Reposted by Veronica WalshCedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 23/04/2026It might be a good service for nyt, propublica, etc to do a big compilation of all the high profile public servants who have been fired or resigned after refusing to do something illegal. A sort of what this past year would have been like if it was all at once, like Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre 12915
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026A poster in Drumcondra Dublin. The DCU students are rising. 020
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This is the calibre of AI auto ads on my Google home feed. I mean, seriously… 🙄😏 010
Reposted by Veronica Walsh🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli sez keep on, keepin' on. 🐈⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content. 319106717929
Reposted by Veronica WalshMatt Luckcuck @mattluckcuck.bsky.social · 24/10/2025This is a really nice phrasing of what I've been trying to put into words about the idea of 'using LLMs to learn to program'. 0157
Reposted by Veronica WalshLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025…an unpredictable renegade… Get the absolute fuck. 162
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Had a chit-chat with #Grok about the unhinged nonsense last night … It’s daddy is a demon 😈 010
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025It’s crazy. It’s wild. It can’t be real but it is - Google's @notebooklm a.i. turned my top CBT PDFs into podcast style ‘deep dive audio discussions’ with 2 charming ‘hosts’. I’m still scratching my head about it all. 👉 🎧 www.cbtandfeelinggood.com/soundcloud/ Audio Podcast resource / Veronica Walshcbtandfeelinggood.comCBT Audio Podcast resource by Veronica WalshThis is a collection of audio links to podcast style deep dive discussions of cognitive behavioural therapy tips and techniques - plus radio interviews with Veronica Walsh of CBT and Feeling Good Dubl... 020
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025🫶 🧘 Understanding who you are - with #CBT visualisation amd self-talk skills - iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comSelf acceptance and embracing who you are – CBT visualisation and self talk 🧘🏽♀️This CBT post gives creative and practical ideas to build unconditional self-acceptance through visualisation and new self talk tips and hacks to manage anxiety and stress. 000
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025☕️ ⚡️ #CBT: is coffee giving you anxiety? iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/%...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com☕️ Caffeine, Anxiety, and the Fight-or-Flight Trap: What You Need to KnowCoffee and the fight or flight anxiety trap – this CBT post skills you up with key ideas is what your caffeine habit might be doing to your nervous system, and hacks to break the habit. 010
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025#CBT - understanding and regulating ‘paper tigers’ and a trippy nervous system (anxiety) 🤔 🙀 💡 - iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/t...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comThe CBT of Paper Tigers and your trippy nervous system / anxiety.Understand the physicality of your anxiety with this CBT post and handout which introduces the cognitive science of a dysregulated nervous system – and the science of anxiety and how to build… 000
Reposted by Veronica WalshImDavidDunn @imdaviddunn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Again, as a great reporter, one would think Baron would see more clearly. He isn’t afraid of Trump. He has been unleashed by Trump to present his real views. And those views may not be the same as they were a decade ago, but that irrelevant. Why wouldn’t a billionaire be embracing Trump’s agenda? 2293
Reposted by Veronica WalshJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... 1483140768
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025#CBT - think different - easy as ABC… iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/e...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comExamples for ‘the ABC of CBT’ …This is a simple CBT exercise in journaling, showing The ABC of CBT classic modelling strategy. Includes full examples to illustrate exactly how to dispute bad thinking habits. 000
Reposted by Veronica WalshAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 06/02/20252025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text 55858131040
Reposted by Veronica Walshhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was. 22762345
Reposted by Veronica WalshLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Having flashbacks to when Boris Johnson said this about the war-torn Libyan city of Sirte “There’s a group of UK business people who have got a brilliant vision to turn it into the next Dubai. The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukLibyans say Boris Johnson 'doesn't know what he's talking about' after 'cruel and unacceptable' jokePolitician calls remarks ‘cruel and unacceptable’ amid calls for Foreign Secretary to be sacked 621197
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025ChatGPT is helpful on the subject of hosting AI data centres - voraciously hungry beasts… 100
Reposted by Veronica WalshHayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 04/02/2025Happy World Cancer Day, to all who celebrate… #cansky 0153
Reposted by Veronica WalshGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The extent to which Elon Musk and the tech bros think they’re somehow the first people ever to think about how to run a government is astounding. 1072628377
Reposted by Veronica WalshDustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025“It’s a coup,” said a current USAID official. It was unclear when, if ever, the agency would be up and running again, the official added. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comTrump Administration Closes USAID HeadquartersThe U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel following moves by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to exert control over the foreign-aid organ... 12443179
Reposted by Veronica WalshDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Definitely worth reading, if you missed it... 07232
Reposted by Veronica WalshRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Teeny teeny tiny on the NYT home page right now. Seems to be missing the moment 1851990
Reposted by Veronica WalshMolly White @molly.wiki · 03/02/2025an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal 226115463198
