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Ruth OBrien

@ruobrien.bsky.social
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Irish woman navigating menopause while thriving in the tech world. Automation evangelist, technical diver, and geek at heart. Passionate about books and movies. If you don't like my comments please be an adult and don't follow me

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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I have popcorn. The "I'm more MAGA then you!" whinefest is the gift that keeps on giving🍿
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Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’
Ex-Trump adviser denounces tech CEO’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vows to ‘take this guy down’
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Željko Rimac @zeddydado.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Good Morning Blue Sky World Central Kitchen Is in PASADENA, ALTADENA, & LA CANADA/FLINTRIDGE Pass it on for those who might need The world is a better place with a man like Chef Jose` Andres` Who has fed millions Who started this great organization WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN Thank you CHEF
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Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺 @carriesweet.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
And donate! I contribute monthly to wck.org because the need never ends.
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World Central Kitchen
Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick ac...
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost. Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires. www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
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Donate to Provide Aid to support youth Displaced by Fire, organized by Hwesu Cobb-Phillips
As a member of Bourne Family Services, our organization and members… Hwesu Cobb-Phillips needs your support for Provide Aid to support youth Displaced by Fire
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures but please don't share the location some "influencer" will go and etch their own names.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I know that everything ever invented or trending comes back eventually but even I didn't have "plague parties are back on trend" on my 2025 bingo card. Can we just have platform boots or maybe skinny jeans instead?
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
However Matthew McConaugheys recipe for his tuna salad has me intrigued. I'm just waiting for the jalapeno chips to try it out www.allrecipes.com/matthew-mcco...
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Matthew McConaughey Makes This Unhinged Recipe Every Sunday—We Had to Try It
Matthew McConaughey's flavorful tuna salad recipe has the internet buzzing. The actor adds his own spin by mixing in unique ingredients like wasabi—we had to try it for ourselves.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳💪😆😆😆😆😆😆
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It was the eggs .. just follow the eggs Oh and misogyny and racism but that was just a smoke screen for egg prices🤦‍♀️
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I use thunderbird as well it's a great thin client that gives me the functions I need without the massive resource overhead
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I've given up in outlook as it's a resource hog. I've switched back to thunderbird as it's a thinner client. I still have old outlook with archived .pst files as I have to maintain audit trails of various projects but otherwise it slows down my laptop and adds no value
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Loved Duke Nukem but my heart belongs to Network Doom. Many after hours team games across different departments and even countries in the 80s and yes we did crash the servers multiple times but it was after hours so who knew 😂
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
+1 for Wing Commander
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Julie @julie3500.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Grafton street is one of the main streets in Dublin Ireland
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
By your logic what was between Matthew Perry and his doctor, Whitney Houston and her doctor and Micheal Jackson and his doctor should be taken as sacrosanct as they are doctors not just drug pushers with a medical degree. Are you really trying to use bodily autonomy as an strawman argument? 🤦‍♀️
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
But ... but ... gas prices and the cost of eggs she never even talked about them
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
@theguardian.com does a fabulous end of year quiz. I managed to get most of the questions but the Wagatha answer really surprised me. Answers are at the end but try not to cheat
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It’s quiz time: how well do you remember 2024?
Sports, scandals, music, memes… Take our bumper quiz of all the highs and lows of the year that was
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Own the libs...
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Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Make this go viral
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
So nothing to do with the HB-1 visas aka golden handcuff being a way to exploit your staff? In the 90s when the part of the company I was working for needed actual programmers and not sales people I was on a HB-1. I worked 60-70Hr weeks as I was seconded from the UK that 💩 was stopped when HR 🚩
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Had to share so I can keep track. This is pure genius 😍
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Question? If the US pulls out of NATO and Denmark (Greenland) and Canada are still part of the pact, does that mean under article 5 that the rest of NATO has to go to war with the US for invading fellow NATO members?
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I'm surprised that they are surprised
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Thanks for this. I am dreading the hellscape we will be subjected to next year. Anyone else remember the nightmare of blood red trees
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Wishing everyone a peaceful festive season
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Just like Amy CB and co absolutely wouldn't overturn Roe Vs Wade as it was settled law for 50 years. Do they never learn
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Randy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Happy holidays! New video out now! 🎁🎶😵‍💫 See the extended directors edit exclusively on YouTube: youtu.be/BmrNhbn8KI8 As always, the ad-free version available on all other social media platforms. #Annie #Musical #ChristmasSpecial #Parody
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I Think I'm Gonna Hate It Here - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Reading between the lines RFK Jnr is coming for HRT treatment. The republicans think they have issues now with angry women wait until they try to take away their HRT.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Actually "Mar-a-Lago" in English is "Sea-to-Lake"
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Actually is sea (Mar) to (a) lake (Lago). "Mar-a-Lago" in English is "Sea-to-lake"
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Because facts have always mattered to him I suppose? Saying; even reasonably with facts and maybe a Sharpie or two; you are wrong to "he who shall not be named" is like a red flag to a bull he's going to double and treble down as he is never ever wrong.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
No no no leeches and blood letting are the "only" way to go. No need for fancy chemicals
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I actually disagree. The company that I work for currently is all in on AI and refusing to listing to the engineers and fields concerns about over promising and under delivering. We are shouting into the void but can see another massive AI bubble about to burst. The LLMs are just not there yet
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Once you ignore the childish and outright rude responses there are some very valid responses on not only the impact of this technology on the students and TAs but on the understanding that the CFO and procurement departments in schools will just cut TAs totally. But then maybe I'm a luddite.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Totally agree. Just because I disagree I don't have to followor engage if I don't want to. I do block anyone personally attacking me or DMing me directly to do the same. There needs to be less attacks and rudeness and more "adulting" in the world.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It's cognitive dissonance we as a species have a real issue with it. We can hold two totally inconsistent thoughts in our heads like "Thou shall not kill" and "we must conquer country X / religion Y and wipe them out" simultaneously. Understanding the issue allows you to try to find a solution
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Be safe but make sure you have your go bag ready. My passport, family pictures and insurance documents were always in mine wherever I lived "just in case"
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Never "feed the trolls" the lack of engagement kills them better then weed killer. I just mute and block and enjoy the lack of sewage we have over here compared to the other rage bait hell site. The sky really is bluer
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Even with that would you be brave enough to drive /be driven in one of those mobile death traps? They don't even have basic door handles
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This made me laugh so thought I would share. I especially like the nod to data driven decision making with "Naughty/Nice Behaviour Data Analytics"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2024
AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns
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AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns
Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are…
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I love the Burrell collection I have been repeatedly over the years and am never bored but also I don't believe I have now; or ever will; see the whole collection.
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Ruth OBrien @ruobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
😂😂😂😂
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