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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 4h

This is a significant move by the CRU and shows the risks of embedding data centres further into our grid. The response by the industry also highlights that tech companies are not 'good energy citizens' that will provide public services for free. 1/2 www.businesspost.ie/tech/irish-e...

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Irish energy regulator: Data centres pose ‘urgent and serious risk’ to grid security

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 3h

Look at what I did with this page. Look at how I learnt to embed a pdf. Looooookkkkkkkkk🫵💫✨

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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 59m

I am SO THRILLED to announce the AMAZING lineup of writers that will be featured in The Comics Courier Issue 5. This issue is gonna be 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

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Leah Moore @leahmoore.bsky.social · 6h

A little bird told me we will be having a launch for the Albion reprint up here in Liverpool very soon! More details when I have them but it'll be good to stand behind a table of these again, and say hello to people in person. Hard to believe its been 20years!?

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Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier @sispurrier.bsky.social · 10h

Hit a snag while writing. Decided to reset my brain with some book recommendations. Gift ideas for the reader in your life, if nothing else. youtube.com/shorts/axYvm...

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book recommendations - Sept 26 #writingfiction #booktok

YouTube video by Si Spurrier

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 39m

He looks like a Simpsons character.

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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone interested in a digital copy of the currently out-of-print Volume 2, there's a handy option available!

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 3h

Subscriptions posted a bit late this month cause I was waiting on some specific books in this week’s boxes. Subscriptions are a great way to support the shop because the guaranteed income allows me to import more unique books!

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 3h

Just putting it out there that @dublincomicarts.bsky.social hasn’t been able to secure a 2027 venue yet! It’s supposed to be our 10th anniversary year, so it would be nice if we weren’t forced to shutter due to lack of arts spaces in Dublin!

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4h

Caught up with Absolute Wonder Woman. That's a good comic!

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Anthea West - Fate Kickstarter LIVE @antheawest.bsky.social · 5h

Dee and Bunny go shopping. Check out the Fate Book Two: Roof and Cloud Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant... Read Fate: fatecomic.com #fate #webcomic #kickstarter #fateks26 #ocs

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1h

This is an example of why Donald Trump is just a simple-minded bought-and-paid-for stooge for tech when he talks about AI being self-regulating.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 2h

Fun fact, most of the conventions I attend have rules against AI and you bet your arse that I'm the person who will report you and make sure you never get back in again.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 4h

Does this explain things a little? We have to #StopTheGame. The FAI says it will not. We shouldn't be sportswashing a genocidal regime. Other players should follow the good example of Gavin Bazunu and refuse to play another game against this genocidal apartheid state.

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Octocon is less than 2 weeks away! Whether you're coming to Cork or joining us online, you'll get plenty of chances to hear & see our Guest of Honour @cemurphy.bsky.social talking about her writing life, her many many SFF (and mystery) books, & lots more! #Octocon2026 octocon.com/2025/10/c-e-...

An Octocon card announcing our Guest of Honour C.E. (Catie) Murphy. Catie's face appears in the centre of the card, against a purple background that has details of the Cork skyline in black at the bottom, along with a white giant robot and dragon and a green UFO. Catie is a white woman with short brown hair.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 7h

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

HARVEY "HARV" BULLOCK

Harvey bullock, looking quite the thing. Ink sketch by Dan McDaid

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 6h

during groceries i picked up a packet of peanuts and said "Backet of Beanuts" a little louder than id have liked But then lucy didnt respond or look at me for a little too long and i was stood there smiling til i realised there was a confused bald man right behind lucy who thought i was showing him

a small comic showing me showing lucy a packet of peanuts by calling them a backet of beanuts but then lucy IGNORES me and it looks like im telling some confused bald man who was right beside lucy

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Aoife/Meep 🌸 @sweetbunniart.bsky.social · 6h

"September 30th, 1998. It's a day I'll never forget." Not 100% happy with this but wanted to do something anyway. Happy Outbreak Day! ☣️🩸 #outbreakday #residentevil #residentevil2 #re2 #re2fanart #leonkennedy #raccooncity

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Chris O’Halloran @chrisohalloran.bsky.social · 6h

I'll be at Cork Comic Con this weekend. Also includes @rorymcconville.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @willsliney.bsky.social Cork Comic Creators, HD Comics and more. 🟥⬜

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Gary Moloney @garymoloney.bsky.social · 7h

“Local boy makes good!” I’m making a flying visit home to Cork Comic Con this Sunday to sit down with old friends @rorymcconville.bsky.social and @seamuswritescomics.bsky.social to talk all things craft and comics. If you want to get the inside track on writing for comics, this is the panel for you.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 7h

Vainglorious of me to say but this audiobook slaps

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 7h

Was fantastic to team up with the incredible @ikadraws.bsky.social again for the cover of the new Sagas of the Shield Maiden Here's a look at our cover, sans text, which you're also able to get as a print! Go back @asawheatley.bsky.social and co. right now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asa...

