Late notice but I have 1 ticket to the surprise film at the Dublin Film Festival at 17:30 today in the Light House Cinema. I'd prefer to sell it and get my €14 back but I'd consider giving it away as it's so late in the day.

My two reposts immediately below this post are women expressing how I feel better than I ever could myself. You can’t make art in a fascist state, and inclusion is not just about inviting someone to the room, but making that room a welcoming and non-exploitative or hurtful place.

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

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And the Americans can all share their thoughts on our heritage while mispronouncing placenames they've only seen in writing.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

A guy was being 'Loudly Patriotic' in a shop near us, proclaiming how great it was to have Irish People serving Irish People, and he looked behind him for agreement to find my two kids next in queue: one with a purple mullet, the other carrying a packet of tofu. Literally the tofu-eating wokerati :D

So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other

The number of people living in emergency homelessness accommodation has surpassed 17,000 for the first time - the figure stood at 17,112 at the end of January 2026, including 5,319 children. The overall figure is up 10.6% in the last twelve months. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

In human communication we can check the credibility of our sources, and our sources' sources, and so on, down the chain (Wikipedia does this too!). We cannot know the source of the LLM's outputs in the same way we can query our human communication partners. 12/

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

People should learn it’s just much easier to let me finish my thought. If you interrupt me, I’ll be compelled to finish it anyway. Else, I will have to delete it from my processing entirely, so if you then refer back to it, I’ll have no idea what you’re talking about.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

No state, public or media body should gift its content to a platform which is hostile to its continued existence.

It's so ironic how often bigots talked about being "unpersoned" because people did not want to socialize with them. You know what's really an "unpersoning"? Having no driver's license in a rural area. Losing the one ID you need to vote or pay taxes or open a bank account.

Trying not to waste unfatigued time worrying about the possible return of fatigue... This dose triggered an asthma flare-up. Asthma still a new one for me (another Covid gift!) so can take me a while to recognise why I feel exhausted (not FATIGUED) & treat it, so fatigue-fear has time to kick in...

Remember folks, the AI is not *actually* doing this; it is querying its training-data for statistically-likely things to appear to do under the given conditions, and replicating the highest-probability outcome.

'The new rental regulations come in as market rents rose nationally by 4.4% last year and are now 80% higher than a decade ago, according to the latest Rental Report by Daft.ie. '

Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children. I urge caution: ✅ Focus on "safety by design" ✅ Demand algorithmic transparency ✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards Read my Shout Out👇 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

‘Remember the past, or repeat its mistakes’ Not one Irish female historian, many of whom have led the way in broadening Irish history studies, and in doing Irish/British studies, asked for their opinion! So infuriating #anotherhistorymanel #womendohistorytoo www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

What do people be doing at their jobs that the scutter that LLMs spit out passes for their work product?

My kids: one medicine, one jewellery design: both lab/studio work. Besides the wider quality of student life (already greatly weakened by the accommodation crisis), being on campus is PRACTICING your subject, immersing yourself in it, think-talking about it, working it out for yourself with friends.

@connectingcabra.bsky.social @cosybatter.bsky.social

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

I am going to have to skip my Tai Chi class today. Which is good for everyone else in my class as I’m at the coughyspluttery stage of the Lurgy. But bad for my general wellbeing. Playing it in a group really makes a difference. I will go through the motions alone today :( (cough splutter)

Looking for sources for a Nature.com story about dealing with predatory 'pay-to-publish' magazines. They try to convince PhDs/academics to write for their high-impact magazine (read by business people, politicians etc), charging them thousands to do so. DMs open! #academicsky 🧪

Lurgy has reached Seal Bark stage as all the gunk tries to descend into my lungs. I have taken the nuclear option: drinking Solpa Cold & Flu. I’d a bad reaction last time I took this: GLAREY WIDE AWAKE & SPEEDY, but it also cured me. I can’t let this go onto my chest, so I’m willing to risk it. 🤞🤞🤞

An apprenticeship allows you to combine academic study with paid on-the-job training, setting you up for success in your career. We offer two apprenticeships in finance and recruitment at NCI that are currently open for applications. More info: blog.ncirl.ie/ifs-apprenti...

I’ve had Watson on in background a few times while doing other stuff: I love mad diseases (even better if I diagnose them before the show does) and the personal entanglements are no more bizarre than many a show. But the odd time I properly watch it: BOY IS IT UGLY! Looks like murky orange-green AI?

Hello! Is anyone in possession of a young person, 18+, who's not studying or in work and clocking up the job rejections, and who would like to write (or have ghostwritten by me) a piece about their experience applying for work? Drop me a DM.

The Dreaded Lurgy has struck! Taking All The Drugs and going back to bed. None of you were exaggerating about The Sore Throat, eh? Bah!

I grew up hearing my Da talking about this. He also talked about lack of investment in our water system. & labour-saving devices mostly just undermining workers’ rights. Like, this was nearly 50 years ago that he couldn’t understand why more people weren’t worried about these things. Plus ça change…

Writers if you could work full time on turning your novel or short story into a great and watchable movie, while AI takes care of washing up, doing the laundry, cooking, and making sure that food and rent are all paid up, would you do it? Jeez, so many people have it fucking backwards.

When AirBnB was first introduced, pals of mine did it. It meant they could afford to live in a 3-bed city centre apartment cos they short-let the en suite. Part of the point was that their guests met Irish people, not just the location of the apartment. Not whole homes.

The Humanities continue to be vastly underfunded. And look at the world we live in now that has disproportionally decided that STEM is the end all be all of the education system. Science and engineering are important, but so is teaching people how to think critically about how the world works.

Why on earth is RTÉ reporting on the opinions of the British author of a discredited transphobic report? What is the value to this information being circulated?

It's a sign of how sound and compassionate our society largely is when this is the role call of our most prominent commentators, and our biggest political parties are all right or centre right, and we still manage to be too woke for the lot of them

The disgusting colouring of this makes me suspect AI - or are designers now going with the muddiness that AI has popularised? Honestly, I can better tolerate slightly deformed humans in uncanny valley queasy-making fake photos than illustrations with colours that are all just a tone off. #AInausea

Roger Casement: “A nation is a very complex thing. It never does consist; it never has consisted solely of men of one blood or one single race – it is like a river, rising in the hills with many sources, many converging streams, that become one great stream.” (1905)

Surely this is a matter of individual choice not legal bonds! If you want a marriage for life, do that! Nothing is stopping people! Like not going into pubs on Good Friday! If you don’t want to, nobody is pushing you in with a stick!

Vision Board.

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

The Gist: Road from Perdition From 2023, but still the right idea; "RTE should be funded from central exchequer funds, at a sum fixed as a proportion of the tax revenue generated each year." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...