So much in this headline - from first world problems to climate change

The albums that topped my year. Not a bad old year for music all the same (and an oldie in there too) #SpotifyWrapped. www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Can I just up this again? Perfect 👌

Good news Friday: Ireland’s National Parks and Wildlife Service have purchased 100 acres of forestry land beside the Glen of the Downs nature reserve. 👏 iwt.ie/goodnewsfort...

I knew Mamdani was good, but he’s even charmed this guy! Phenomenal politician

Gosh. What a surprise.

There is no bottom

JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The men in this story are 32, 32, and 20 years older than Nuzzi. Perhaps the story is really about them.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie

This is the photo! Troy Parrott! #hero #coybig

No words #legends #coybig 🇮🇪

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

None of ICE's actions are popular. The American public hate what they are doing!

Really New York Times?! I do despair 😞

My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.

I have obtained a copy of the Flood Advisory issued by Met Éireann to local authorities today showing an orange level flood risk for many parts of East and South. I cannot see why it is not made public as I believe it is in the public interest to share it so I am sharing it.

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition "beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"

And, there we go: The formal judgment of acquittal. "Sandwich guy" case is done.

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

This 👇

Not unworthy at all @donaldclarke.bsky.social This is a lovely tribute

They really stuck the landing on this one.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

There goes Zohran Mamdani, trying to plot a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of unhinged attacks from the right and unrealisitic expectations from the left. You have to wish him well.

One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds

Excellent news this

Love this interview by our own @rgraham.bsky.social

Always a joy to go out west and see the dynamism of its start-up founders. Thanks @portershed.bsky.social for hosting us beautifully as always!

So good to see this poor creature in the care of the fabulous My Lovely Horse charity now. First thing that struck me when I saw the riot footage. Isn’t he gorgeous, the poor thing?

Depressingly inevitable 😞

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David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Must say @bsky.app offering a real sense of what’s going on across the Atlantic for #nokings day 👏

here is my favorite sign from today

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

For a second straight day, protests by La Liga players against the league's decision to stage a game in the United States were not broadcast for television audiences.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

So Enterprise Ireland is partnering again with Silicon Republic to host Founders' Exchange, a series of events for early-stage start-ups, where you get to hear from fellow founders, investors and advisors in a relaxed, interactive setting. Next up is PorterShed in Galway 🔗 vist.ly/4arqj

Good grief. A must-read this.

And on that note …

“writing is an act of thinking. This is as true for professionals as it is for students … outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs deprives scientists of the important work of understanding what they’ve discovered and why it matters.” Worth a read (paywall)

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars. Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

I really shouldn’t catch up on US news at this hour of the evening. Good God.

We were pleased to be the venue for @siliconrepublic.bsky.social & @entirl.bsky.social’s Founders' Exchange yesterday. Insightful panel discussions and great advice from the speakers. Pictured: @annodea.com welcoming attendees to our Learning Studio. Stay tuned for future Founder Exchanges!