Rossa McMahon
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Thinking.
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Ahhhhh
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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Dan Holt
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Rob
about 24 hours ago
Watching people "talk" to ChatGPT is looking more and more like Gollum speaking to Smeagol
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An Irish solution. ie: a joke. Almost 1500 exemptions.
www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...
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XL Bully ban 'a start' as over 1,400 exemptions issued
Further legislation on dog control is expected within the lifetime of the current Government, a Fine Gael TD has said, adding that the XL Bully ban was "just a starting point in terms of addressing is...
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0208/1557361-xl-bully-exemptions/
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A.R. Moxon
1 day ago
Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.
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Banning is an admission by adults, governments and societies of total failure to regulate and order social media and technology for the common good. It’s just throwing hands up in the air.
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠
5 days ago
what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not
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Cian Ginty
4 days ago
People who aren't tuned into this I think aren't aware of the level of nonsense going on:
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera
4 days ago
Can't get the Guards to enforce driving rules or even parking rules so let's give them another counter productive thing that is easier to enforce and enforce on plebs who don't matter instead and will take up more of their time
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Paul Murphy TD
5 days ago
"X lied to your minister. X lied to your government. Now they're giving two fingers to this parliament..." We know the horrific effect this abuse has on victims of it. That's why there is already legislation to criminalise it. Are there criminal investigations into X themselves or not?
#SpéirGhorm
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Will they act?
"X lied to your minister. X lied to your government. Now they're giving two fingers to this parliament..."We know the horrific effect this abuse has on victi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWzUX2gKK8
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This is what you do.
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Rebecca Solnit
22 days ago
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye:
pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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Simon McGarr
9 days ago
Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.
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Simon
9 days ago
Simon Harris says he wants to put an age restriction on social media use
jrnl.ie/6943843
The government that won't stop posting from a website that permits CSAM suddenly cares about children again; I don't think that's very believable.
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Simon Harris says he wants to put an age restriction on social media use
“I think social media is almost experimenting with the minds, the brains, of children, and that can’t be tolerated,” he said.
https://jrnl.ie/6943843
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WWN
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Fred Logue
11 days ago
The same cohort that don't want people to take judicial reviews, have no problem making legal threats to protect their economic interest
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
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Big builders say rental reforms are unconstitutional and warn Minister of legal action
Five of the country’s biggest developers seek urgent engagement on legislation in advance of March 1st introduction
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2026/01/30/housebuilders-say-rental-reforms-are-unconstitutional-and-warn-minister-of-legal-action/
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Richard Littler
13 days ago
"We're going to train people how to not think for themselves, and in doing so deny them the opportunity to learn new skills." It's like the medieval church. "Don't bother learning Latin yourself. No need to read the bible; just trust the priests." Trust the Machine. The Machine will provide.
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Louise
13 days ago
What is the point of Holocaust remembrance if every time the lessons supposedly learned from it are invoked in the defence of modern victims of fascism, the refrain is "how dare you compare this to the Holocaust"
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No one should take DOB seriously, particularly since his covid-era pronouncements.
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Matthew Highton
13 days ago
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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Tim Onion
14 days ago
Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.
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Once again the Government demonstrates remarkable ability to achieve things that nobody wanted and many are actively against.
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Joe Noonan
14 days ago
Hilarious and desperate at once.
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Wendy Lyon
15 days ago
Presume the Bar Council will get a right of reply to this fact-free rant
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Suzy Byrne
15 days ago
Man restricted in bringing cases against ex-partner whose costs over 13 years top €300,000
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Man restricted in bringing cases against ex-partner whose costs over 13 years top €300,000
Family law can become ‘a sort of lawfare’, says Supreme Court
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/01/25/man-restricted-in-bringing-cases-against-ex-partner-whose-costs-over-13-years-top-350000/
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America is incomprehensible.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
19 days ago
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”
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I seem to remember historians talk about a relentless drumbeat of militarisation over a hundred years ago - I thought it led to something? Probably not important.
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At this stage it would be refreshing to see the Taoiseach think *any* reaction to *anything* would be good.
