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Swamptin

@swamptin.bsky.social
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I like to talk about computers, music, bikes, sometimes my family but only in a generic sense. I'll add more details when I think of them. swamptin.github.io - A blog about me learning stuff.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 06/07/2026
Councillors were told of funding request for footpath to school on 80km/h road, but FOI search finds no records -- NTA says it has no records of applications made for funding.-- Housing estate beside the school has been in place for 20 years without a footpath....
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Councillors were told of funding request for footpath to school on 80km/h road, but FOI search finds no records
-- NTA says it has no records of applications made for funding.-- Housing estate beside the school has been in place for 20 years without a footpath. A Freedom of Information request has found there are no records of Mayo County Council seeking funding for a footpath or cycle route to a new school at the edge of Ballina.
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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 02/07/2026
There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs
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Donors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250, House Democrats allege
The lawmakers’ report alleges that Trump allies worked to divert funds away from America250, a bipartisan effort to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. Freedom 250 denies the allegations.
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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Capitalists are terrible winners. We're seeing levels of wealth concentration we haven't seen since the French Revolution. They got what they wanted. But it's not enough for them. They want to debate you. They want to convince you to say, "Yes, this is the best of all possible worlds."
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
An inability to imagine change as a positive, even as potentially positive, has frozen our 100 year Government into universal inaction, as a main policy. Whatever you’re doing now, they want you to keep doing. Doing anything else is to be discouraged, blocked or banned.
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Max G @maximgrosky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The world “cannot outrun climate change. Its impacts are already here”. #globalwarming #climatecrisis #environment #noplanetb #europeheatwave www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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European heatwave in graphics: Why are temperatures rising faster in Europe?
Continent is particularly affected as it is fastest-warming one, says EU’s Copernicus climate monitor
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Alright, fine, I'll try properly budgeting and allocating money at the start of a party cycle. But if this reduces my anxiety around money I'm going to be annoyed and happy. This expectation that we be proactive to make stuff better sucks. Same with exercise and journaling. I hate that it works
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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Dunno who needs to hear this: But stop mocking us Irish folks for complaining about heat above 20C. Our houses are built to retain heat for cold winters. We have minimal hot weather infrastructure. Our bodies are used to feeling great at 15C. We SUFFER in the hot weather and it's actually dangerous.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"This AI hype cycle’s impact seems even worse than the ones that came before. With its devastating ecological harm and the exploitation of hidden labor, hyped AI serves to amplify discrimination and other social, economic, and environmental injustices." 1/🧵
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath. That baby was Lamine Yamal. It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.
Lionel Messi bathes a 6-month-old adorable Black baby boyA good looking young Black man in a Spain jersey accepts a blue baby bathtub from Lionel Messi in present day, who’s in an Argentina jersey
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/06/2026
Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic, and all internet users deserve a safe and free internet. The UK’s new social media ban for under-16s is a threat to everyone. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It
This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Millions are using chatbots regularly—including for mental health help. But the public, clinicians, and policymakers still know little about the risks. Chris Mills Rodrigo on the dangerous knowledge gap and what's being done to close it.
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We Need to Know More About How AI is Affecting Mental Health
The public, mental health practitioners, and policymakers don’t know enough about the impacts of AI use on the human psyche, writes Chris Mills Rodrigo.
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Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231
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Assistant Librarian of Digital Humanities in Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts University
Tufts University is hiring a Assistant Librarian of Digital Humanities in Medford, Massachusetts. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’m sure some people use “Epstein Class” in good faith, to describe unaccountable elites who abuse their position and are protected illegitimately by a corrupt system, but, I gotta say, some people clearly mean “Jews,” and other people are at least reckless about whether it sounds like “Jews.”
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2026
Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week theonion.com/mom-casually-mentions-…
Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week
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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
White folks need to step up and do more to stop and speak out against the ever increasing violence towards POC. We can’t do it alone. Don’t keep asking us ‘how’, google is free.
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tante @tante.cc · 10/06/2026
A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
How the Far-Right Is Using the Racist Myth of ‘Two-Tier Policing’ to Exploit Henry Nowak’s Murder A quarter-century of data tells a very different story about which groups are actually being unfairly targeted by the police, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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How the Far-Right Is Using the Racist Myth of ‘Two-Tier Policing’ to Exploit Henry Nowak’s Murder
A quarter-century of data tells a very different story about which groups are actually being unfairly targeted by the police, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Guy from Mayo explaining he wasn't educated on the streets: "no I said I studied at the Ard Scoil in Knock"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán. It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight. Holy shit.
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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ah, yes: the mask slips immediately. We need to talk about far-right radicalisation in rural Ireland, seriously and urgently. #spéirghorm #ireland
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ireland has: 🌊The mighty Atlantic Ocean battering our western coast for tidal 🌬️Wind howling across the country for turbines ☀️Long bright days that stretch into night in summer for solar But loud fools still call for dirtying the environment even more 🤦🏽‍♀️😳 #spéirghorm #Blockade #Protest #IrishPol
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
this is how men stand at tailoring shops
A photo of a dog from about their waist up. They appear to be standing. He looks very serious.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 23/03/2026
Exempting women from voting isn't a gift, it’s a gag order wrapped up in a bow. Framing disenfranchisement as "freedom from worry" is just a polite way of saying you want women silent and powerless.
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It's not that women shouldn't be able to vote.

