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Shane McKee

@shaneir.bsky.social
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Genetics/Genomics doc, Nazareth Hospital biker, developing solutions for #RareDisease & Digital Healthcare on a #Psion Series 3a. Want to see peace in Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine & Planet Earth. One of those Happy Lundys. shanemuk.github.io

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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 4h
He and the Orange Order are also INTENSELY anti-Christian. It's as if Matthew 5:38&ff isn't in the Bible. They should be kicked out of Drumcree Church and told to come back when they've decided to follow Jesus rather than Satan.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mark your calendar! So excited to organize “Frozen Accidents” with art historian Sefy Hendler! Join us Nov 20th at Galerie Colbert (INHA), Paris. Hosted by HiCSA, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Please share widely, especially outside your field. Be there or be frozen!!! (see poster & thread for details)
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 17h
Pedestrianisations and cycle lanes are often accompanied by huge controversy right up until they are implemented, and then they become enormously popular. Part of the reason is the positive change is so immediate and tangible. In the Paris mayor election this year, one candidate wanted to reverse...
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TBH I didn't think it would be this easy to get the Americans to use SI units... oh, wait...
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm boiling up some of my home-grown spuds for dinner tonight and maybe fry up the leftovers for breakfast tomorrow. Just me on my own in the house. How Irish is that?
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The "Alt" in "Altman" stands for "Altruistic", right?
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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 29/09/2026
I am sick and tired of this kind of reporting. Journalist, please, I am begging you, stop taking the press releases from these ghouls as literal fact and DO SOME ACTUAL ANALYSIS. Nothing has escaped, the people running these AI experiments are simply being grossly negiligent.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. [1990s]
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A new tactical combat game for #msdos has been released! #StarCadre Team Command puts you in charge of a squad of elite operatives in the far future, conducting special missions on behalf of an interstellar civilisation. Get it from cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #cga
A collage of screenshots of Star Cadre: Team Command against a background image. The background images shows the K-53 modified fighter craft in the foreground, that takes the away team on their missions, on a landing pad beside its hangar, with planting around, a city scape behind, mountains in the far distance. The screenshots are all in 4-colour CGA. They include: the title screen which is a 4-colour version of the background image, a mission taking place in an industrial complex, and the personnel screen where a new recruit is being added to the team.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sign our petition to call for an end to settler terror and an end to the occupation. Every voice against their reality is powerful and together we can actually end it. Sign and share the petition now. standtog.org/46LYsl6
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nice weather for... pigeons? They've been taking the opportunity of the rain to give those feathers a bit of a wash on our extension roof. Coo!
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Find someone who looks at you like the Orange Order looks at Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On this rainy Sunday morning, looks like I ain't going anywhere.
Slovenly Sunday morning - dog and cat have me pinned to the sofa.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joanne and I visited Egypt in 2000; we couldn't take cameras into Tutankhamun's tomb, but the doorman took this photo of us with my camera as we emerged. I so hope Nicholas Reeves is right, and Nefertiti's tomb lies beyond the north wall... #Egyptology
Shane and Joanne at KV62 - tomb of Tutankhamun
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looks like another brilliant banger from @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social - Musk is a fraud (and he's not the only one).
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol
A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, "Noah's Ark" has not been found, you absolute morons.
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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time of the Signs is in the Visual Artists Newsletter :) #art #ireland #belfast #streetsign #roadsign visualartists.ie/events/time-...
