Reposted by Terry McDonaldCarol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 17hThis is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social 413093
Reposted by Terry McDonaldDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 30/09/2026Industrial action by over 100,000 public sector workers in Ireland doesn’t even make the front page of the public broadcaster, RTÉ. And what it does say includes a lot of misinformation from the Irish government who are the ones refusing to enter negotiations without preconditions. #SIPTU #Speirgormrte.ieOver 100,000 public sector workers begin work-to-ruleMore than 100,000 public sector workers in areas such as health, education and local authorities have begun industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule. 1309
Reposted by Terry McDonaldCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities 17438181
Reposted by Terry McDonaldRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence. 4035471246
Reposted by Terry McDonaldGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵 3315104
Reposted by Terry McDonaldDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895445937
Reposted by Terry McDonaldBluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good morning. And doesn't this photo warm the cockles. The great Antonin Panenka with @ronanhession.bsky.social on Saturday at Bohemians club in Dublin. Marvellous. 5394
Reposted by Terry McDonaldRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023rte.iePublic library visits increased by two million nationwideVisits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide. 221483385
Reposted by Terry McDonaldRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed! 219140643085
Reposted by Terry McDonaldMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts. 12998213
Reposted by Terry McDonaldAmnesty Austria @amnesty.at · 25/09/2026Gestern waren wir beim Länderspiel Österreich-Israel im Stadion und haben unmissverständlich gefordert: Konsequenzen statt Zuschauen! Unsere Aussendung dazu findest du hier: bit.ly/4dA2nFk 22013
Reposted by Terry McDonaldCNN @cnn.com · 19/08/2026The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. cnn.it/3U6I6jU 26304133
Reposted by Terry McDonaldBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence 721609801
Reposted by Terry McDonaldSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191313866
Reposted by Terry McDonaldSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026At the same time that the Minister for Justice is trying to cut off our access to the economic engine of immigration, the Minister for Finance is warning about the very demographic problem immigration is solving. While ignoring its existence. 39345
Reposted by Terry McDonaldYouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026yeah but I don't want the authors' carefully crafted abstract! I want it to be mostly wrong and cost a ton of money and water in order to overwrite the authors' carefully crafted abstract while being very wrong! 1468
Reposted by Terry McDonaldDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack" 13698206
Reposted by Terry McDonaldDr 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
Reposted by Terry McDonaldJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428101169
Reposted by Terry McDonaldAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered 231782316
Terry McDonald @terrymcdonald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hi Jennifer - you're shouting into the void. The train fare in North Co. Dublin went up by 50% in just over a year with barely a comment. Just a heads-up - no-one cares about transport costs unless you're in haulage or farming. 000
Terry McDonald @terrymcdonald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tech Bros. They're the tral threat to humanity now. From Keith Duggan in the Irish Times 000
Reposted by Terry McDonaldKatherine Nolan @dochara.com · 18/09/2026What is it with all leaders and governments everywhere being absolutely in thrall to these tech bros? They hang off every opinion like it came down from a mountain carved on stone. Money, I know, proving itself over and over to be the root of evil. 095
Reposted by Terry McDonaldAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026yes the players and management have been put in an awful position but we should not accept the argument that they have no choice here. they're pulling a Sheeranirishtimes.comSome Ireland players ‘feel really uncomfortable’ about Israel matches, says HallgrímssonSéamus Coleman overlooked for selection but earmarked for future coaching role 85117
Reposted by Terry McDonaldCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Don't really think Ireland as a whole deserves a pat on the back for the work of some artists, activists, and the people who pressure and protest, when our government watered down the OTB, the GAA refuses to drop Israeli weapon insurer Allianz, and the FAI is happy to play Israel without Irish fans 1136391
Reposted by Terry McDonaldLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/09/2026As someone in Northern Ireland, it's been sitting uncomfortably the amount of lefties saying Britain has never gone fascist before when most of you have no clue what they did here. Give it different names if you want. 211057200
Reposted by Terry McDonaldBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.theguardian.com‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green waveTraffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way 22830240
Reposted by Terry McDonaldErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 6211114
Reposted by Terry McDonaldTheEpisteme @theepisteme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ms Rachel is the Mr. Rogers of our time. She is steadfast, she is amazing, she is loving. 11436
Reposted by Terry McDonaldRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 519153155868
Reposted by Terry McDonaldᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬 269117923464
Reposted by Terry McDonaldAdrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026How to check whether you were affected in Revolut’s blunder in handing over customer passports, driver’s licences, addresses, phone numbers etc In-app: —> Account (top left of screen) —> Chats 2135
Reposted by Terry McDonaldThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I find it difficult to trust anyone who doesn’t consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time. 3763543
Reposted by Terry McDonaldHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059832394
Reposted by Terry McDonaldGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:jrnl.ieGavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add upThe eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families. 13275143
Reposted by Terry McDonaldJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Nine of the eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court are on the US sanctions list. 21926
Terry McDonald @terrymcdonald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Academic publishers everyone. Modern day piracy. 010
Reposted by Terry McDonaldJohn Weldon @realjohnweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Is the first ever orange man advocating for United Ireland? 579469
Reposted by Terry McDonald🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Israel has destroyed over 800,000 Palestinian olives trees. The olive tree is the heart of the Palestinians and like all greedy Western colonists they must destroy the soul of the indigenous people.. destroy their children, destroy their land, destroy their memories, erase everything. 34547268
Reposted by Terry McDonaldSpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks. 9367911762
Reposted by Terry McDonaldClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything 1638261153
Reposted by Terry McDonaldCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Even without the ethical and environmental issues, cannot wrap my head around the uncritical use of genAI and the likes of ChatGPT - why would you want to outsource your cognitive ability, your own capacity for thought and reason and creativity? Why are people so unconcerned about losing that? 1722934
Reposted by Terry McDonaldThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239381776
Reposted by Terry McDonaldirishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 09/09/2026Died #Onthisday 1916 in Ginchy during #WW1 Tom Kettle, barrister poet politician B&W📸@ucdarchives 'Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead, Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor, But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed, And for the secret Scripture of the poor' 053
Reposted by Terry McDonaldElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide. 17401160
![A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision.
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2qmeigsng3rhkgmqihius4g/bafkreia7cdisf6qfj6fetyejhbmojfdwomrxs6pib6za3zu377t6pfypry)
