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Scott Gibson

@scottgibson.bsky.social
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🇮🇪/🇫🇷Reluctant computer knower. Cork, Ireland.

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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 1h
It’s not that major lol
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 1h
Despite this IAG probably wants Aer Lingus to double its already already excellent margins just so they can get a lick of paint on their ageing fleet.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 1h
Or buy a “large expensive item such as a safe” on Patrick’s Street?
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 5h
Certainly looks like they will just have to keep their noses clean and hope the cars in front make a mistake in their push for the title.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 7h
'US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize' US is no longer sanctioning individual judges and prosecutors, but the Court itself. Bans transactions with the court "cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate". www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 7h
Europcar called me to say their office may be closed in the afternoon as South Terrace may get closed also.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 8h
Given the timing it would not be realistic to expect a change in reported prices since people are paying at least a few days or more than week in advance for their oil. Petrol prices can reflect the change overnight, sure.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 12h
I’m going to the Red Bull drift thing in the city on Saturday but apparently there is a concert in city hall around the same time and the GAA have a fairly large match in PuiC. Glad I can walk because ‘kin hell traffic will be insane. #Cork
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 12h
Is that the budget that was announced three days ago?
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 14h
Haven’t heard of @buttplug.io in a while…
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20h
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 15h
They have invented lobbying
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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TriCap @triforcecap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From 2024 study: ‘Among daily drinkers of full-calorie soda, Bernstein found 33% of GLP-1 users have “quit sugary soda entirely, while another third decreased consumption.’
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the least competent people to ever hold office in Ireland.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In fairness to Russia, when they complain to states, countries don't pull out of supporting counterdisinformation conferences, so maybe "after Russia" isn't 100% accurate.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seems fairly performative since it’s a lousy place to build a DC
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I assume it’s to preserve their memory once they are gone
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026
Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bad form certainly to take so much space on a Saturday
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are huge incentives for using credit cards (miles etc). It’s not a question of utility.
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
American Blueskyers sure love to livepost their flights huh.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The heaviest rain I have ever experienced was in Seville last year around this time. Incredible…
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In this weekend’s newsletter: while others debate whether Man City should be stripped of their trophies or relegated to League Two, I argue that what happens to the club’s directors and auditors is just as important - perhaps even more so.
Imagine a widget maker is sold to a new owner. Eager to expand, the ambitious proprietor splashes out on state-of-the-art machinery. The company’s improved widgets attract widespread praise and win many awards. However, sales do not keep up with the investment and the business suffers heavy losses.

Embarrassed by the red ink, the owner asks friendly business partners for help. Perhaps they could boost his sales by buying some products? The partners want to be supportive but cannot justify paying such high prices. So the owner gives them the necessary cash. The widget maker enjoys a boost to sales and reduced losses. Over almost a decade, these sham contracts bring in £831 million in additional revenue.

This, in a nutshell, is the case against Manchester City Football Club, as outlined in the eye-popping conclusions of an independent commission appointed by England’s Premier League and released this week. In this case, the widgets are Manchester City’s performances on the soccer pitch, while the sham payments were disguised as sponsorship and other commercial contracts.The question now is what punishment the club should face. Unsurprisingly, the debate has focused on possible sporting penalties for flouting English and European rules governing financial fair play. These include fines, the deduction of points, relegation to the lower divisions of English soccer, the cancellation of past trophies, and even a forced sale by Manchester City’s ultimate owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

But the same behaviour merits business sanctions, too. The directors of a humdrum widget maker that engaged in such deception could expect civil or even criminal charges, while the auditors who waved it through would also face censure. Manchester City, one of the most high-profile businesses in Britain, should be held to at least the same standard.

The club says it is innocent and has a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence” to support its case, which is ongoing. Apologists might argue that, as the £831 million started and ended with the same owner, the deception was cosmetic. Manchester City’s sporting rivals, who for years were outgunned in the competition for star players, disagree. The private equity firm Silver Lake, which invested $500 million in the club at a $4.8 billion valuation in 2019, may also take a different view. Besides, the unnamed commercial partners presumably engaged in some financial sleight-of-hand to facilitate the money-go-round.

Self-declared realists will maintain that capital-starved Britain cannot afford to alienate deep-pocketed investors like the United Arab Emirates. It’s also true that the Premier League has long tolerated the dubious motives of wealthy owners from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and elsewhere in its quest for a bigger worldwide audience.

Yet the scale, audacity and duration of the scheme revealed this week demands a tougher response. At stake is not just the sporting fairness of the Premier League. As Liam Proud writes, the scandal is also a test of Britain’s legal, financial …
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Rena Netjes @renanetjes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2/ New shops are popping up almost daily here in Damascus. Talked to the owners of this 5-week-old kiosk (an Idlib & Damascus duo). Older shopkeepers tell me business is way better post-Assad, the end of crushing import bans has broken their reliance on the smuggling economy.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk has broken up with baby mommy 9/10/12/14, announced via Twitter unfollow alert post sponsored by Kalshi
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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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CoverDrive @coverdrive12.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 Tesla Production Update Tesla produced 464,391 in Q3. Production volume unchanged in 4 years. GF3 in Shanghai, now at full capacity, accounted for about 60% of these. Tesla's other 3 factories operate at about 50% capacity. Additionally, Tesla delivered 22k cars from inventory. $TSLA #Tesla
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That is true but it generates a lot of headlines for people who don’t want them
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They can just do both since many are part of conglomerates that likely have an EV/ICE platform (select as needed) to build on.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Title of all our sextapes
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did the former Minister for Concrete announce a thing that wasn’t funded? Even for low stakes stuff he blows it… www.thejournal.ie/culture-vouc...
thejournal.ie
Question mark hangs over culture voucher for teens as Chambers says €100 is 'too high'
Ministers Jack Chambers and Patrick O’Donovan are understood to have had a disagreement over the proposed new voucher.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a mess!
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loudly proclaiming innocence while publicly threatening to use leverage that no sports team should have is a great bit.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not a serious country
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Could we consider asking them to stop fucking things up for the whole world?
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They should have made a genuinely new XC90 four years ago rather than give a third then fourth facelift.
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many more prompts do we need?
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d probably have but a bit of context in the headline or the tagline but….
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/10/2026
Scott "The House" Bessent, bond vigilantes for you on line 1
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Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Loser shit.
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