In fairness, the Apollo astronauts left a lot of bags of their own shit on the moon. The moon should probably be protected, somewhat akin to a nature reserve.
Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️⚧️@freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 2d agoInspiring words indeed.
Bryan with no i
@bryanwithnoi.eurosky.social
He/Him (Urban/street photography) LUMIX shooter. Interested in people, places, and things. Bryanwall.ie
Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️⚧️@freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 2d agoPeak: Dustin the Turkey performs his rendition of Numb instead.
Aidan Fitzmaurice@fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 2d agoTired: Bono doing Beautiful Day as a poem at your funeral Wired: The Edge doing the Numb rap at my funeral
A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth. www.dublininquirer.com/a-youth-led-...
A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners
Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.
dublininquirer.com
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
Ok, work hat on: My day job is research integrity for a major academic publisher. AI detection tools for text are unreliable if all they’re parsing is the text. They return false positives all the time. An em dash is not proof of AI use. You know who uses em dashes a lot? Writers.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d agoI saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:
Wait until you find out who that Brannigan performance is based on….
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 3d agoI heard a bit of news coverage of the funeral when I was out in the car there and Bono's spoken word performance of Beautiful Day was absolute cringe. It was like Zap Brannigan doing karaoke.
There’s a guy in Galway who has a history of being abusive to at least one partner and has been rehabilitated and welcomed by elements of the left in the last 12 months Some of these people spent the better part of 5 years harassing my wife and I over perceived slights and conspiracies.
Eilís 'pidge' Ní Fhlannagáin@dirtycitybird.trann.ie · 4d agoSince I've been dealing with a lot of men behaving badly this week and the people who provide cover for them, I'll make a deal with people. I'll stop outting their shitty behaviour towards women on one condition. They stop hurting women and people stop covering for them. Agreed? Excellent!
People also don't understand thermodynamics.
Dan🌹🔵🌊🇺🇸@arepublic86.bsky.social · 4d agoThe next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Apropos of nothing in particular: Me: "My friend wants to have dinner with you". Hannibal Lector: "My friend wants to have dinner with you". See the difference?
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse Still Life Blackwater Park
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 5d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
He’s also blaming his apparent autism diagnosis for his previous plagiarism which has since been corrected. “Engaging in mimicry”. Lol That in itself makes me think his entire life story is a lie.
Dr David Robert Grimes@drg.bsky.social · 6d agoAs someone who has been targeted both academically and personally by obsessive fringe groups for my academic work and also as someone who investigates scientific integrity concerns, the Jason Arday case is wild.. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
The great Neko Case having to deal with Hansard back in the day. Horrendous.
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 5d agoI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 5d agoI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
In amongst all the tributes of Glen Hansard, I’ve come across posts about his behaviour around teenage girls, saying many people, including those writing tributes, knew of this behaviour. Would those who wrote the tributes care to comment? #speirghorm
Can we just call Hickey an antisemite grifter and be done with it?
Fiona Small@fionasmall.bsky.social · 5d agoYou’ll never guess who Tadhg Hickey says is behind Ceuta
I have yet to see a single mainstream, even slightly nuanced piece amongst the sycophancy. #spéirghorm
This was the early to mid 2000s for the people I know he did it to, teenage girls had phones back then. If he wasn't doing anything wrong why not just give them his number or his email? Why did he ask for the phones back when they'd graduated secondary school?
Fuck it. I am sick to the back teeth of people today saying they never heard Glen Hansard was a groomer so therefore those of us who did hear it shouldn't talk about it. He groomed teenage girls. He was well known for it in certain circles. He would give out burner phones for them to text him from.
When women rage we get told 'not all men' - but it seems a hell of a lot of men knew and embraced this predator as a friend and icon. We get called 'man haters' - as we wonder why men hate us so much that they can ignore us being abused when they like the abuser.
Rather than rage at women clinging to the hope of good men, why are the good men not raging openly about predators in their midst? Shunning them. Calling them out at every opportunity. Not as 'fathers of daughters' but as men. The problem does not lie with women. It lies with turning blind eyes.
BUT... we are fighting a losing battle when 'it was known in the biker community' means men knew. Men like my son. Two fathers of daughters told the singer they would punch him if he didn't fuck off. The rest did nothing. Biker events carried on with a known predator as a welcome part of them.
I said I think it's because women need to feel that there are decent men. That the Bear shouldn't be our default. It's exhausting. And each 'good guy' like Hansard or Gaimen chips away at our faith in men - which is already strained. Women need a win where men are concerned.
The why was because he had met the singer at biker events, the singer's proclivities were known in the biker community. Son knows women who were victims of his unwanted attentions as girls. What has son incensed is why women were defending the dead singer. And so we had a conversation about that.
Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.
