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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 12h
Here's a weird sentence... coming in today's van: our last Sally Rooneys.
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Kenneth Marks @marksology.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No chart or lookup table needed. Just enter the old illness term and the modern equivalent is returned automatically. Try the free Old Illness Converter: buff.ly/QVNeBmI #genealogy
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Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
‘Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action’. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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ursulabyrne.bsky.social @ursulabyrne.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026
"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
‘Stop not writing. Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?’ — Anne Lamott writingforwellbeing.co.uk #WritingCommunity
Anne Lamott
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Rob Cross @robcross247.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The destruction of Dublin This north-facing 1934 aerial photograph of Dublin City has been colourised and annotated in red to highlight buildings and structures that were later demolished. #Dublin #Ireland #History #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #TheColourOfIreland
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Now & then comes a review that lets you know you made the connection intended. That those words you lived, spilled & agonised over on a page, reached their mark. “a beautiful, touching story told in the same vein as Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghriofa.’ (@nitr0glycerin on Insta) #GhostsoftheFarm
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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Halloween Swap is back! Donate your gently worn, clean, Halloween or dressing up costumes or come and choose something new to you! 🎃👻🧙‍♀️
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Huge gratitude to everyone who encouraged and helped me get to here. It's not something I will ever take for granted. Míle buíochas. linktr.ee/johncreedoni...
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The time and energy we have to put into fighting these over-diagnosis scare stories is time and energy we should be putting into talking about the scale of under-diagnosis.
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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ursulabyrne.bsky.social @ursulabyrne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#JeffreyArcher
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'll be on a panel debating "rogue" AI on RTE Prime Time tonight, 9:30pm stay tuned
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have given Lansdowne Road an upgrade. 💚
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026
'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Save us from the meno-preneurs and their useless shit www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found
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Over There @coreilly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is another sh*show for disabled adults and their carers #disability #speirgorm
Post by my friend Aisling McNifficent on Facebook  ••. X 7m • Transition from Paeds to adults hospital 

“At last I have been able to get someone to take this on. It's a huge issue. I hope you'll all help me gain some traction. I am currently in hospital with Jack and will be talking with David McCullagh on his show at approximately 9.20am on RTE Radio 1. Please email and text in with your own concerns once the piece starts. Thank you Text: 51551 WhatsApp: 0870323232 Email: todaydmc@rte.ie”
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ursulabyrne.bsky.social @ursulabyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is Aisling McNifficent on here? I used to follow her on other sites. Regarding the topic well 🙄🙄🙄 That said we have sortof managed the *initial stages* transition to adult care successfully...mainly because of the specific teams we deal with. Famous last words though 😘
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 29/09/2026
Nice words from the Taoiseach for our departing colleague, the incomparable and irreplaceable Miriam Lord, who’s on the Press Gallery for the last time today 👏🏻
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Dave Rudden's off to Fantasycon! @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've already had some brilliant donations in, so let's keep this going, please do spread the word!
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proof Manor Solomon Is Right & Israel Is '10 Times Better Than Ireland' waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 28/09/2026
Someone told me I shouldn’t help spread pictures of the Cornell 7 guys, because it might destroy their lives. Sweetie, that’s what I’m counting on.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 28/09/2026
Of all the bad things happening, the death of the newspaper has to be among the most consequential. We just no longer have a common reality, and reporting has been replaced by opinion, opinion and opinion. It's all reels and podcasts and personalised algorithms
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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#IrishGenealogy Any genie friend with a RootsIreland sub? ISO an 1880s birth/baptism in Kinsale, Cork for Mary Leary, parents John Leary & Mary Coleman. I've found births and baptisms for many siblings, but Mary has proven elusive. Thanks for any help. www.familysearch.org/en/tree/pers...
1913 NYC marriage of Mary O'Leary

Her siblings' births/baptisms are all "Leary" rather than O'Leary. Apparently a shift after some of them arrived in the USA to O'Leary.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In 1985, poets Michael Hartnett, Hugh Maxton, and Seamus Heaney joined the strikers in solidarity and in protest against the hanging of South African poet Benjamin Moloise.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fergal Keane: 'For Bazunu to refuse to play is a sacrifice that required immense moral courage. Ultimately, he was the lone voice who said no, and that will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza.'
After his time in the West Bank, he went back to Gaza and trained young footballers. Then October 7, 2023 happened. Then the war. On August 6 last year, he went to queue for food at an aid distribution site in southern Gaza and was killed by Israeli fire.

