Emma Rua
@ealadubh.bsky.social
Finally flying in the mythical sky so bluee🦋 Éireannach 🇮🇪 Foghlaimím Gaeilge 💚 Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Iníon na Teamhrach The Land & all our relations are Sacred (Pp is Scout)
This is the application of generative AI that is meant to be 'the good one'
Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 2d agoHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse
theguardian.com
"High street giant Boots, which has 65 stores in Northern Ireland, is to be bought by the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family for $8.9bn (£6.7bn)." [Belfast Telegraph]
This budget seems to have near endless cash for certain interests and also we're on the bread line and can't be funding day to day services? Very strange
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2d agoMinister signalled Government was set to ‘renege’ on RTÉ deal in budget talks
How much money is the government giving the Greyhound industry again, while cutting RTE, our national broadcaster which is far more important to our country?
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2d agoMinister signalled Government was set to ‘renege’ on RTÉ deal in budget talks
😆 Hard to believe that child/journalist/Palestinian killers can get huffy #FuckIsrael
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2d agoThe UK has withdrawn staff and their families from its consulate in East Jerusalem after Israel said it would be closed in retaliation for the British government's trade ban with illegal West Bank settlements.
This looks like an extraordinary capitulation by the EU. Bravo to France for holding fast. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @disinfo.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
theguardian.com
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 43% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 69% at 14:45. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 42% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 15% of demand was met by imports.
Absolutely disgusting that council property is openly used for hate speech
Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween.@brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 2d agoVery cool and normal that this is apparently taking place in a council building
Very cool and normal that this is apparently taking place in a council building
Alex is far from the only British commentator who plainly believes e.g. the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon are a valiant battle by regrettably fascist white heroes against the black horde of Mordor. But how did this wildly extreme position become dominant?
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d agoMassie with the shocking news here that Palestinians have been importing the Israel/Palestine conflict to Britain, and that Palestinians are targeting Israelis on the streets of Britain.
Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, joined me to talk about the Brazilian Presidential election, the Bolsonaro dynasty, and the shocking killing of civilians by the new de la Espriella government in Colombia. www.patreon.com/tortoiseshac...
This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇
Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d agoOh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
So we are wasting so much electricity and water to plagiarize books.
Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d agoOh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
How bleak.
Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d agoOh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
Sometimes feels like the State pulls this shit only to piss off the public I dunno anyone who thinks greyhound racing should be a thing. We're one of the few countries in Europe who hasn't banned. And they've given them MORE fucking money over the last few years The disconnect is palpable
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 4d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
Yeah, that's right, good point :-/ And on that front, actually, things have got worse. One of the few big (non-housing) projects for the council's North West Area (Finglas-Ballymun, basically) seems to have stalled out.
Delay to Finglas improvement scheme, as officials scratch around for top-up funding
Changes to the timeline are particularly sensitive because of wider concerns about a lack of council investment in the north-west of the city.
dublininquirer.com
Just thinking about these two stories next to each other: 1. In Darndale Park, a football club and a parkrun have been displaced by horses, and some locals have been asking for stables. Nothing yet. 2. In D2, the council is spending €7.5m on a new tearoom in Merrion Square, an area short of cafes?
What to do with the horses of Darndale?
Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
dublininquirer.com
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 3d agoThe budget for the new tearoom in Merrion Square shot up, reaching €7.5 million. The council says it'll be open late this year, or early next.
If this isn't a one line article that says "Because people can barely afford to feed themselves never mind a child" this is not worth reading
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoWhy people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N
And yet council tenants have to live in mouldy flats with broken windows, and pay more for the privilege
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 4d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 4d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
Budget Ireland: More money going to horse racing and greyhound racing in Ireland. Continuing the unnecessary deaths of young thoroughbreds. How many politicians are personally involved in the Irish horse racing industry. irishhorsedeathwatch.com
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 4d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
there are about 4,000 schools in the state, primary and secondary with €102 million, you'd have €25,000 each – i'm pretty sure you could put solar panels on every single school in the country for that much instead of funding gambling on sports rife with animal cruelty
Cianan Brennan@ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 4d agoHorse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...
Putin To Send Crack Team Of FSB Agents To Europe To Cough On Everyone https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/07/putin-to-send-crack-team-of-fsb-agents-to-europe-to-cough-on-everyone/