It's that women shouldn't have to vote.

I want you to live your fullest life as a mom and not have to worry about anything outside your God-given sphere of influence.
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I've decided to start using rss feeds again. I had a bunch of emails I never actually read... so I would benefit the planet best by turning those off. Any suggestions for good blogs to follow?
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/03/2026
Support the people patrolling the streets to keep our neighbors safe from ICE! They have been working so hard, and as gas prices rise, their work gets more expensive too. I sent them $50 today! Can you? (International folks can send me PayPal and I’ll pass it along! @coldwater, put ⛽️ in memo)
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/03/2026
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
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Security BSides Prague @bsidesprg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
First keynote announced for BSides Prague 2026 🎉 Eva Galperin (@evacide.bsky.social), Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is joining us! A global voice in digital rights and anti-stalkerware advocacy. 🗓 April 23, 2026 Don’t miss it. 🔥
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby. Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 22/02/2026
Drogheda and Dundalk have condemned the actions of a "minority of individuals" following crowd trouble during their match at Oriel Park on Friday night. Flares thrown in the crowd injured a 12-year-old supporter, who sustained burns to his face jrnl.ie/6964436
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Clubs speak out after 12-year-old sustains burns to face from pyrotechnics
Drogheda and Dundalk have condemned the actions of ‘a minority of individuals’.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I will be using AI generated images of myself on dating apps to "show potential" of what I could look like with sufficient investment from suitors
Screenshot from the Journal article about AI use in housing ads, showing a side by side of houses with and without genAI edits applied.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Any album suggestions? Been sat listening to Fin De Siècle by The Divine Comedy. Baby is nowhere near tired and we're getting dangerously close to the end of the album.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Romania: "...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%." www.theguardian.com/environment/... #spéirghorm #ClimateChange
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‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?
Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
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AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What album are you listening to at the moment? Or, if you were to put on an album right now, what would it be? I'm currently listening to RumbleOfThunder by The HU. thehu.bandcamp.com/album/rumble...
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Rumble Of Thunder, by The HU
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
To suggest that a country as wet and flood-prone as Ireland shouldn't have established mechanisms in place for rapid delivery of flood relief is absolutely nuts. This isn't a surprise act of God. It's common. Disaster preparedness should be a basic aspect of any government's portfolio. #Spéirgorm
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
By “public safety” they always mean more cops and never more snow plows
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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 17/12/2025
i know most of my network is neteng, cybersec, & programming-ish folks, but if anyone out there is into hardware engineering, we have some senior & principal spots open at Blue! blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/j...
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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
What's really concerning about this bill (second stage tomorrow) is that the power within it - to find and categorise us by our biometrics - is *NOT* the power that was in the heads of bill when we were in pre-legislative scrutiny last year. There has been no public/democratic discussion about this
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I have but one question... how would Winnie The Pooh feel about chilli honey?
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
this is your friendly holiday season reminder that if the idea of spending time with your family fills you with dread, you don’t have to keep doing it. shared genes do not entitle anyone to your time, energy, or loyalty, and the holidays do not need to be a nightmare season.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭 IG twhattcomethru
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Swamptin @swamptin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I feel like I'm winning. Baby swamptin 2 just fell asleep to well known lullaby artists, Wu-Tang Clan. So they're a fan. Also a known fan of NWA, J5, Blackalicious, and The Postal Service.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.
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