Suleiman al-Obeid left behind his wife and five children. He is not the only Palestinian footballer to be killed. Local officials put the death toll of players in the hundreds. Sports facilities and school playgrounds have been destroyed.

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Gavin Bazunu in training last week © Sportsfile

Gavin Bazunu and his colleagues on the Ireland team surely know about Suleiman al-Obeid. They share with him something precious: the knowledge that the moment you don your country’s shirt, in whatever code, you become a representative of the nation. It is a privilege and a responsibility.

For Bazunu to refuse to play is a sacrifice that required immense moral courage. Ultimately, he was the lone voice who said no, and that will be remembered in the broken alleys of Gaza.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is why it's not 'just football.' 'Politics has no place in sport' is a really convenient line if you're actively engaging in genocide and would rather the world didn't discuss it. Israel are well aware of the power of sportswashing. They're usually just too shit to take advantage of it.
The leadership of the Israel team used their press conference to read a statement congratulating Ireland on their decision to play. “What we have seen today is that football has won,” it read. “The separation between football and politics must continue. Anything else spells chaos and creates consequences for the game we love. The Irish took the right decision in agreeing to this. Even if it took longer than it should, it was welcome.”
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Something very depressing about hearing ‘Drumcree’ at the top of morning news Reminds me of my teenage years when it seemed to be a constant. Now feels like unionism banging the drum - geddit? - while the whole world has changed around them
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026
Brian Kerr on Virgin Media: “I’ve been in touch with [Gavin Bazunu] this evening, and he’s feeling quite low, and shunned by some of the players and by the FAI… (🧵)
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Fell to a mixed heritage Irishman to act on the majority will of the Irish people🙏 Bazunu (24) has secured his place among the heroes of Irish history, alongside the likes of Mary Manning, who was only 21 when she refused to be complicit in normalizing an apartheid regime, even though it cost her✊
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026
Tried to explain the Irish reliance and infatuation with Teletext to a student lately and they thought I was making it up. Our ‘digital transition’ began with 90s granddads looking up dog racing results on page 686 hackaday.com/2023/10/13/t...
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Teletext In Ireland, Another Broadcasting Leftover Bites The Dust
Over the years we’ve reported on the passing of a few of the broadcasting technologies of yesteryear, such as analogue TV in America, or AM radio in Europe. Now it’s the turn of an earl…
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
well, fuck
Breaking: The Republic of Ireland will train at Nagyerdei Stadion at 2.45pm.

Tony O'Donoghue: "RTÉ News understands that the Republic of Ireland training session at the Nagyerdei Stadium in Debrecen which has been postponed since early this morning has been rescheduled for 3.45pm local time (2.45pm Irish time) this afternoon.

"The delay to the training session and news conference came about as players and FAI met to discuss the approach to the controversial Nations League fixtures between Israel and Ireland.

"A press conference expected to begin at 3.30pm local time (2.30pm Irish time) prior to the training session."
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ursulabyrne.bsky.social @ursulabyrne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looks like it's going ahead after all 😒
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Micheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just to say what complete scumbags the FAI and Micheál Martin are for putting Irish players in this position.
Tweet from Daniel Lambert, September 26th: Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team in the UK.

How grim and predictable from faceless agents who profit in the background.
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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saipan II: The Debrecen Dilemma
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The MAGA US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has blurted out how America interferes in European politics. At a private dinner in Athens in March 2026, Guilfoyle said of the collapse of the Romanian government: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”, the WSJ reports.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits 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 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits 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.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 24/09/2026
Ireland did not take part in the mass walkout during Netanyahu's UN General Assembly address jrnl.ie/7172427t
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Ireland did not take part in mass walkout during Netanyahu's UN General Assembly address
Netanyahu accused the global press of ‘spreading lies’ about Israel, and said Israel’s conduct in Gaza is ‘the opposite of genocide’.
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