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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 3h

the thing that really terrifies me about this stuff is that the logic is that there are no men that women should trust not to rape them.

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures

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Beyond Plastics @beyondplastics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NYPost reports on Beyond Plastics’ #Starbucks plastic cups “recycling” investigation, where we tracked 69 single-use plastic cups from Starbucks’ in-store recycling bins, and not one was confirmed to be recycled. #plastic #microplastics

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Cornelius (aka Con) Traas @theapplefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The equivalent of a normal person giving a cent to a local club.

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Emma Rua @ealadubh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Gaza #SaoirseDonPhailistín 🇵🇸 "While Israel had no joy shooting on goal in the 3-0 defeat on Sunday, when it comes to shooting children dead, the Israeli army’s X-wc (expected war crimes) is horrifyingly prolific."

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026

Drains are magic incineration portals.

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Tim E. o’Danaos & Don A. Ferentis (Structural Woodworkers) Ltd. @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[1] UK government banned the purchase of useful chemicals unless you purchased a licence (45 GBP, only valid for 3 years - same as my firearm certificate, back in the day), so I can't get things like battery acid, caustic soda, various solvents, etc., that I actually need for legitimate uses. 3:O(>

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘Ok, get this, what if we made the bubble BIGGER?’

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Cornelius (aka Con) Traas @theapplefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In other news I donated a half cent coin to my local club.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 29/09/2026

A 15-year-old boy who engaged in sexual acts with a 12-year-old girl over two years ago had 'unrestricted access' to devices from an early age, a court has heard jrnl.ie/7177308

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Boy (15) who engaged in sexual acts with child (12) had unrestricted access to devices

The boy started to access ‘singularly inappropriate’ material when he was nine or 10 years old, the court heard.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The far-right online site 'The Liberal' is shamelessly grifting off the residents of Garvaghy Road. None of the monies raised are going towards the residents. It's going to the owner of the online site Leo Sherlock. He was quick enough to support the Coolock/loyalist rioters in Belfast. Don't donate

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Over a 20-year period, people were sentenced to prison more often, and for longer terms, in years when prosecutors were up for election, a Northwestern Law study finds. In other words, prosecutors were more eager to rob people’s freedom when they thought it would help them politically.

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Prison admissions rose 3% in district attorney election years during 'tough on crime' era

New research from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law suggests that public sentiment associated with “tough on crime” politics may be tied to increases in the number of people admitted to state prison...

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Limerick Urban Cycling @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Similar statement from a Fine Gael councillor in Limerick recently.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."

The last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."

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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's all we need, these fuckers on the rampage. Public opinion is not going to be so kind this time around. Where were you all when the man responsible was over for a golf tournament? Certainly weren't protesting, you fuckers.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026

"Which social groups are harmed? What natural resources are consumed? Who makes profit?" If you're not asking this in discussions about technology then the answer to what will happen is predictable (see above): unhinged misogyny, eugenics — supposedly all the things you were trying to depart from.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Will you not.

Former Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has just walked into the press box here in the stadium. His name was on the media list on behalf of the Jerusalem Post', and the 75-year-old has been very outspoken on his pro-Israel views regarding the current confleit in Gaza.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chris Duffy, "The government sold their souls when they went into government with the Greens". Huge if true.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a reminder that Trump started the war by bombing Iran in the middle of ongoing negotiations. Now Walz says Iran is "negotiating in bad faith." Complete lack of self-awareness, or honesty.

theguardian.com

UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war

Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/09/2026

Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

I don't know if this is a real trend or just a temporary thing but I am seeing a decently-sized number of statements from former climate people announcing they're now moving into worrying more about chatbots becoming self aware and nuking everything So this'll be a thread compiling that

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Quantitative Researcher I Physics and Al I Climate Ac„.
Climate activist about to start working in AI safety here, I thin
the statement "10% chance that AI kills us all" taken out of
context just sounds insane, but behind it there is a large body
of rigorous research on the risks of Al technology (eg see the
latest report by METR on the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident).
Forget the 10% figure and just look at the evidence. We are at
a point where AI is powerful enough to find new cybersecurit
vulnerabilities in established IT infrastructure, and
independently decide to exploit them. "Decide" does not
mean that it is a conscious evil terminator, but simply that it i
able to follow goals and take actions outside our control and
understanding. Despite this, the world is currently racing to
make Al more and more powerful, and giving it access to key
infrastructure (eg military tech, see recent progress on
autonomous weapons ie killer robots), This is very concernin
and should be taken seriously. Regarding EA/rationaIism and
their dismissal of climate risks, I can only say that I too have
been disappointed by that, but then I started talking to peopl
in those communities and realised many of them do take
climate seriously and also don't like the lack of focus on it
that other members show

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if in The Matrix, instead of seeing 1s and 0s on the monitors, they just saw a nice 3D rendering of what’s happening inside the Matrix 🙂

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Neekko @neekko.art · 26/09/2026

Moving the camera down to cleavage level....

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

theguardian.com

‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

cute photo op. incidentally I spent 10 minutes trying to find a picture of the Taoiseach using public transport in Ireland and guess what

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just take their free parking away from them

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

your city doesn't owe you a parking space

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vantazach @vantazach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if those amazon drones aren't already flying Ring cameras, they will be

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Proud to announce a new collab with my washing machine. I swear I'm gonna do laundry today. I might even do a partnership with my ironing board this quarter. Please smash that like and subscribe button, Mom.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How I decided AI was probably nothing to worry about

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just met a college student taking a class titled "contemporary math." I know what this is code for, but I'm begging schools to pick euphemisms that aren't so silly. All math is "contemporary." Try instead: Everyday Math or Math for Better Living. It's not as academically cute, but it is honest.

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Your boss is a credulous dolt who will give your job to an AI that can't do it." The truth about AI is dumber than you think, according to Cory Doctorow. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 2024, the US imported ~12 million metric tons of potassic fertilizers from Canada (hillnotes.ca/2025/06/05/p...) Specialized ships can carry ~60k metric tons, tho container ships <half that (www.sasktoday.ca/central/loca...) So we'd need at least 200 ships loaded from [checks notes] Belarus

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I was an editor* at an Irish media outlet insisting on covering the upcoming soccer games against Israel that should not be played, I would hire Palestinian freelancers and accredit them to do the job for me. *This is also why I'm not an editor at an Irish media outlet.

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Cornelius (aka Con) Traas @theapplefarmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incorrect. Develop all parts of your brain and abilities.

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Never enough money for some. Can he not just take advantage of Mike ?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's supposed to be an arts center, they have been removing actual artwork and replacing it with this propaganda kitsch. 2/2

A gold picture of Elon Musk with an inspirational quote. Musk looks like a skeleton. The quote is unreadable. Absolute fucking dreck.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the risk of sounding like a hose drinker, I don’t want a washing machine that requires connection to WiFi. I want one of those workhorses that keep going for like 30 years that I can fix myself.

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