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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Real talent recognised with work by another real talent! #youlovetoseeit

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So glad he never apologized!

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Make a band deadly: Going to War, on Drugs.

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nasty actions like this should not be tolerated. Silence in cases like this is endorsement.

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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

Now feels like a good time to share that the mean gender bonus gap in the GAA is 47.2%, and that I only know that recently because their pay gap report was MONTHS late. Metadata in the PDF suggests it was created in May of this year. The deadline was November last year...

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is nothing short of sensational!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you, Martyn Turner, you're a star.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/09/2026

“There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane, and yet she smiled, for Jacob's Creek was 25% off with Club card all week”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great list of great women writers - I'd add Emma Donoghue

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There’s something in these all of these anecdotes about Dolly’s understanding of bodily autonomy and self-actualization and how those are tied to *all* women’s ability to pursue and achieve their dreams but a cis gay guy like me is not the person to write it.

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If anyone in Dublin is looking for unused RAM, I'm selling mine. I bought the wrong size (physically wrong size!) for my case. Basically, my PC case won't close, so I had to buy more RAM to make up for the wrong size 😭 Missed the window for returns, so yeah, DM me if interested.😅

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16gb (2x8gb) DDR4 3600MHz

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I heard this explained as the potluck theory of free speech. Found the original post but not sure who the author is.

I was thinking of the "free exchange of ideas" last night. You know, it's not like a market, it's like a potluck. Everyone brings their own ideas and you sample others and some are familiar with a twist, some are interesting but not to your taste, some are bad, some are lifechanging. You can get into a discussion about recipes or technique, or what have you as people talk about the food.

If some brings mashed potatoes, you can debate the appropriateness for a potluck: is it too bland? Will it get cold on the table? Do potatoes make up too much of our diet?

But if someone puts a steaming platter of dog shit on the table, we're not going to debate it. And when we tell them to take it off the table, it's not because we are afraid of eating their dog shit or we think that it's going to revolutionize lunch but we don't want to allow that to happen.

We tell them to get it off the table because there is no debate to be had. It's dog shit. It's not an open question, it's not a matter of palettes or picky eaters.

That's why we don't engage with neo-nazis and white supremacists, and it's why we don't (or shouldn't) let them come to the potluck.

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

does anyone reading this in the greater dublin area want a dehumidifier unit, ~1m high. used it when we lived in a small very damp apartment, especially when drying clothes indoors (using balcony was banned) especially during the winter. pulls 10 litres of water a day out of the air, can drop off

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

name five albums that helped shape you: Dubliners - A Drop of the Hard Stuff Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace WIth God The Smiths - The Smiths Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This promises to be very special. Interesting/curious that there's no Dublin date.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to shift 60 last tickets for my Fringe show to break even. I’m a Scottish folksinger, performing self-penned, trad ballads and translations in Scots My shows are 21 and 23. Any support/reposts would go a long way. ❤️ 🎟️ Tickets → bit.ly/fringeif

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Emjayess @em-jay-ess.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I knew I saved this for a reason!

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

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Fiach Mac Aodha @rockyroader.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Fish is abducted with force and lashes out, in its first ever contact with a human.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So illegal. And he brags about it.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reality TV where I Gordon Ramsey the fuck out of inaccessible businesses. “Oh, JUST one step? And how many steps is this 60 pound wheelchair hopping up, huh? Do you want me to try? Okay, then you can mop my blood off your artisanal foyer. How’s that sound?”

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

I've seen people suggest you look at the eclipse through a colander. Don't do that, you'll strain your eyes.

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"My year has been good and I have a full wardrobe of suits!" 🕺🏼- Séamie Seán Fleadh26 🎉 Beo anocht ag 21:30 ar TG4 & TG4.ie 📺

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵

12 boys rout fascists
Twelve boys, some of them less than 10 years old, went to Weymouth beach and barracked Mr Robert Saunders, a Fascist speaker.
He ignored them, so they went away and returned with toffee tins half filled with stones.
Using the tins as rattles, they made so much noise that Mr Arthur England, a 63-year-old Weymouth magistrate and superintendent of the beach, approached to stop them.
A crowd of holiday-makers, sympathising with the children, booed Mr England and a sock filled with sand caught him behind the ear.
In the sand battle that followed, the Fascists were pelted off the beach.
About 5,000 people followed them to their car, overturned the trailer attached it, and filled the loud speaker equipment with sand.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

Séamas O’Reilly, an author, (no, me neither) ploughs the same furrow: “Haters focusing on Liddle’s violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it,” he writes.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 04/08/2026

🎙️ Tá caidreamh aisteach ag comhlachtaí stát agus an rialtas maidir leis an síneadh fada in Éírinn, ach cén fáth go bhfuil sé comh deacair an fhadhb seo a réiteach i 2026? Labhair muid le @grainnenia.bsky.social chun fáil amach! pod.link/1452246930/e...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bravo again Richie Sadlier, speaking on Ireland AM on how it is unthinkable that as apartheid Israel mass murders Palestinians the FAI would fulfil the Nations League fixtures. #StopTheGame Video Virgin Media TV

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

in the Star Trek TNG universe there is no such thing as a Data centre

the Star Trek TNG ensemble. Data is on the right

the Star Trek TNG ensemble. Data is on the left

the Star Trek TNG ensemble. Data is on the top right

the Star Trek TNG ensemble. Data is on the bottom right

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dublin folk! Would anyone like to swap two tickets for the sold-out THURSDAY GOAT gig (which I want) for two tickets for the sold-out FRIDAY GOAT gig (which I have). I appear to have double booked myself.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Breaking news

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