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025So sad to hear of the passing of Claire Prior / @priorclaire.bsky.social #rip 🙏🏼 rip.ie/death-notice...rip.ieDeath Notice of Claire Prior (Dun Laoghaire, Dublin) | rip.ieThe death has occurred of Claire Prior of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Ireland, on 31/01/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here. 020
Reposted by Veronica WalshChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Thousands of Gazans need urgent care – World Health Organisation www.channel4.com/news/thousan...channel4.comThousands of Gazans need urgent care – World Health OrganisationFifty sick and wounded Palestinians will be allowed to leave tomorrow for medical treatment - but the World Health Organisation say more than 12,000 need urgent care. 24722
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 31/01/2025#CBT imagery guides for Low Frustration Tolerance - 🧠 🤔 😠 🤷♀️ 💡 iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/l...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comLow Frustration Tolerance CBT Imagery GuidesFor CBT Therapists and Engaged Learners: Check out these Low Frustration Tolerance (LFT) bad thinking habit examples (that give bad outcomes!) – and see how they can help you map your own LFT… 110
Reposted by Veronica WalshGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 22/01/2025Even AI knows the Musk is a Nazi. @alt-text.bsky.social 1104
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Join the national march for a #FreePalestine in Dublin this Saturday 12:30 (at the Garden of Remembrance with #OxfamIreland) 🕊️ 🇵🇸 ☮️ 010
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Using #CBT to plan effective communication with a very difficult person and situation #CBT 🫤💭 🧐🙌🏻https://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/cbt-and-planning-an-emotionally-intelligent-approach-to-a-tricky-situation-with-a-difficult-person/iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comCBT and planning an emotionally intelligent approach to a tricky situation with a difficult personCBT tips and techniques to design emotionally intelligent ways to communicate with difficult people. 000
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025#CBT essentials - the social anxiety mini-workbook PDF 🎁 🧠 🫣 💡 iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/a...iveronicawalsh.wordpress.comA CBT mini workbook for social anxietyThe CBT for Social anxiety mini workbook: a comprehensive cognitive behavioural therapy handout to help you to understand and manage (regulate) when being social causes you debilitating stress. 000
Reposted by Veronica WalshSander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Zuckerberg will soon "get rid of" fact-checkers across Meta platforms. He massively confuses fact-checking with "censorhip" 👇. Seems Meta will soon become the same cesspool of hate and misinformation as X. Well done Mark - more BlueSky users incoming! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political contentMark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads 16922
Reposted by Veronica WalshHuffPost @huffpost.com · 07/01/2025Now leading HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-z... 813103252417
Reposted by Veronica WalshSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025No objective observer who's been reading Elon Musk's unhinged tweets; his unhinged replies; the misleading screenshots he amplifies; the anonymous trolls and white supremacists he amplifies and advocates for; the fake data/reports he amplifies, has any doubt that he's unwell. It's publicly evident. 951597320
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I expect AI image generators (mostly free) will have driven this. I expect a dramatic lowering of pricing over time too. 100
Reposted by Veronica WalshJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Everyone knows the Washingon Post is in turmoil, bleeding subscribers, journalists, reader respect. But if the boss is asking how to attract Trump supporters that means self-respect is eroding too. For me, at least, that's a step further than I thought we were at. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0... 1513238930
Reposted by Veronica WalshDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Wtf what is wrong with people, this endless media bowing to him as some sort of commentator or politician rather than a wealthy far-right agitator is just perpetuating the cycle of myth-making relevance - power he's been engaged in for years 0374
Reposted by Veronica WalshIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not. 1622775817
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025So mean but lolo: JamArt Dublin’s ‘man who slipped on the ice’ is 😘 030
Veronica Walsh @veronicawalsh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025#lostcat - pls keep an eye out for this lost kitty - Santry Dublin (not one of mine thankfully) 🙏🏼 022
Reposted by Veronica WalshOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Oh sweet, sweet Gods of schadenfreude. What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us. 2132279419
Reposted by Veronica WalshJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025"But his disregard for the veracity of his posts and his elevation of far-right and extremist figures have alarmed liberal leaders around the world." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Liberal leaders are the ones alarmed? You say that, then later on you say how polarized everything is.washingtonpost.comElon Musk goes global with his playbook for political influenceThe X owner and tech billionaire has boosted far-right figures in Britain, Germany and Canada with a blizzard of social media posts in recent days. 2031177
Reposted by Veronica WalshProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025More than 70 Palestinians butchered by Israel in last 24 hrs. No letup in the cruelty and horror. www.reuters.com/world/middle...reuters.comIsraeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks beginAn Israeli military strike killed 12 people in a house in Gaza City early on Saturday, bringing the death toll from strikes across Gaza to 62 over the last day, Palestinian medics said, as mediators launched a new ceasefire push in Qatar. 01410
Reposted by Veronica WalshAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/01/2025"Israel’s push to normalise the mass killing of journalists threatens not just Palestinian media workers. If such behaviour in war zones is normalised, then no journalist, no matter what passport they carry, would be safe." — #AJOpinion by Daoud Kuttab ⤵️aje.ioSilence on Israel’s massacres of journalists is dangerous to allInternational media’s reluctance to show solidarity with Palestinian journalists could backfire. 23708365
Reposted by Veronica WalshBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos 323165434599