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If there was just one thing I wish every healthy person could understand, it is this: ANYONE can get a chronic illness. Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are. Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.

The disconnected Apple Pencil? The expression sheet with all the same expression? The art with the footsteps in the snow in front of the characters running? The file with one (1) background layer? Erasing the “hand drawn” background by hand on said one (1) layer file? Where do I starttttttt

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid 🧍‍♀️

Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

We’re delighted to see photos from our collection featured in this fascinating initiative by our friends at #NationalArchivesofIreland. They’re seeking stories from Irish people aged 100 and over - a wonderful opportunity to preserve and celebrate living history: www.irishstar.com/news/ireland...

Got an object with a story? We believe every object holds a piece of history - and yours could be part of it. From heirlooms to gig tickets- bring yours to the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks & chat with curators 📍 Thursday, 6th Nov 6-7 PM 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/late-night...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Buy books from bookshops! In Ireland some fab options are @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social @omahonysbooks.bsky.social

Exactly 25 years ago, at 09:21 UTC, the era of continuous human presence on the International @Space_Station began. Since Crew One took up residence in 2000, 21 @esa.int astronauts have lived and worked on this orbital outpost, conducting essential research to benefit life on Earth.

If you're in the vicinity of @dculibrary.bsky.social, please pop in to see an exhibition selected from the archive material I've donated. It relates to my first book, The Destruction of Dublin (1985), and the Dublin Crisis Conference I helped to organise in February 1986. A blast from the past!

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Well, this isn't concerning at all. The biggest cause of deaths in Ireland between the 1880s and 1950s. The slow moving droplet disease that thrives in poverty and overcrowding. In 1949 a policy of universal vaccination was introduced, but ceased in 2015. #SpéirGhorm

An Online Trove of Historic Sewing Patterns & Costumes

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD. Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned). When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

Happy Hallowe’en! #UKHE

brb, just updating the @xkcd.com cartoon

Att #spéirgorm: apparantly Fastway/Parcel Connect has gone into receivership, in case you're waiting on a package.

If you’re a Bloomsbury author, I’d make sure they’re not using your work to train AI and maybe send a note about gross this is.

This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social #Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna

The new Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unprecedented public access to Irish political, cultural and social history from 1900-2020. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

The power of thoughtful observant design - I had been wondering who had designed Connolly’s campaign, it was very nicely judged

Your reminder that people who knit and crochet are artists. Generally women whose work is devalued - artists all

Great, just had fireworks fired at the house from the green across the road by feral young fellas, doesn’t seem to be any damage to house or car, thankfully. Neighbours wheelie bin was set on fire by them yesterday, too. And it’s another week to Halloween 😡 #speirgorm

Good to see some movement on this, the Casino Marino is massively underrated and a coffee shop would really help the area

The upcoming release of the 1926 census records of Ireland will be celebrated across a major public programme of events next year

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

1967 ad for PJ Hegarty featuring O’Flaherty House, Summercove, Kinsale by Robin Walker #cork

Catherine Connolly files formal complaint to Electoral Commission over AI deepfake videos on FB — says the "malicious" videos are an attempt to "undermine democracy". Meanwhile, both main regulators say it's not their job to find out who made the videos. www.independent.ie/business/tec...

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight. 1000s watching, commenters believing it.

it's funny how you can rightly be like "this is all according to their plan - fascist paramilitary secret police kidnapping americans, panopticon, destruction of the dollar, etc" but then out of nowhere you get a curveball like Tearing Down White House To Build The Fancy Boy Party Zone

It's worth checking out the amazing 49-year-old 24-year-olds that make up the staff at the architecture firm that designed the Big Box King's Throne Room where the East Wing was. The firm changed their website to be landing-page-only, but the Archive still has it: web.archive.org/web/20250419...

Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Get ready for the 1926 census of Ireland youtu.be/VQn7dxNAgzk?... #genealogy #Ireland

Interesting reactions to this. 1. Lots of people here can spot it’s a deepfake 2. Lots don’t realise that a great many people can’t, as seen by large number of credulous comments/shares on FB

My piece @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social on the Bord na Móna peat briquette, a once popular fuel for Irish people & an Irish industrial design icon. Their memory is the source of much nostalgia and their demise, while good for the environment, represents the end of an era. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Okay, I think I have a rough draft of the screening list and weekly topics. Here we go: Our World Today and Tomorrow -The Hottest August (Brett Story, 2019) Methods 1: Ecocriticism & Ecocinema -Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) - At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007) -.TV (G. Anthony Svatek, 2017)

I’m a rural voter. Don’t lump me in with this cruel shite. And just because something has been going on for hundreds of years, doesn’t make it right. Or should we go back to the good old days of child labour, enslaved women, Ireland as a colony or maybe right back to the divine right of kings?

Its time to get together It's time to plan the heist It's time to meet the Muppets Who are stealing gems tonight It's time to put on camo It's time to dress up right It's time to raise the curtain On The Louvre Heist tonight

The comments on this are 👌🏻

Incredible photo from yesterday's #nokings protests by Olga Fedorova for AP

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.