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I honestly think the work cybersecurity ‘training’ is going to tip me over into anarchy.

The Wexford town boxes hadn’t been counted yet… Iykyk

Everything is too annoying.

Kids know it's OK to hug their granny if they want to. What they don't know is that it's OK to *not* hug granny when they do not want to. It's important to teach that to children and these people don't want us to.

Hysterical and predictable reaction to an advert on Liveline and earlier in the Dáil from the usual suspects. Text DRCC to 50300 to donate to DRCC. They really do fantastic work!

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

People joining the long running soap opera that is Ireland may wonder who this Jim O'Callaghan fellow is. Well, good news, I have a quick explainer that I wrote in July that will give you all the flavour you need. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-who...

Excellent piece 👌

For donkeys years I've been asking small children "Would you like a hug, a high five or a wave?". I think some manners in acknowledging another person is important, but the wave achieves that from a distance with no contact required.

re: not making kids hug and kiss people, I saw a great video ages ago that recommended adults ask "do you want a hug goodbye?" instead of "can I have a hug goodbye?" because it prioritises what the child is comfortable with over what the adult wants, I think it's a small but smart change

Thanks was just on my way to look for a link to do this too.

I personally didn’t like being slobbered on by old family friends with stinky breath that I hardly knew when I was a kid. Plus nobody should have to build resilience so manky politicians can invade your personal space & pull you in to shake your hand in an overly familiar way once you’re a voter.

Lots of adults have uncomfortable memories of being forced to hug or kiss older people and that’s a good enough reason to centre the child’s comfort before we even consider the very serious stuff.

Literally just get rid of the tacky junk shops and have a sensible Garda visibility. I personally love that the GPO is both an iconic historic building and still a fully functional post office. Making it purely more of a tourist attraction would only cheapen O’Connell Street even further.

I did two (2) scary phone calls today that I didn’t want to do. WHERE IS MY PRIZE? (I may be ancient but I have a young person attitude to phone calls.)

Sorry it’s not just the inaccuracies, which are stupid, but whatevs, it’s the really gross weird aura about the bloody things. And the worminess. They need to delete every last picture and never do it again. #shudder

Even the account below is trying to get in on the boat content.

Irish cyclist Lara Gillespie has won a gold medal after topping the points race at the UCI Track World Championships in Shanghai, China jrnl.ie/7196998

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank ft.trib.al/y2a35Z2

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

Oh look public servants are actually necessary.

For 10 weeks, we asked five AI chatbots the same questions every day. None repeated the core misinformation they were tested on, but they reported proposals as law, quoted outdated figures and gave different answers on different days. Our first report: fullfact.org/ai-benchmark...

Which government minister is the

I’m old enough to remember when official Ireland used to make grand pronouncements about how we were going to be European leaders in this stuff. I knew it was balderdash at the time because they were all talk and no action but it’s depressing to be right about it.

Official canon will be 0.45 because Zacharia served 5 days and Scaramucci 11. Actual truth is that Scaramucci managed 10.5 days and Zacharia 4.5, the first of which was a public holiday, so it’s 0.43 or 0.33 depending whether you include it or not. I’m splitting the difference.

Afternoon shift complete. #UpTheWorkers @siptu.bsky.social

They should emit the sound of dial up internet

Imagine having the sheer unadulterated hubris to run a ‘business’ this bad… The whole generative AI ‘industry’ is the same, it’s really only a matter of time before the whole house of cards collapses.

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

‘Large tech company admits it is releasing computer viruses onto the internet’

Anyone else remember the lads that looked like this from a Dr Who series a few years back? 🫣😬

This poster was due to go up in Dublin - but it was refused by some advertisers as it’s too “politically sensitive”. We may have been censored. We won’t be silenced. Repost this, send it around & spread the word. Go to aodhan.ie/act to sign our petition to SCRAP the EU-Israel trade agreement.

I watched the first half of this last night and it’s well worth your time especially if you want to feel more angry at our useless government ahead of Wednesday.

SIPTU has a clear message for public servants scheduled to work from home on Wednesday. Don't do it. Don't open your laptop. Don't check your emails. Don't teach online. Don't answer your phone. A strike only works when the work stops. Remote work is work. #UnionStrike

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

I mean not THAT desperate if they can’t bring themselves to say “yes we will talk about pay first in these pay talks”…

This is probably the best explainer of the dispute and strike on Wednesday I’ve seen in a paper www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

fucking dictators

“Chambers delivered a budget that did not cause political problems.” This is nonsense. The political problems haven’t even started yet, because in a lot of cases the actual funds available for various programmes and projects haven’t even been communicated at this stage to the bodies that run them.