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An unexpected surprise today from the @lawsocireland.bsky.social I've been shortlisted in two categories of the Justice Media Awards for a @dublininquirer.com story about the family of Terence Wheelock and their near 20 year long battle for an independent public inquiry into his death

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This has the potential to be absolutely hilarious

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Japanese poster for BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967), directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty - BOTD in 1937

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I am starting to see a pattern in who is always threatening to take us to court: it's landlords.

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Past! Pass it on to the freelance journalist/student in your life. Only two weeks to go to #FreelanceForum. Reserve a space today

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Today! Looking forward to talking women in media and class!

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Journalists with digital only publications, how are we saving good quality PDFs of our work (that doesn't look like shit?) x

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A GOOD TIME 🙏🙏🙏

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Looking forward to heading up to Queens University Belfast this time next week to chat with student led radio The Scoop about being a woman in journalism. 📰 How cute are these graphics! 💗

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Closest thing to compare it to for me is wrestling, you get grand slams, hell in a cell etc "It is the spectacle of excess" as Barthes famously wrote

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Just excitedly sung "that pom po pom pom pom" to myself as I clicked my 20 min pomodoro timer so yeah you could say I'm having a pretty normal and not stressful at all Sunday

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spoiler: the answer it spat out was from an already published paper but the BBC is basically the yellow pages for llm scams at this point so that part was conveniently left out of this piece

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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

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A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” More here: dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...

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PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

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Excellent opportunity here for some budding reporters who want to work in independent media

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Three people believed to have been stabbed in attack in Stoneybatter, Dublin

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Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...

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This is the rate of pay for an area of law where you often know: if I get this wrong, my client - if deported - could die.

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Everywhere the contradictions of the speculative AI boom. 'Even without a big increase in AI data centres, by 2050, England faces a shortfall of nearly 5bn litres of water a day between the sustainable supplies available and the expected demand.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Perusing an online retailer and came across its "vegan knitwear" which sure has a nicer ring to it than plastic

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"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the [Washington] Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Tiktok discourse has me feeling like a pick me for reading in public "ooooh look at me I'm the tragic and misunderstood literate manic pixie who's about to rock some squares world"

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Vibe

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I just got a Facebook ad for an AI company that summarises books so you don't have to read them. There are loads of these companies. The ads usually talk about how much certain tech bros supposedly read. This one has the aspirational appeal: "Hitler used to read one book a day." I am not joking.

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Excuseeee me but Margie the hun is not only Irish but from Tallaght? I can't breathe 😭

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Needles by Brian Bilston

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Light the fancy gifted candle. You are worth it.

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We’re burning the planet for this 🤷‍♂️

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we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

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"These young journalists uncovered stories that were slipping under the national radar. They offered unique perspectives and campus access that seasoned reporters often miss," Sumi Aggarwal writes.

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This will absolutely pop off end of each college semester 🙏

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I'm speeding down that Vinted Super Highway, just had an argument with a young French lady over boots, we're really sucking diesel now lads

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Trust in journalism discourse has always been a fascinating 🧶 to me. I hear the concerns coming from major media organizations about their waning legitimacy, but also have never been able to wrap my mind around the dominant messaging that mainstream journalism needs to “restore” public trust, (1/

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