I don't know why you would ask about it. It was a long time ago. It was an honest mistake. It was Pete's fault. Trump speed runs a four-step motte and bailey in the same single answer.

“I feel useless, therefore you are,” is a condition, not an argument

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

Perfect day 👇

Been finding copies of books I read as a child through young adulthood to see how much my early literary interests influenced my post 25y/o personality and belief system. It's been a trip. I've clearly been on the we're stronger when we work together path since I was a child. Reading is important.

March 1: White House says it attacked Iran to "destroy its ballistic missile arsenal." June 17: Trump says it's "unfair" if Iran doesn't have ballistic missiles 🤷‍♂️

remarkable scenes on Hannity last night as the normally Trump-friendly Gen. Jack Keane criticized the administration for being an unreliable narrator, urged Trump to release the text of the Iran deal, and noted it may still end up leaving a path for Iran to get a nuke

Hey gang. It's #buyastrangerabook day! @laurabrennan.bsky.social sent me a tenner to buy someone a book with. How lovely is that? So, there are millions of ace books for you to ask for. So just ask if there's a particular book you want! UK only

We're more than halfway through #IndependentBookshopWeek and there's still time to grab a £5 voucher with orders over £30 🎉 + it's DOUBLE POINTS! Why not take a look at our Fiction #Sale? There are some real bargains waiting to be discovered... 👇 foxlanebooks.co.uk/fiction-sale

We know that hope is stronger than hate. This Refugee Week we stand together in solidarity against those who seek to divide us.

#Booksky 👇📚

Social media can be a force for good, but too often platforms profit from division, hatred and disinformation. It has to stop. Tech companies must clean up their platforms and protect young people.

Our latest shipment to Rwanda has left our Swindon warehouse. 38,714 brand-new books are now on their way to our partners there, bringing the total number of books sent worldwide so far this year to 421,413. Donate now to send the next one. bookaid.org/donate/ #BookSky

In case you needed a post-Bloomsday pick-me-up... 📚🧁 The Library's mascot James has been busy baking Ulysses-inspired Banbury cakes. In Ulysses (Episode 8, Lestrygonians), Leopold Bloom buys two Banbury cakes and crumbles them into the Liffey for the gulls:

👩‍🎓🪴 Best wishes to Dr Noeleen Smyth, who leaves the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science to take up her new role as Director of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland and JFK Arboretum. 👏 @noeleensmyth.bsky.social

Independent bookshops make sustainability feel less like a lecture and more like a secondhand paperback with a slightly mysterious past. Reuse the book. Recycle the box. Save the story. #Indiebookshopweek @booksaremybag.bsky.social

TY to the Aus Data Science Education folks for having me on :) Here's me talking about why the use of generative AI in analysis, writing and professional work is like constantly laying landmines around yourself adsei.org/podcast/data...

we need more admire local cats gatherings

So many reasons to love people who use @bsky.app 👇

The language escalates in direct proportion to the scale of the self-inflicted strategic defeat in Iran

The transgender individual erased by training data, the Kenyan worker moderating that data for $2 an hour, and the Black neighborhood choking on emissions required to process the data are all linked, writes Amaia Aguilar. They are all victims of old harms delivered through new technologies.

Now it’s the turn of the team from @nhslothcharity.bsky.social Tonic Arts team to share their good work! Feeling proud of the work that they do. Working to improve the environment for anyone needing healthcare in @nhslothian.bsky.social. #MedSky #ArtsSky

Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...

It is *fascinating* that a) Burnham, the most middle class of these, apparently codes as working class b) Streeting codes *so* strongly as middle class c) Starmer as posh The British and class: weird

What a time to be alive. Pubs shut, where people freely talk to other people, so this vile man can have 'free speech' ?

Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 86th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London... 🧵

Oh, for god's sake, BBC, just hire well-qualified, good humoured people with interesting things to say, a cheerfully sceptical view of life and a shrewdly tolerant love of the absurd

Oxford protest against Tommy Robinson "debate" TOMORROW (bonus, you also get to yell at Laurence Fox and Rees-Mogg)

I'm back, touching grass at the SB64 climate talks in Bonn 🌱 I'm mainly covering finance, action agenda, fossil fuels and the global stocktake. Come and say hello if you see me around. My hair is slightly shorter than this 💇‍♀️

Oh, for god's sake, BBC, just hire well-qualified, good humoured people with interesting things to say, a cheerfully sceptical view of life and a shrewdly tolerant love of the absurd

@kevinr.free-dissociation.com Thanks for following. Good to meet you.

There is such an enormous power—especially in DC, but also everywhere—to being able to say, I cannot solve this problem for you, talk to me as a friend

I have noticed this with AI proponents in my line of work as well: they keep talking about how it’s the future and how everyone needs to get with it and how great it is for generating work. But they are super shifty about making their AI use transparent in their own work. Why is that?

It is how society sells us so much of everything: Degrade and create a feeling of inferiority, and then say ______ will help you (/ is what you need) to be ok and acceptable.

Mahbooba Faiz works at RDJ in Cork. Her mother Ruqia was married off to her father when she was just ten years old. Now she's watching in horror as the Taliban consigns millions of girls to the same fate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Last thing for now: He never directly said the keynote was written by Claude. What he admitted was worse--an entire current book authored by AI. We were all left to infer what it meant for him to "work closely with AI" in relation to the keynote itself. And none of this was mentioned until I asked.

I did actually find the talk thought provoking and brilliant, albeit in a diabolical way. It raised many reflections for me, but more than anything, an embodied feeling -- a sense that something wasn't right. And to receive that confirmation in real time was one of the wildest moments in my career..

I’ve said it before, but universities should be rejecting AI completely. We should lead the resistance.

They call him ‘the poet of the Hirak’. In 2025, Algerian authorities once again targeted Mohamed Tadjadit for his poetry and his posts online. His case remains emblematic of the ongoing silencing in the region. 👉 Read about his case: www.pen-international.org/case-list-2026

"Read. Read. Read. Writers love reading. It’s our nourishment, our joy, our sustenance" Write Smarter with Gill Perdue Read: www.swirlandthread.com/write-smarte...

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Any followers in Mexico City? I'm doing two events there next week: one at the Irish Embassy on June 22nd with the great @dylanbrennan.bsky.social, and one at Cafebrería El Péndulo (Polanco) on June 23rd. Both free, just register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/bloomsday-... @literatureireland.bsky.social

I was honoured to speak in the moving debate on the legacy of Jo Cox. Jo’s ‘more in common’ message and the need to strengthen communities is still so urgent. As MPs we cannot agree on everything. But we must always strive to seek common ground and do so with love and respect as Jo always did.

1. Elderflower cordial in fizzy tap water. 😋😋😋 2. Oxeye daisies. Not the prettiest things in the garden but bright and cheery. 3. Bought a pot of basil on Sunday. Looked a little squashed so I repotted it. Has pretty much doubled in size.

The Reflecting Pool debacle is the Trump Administration in a nutshell: waste, corruption, and absolute stupidity. Enjoy more broken promises, America! But never forget: you deserve better.

Unmute, this is the cutest snore ever.

Not saying you'll be taken in by it; just trying to save you time and energy. They don't ask for money upfront - but that will come in follow-up mails. I replied to the mail, because I wanted to see how long it would be before they mentioned money - the request for is veiled, but it's there.

Just off a phenomenal webinar with @globalecoguy.bsky.social + @projectdrawdown.bsky.social - 850+ live participants from all over including NAm, UK, EU, Africa, and the Middle East! We talked all about climate solutions and how to catalyze action to build a better future. Recording coming soon!