anything about matters pertaining to the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT), of which I am a member, but there is something very important going on so I thought I would make an exception. In what follows, I of course speak for myself as an IFUT […]

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Hot, fresh, sugary donuts are a tradition on the beach in Portugal. Never seen this alfarroba, carob flavour before! @ml #carob #alfarroba #Portugal #BolaDeBerlim

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

When exposed to #AI #hype or #doomerism (#critihype), look out for: L.ethality I.nevitability E.xeptionalism S.uperintelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKyNdZz3Vw

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 13/05/2026

My elementary school kid had a writing assignment. Completed on a Chromebook in GDocs. She "wrote" this paragraph in her essay. I call the city schools, asking why they have the ✨ Gemini button in the app they use for writing assignments. Contract w/ Google, school can't disable.

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Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉 @twoowls73.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

The only data centre I want is a Library. Pass it on. #library

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Polls show most people believe in climate change, and think governments are not doing enough. Here are a few things that I think the ("western") public has *not* yet accepted: Feel free to add to the list 1) Air travel will have to be electrified ASAP, or largely go away 2) Sea travel will […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

My latest blog post is my first run at a generative AI policy for students. It's not what you think. I came up with a personal code of conduct first. I figure that, if I'm going to ask students to avoid genAI, I need to declare my own relationship to it […]

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

On peut le dire clairement maintenant : nous nous dirigeons vers l’un des événements thermiques les plus spectaculaires jamais observés en France tout mois confondus, totalement hors du champ statistique de ce qui a été connu jusqu’à présent en mai. C’est absolument délirant : 1/6

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Maybe I SHOULD be one of those weirdos who make a huge noisy deal about using cash, then there'd be at least one relatively normal person among them (🦝 "Relatively normal" = standing outside a bank holding up a sign that says "We need to touch the things with mass and weight that we've spent […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I'm reviewing the content and computational skills taught in a Research Data Skills module. #data #DataWrangling Apparently my knowledge of perl is pretty outdated nowadays. #perl #perl4datascience But am I crazy to want to teach them to use the *nix command line, and grep, awk and sed??? […]

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Clayfoot @clayfoot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1163346157059… US courts recently affirmed that only humans can hold copyright; generated works cannot be owned or licensed by anyone, even if a human directs or makes changes to the work. I assume the current version of Claude source code is heavily […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@nrennie/116334792227… Neat visualisation of the frequency of 4-leaf covers. Can you find it easily? (for me anyway it really stands out at a single glance, although I have to zoom in to see the leaves...)

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@greenpeace/1163013… This is quite true. And besides resilient to human damage, it is good against weather damage, and it is distributed in the sense of being local and in the hands of the population. Electricity can be removed as a tool of power and […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

I've been editing Wikiepedia for 20 years (and 1 month), averaging little more than one minor edit per year. And I'm a male. This month they are hosting **Celebrate Women** events to reduce gender-marginalisation, including tutorials, talks, and lots more […]

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Tricia Sheehy Skeffington @trshsk.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

Yikes. Ideas on where to report this are welcome. Discussing babysitting on WhatsApp with another parent: should also pay for taxi home, but for a "schoolgirl that cycles" I'd cycle them back safe. But the AI model/predictive text kicked in, and twice suggested the word 'fucks' after […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Procurement Before Prestige How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

With the military attacks on Venezuela as a last drop, and especially because of the radical US strategy to 1. Impose digital colonialism 2. Its tariffs and 3. Force the buying of US weapons, we have to make radical choices. US gov is not our friend (any more). Either we continue as a colony or […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

M. Commissioner, apart from stating the obvious what are you trying to achieve with this "warning"? Do you not believe this is exactly Israel's aim?

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

[highly reductive take about capitalism from a pinball machine repairman] When I started work at PAPA, the games were in pretty bad condition. PAPA had one tech, and five hundred pinball machines. Tech's name was Steve and he was a great guy and an excellent tech. You've never heard of him […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

It's just be around a month since I switched to a radio alarm clock. The mobile phone charges downstairs overnight, and I've managed to finish the book I've been reading since summer 2023, and 2 others... #DigitalHigiene #disconnect #bookstadon

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

#linuxVSwindows I spent a good chunk of my Saturday installing Linux on my 2018 Dell laptop. Shrinking partitions, turning off Fastboot, bitlocker, fast startup, flashing usb drives, fiddling with BIOS settings, GRUBbing around and looking for help on the miserable AI sloppy mess that the web […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115663… Seriously who buys something like a smart toilet? And did they really think someone invented a toilet with microchips and cameras, just for the purely altruistic purpose of giving them some sort of a better toilet experience?

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

RE: graphics.social/@metin/115637789413… This bit really struck me: "Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1155668… This might actually have a positive side effect. That is, of discrediting online surveys. 🙃

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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Thinking about all these repeated attempts to strip away privacy to make it easier for cops to catch bad guys. And honestly, I get their point. Figuring out who dun the crime is really hard, there's a reason TV detectives are admired as such super-smart people. But... I think it was Pratchett […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Abandoning these rankings is way overdue, IMHO: "The higher-education sector should collectively — and vocally — agree that the current rankings are not fit for purpose." www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-… Lizzie Gadd @lizziegadd is spot on, as always! #rankings #universities […]

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