Deactivated IG only to hop on here for a min.

Can't believe I'm just seeing this, but reposting for posterity (or more for myself to have a record, rather!)

UCD Centre for Digital Policy @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.

A symposium on "Truth & Trust in a Time of Trumpery" kicks off tomorrow 9.30am at East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman. Read more about the event below and don't miss @ucdischool.bsky.social 's @aishaxr.bsky.social discuss repairing the public square! Registration details included below 👇

TIL the word 'jumbotron'

MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.

donoteat@donoteat.bsky.social · last yr.

why is everything computer

So glad we fired all the DEI hires with "advanced degrees" and "expertise" and finally installed some qualified people

Steve Herman@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

fucking incredible to leave a lorem ipsum in the copy during The Year of Our Lord 2025 a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable

I got mad.

"An independent journalist" who won't remain nameless

Too many legacy outlets still refuse to credit indie journos. Enough is enough.

thehandbasket.co

You know it's *unconditional*, *unwavering* and *true* love that you're not even slightly mad at the fact that your cat literally broke the brand new shoots off a cutting that's been nothing but a stalk, leaf-less and nearly dead, for two years. It started showing signs of life just a fortnight ago.

Started two little (personal) projects today - setting up a friendgroup newsletter, and Substack. Pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the latter is to use.

Apart from all the great presentations at this symposium, one thing that stands out is that I REALLY need to package my work /self better.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can start writing (non academic) and warm up in media again, I'd like to maybe give it a go (again). Just to keep in touch with my older /ex self, in a way, if that makes sense? I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.

Rereading Hunger Games, and it never gets old. On Mockingjay now, and feeling sad that it'll be over, much like the first time reading it.

Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do

Anyway I have a 2000 word assignment on Platform societies due tomorrow and have done a poor 30 word intro so far that has nothing to do with platforms, nor the society shaped by it.

Finished Sunrise of the Reaping earlier today and just cracked open my old copy of The Hunger Games to do a lil re-read. Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.

One person literally just said maybe you can also speak about Palestine, so maybe it's not all of us, it's just you.

Kumail Nanjiani@kumail.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”

At the cost of sounding catastrophic, Meta's lack of fact checking is EXACTLY what led to ethnic riots in SL eight years ago. They had to be banned, and with this, they started introducing regional Trust and Safety teams. Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.

The US's spiral and Zuvk's spiral is both horrifying and fascinating to watch

The account and the thread don't make sense together but what a brilliant and deranged thread

UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃@falconryfinance.bsky.social · 2y ago

The oompas are leaking out. They're in the candy. They're in the water. There's no getting rid of them. This is our life now. Forever. And it's only going to get worse. We're still eating the candy.

The open source challenges are also a great opportunity to explore Bellingcat’s Online Investigations Toolkit! The toolkit offers a variety of tools that might be helpful in solving the exercises: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

Finished "We'll prescribe you a cat" yesterday, and saw "The Blanket Cats" in a library today. Both by different Japanese authors.

Just learned about Bonnie Blue and thinking, Aus is cautiously on the right way with their socials regulations for minors, because it's predatory and insane.

If you’re going to read one article this weekend, let it be this piece of accountability reporting with a long view back. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most (Gift Article)

The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.

nytimes.com

Watching this 2013 film called Vendetta (not like fantastic) but also not terrible, very creative ways of killing people in it. For vigilante /revenge murders they're quite satisfying?

Black Doves was actually solid as far as a murder (?) mystery goes

I’d also invite you to consider what stops you. I thoroughly understand weighing the cost of public speech vs other kinds of action, but I do think it’s a weighing that should come from a place of honest self-scrutiny.

Why am I constantly hungry

I just donated one blanket each for North and South Gaza. If you can spare the cash, please do the same! One if you can't do both, or boost the appeal below if you can't donate.

Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2y ago

Alright this has slowed down a lot but please keep sharing! We are trying to get 100 blankets for ppl in Gaza. There are over a million people in the south alone.

No you don’t understand, the tech billionaires are oppressed by the woke deep state

I don't hate Aus's Social Media 'ban' for minors. Pretty good tbh, and about time. Corps do need to take more responsibility re the harm that occurs through their platforms. archive.ph/2024.11.29-1...