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There's a thing where many TV shows -particularly American- have designated heroes who are basically evil. I'm not sure if it's just lazy/bad writing, or the coarsening of discourse in the US. People talk about doing good, then do terrible things. Anyway, I've been watching Fear The Walking Dead.

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Lads!

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O Brother, where art thou?

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Blessed are the whistleblowers, for they shall be doxxed

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Sinn Féin targeting the law'n'order blueshirt vote is a very odd move. Suspects for 40,348 crimes carried out in 2024 are currently out on bail, the Dáil has been told. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald raised the issue with the Taoiseach in the chamber this afternoon, describing the figures […]

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Cooke "is the subject of a four-year investigation by the Doc on One team at RTÉ which resulted in a six-part podcast which is now being turned into a television documentary." And soon to be a Netflix movie of the week, no doubt. Serial fraudster jailed for 3 years for deception, theft […]

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Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming. Scientists looking to de-extinct the woolly mammoth have created a 'woolly mouse' https://www.thejournal.ie/woolly-mouse-scientists-6639740-Mar2025/

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So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc

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Stop attending cybersecurity conferences in the USA. https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

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"Lowry, of course, rejects the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal." https://mailchi.mp/thecurrency/michael-lowrys-criminal-conviction?e=e959f4a2ce

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No changes in support outside margin of error. This is statistical noise, but they paid for the poll, and dammit they're going to get their money's worth analysing static as if it's signal. Support increases for FG while FF down, poll suggests […]

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Why aren't you wearing a suit?

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Terms of Endearment Two Irishmen meet. They like one another. They are friends. "There ye are ye bollix." "Fair play to you you cunt." "Go way outta that ye contrary fucker." "Ask me arse you tit." Very shortly they will be best friends. God alone knows how they will express This extra […]

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Bang of panicky imminent failure off these lads. Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/02/sergey-brin-says-agi-is-within-reach-if-googlers-work-60-hour-weeks/

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I know it's partly a faux ami translation effect, but from now on I'm calling business suits costumes.

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I wonder how enforceable this is? The Anti-Capitalist Software License https://anticapitalist.software/

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It's a small thing in relative terms, but this is such a clear marker for who now run the US: MAGA supports rapists and sex-traffickers. https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/controversial-influencer-andrew-tate-leaves-romania-for-us-1734648.html

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Unravelling dependence on US based cloud services would go a lot easier -or at least cheaper- if it was possible to cancel and get refunds on outstanding balances from providers.

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An unvaccinated child has died of measles in Texas. It’s the first death from the disease in a decade in the U.S. @abc reports the outbreak "has infected more than 100 people." https://flip.it/mHS_8g #Measles #Vaccines #PublicHealth #Disease #News

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Random things you used to be able to buy anywhere and now they're nowhere to be found: No. 703: Big Safety Pins..

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People dying because of government spending cuts is the point. Think of it as a stochastic genocide, economic eugenics. Creepy nazi shit, in plain sight.

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#GoodWords “What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it’s normal. Stop saying it’s radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because I’m tired of people thinking kindness shouldn’t […]

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Remember when we thought Russia and America working together would be cool?

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Oooh, that’s… not exactly an expression of confidence in hydrogen 🫣 cc @jon https://mastodon.online/@bahnoev/114065739218159233

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Trump still a fortnight away from the Liz Truss point.

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Rare exception to Betteridge's Law... Watch: Is rent too expensive in Ireland? https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0224/1498619-rent-ireland/

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It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop […]

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"the governement has again made the conscious decision to see masses of people made homeless- families, single people, old people- in order to allow institutional investment firms to make higher profits through raising the rent on people who are not voters they care about." The Gist: The […]

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At some point we have to treat this as what it is. Enemy action. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/meta-x-approved-ads-containing-violent-anti-muslim-antisemitic-hate-speech-ahead-of-german-election-study-finds/

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How it's going...

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Today in Manchester, England. An apparently spontaneous gathering of hundreds of antifascists are blocking UKIP and Parents Against Grooming from entering Piccadilly Gardens. The police have so far appeared clueless as to what to do about this unexpected show […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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How does this make sense? I remember when the entire selling point of lucozade was that it contained sugar in its simplest form.

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I wonder how many of those Stars'n'Steipes flags at Irish hotels and businesses will survive the next four years.

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the culture war is a divide and conquer strategy in the class war

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Clone Wars, basically the story of a bunch of old guys in robes who could have avoided a lot of grief if they'd listened to the young woman instead of driving her out of their organisation.

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I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️ "On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) […]

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#mastodon #dsm #startrek

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Of course the extra funds to get to that €3bn per annum target certainly won't come at the expense of other departments; Granny's hip op must wait, the boys in the air corp need fighter jets! *That last line might seem gratuitous but it's there to emphasise that priorities aren't the same to […]

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In case anyone needed another reason beyond climate protection to Burn The Servers. https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/114046810811230389

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Sudden thought: Apple knows Ireland isn't the UK, right? Because an awful lot of companies treat us like a UK regional market for marketing/sales purposes. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114042589869183869

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I will literally only ever drive to a #Tesla charger if there is no other marginally useful charger in range of my EV. There are always other chargers in range. I have not driven to a Tesla charger yet. We have dropped his car sales like a brick. We can do the same with his Nazi Chargers […]

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Anyone who appears to be making a Nazi salute is making a Nazi salute. There’s no need for speculation when the only people who ever do it are Nazis.

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So what are the chances of a Google-free android? Slim to none?

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Worlds dumbest reality show concept. Justice Minister who passed garda fitness test (sit-ups and all) happy it's now getting easier https://www.thejournal.ie/jim-ocallaghan-garda-fitness-test-6629688-Feb2025/

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"Apparent"? https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@RTENewsHeadlinesRSS/114043775934021673

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