Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 9hHonestly, I feel rather sorry for the farmer involved, who did react entirely rationally to a very weird set of circumstances. 220
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This article describes an appalling view of a potential future. 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is brilliant. The whole thing should never have happened, there is zero need for those guys to go have an intimidation march on Garvaghy, but it did and remarkably, solidarity is winning. 31511
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Doing Julian McEnroe dirty here. Jeremiah McEnroe has not been out there achieving world No.1s in tennis since the Iron Age to be being misnamed like this. 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🤷♀️ Netenyahu was making similiar insinuations at the UN. It's insanity. And it's just supposed to be acceptable, in fact, it's wrong to say it's wrong. 111
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Had to do it for the rest. Plus how could I forget Fable??! I drowned poor Lara so many times. Also rather surprised at some of the obscurities the site found, I don't even remember the RI cover, it was just a floppy disc, lol. 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Whoever abused him and whoever stood by and let it happen are disgraces. Bazunu acted with courage and integrity. As for the sodding #FAI ... 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026To whom it may concern - if you think a video is AI, PLEASE SAY WHY. You may well be right, but no-one's going to learn anything from just "AI slop". (On a secondary note, don't just auto-respond to everything with "ai slop" on the offchance that you're right, it's lazy and annoying.) 010
Reposted by Temporary BatKaren Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm actually really annoyed now. God we're so complicit, as a country. Our Government is so weak on Palestine, still haven't passed the Occupied Territories Bill, still haven't officially expelled the ambassador, now we're still engaging with them internationally in sport. No. It's not right. 18467100
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What a weird thing to say. Anyway, hope the Irish team do boycott. #FAI 1103
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every so often I get the urge to play #Warcraft again, despite my better judgment and then I see some nonsense about this one asshole and his hoard of vicious sheep and...life's too short. Better judgment wins. Wild how much damage that lax modding and a small core of look-at-mes can cause though. 210
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The DA's wife absolutely deserved a slap from everyone close enough to hear. Nightmare of a situation for the poor victim and so...vindictively pointless. 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Someone cheaped out and results in 160,000lbs of wasted food & all the resources that went into producing it. Given how many go hungry, it's absolutely despicable to waste so much due to corner-cutting. (Obvs yes, it has to be recalled & destroyed, it's the corner-cutter I'm blaming) 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm sorry, but if I saw that on a pinboard in the wilds of a Christmas market...I...would. 100
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sure, if the grass can grow under a wild cycle of 2ft of water and drought. And what happens when the Atlantic stops moderating it, Richard? You know, that slowing Gulf Stream? And rising seas will turn the main island of Ireland into a flipping archipelago. 000
Reposted by Temporary BatJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Student from Gaza who has a fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas. State fights the case.irishtimes.comMinister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at TrinityStudent who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas 33620
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If ever a chart said "i think we broke it", it's this one. But apparently our problems are really immigrants and bullying trans people while having parasocial relations with computer programs. 000
Reposted by Temporary BatLoki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is what pandering to the right gets you. Court fees, money for solicitors, which the taxpayer will pay. Denying students, that already got scholarships, visas so they can actually come here. I hope this student wins, quickly. 1116
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I really wish people wouldn't jump straight to nukes whenever that idiot in the WH signals at Iran. 000
Reposted by Temporary BatDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Remembering Anne Devlin ‘She was tortured, imprisoned (becoming the first female political prisoner at Kilmainham), held in solitary confinement, interrogated & threatened … but she still held out, refusing to betray any of the others involved in the rebellion’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...irishexaminer.comClodagh Finn: Anne Devlin was never just Robert Emmet’s housekeeper. It’s time we told her storyA new children’s book and the work of historian Mícheál Ó Doibhilín are helping restore Anne Devlin’s place in Irish history 27034
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That dead-eyed weasel of a man is hands down the public figure I'd pick as an example of someone who sends up warning flags on a cellular level. I've only met one person IRL (thankfully briefly) that gave me that level of instinctive recoil. 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is just pathetic. I'm not rewarding their bullshit with even a click, but this is the sly sort of "i'm just joooking, take a jo-oke" bullying that insults women, Black people, trans people all in one go and deserves to be dragged through the mud. It's meant to *hurt* the target, and - 161
