This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar. from ‘Shapechangers in Winter’ By @margaretatwood.bsky.social

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Just remembering now I had a dream during the week where I was explaining the concept of eventual consistency and CRDTs

Having flown from Cork to London to Hong Kong to Brisbane, from Gold Coast to Sydney and now gone through security for my flight from Sydney to Melbourne, an eagle-eyed security person has finally spotted the nail scissors I didn’t know I had with me all that time 😳

We know that the Sun is male and the Earth is female because the Sun gets all the credit for rising and setting but it’s the Earth doing all the work

Top 5 on shuffle 20/10/25: Anyone Can Play Guitar, Radiohead Wonderful Life, Black Missed the Boat, Modest Mouse Pulling Mussels (From the Shell), Squeeze Like Water, Steve Mason

Top 5 songs on shuffle 19/10/25: Survive It, Ghostpoet Mirror in the Bathroom, The (English) Beat No Hard Feelings, Wolf Alice I Love You, Fontaines DC Houses in Motion, Talking Heads

Top 5 songs on shuffle 18/10/25: All My Days, Alexi Murdoch Play for Today, The Cure Ruin, Cat Power Heartbeat City, The Cars Duel, Propaganda

The ability to hide people’s comments for everyone and then block them is perfection

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right. There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]

Nobody has an obligation to nominate anyone for anything, ever. You have a right to ask, they have the right to decline

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Groypers is a disease of sheep in coastal areas caused by hypernatraemia due to excess sodium in the grass. Meat from sheep that die of groypers cannot enter the food chain

The EU wants to roll back vital environmental protections - and they're asking for your opinion. Today is the LAST DAY to speak up before it's too late. Almost 200k of us have signed, have you? It takes only seconds to tell them to keep their Hands OFF Nature!! handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

A reminder alert popped up. "Oh," the Supervisor said, "it's time to check in on Sol-3 again. Szrpt, can you handle that?" Szrpt bowed a frond. "Yes, of course." "Don't forget to reset the killer asteroid if the sapients pose no threat." "Once!" Szrpt bristled. "I only forgot that once!"

A reddit account of a certain reality TV cunt and former boyband manager being an unhinged racist in Dublin today. Which I feel would surprise no one. old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Fantastic news. I couldn’t watch a single second of Wallace and Torode on the current series

My offspring is being exposed to racist tropes and right-wing propaganda, I head it off with facts, but I need to quickly make a playbook to pre-emptively counter it. This shit is everywhere. Young people absorb it from hearing adults talk about it.

Turned my father in law’s gifted tomatoes into tomato and chilli jam. Definitely a HOT batch this time around but will mellow when used as a condiment no doubt

Starting process of moving my daughter into her student accommodation. So excited for her. Probably a hectic day and a bittersweet one too!

"We cannot welcome trans people & at the same time keep space open for anti-trans rhetoric. Friends who continue to tolerate this ‘debate’ set themselves against the wellbeing of trans people & against the leadings of the Holy Spirit as discerned by the Yearly Meeting."—Amen, @markdruss.bsky.social!

Men built everything. Every weapon. Every prison. Every sweatshop. Every dungeon. Every torture chamber. Every system of oppression. All to keep us safe from the lies they built to keep us frightened

I wish every ill thingon JK Rowling that she wishes on trans people. The wish of her heart be on her own head

Managed to shred my glasses with the lawnmower. Thanks goodness I have a spare pair. Even luckier I wasn’t wearing them at the time ;-)

I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying. I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention

Slightly diminish a band The Symptom Manager

Interviewed Gareth Sheridan this morning - he says it's time for an end to 'left - right divisive' politics. That's despite being introduced to councillors by Senator Sharon Keogan - who said LGBT+ people were involved in an 'organised takeover' of society... and who has posted "#IrelandisFull".

My colleague Olga Cronin in The Irish Times this morning urges Irish Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan to reconsider encryption “back door” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

From 13 years ago before Twitter became Xitter: The best way to show you're not a racist is not to do or say what racists do and say. If you *are* a racist, that's the best way to behave too

Hey, hey, hey. We have very very big news. We finally have a new issue on sale right... NOW! We hope it's not our last but that is up in the air so this really is a case where YOU ARE THE HERO but also other very cool non WS stuff mentioned! so check it out...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I just got a call in Ireland trying this scam www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/scam... Be careful!!

This interview by Sean Rocks with KT Tunstall epitomises the man. Interested in the person he was talking to, knowledgeable about her beyond the research notes and asking her questions that delighted her because they weren’t the usual media treadmill rubbish www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

This Robin must have been on a dare from his mates

Butterflies enjoying the oregano flowers

Got reminded of this cracker just now. I might have watched this version ;-)

O’Donnell Abú! #gaa #donegal #allirelandfinal

The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza. Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction." @leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character reactormag.com/i-didnt-expe...

I wonder what sort of things Michael Flatley thinks Irish people can’t say with their existing ‘voices’?

Love this projection, the Colmcille Map from Foras na Gaeilge in Ireland and Bòrd na Gàidhlig in Scotland, centring the relationship between Ireland and Scotland - the land of Columba. Original here colmcille.net/wp-content/u... #maps #gaelic

And this is the Comfort of the Good, that the grave cannot hold them, and that they live as soon as they die. For Death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. Death, then, being the way and condition of Life, we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die

This is an extraordinary few minutes of video. Normally a satirist, I kept expecting a twist but I was moved to tears by the line “we recognise Empire when we see it”. Don’t fall for idea that young people don’t care about anyone else youtu.be/8vwP_EqZGNg Free Palestine

The amazing Gemma Hayes in Connolly’s of Leap tonight. Such a beautiful atmosphere

The Virginian colonels in the US Army at US Civil War outbreak were: R.E. Lee, John J. Abert, Edmund B. Alexander, Philip S.G. Cooke, John Garland, Thomas Lawson, Matthew M. Payne, Washington Seawell, George H. Thomas, René De Russy and Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Only Lee sided with the Confederacy /1

I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

What a nasty man: Animal welfare inspector removes nine dogs from puppy farm, court hears www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

I have no doubt that the Labour ministers responsible will regret their choices. While I would hope it would be because they rethink their choices, it’s more likely to be because they recognise this as the moment they destroyed the legitimacy of their government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...