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Time of the Signs: Border Crossing | Group Exhibition at Vault Artist Studios
In 2025 Leo Boyd curated the exhibition Time of the Signs in Atom Gallery in London.This October Leo is bringing a new version of the exhibition to Belfast und
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 25/09/2026
[1983] Blue Peter - Janet Ellis shows Blue Peter viewers how to make their very own Scorpio Teleport Bracelet, just like the ones in the cult sci-fi classic, Blake's 7.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Genomics can be transformative in healthcare. This is why we do what we do. BBC News - From weeks to hours - the rapid new test transforming brain tumour diagnosis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brain tumour diagnosis cut from weeks to hours with rapid new NHS test
The test means patients can start treatment sooner and are spared weeks of uncertainty.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absofeckinglutely - "first past the post" is the WORST way of selecting MPs. It has to change.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate to echo the outgoing President of the USA, but I'm not sure having UK retain the Chagos Islands is actually that bad a geostrategic idea in the current world.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'd suggest putting a pirate eye patch on the Big Fish.
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was such a pleasure to have this conversation with Huda Zoghbi - her work is genuinely inspirational!
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When did people start sending online diary requests without asking you first if you're actually free at that time; then when you say "sorry I'm busy", say "suggest another time"? NO. The ensuing back & forth is super inefficient AND disrespectful. Negotiate a time first, THEN send a diary request.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Attempted to get up the hill above Greenisland Golf Club (Public Right of Way) - it's amazing, but much too overgrown to take the dog up :-(
Too much vegetation for walking the dog up Knockagh Hill, GreenislandView from Greenisland Golf Club is stunning
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BlackVelvetBand @myirish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stunner didn’t even know Greenisland had a beech
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Seapark Beach, Greenisland this morning.
Seapark Beach, Greenisland
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting vox pop asking Palestinian Muslims whether they would accept a Palestinian Christian as President of Palestine. (Some nice Levantine Arabic in the mix - it's a gorgeous language & accent) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwO...
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Palestinian Muslims: Would you vote for a Christian president?
YouTube video by Corey Gil-Shuster
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Agnes Caruso @agnescaruso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you are traveling to the US, you should check your MMR vaccination status or measles immunity.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They told me AI would save me time, yet here I sit waiting waiting waiting to simply look at a paper's abstract because the site wants to "prove I am not a robot" because of AI bots scraping data and chewing up bandwidth. We're moving backwards as a species.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FFS we're doing Theranos all over again. STOP using the term "start-up" for tech companies siphoning billions into the pockets of their owners. OpenAI is a "start-up" like I'm a fetus.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rory & Alastair *almost* got there in @therestpolitics.bsky.social with Dan Neidle; the problem with billionaires isn't (just) the tax resource, it's that they banjax democracy and we all end up as franchisees of their Enshittendom. They are monopolies that need broken up. @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Peace Bridge, Derry-Londonderry, and the Foyle River last night. Having a great time at the #TMED11 conference!
Peace Bridge, Derry-Londonderry
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Up in Derry-Londonderry today for the exciting #TMED11 conference - Pharmacogenomics, data and more!
Shane on the Derry-Londonderry Peace Bridge
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And yet not a squeak from the mainstream media
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How do we reopen the Strait of Piddington
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Am definitely sympathising with the DSLR lens cover haul. That's a thing right there.
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Steve Stockman @stocki61.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - My favourite movie EVER raises all kinds of spiritual issues and dilemmas... “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”. sstockman.substack.com/p/the-gospel...
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
My favourite movie EVER raises all kinds of spiritual issues and dilemmas... “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This podcast series on the rise of Bin Laden is outstanding.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An AI story
Tech bro Gru outlines his plan to pump investment in AI, not realising that people are (correctly) working out that further investment is a law of diminishing returns, and will eventually pull the plug.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"We choose to fix this leaky tap, not because it's easy, but because we didn't anticipate having to drain the entire hot water system and end up with another leak and an airlock and and and...
Under my sink is not a pretty place.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This little guy!!!
Beetle on my window
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Beautiful soft light on Greenisland Beach this morning - still sad that most of my neighbours are blocked from experiencing this. #ShareOurShore
Greenisland Beach
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Paul Rice @paulrice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I took a drunken notion there. Which led me to a thing. If Blackadder isn't on BBC IPlayer, what is the point of the fucking thing?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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