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I was getting steadily more aggravated by interminable YouTube ads, but the Uber one has broken me. I listen to a few podcasts where the speaker has a fairly quiet voice and there's nothing like James Brown unexpectedly going "YEEEEEEAAAGH!" directly into your ear to make you switch to duck duck go. 120
Reposted by Temporary BatMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea. 10826431
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"So we feel this thing to be a thing that we wish to perceive and to illustrate how true it is, here is a picture we absolutely just made up. But you see why this illustration of our feelings make it clear how the thing we made up is a Bad Thing, right?" 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We're all really going to end up regretting the collective decisionmaking that Arts & Humanities were only "nice-to-haves" rather than an essential part of who we are. 194
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This incredibly stupid sentence* unfortunately is horribly relevent to the global nonsense, despite there being no sensible reason for it to be a thing. Because so many brains are extremely cooked. (The content, not the phrasing) 000
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wish I was better at drawing. I've had a running cartoon going in my head for the last few days somewhat inspired by Shit I See On Bluesky but I just don't have the skill to get onto paper. Having said that, it'd get me yelled at by a high proportion of anyone that saw it, so may be as well. 100
Reposted by Temporary BatSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Latest revelations about the sale of dual-use goods to Israel have exposed a negligent attitude at Govt level towards the use of Irish goods in a genocide. We must ensure that these goods do not end up in the hands of those who would use them for military purposes. @sineadgibney.bsky.socialsocialdemocrats.ieDepartment must answer for dual-use goods from Ireland being sent to Israel - Social DemocratsThe latest revelations about the sale of dual-use goods to Israel have exposed a negligent attitude at Government level towards the use of Irish goods in a genocide, according to Social Democrats TD S... 386
Reposted by Temporary Batburn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this 32528501
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026...it is getting to the point where I am willing to believe that some people think about as much as an LLM does. 😑 040
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Couple months ago, me (Catholic-background atheist), a woman who was raised with firmly no religion at all and a Muslim woman were having a very pleasant peaceable chat in canteen about various similarities & differences as the no-religion one was curious. No-one trying to de/convert anyone, - 160
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What in god's name was literally half the Irish Air Corps helicopters doing over Galway just there? O.o 110
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Jaysus, you've really struck rock bottom when Whiny Yaxley-Lennon is on your side. 021
Reposted by Temporary BatMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oil pastel artwork creation: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis... 561787286
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That's very sad news. Rest in power, Bonnie Greer. 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Poor Mexico, but I think "and Mexico will pay for it" has every chance of becoming a common idiom for "nonsense plan with no consideration of funding". 😆 011
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran has dropped out of Ed Sheeran's tourstatic.klipy.comEd Sheeran Points Up in Plaid ShirtALT: Ed Sheeran Points Up in Plaid Shirt 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I honestly applaud Ed Sheeran and....grudgingly U2 for making the below documentary. But man does it throw his mealy-mouthed cowardice today into sharp relief. He knew speaking about the Russian invasion is (rightfully) acceptable. Safe. 010
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Stupid, stupid shit. I can only hope whatever's been plonked up there has Elon Musk's daft car crash into it. 120
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The bar is on the fucking floor and not only is it apparently impossible to clear, it's apparently invisible, even when pointed out. 010
Reposted by Temporary Batℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums 031921183
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ed Sheeran is a coward. "Free Palestine" and the Palestinian flag are only "hurtful" if they're reminding you of something bad you're doing or defending. There is zero reason to have your feelings hurt by a reminder that our fellow human beings are being genocided. Such pitiful self-centredness! 140
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026All of them. I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking. 110
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Perhaps oddly, I don't tend to have the player char get with a subordinate in RPGs (tbh, mostly it was SWOTR*) because I do find it immersion-breaking or if the chars were real, it would be unethical. But. It's a fkn game. Play how you wish. No-one's being harmed. Date everything if you want 😆 100
Reposted by Temporary BatJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵 341835794
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026What you don't see is the years of getting scratched up trying to teach the cat yoga. 000