Call your Senators no matter how they voted but especially if they are one of the 8 turncoats And stay on the line to tell the turncoat staff that they should stop working for someone who would sell out the people

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Notice that @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s Children of Time is 99p on kindle in the UK. If you have any interest in SF and haven’t read it, this is a no-brainer.

It’s important to recognize the (ongoing) complicity of STEM folks in this trend of destroying humanities. We were happy to latch onto “employability” because we benefitted but now university admin believe unis are job training institutes, and even basic sciences (mathematical physics!) are at risk.

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

I like to get up early and eat breakfast early. The only place in Durham open is Greggs. I order a bacon roll. “What sauce” “What are the options?” “Red or brown” “… no sauce please”

Me: about to try to wind down to go to sleep after a day of travel My mom: here’s a picture of an unknown animal skeleton I found in my raspberry bush today

Its November. The season for my office ceiling to leak. Gotta love being in the shittiest building on campus.

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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

There are a lot, really a lot, of Irish institutions, public bodies and politicians who need to follow suit. Far too many still there, and there is zero excuse for remaining on that rancid platform. www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

With alt-text #spéirgorm

Know your subgenres, Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Drug testing people for food assistance is just telling people who have addiction (which is a disease) that they should fuck off and starve to death. I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Good morning. Today I learned about the "trans women" vs "transwomen" distinction in usage. Sorry about that! Here's the fixed version, which I also changed on the main site.

"Weierstrass's Monster," as Poincaré called it, is a function that is... [lightning flashes outside the window] ...everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable [huge crash of thunder]. (3/n)

Feeling this a lot. In my dept there’s more concern about whether students “deserve” a first class honors. It’s considered worse to have too many people get good grades than it is to have many fail a class. The goal of assessment is either to help students learn or to rank them. It can’t be both.

In sharp contrast to the men’s team, the Irish women’s soccer team is a joy to watch on most occasions. Also how good is Abbie Larkin??

1. AOC scathingly rebuked anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Monday in the form of a single sentence. "Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth." Its part of a new wave of Dems being fearless on trans rights. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Thread of things I’ve learnt at the Mount Stromlo Student Seminars over the last few days: 1. The pythagoreans were a cult of triangle loving, bean haters. #MSSS2025

Our letter in response to John FitzGerald's article last week, which made several incorrect claims about our research, including that it calls for Ireland to "end all livestock production". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

A government department made an error in getting a vital support to a friend of mine. They've been told it will be months before they can correct the error. When they asked why, the person on the phone pulled a "Between you and me" before blaming immigrants. Fuck this government #spéirgorm

How drafts get approved.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

It is now clearly possible to have a successful coalition of parties on the left and there is a lot of support for this! I just hope they can work together as effectively to gain control of the Dáil, though the next general election is still a long ways away. Still, a good proof of concept! #Aras25

🔔 LÍON BEAG VÓTÁLAITHE - LOW TURNOUT WARNING 🔔 Turnout is down frm 2018 & we need as many ppl out voting #1 for #CatherineConnolly This is the very last push so please make sure you make it out to vote today & encourage people in your life to do the same. #spéirghorm #Áras25

Is @ucc.ie, the premier research uni in Munster, involved in CERN? It’s sad we don’t have any high energy particle physicists. Happy to explain to anyone interested why that’s the case (hint: it was a choice!) but this is why it’s important to have a WIDE distribution in research!

Dear MNM, Reform lost last night. Plaid won. This fact should be reflected in your news coverage over the coming days. Sincerely, Everyone

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges. TAX BILLIONAIRES RUN THEM DOWN LOOT THEM IT WORKS

Capitalism. Millions deprived, a few enriched. Alternatives are hard. The rich don’t want them. But racism is easy, anti-trans easy. To protect the system power gives people a focus for their rage, something to blame, a little piece of what the rich enjoy daily: the chance to look down on something

When the economy is considered “good”, average people struggle Achieving a “strong” economy very often comes at the expense of the environment (and our collective future) A “growing” economy doesn’t result in more art, discovery, or happiness. Maybe we need to rethink our metrics.

Parents, PLEASE check your kids’ Halloween candy this year. I just found atoms in this candy bar that were formed during BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, and many more that were the result of earlier generations of stars exploding as POWERFUL SUPERNOVA. Parents need to know about this dangerous trend!!

Exams are stupid! But if you must do them, it helps to lower the stakes! Very neat results. Because I enjoy being angry I think I’ll bring this up at the next faculty meeting and watch all the middle aged white men get upset!

Nice to see that the Chancellor of UNC doesn't understand the value of higher education and why it isn't a job skills training program. But we already knew that. techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...

I gave up watching traitors USA. Started S1 of the Australian one and it’s night and day. An ex-hostage, a clairvoyant, and a supermarket bag lady. Give me this over housewives of Beverly Hills and survivor contestants any day. @thetraitors.bsky.social

Here’s Jenny Maguire, the first trans woman elected to be President of the Student’s Union at Trinity College, Dublin, recommending voting for Catherine Connolly, the inclusive president we need! Jen is sound! #Aras25

Jenny was out canvassing with our Dublin North West for Connolly group, in the rain, yesterday. Encouraging young people to actually get out to vote. #aras25 #connollyforptesident

I’m also now starting the US series and I have to say I’m pretty annoyed that half the players are already reality tv stars. I think it cheapens it a lot. Also there’s a noticeable lack of variety in ages and body types compared to the UK and Ireland versions.

I’m now addicted to the Traitors shows. And after finishing season 2 of the UK series I’m devastated to learn that Harry and Mollie didn’t become a couple in real life.

Luisa Omielan

What a joke. These awards have no value and this proves it. If all someone needs to do to earn this shit is to drag people into debates and be super annoying then I should have dozens. But tbf to Kirk you have to also be misogynistic, racist, and transphobic to get it from the current administration

The shame on us.