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bikecyan.bsky.social
Creative Gun For Hire 👷‍♂️ Former Artistic Director @ Briery Gap 🎭 Championing Artists. 📖 Telling Stories. 🧠 ADHD 📍 Moving Towards My Discomfort.
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice

And for all the inevitable "Alpha Males" wondering when International Men's Day is, it's April 14 😤🤪 (no I'm only joking, actually that's my birthday, please hang out with me, I'm so lonely, haha, ha.). 🤼‍♂️

Can't believe that after a week in the rain with me, @bikecyan.bsky.social doesn't want to go home? Must be grá 🙏💜

The AfD are circling like vultures. But in Berlin, I found a new, young left rising against them | Owen Jones

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team is reportedly using artificial intelligence to guide its cost-cutting decisions, a tactic AI experts say could cause security breaches, biased firing choices and cuts of highly qualified, essential government staffers.

We literally booked a holiday in Spain for the only week in the year it rains lol @bikecyan.bsky.social

Adam - SpiceBag - Doyle came to public attention because of this (controversial?) depiction of a Famine-era eviction being carried out by modern day private security and our own Garda. But his latest work outside of the #EchoChamberPod hasn’t made headlines. Why not? A thread 🧵

I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

We're on our holidays and I'm delaying a walk in the sun by instead cry-laughing while reading this review out loud to @mollytwomey.bsky.social. Another stone cold classic from @patrickfreyne.bsky.social .

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

Ryanair: "Would you like to pay extra to skip the queue so that you can stand in a different queue with all the people who didn't pay extra?" Irish People: "Abso-fucking-lutely."

Shock horror, arts people get overcharged for IT services. There's a great PhD in studying how gatekeepers have kept the creative industries from adapting to the digital era... www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Cute new sticker thanks to @bikecyan.bsky.social x

I wonder if he understood the entire crowd chanting "F**k you Hogan!" at him during the Royal Rumble a few weeks ago. That's all I actually care about him understanding really...

Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general sued Elon Musk and President Trump on Thursday to challenge Musk’s "unchecked power." The lawsuit came on the same day that Musk and his team were sued by government employees represented by the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit watchdog.

Truly not a normal party...

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik

No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/no-executive...

Truly heartbreaking to see ChatGPT's job is in danger of being replaced by AI...

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...

Little bit of personal/professional news ❤️. I've truly adored my time in Briery Gap, I'll miss my amazing team terribly, but I can't wait to see what exciting things are in store for the future. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

We commonly associate James Baldwin with the land of his birth, America, and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.

Just booked a lil holiday for @bikecyan.bsky.social & myself & the fact we are departing on my birthday doesn't necessarily mean I want it to be ✨All. About. Me ✨ 💁

Top tier gift buyer? 👍This guy👍

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

Normalise soup as a late night snack!!!

It's time to bring an end to wokeness. So... if everybody could just go back to bed that'd be great. Thanks.

Starting 2025 as we mean to go on 🦥 🔥 @bikecyan.bsky.social

Irish media fertilising the turgid tumescent pulsatile prostates of the Donals and the Declans and the Noels

2024 was an epic year for podcasts across the NPR Network. With less than two weeks left before 2025, now is the time to catch up on a few of our favorite shows and seasons of the year.

President Higgins today hosted a credential ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin for the Ambassador of Italy, H.E. Nicola Faganello, and Ambassador of the State of Palestine, H.E. Jilan Abdaljamid

Kick Racism Out Of Racists

And ever it was thus. That these people are always the bigger threat to children when it comes to anti-LGBT protests.

'If you want to die you will have to pay for it' — 'Charon', Louis Macneice

Who will write the death notice for rip.ie? www.thejournal.ie/rip-introduc...

Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women

Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.

Walking home from Charlie's at 9am after a rollover...

Lovely weekend at ‘home home’ with the boys xo @bikecyan.bsky.social

SHARLENE MAWDSLEY!!!!!!! YUP NEWPORT!!!!!!!!!!! #LateLateToyShow

A trip to Universal Resort Orlando?That young one who got the packet of space seeds is probably raging right now... #LateLateToyShow