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 13h

"why don't women report rapes"

Tmz tweets "cornell gang rape accusers seeks to keep her identity secret, fears retribution"

Someone retweets with the caption "the world needs to know who this lying whore is so she can never get a husband"

And someone replies "no why they need to know who she is so she can't get prosecuted and fucking jailed. They do not deserve to be free"

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 8h

My favourite of these is “would you like to round your bill up to the nearest pound for charity?” No. I would like you to pay all your corporation tax.

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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 8h

These fools think people wanted isolated, hyper individual lives/experience when art (visual, textual, music, etc) is about connection and communication between people.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8h

Ebola is spreading through Congo faster than it did in West Africa. Trump’s USAID cuts weakened detection systems as the virus spread undetected for weeks. Now 3,924 are dead, health workers are striking, and a politician was beaten to death after urging people to take Ebola seriously.

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Ebola is out of control in Congo after Trump's USAID cuts weakened its early detection system

Congo is facing its deadliest Ebola outbreak as it spreads faster than it did in the W Africa epidemic. Trump’s USAID cuts weakened warning and sample-transport systems that experts say contributed to...

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 14h

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 22h

Lively public meeting in Tallaght tonight about pulling the plug on data centres. They are costing us all every day - in our pockets with higher electricity prices, in slowing the delivery of housing and in higher carbon emissions. It's time to call a halt.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent read this, via Pàdraig MacLochlainn TD 👇

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8h

This incredibly kind person has also posted the steps to automatically copy image text on Android devices!

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 10h

I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 9h

A large ‘Stop the Game’ demonstration at the main entrance to Leinster House - seemingly hoping to attract the attention of the FAI delegation - but the witnesses are already inside on the premises. They’ll tell the Oireachtas Media Cmte the FAI is bound by UEFA competition rules to fulfil fixtures.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8h

The Israeli government believes an incident on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel, which diverted to Saudi Arabia after transmitting emergency signals, may have been an attempted "terror attack" by one of the pilots

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Diverted Israel flight may be 'terror' attack - officials

The Israeli government believes an incident on a flight from the UAE to Israel, which diverted to Saudi Arabia after transmitting emergency signals, may have been an attempted "terror attack" by one o...

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 9h

“EU commissioner for climate Wopke Hoekstra said talks would take place with the Government to find solutions to whatever was impeding progress.” The "whatever" is in fact the government.

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 8h

EXCITING TIMES AFOOT

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 8h

John Grisham gets it

John Grisham saying "I wrote 50 books before I ever heard about AI,"

John Grisham saying "So I don't need it"

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8h

Android app workaround: bsky.app/profile/jalo...

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8h

TODAY YOU LEARN!!! You can do alt text ✨automatically✨ for images that contain text (screengrabs, photos of book passages / paragraphs, etc). It’s easy and fast! No more retyping Directions in alt text below! Reskeet to save a life (and remember, image posts with alt text get WAY higher engagement)

1. Upload your image.

2. Click on the little “+ALT” box on the image. This interface pops up.

3. See the little box shape in the bottom right, with the big red arrow pointing to it? This is your new bestie. Press ita

4. You pressed the box! It turned blue and “Copy all” popped up at bottom left. Click on “Copy all”

Click gently anywhere in the alt text box. Paste pops up. Mash that button, friend!!!

Look at all your beautiful alt text! So fast, so easy. Hooray! You’re done! Now post it

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Andy Fanton @yourpalfanton.bsky.social · 12h

Personally, I don't think this goes far enough. They should call it Super Terrific Intelligence (STI) as in, "Trump's got a new STI", "I hear that Musk has been spreading his STI around," "Apparently the government is run by an STI now," etc etc.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 9h

Tickets for the Dublin date on Macklemore's Free Palestine Tour have completely sold out. Fans took to social media to say the tickets sold out within five minutes. jrnl.ie/7177799

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Macklemore's Dublin date on his Free Palestine Tour has completely sold out

People are reporting on social media that tickets sold out within five minutes this morning.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 8h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h

$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9h

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 9h

The more I hear about H*rry Pott*r references shoehorned into recent Warner Bros. TV shows for Brand Synergy™️, the more I remember this sadly prescient essay I wrote for Vulture in 2018:

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Ralph Breaks the Internet and the Rise of Mash-up Cinema

It’s not unreasonable to expect that branded mash-ups are on their way to becoming a staple aspect of blockbuster movies.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 9h

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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