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Kate O'Connor European Heptathlon Champion. @athleticsireland.bsky.social

The organiser pledges every cent will go towards Cahir Fire Station

The trouble is the AI Act does not limit biometric identification to the use of databases of named individuals - for good reason. Being able to single out and track people across imagery based on their biometric data - with or without their name - is incredibly risky for people's fundamental rights

Which part of UK has outperformed the rest since Brexit? Northern Ireland of course, as it has effectively stayed in the EU’s single market!

This is what happens when our media landscape is owned by billionaires with a deep-seated interest in protecting the wealth of, and power held by, you guessed it: billionaires.

What a mad tale!

lmao

The marketing genius move was to persuade us that AI stands for Artificial Intelligence when it is only Automated Information.

Released hostages talking about how they were tortured by the terrorist entity.

Oh please, oh please

The Spy Who Was Indifferent to Me

Congrats, Hungarians. Orbán is toast. 🎉

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

French voters are going to the polls to elect mayors in Paris, Marseille and more than 1,500 other cities and towns, in a test of the far right's strength and the resilience ⁠of mainstream parties ahead of next year’s presidential election.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

NB Not everything that is shit is necessarily generated by AI. Worth reminding ourselves that bored humans in meeting rooms are still eminently capable of making dreadful creative decisions without the involvement of computers

We'll never forget the tragic fire at the #Stardust nightclub in the early hours of #ValentinesDay 1981. The families, friends, survivors & community are foremost at this sad time of remembrance

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Piece on John Collison’s interview with Elon Musk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

MILO, THE PARALYMPIC MASCOT, HAS ONE LEG!!

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator. Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in? And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)… (—> cont’d)

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

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Great event coming up -

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive

When thinking about accessibility, one of the most important things you can do is listen to feedback from disabled people. Listen, learn, and do better next time. Take it as an action, rather than a defensive reaction.

So @lexialex.bsky.social filed this appeal but is only getting automated replies @support.bsky.team very disappointed given @aaron.bsky.team also lives in Ireland. Have they not taught you anything about solidarity with Palestine?

Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves. Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.

For all of you being asked how the elf gets back to the North Pole

Big thank you to all the people working through Christmas looking after everyone

It seems to have been overlooked in the fox hunting debate but we had a Minister of State advocating for us to actively drive 2 native species to extinction. #Spéirgorm Eradication isn't management. It isn't pest control. It isn't even the killing for sport of these species. It's extinction.

Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far?

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

🌈 SAVE THE DATE — Fill in the Survey - Have Your Say in the Future of Pride in Cork! 🌈 Gay Project, LINQ Ireland, and Gender Rebels are teaming up to host a community-wide LGBTI+ consultation on 24th January 2026 and we want you there. 💬💖

Live Translation (different languages translated live on a call) is now active on EU iPhones/AirPods via iOS 26.2. Settings -> Software Update -> Apple Intelligence & Siri It was held up by Apple saying that EU’s DMA regs made it harder to launch here

My second most fave. I have it at work, along with a small duck that I move occasionally.

Patrick O’Donovan went out on the national airwaves with a half-baked, bad set of ideas about linking access to online spaces to our PPS numbers. If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle. But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.

Ireland is one of only three countries in the EU with a religious State education system. The others are Malta (Catholic) & Greece (Orthodox). Ireland has been a secular country for 53 years, over half the life of the State. It's way past time all State education was secular. #SocialistSunday