I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Manchán Magan president.ie/en/media-lib...

Incidence of post-induction hypotension following #emergency rapid sequence induction with ketamine: a systematic review and meta-analysis Link: sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #RSI #anaesthesia #EMS #SJTREM #FOAMed

Yis don't trust evoting machines to calculate PR-STV transfers quickly but you'll let AI decide a young person's future. Hmm.

Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. www.ft.com/content/1511...

We need to face uncomfortable truths about diversity in our medical workforce - my thoughts for @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...

🚨 New research alert 🚨 Our study in BMJ Open @bmj.com examines experiences of less-than-full-time (LTFT) postgraduate medical training in Ireland. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/2/e… A short 🧵 on why LTFT matters for training, burnout, and the future of the workforce#MedSkyk#irishmeded 1️⃣

Legu la nekrologon verkitan de #XaviAlcalde en www.esperanto.cat/renato-corse...

Hahaha when you see it put like that

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Oscar Wilde.

This from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is insightful and alarming. broligarchy.substack.com/p/total-info...

Who could have predicted this

That's an account set up on Pixelfed nai. I'm deleting my Instagram later this week.

This is the most upsetting version of the story I’ve encountered. Important journalism, but don’t enter into it lightly.

The ISRA membership portal is now open, click on the link below to join today. Fee includes ESRA membership which is mandatory for those sitting the exam in April. isra.ie/isra-members...

This is the same Verona Murphy who has had to issue statements saying ‘I’m not racist’ after serial racist dog whistling? Extreme right failed badly in recent irish general election. For shame that FF and FG now giving their politics a leg up.

Our best-selling book over the last few months is the #Esperanto translation of Roald Dahl's “Matilda”. It's only £10 on Amazon in the UK (www.amazon.co.uk/Matilda-Roal...) and is priced similarly on other countries' Amazons, B&N, etc. Here's a sample: drive.google.com/file/d/1dXez...

I think it’s hilarious that Irish people are giving out about Trump’s immigration plan when we got rid of birthright citizenship years ago by referendum and DEPORTED IRISH BORN KIDS with their parents just like Trump is planning.

I do enjoy how the Irish defy stereotypes by producing the most insane election graphics known to man

I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if a thousand international journalists all cried out and once and suddenly deleted 5 paragraphs. #ge24

🇮🇪 Best teller outfit ever. #irishelection #ge24

Some lovely soul has created a *CUSTOM FEED* for the election count - a tab on your homepage that will have all the #GE24 content - you need to *click here & then “pin feed”* bsky.app/profile/did:...

Linehan is now further to the right than any of the three priests on Craggy Island. I can't imagine Jack, Dougal or Ted bring impressed by Aontú.

Delighted for Holly Cairns, her partner and her family, but the fact that she (who famously won her first seat on the council by one vote) won't be able to vote today shows how ridiculous and exclusionary our restrictive voting system is. Surely she should have a postal vote!

Not participating in Black Friday because I'm against the relentless creeping Americanisation of Irish life and as a tiny artist I can't afford to, but will instead be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every print you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies

Buying books and not reading them counts as reading. Buying books and not reading them counts as reading. Buying books and not reading them counts as reading. Buying books and not reading them counts as reading. Buying books and not reading th

Good overall (frustrating) explainer from @thejournal.ie

Happy #GE2024 Election Eve! Don't forget to leave some raw milk and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories for your local right-wing independents beside the fireplace, and room under your tree for your family members in Australia that Simon Harris has kidnapped

Yes - but - undecideds are 19% If you factor that in: no party has more than 17% of the electorate saying they will vote for them This level of fragmentation is extraordinary

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Nikita Hand is the hero. jrnl.ie/6550030

#RTEUpfront tonight with its 10 person party debate will be chaos, but it will be a good test on if Irish Bluesky, #Speirgorm, can use the #GE24 as a kind of #VinB posting vibe to see if we can form a coherent/vibrant Irish space here.

The freaks are their voters. Amazing plan

Now that we're well into #GE24 why not play a game of Cirque du Cliché . Fun for all the family

Cory Doctorow hits the nail on the head: "I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will." pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...

The Fine Gael team laughing their middle class heads off at billionaire Michael O’Leary mocking school teachers. Vote accordingly.

So begins the frantic quarterly blowing-up-of-air-beds for the people arriving from Twitter

welcome to bluesky, as you may have worked out from almost 50% of your timeline being "welcome to bluesky" there isn't a lot going on here

The National Gallery in London is renovating its Sainsbury Wing and they’ve just found a secret letter from one of the original donors, sunk into a concrete column, saying that he hates the columns and is glad they’re being demolished. 10/10 unhinged rich man behaviour, no notes

Incomprehensible that Sinn Féin have freaked out so badly about migration that they're *this* close to flailing themselves into arguing for a closed border with Northern Ireland.

Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".

This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.

We've reached the year that elderly Homer gets a plunger stuck on his head.

Cad a bhí ar bun ag an Aontas Eorpach ag caint faoin Ghaeilge? Ní dóigh liom @ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social gur aineolas faoin nGaeilge a bhí i gceist. Fadhb dáiríre is ea easpa modhnóireacht i dteangacha nach teangacha móra iad. m.independent.ie/seachtain/ca...

Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone. Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.

People in Ireland are celebrating Caio Benicio, a Brazilian delivery driver who intervened in a stabbing that caused one of the worst anti-immigrant riots in recent memory, by buying him a pint. On Saturday, donors raised over 330,000 euros, about $350,000.