I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister

State already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says

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€25million worth of property. Not happy with just occupying Palestine and South Lebanon, Israeli illegal occupations now include Ireland.

The Ditch@wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2w ago

An Israeli-owned property company with a history of prohibition notices for its rentals in Ireland is seeking retention permission for the third time in Phibsborough for an illegal letting. www.ontheditch.com/israeli-land...

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

NASA scan discovers new, 'once in a century' Moon crater. The crater, dubbed "McGetchin," measures 730 feet (222 meters) wide, and is believed to have been created in the spring of 2024 from a comet or asteroid colliding with the Moon u.afp.com/Sjuz

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · last mo.

NOT DOLLY PARTON

According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year. But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee alone. How is this possible?

Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 3mo ago

Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using? Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.

As we prepare to get hit by the edge of the heat dome -- this is how temps have changed in Ireland since 1850 #SpeirGorm showyourstripes.info/l/europe/ire...

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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An Garda Síochána is rolling out body-worn cameras nationwide after a pilot. Without publishing the pilot findings or providing evidence to back up the claims gardaí make about them. An Garda needs to publish the pilot review and the code of practice, before any further rollout.

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Figures provided by Aughinish to the Government as part of its lobbying campaign this week also appear to be misleading. The company said last year Russia accounted for 45% of its exports last year. Trade figures show that it was actually 65%. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

More than 80% of Irish-made alumina exported to Russia in first quarter of 2026

Figure emerges as Taoiseach argues sanctioning Aughinish Alumina would cause more harm to EU than Russia

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And its worth remembering that the values we have developed around this stuff is rooted in the defence of the 90s paparazzi. But that was when people that come to public attention, whether through fame or infamy, were considered as public interest journalism however trashy.

Niamh Kirk@niamhkirk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We need nuanced media regulation asap. The same rules designed to protect and ensure public interest journalism are exploited by twats with smartphones and social media. There has to be a reasonable expectations of privacy in public and semi public space or the only space we have it is at home

We need nuanced media regulation asap. The same rules designed to protect and ensure public interest journalism are exploited by twats with smartphones and social media. There has to be a reasonable expectations of privacy in public and semi public space or the only space we have it is at home

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A million views on X for this video where someone harasses an innocent and polite M&S employee about changing rooms. It’s a horrible, nasty society the gender criticals are trying to create.

JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 5mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Why would @news.rte.ie be posting videos on TikTok that were recorded using subterfuge and without the consent of the subject? Subterfuge is needs to have a very strong public interest argument and the opinions of a former Taoiseach to a rando on a doorstep are not enough.

On Sundays my church runs 500 degrees

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Happy april fool's day! 🥳🥴 Unfortunately, the reality of GDPR enforcement is so dire that we don't even need to make up a joke. #happyaprilfools

sorry but it's so funny to be one of the last actual human beings getting paid a decent rate to review books for legacy media and pull this shit

Just had to see the hairline to who this headline was about...

Hartel Shipping & Chartering BV has taken its website offline after declining to comment on The Ditch’s story yesterday that its Rijnvliet cargo ship is en route to Israel with containers of bomb shells and ammunition

The troubles

Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI

Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI

BBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being ‘scraped and copied’ A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers to back global frameworks ensuring AI firms pay for the journalism they use. The news providers are calling on leaders across publishing, broadcasting, media and news to join their newly created group, with the aim of protecting “original journalism” and securing “the long-term sustainability of our industry”. Continue reading...

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We're thinking about/working on this as well, little by little.

Follow the Money is phasing out U.S. tech – follow the journey

We report critically on Europe’s dependence on Big Tech – yet our own platform still relies heavily on U.S. systems. It’s time to change that. Together with De Correspondent, we’re phasing out U.S. te...

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Found out last week that I got to go help my mama for a long stretch, so I need to freshen up my skills I can't say I'm eager to head Stateside at the mo, but at least we'll eat well in fine weather 🤷‍♂️