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Taoiseach 'against knee-jerk reaction' to tariff threat
The Taoiseach has described the threat of tariffs by US President Donald Trump on European countries that are resisting his stated desire to take over Greenland as "extraordinary" and "unacceptable".
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0118/1553715-ireland-politics-tariffs/
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Philip O'Connor
23 days ago
When someone does something illegal - say, generate CSAM for money - you con't call them before a parliamentary committee. You call the police.
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Ursula VDL is so bad.
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23 days ago
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Social Democrats
23 days ago
If someone built a tool allowing strangers to create sexualised images of children, we would shut it down immediately. So why is the government treating X and Grok with kid gloves when their products are causing so much harm?
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Joe Noonan
25 days ago
🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by
@lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones
@irishtimes.com
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Joe Noonan
27 days ago
Ireland: People need homes but Govt accepts that data centres' need is greater.
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Simon McGarr
27 days ago
This is correct, of course, but it attempts to atomise the systemic problem down to one which can only be addressed by individual victims.
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TJ McIntyre
28 days ago
It might be just me, but I don't think public bodies should be posting photographs of children to the 'makes sexual images from photographs of children' website.
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Advocacy group questions Department of Education's decision to post images on X
Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has asked what precautions under GDPR have been taken in terms of the posting
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41774540.html
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So much of the Irish commentariat is just defeatist conformity.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Fionnán Sheahan: Let’s just leave the EU if we’re no longer going to take our membership seriously
Returning from having the red carpet rolled out for him on a political and trade mission to China, there was no welcoming party of Fianna Fáil TDs awaiting Micheál Martin.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/fionnan-sheahan-lets-just-leave-the-eu-if-were-no-longer-going-to-take-our-membership-seriously/a1188574053.html
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I was one of the first 10 people to sign up for Twitter in Ireland. I left over a year ago. It was bad enough then - it’s black and white unacceptable now. There’s no good reason to be on it and, now, no good reason why it’s not being prosecuted.
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Simon McGarr
29 days ago
We could just join in on this. We should join in on this.
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I don’t see much reporting on who works for Twitter/X in Ireland.
about 1 month ago
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Gerard Cunningham
about 1 month ago
Weird how all those guys were all about protecting the kids until the time came to protect the kids.
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Hugo Fitzpatrick
about 1 month ago
I'm old enough to remember a garda investigation of these paintings...
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Simon McGarr
about 1 month ago
I’m sorry to keep banging the same point but the flailing from politicians all week trying to avoid looking the (undisputed) truth in the face has me chewing the scenery.
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Richard Chambers
about 1 month ago
Because Fine Gael were very, very able to make glossy videos about protecting kids online before - and the Government it belongs to has spent the week flustered not able to say exactly why it's not doing anything about real world harms happening on a site with a European HQ here. (2/2)
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Richard Chambers
about 1 month ago
The story this week is so important, in my view. It's about the morals of Big Tech and billionaires with riches and power beyond limit - but just far broader than that how far are government and authorities here and around the world willing to let them go. (1/2)
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Richard Chambers
about 1 month ago
To that end, in my personal view, you're not influencing or changing anyone's mind. You're being used as a leg-up. You're helping these accounts grow. Repeat investigations have shown that violent, extreme content and content favouring far-right viewpoints are amplified
news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
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How Sky News investigated X's algorithm for political bias
In recent months, X has become a focus of political conversation in the UK, with social media experts and politicians saying Elon Musk's platform is sowing political division across the country.
https://news.sky.com/story/how-sky-news-investigated-xs-algorithm-for-political-bias-13463916
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Fergal
about 1 month ago
Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot
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Louise
about 1 month ago
All that can be said about this has been said but I feel like a moral country would shut down and kick out a mainstream social media platform that started making and spreading child abuse imagery/IBSA, especially if said country was their tax haven
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Simon McGarr
about 1 month ago
OK so now they’re consciously trying to make money from the CSAM-generating feature.
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Richard Chambers
about 1 month ago
The Media Minister says it’s not the app creating images, but individual users. Grok is now #1 on the App Store in Ireland. Day three of X coverage.
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