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#Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... such a fall from grace: I remember when phoenix/firefox first came out...

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🚨Over 48 hours of rugby🚨 3⃣9⃣ games live this weekend: 🌍URC 🌏Super Rugby 🇫🇷Top 14 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿PWR 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Premiership Cup 🇺🇸MLR 🇯🇵League One 🏉Celtic Challenge 🇪🇺Rugby Europe ☘️AIL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Premiership #URC | #SuperRugbyPacific

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#Budapest Pride should be held in closed venue for ‘child protection’, says #Orbán official - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... "Prime minister’s chief of staff says event this year should be taken off streets" risible pretext much? #hungary

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A local assessment of the opportunity cost of avoiding rather than addressing issues related to filtered permeability policies for future sustainable transport alternatives towards reduced traffic levels, emissions, and cleaner air. - @irishcycle.com irishcycle.com/2025/02/23/i...

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Donut Labs and the electric motors everyone has been talking about - arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02... " This startup says it has solved the problem with hub motors. "

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I'm not blaming anyone for this but it's OTBs fault

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 7 days ago • 2301 comments

we've known this for years, but important to remind people of why RTB must be banned

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In case you didn't already know, I'll be spending this International Women's Day running bsky.app/profile/payg... and sharing the pay gaps of Irish companies who tweet about #iwd #iwd25, as I did on twitter for the last few years.

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This is far from done, but the agreement in principle is a huge leap forward for research in Ireland! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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More than 900 people recruited to the Defence Forces left within less than five years of joining the military since 2020. New figures show how 837 men and 65 women resigned their post without having even completed five years of full service. www.thestory.ie/2025/02/18/o...

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A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times. "We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

I set up a campaign in Newbridge which now represents over 1,600 households in Newbridge, Kildare town and surrounding areas. We have joined forces with commuter groups in Louth, Meath and Wicklow to put pressure on Government and the NTA to not let this roll out slip any further.

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Fair play to Tommy and Donnacha calling out Otb on their clickbait youtu.be/IL9BNdYY7ww?...

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Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for all 3⃣5⃣ games being shown this weekend in Ireland and the UK 🗒️ 🌍URC 🌏Super Rugby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Premiership Rugby Cup 🇫🇷Top 14 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿PWR 🇺🇸MLR 🇯🇵League One 🏉Celtic Challenge 🇮🇪Leinster Schools Cup ☘️AIL 🇪🇺Rugby Europe Championship #URC | #SuperRugbyPacific

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New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Very good video on the mechanics of trade wars www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSXG...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with The Guardian: "Putin never asked for anything. He just invaded our territory. Then why should people on whose continent there is a war today ask him? Maybe we should just stop those infantile conversations?"

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Council Briefs: Airport noise monitoring, “forever chemicals”, and ethical procurement. These were some of the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at their monthly meeting on Monday. dublininquirer.com/2...

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I'm very proud to share my short paper, published today on publicpolicy.ie - Reporting on Ireland's Gender Pay Gap. This is based on what I've learned from my work on paygap.ie #genderPayGap #speirgorm publicpolicy.ie/papers/repor...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Green lines were social housing completions under a FF Taoiseach. Blue Ones under a FG Taoiseach.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just sat on a wall on a lovely day arm-in-arm with my daughter while we made fun of the clouds. Fucking awesome. ❤️

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

Here's your (delayed) broadcast & kick-off guide for all games being shown today* in Ireland and the UK *The regular full broadcast & kick-off guide will be back next weekend ✅Six Nations ✅Celtic Challenge ✅League One ✅Rugby Europe Championship #GuinnessM6N | #SCOvIRE

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Chuck Feeney here who died in 2023. A man who made an estimated €8 billion out of Duty Free and then gave it all away to make the world a better place. A modest man too. Which is why you may never have heard of him. www.forbes.com/sites/steven...

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Not only do I hate this job description, but I would never want to work for this company. Or buy anything from them. Or answer calls from their sales department. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't even want to meet anyone who would apply for this job.

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I wrote a thing about how there appear to be at least a few of the folks who helped sanewash Trump/Muskism who are recognizing "wait, shit is going bad" and I know it's easy to demonize those people, but we may need more people like them to stop this. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/f...

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How OPW’s €490,000 wall reconstruction went from a project expected to take three months to one that lasted nearly three years. When ESB finally fixed live electricity cable, construction immediately halted after another live wire was found. www.thestory.ie/2025/02/04/h...

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A #Coup Is In Progress In America - www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a... "it’s occurring through the systematic dismantling of constitutional governance and its replacement with a system of personal loyalty to private interests" #trump

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Junior Kpoku gets 3 weeks after a 20 minute red. I really don't like where the laws are headed right now.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

This whole thing is incredibly cult-coded - hand-picked kids working unpaid for a billionaire, told to operate in secret.

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Here's your (delayed) broadcast & kick-off guide for all 1⃣5⃣ games being shown this weekend in Ireland and the UK 🗒️ Which game are you looking forward to most? ✅Six Nations ✅U20s Six Nations ✅Premiership Rugby Cup ✅PWR ✅Celtic Challenge ✅League One ✅Rugby Europe Championship #GuinnessM6N

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Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

submitted 28 days ago • 322 comments

PSA spring starts in March

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Is Tesla AI footprint factored into the carbon credits it is selling?

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Breaking: Premier Sports has quietly launched the much anticipated new 24/7 rugby channel 📺 For now, the channel is available online only in the UK. Hope to get an update from Premier Sports shortly.

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Astonishing. I felt panic for @bbcstever.bsky.social. It went on for 30mins. Lukashenko kept coming back to him, more and more annoyed. "We don't shut anyone's mouth. Prison is for people who opened their mouth too wide ... You're asking me whatever you want. Don't overdo it, Steve!" Chilling. ~AA

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