Profile avatar
samweiss.bsky.social
Data science, software development. Is there a Laois flag emoji? 🇮🇪/🇺🇸 He/him sé/é
153 posts 200 followers 497 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

Recently saw a guy talking about how he got out of the incel/MRA pipeline, and he said is that nobody offered advice to men, nobody took men's concerns seriously, which is what made them vulnerable to toxic influencers. Except feminists have been taking those concerns seriously for decades.

Naomi Watts put up her tribute to Lynch, and man, you just tell everyone in his life thought the world of him

"How have the tomatoes of Drumcondra survived the seagulls of Dublin?" is such a wild question to encounter with zero context. #speirgorm

English speakers that accept the pronunciation of names like Anaïs and Thibault because they know that despite using a similar alphabet they're French language names but can't grasp the same logic for Irish language names like Siobhán or Eoghan or Caoilfhionn are the worst type of willful eejits.

"A centred div is like Schrodinger's Cat: There's no way to know what will Until you load the page" I think this is going to become one of my stock teaching phrases

Our family Dancing with the Stars drinking game: Drink every time it's my brother's camera that's broadcasting! (It's the steady cam)

starting the year with one of my fav lines from Chandrashekhar Azad "what we are to face has been faced a thousand times and it has been defeated a thousand times before, we are merely those called to now carry on a tradition."

Thank you. Yes. All of this. There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no. I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi. I've written about it. And that is the trajectory of Elon.

the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG

Nosfera mé Nosfera tú Nosfera sé/sí Nosferamar Nosfera sibh Nosferadar Nosferadh

It's funny that nowadays any really serious hobby eventually leads to you using and mastering spreadsheets.

If you read one thing today…please read this testimony from the first day of Ireland’s first Injecting facility.

this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

Merci Gisèle Pelicot !

People don't know the difference between a pun and a portmanteau, despite it being obvious that a portmanteau is what you'd find 10 of at the end of Natalie's feet

I recently did a courtesy call with an indie developer. They wanted to talk to me because their game's target audience is ... uh, me. 25-40-year-old women, many of whom are moms. They wanted to know: what did I need to pick up a game? What would bar me from playing? Here are some answers 🧵(1/?):

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

Can't keep a close eye here but I'm told there's people asking for spreadsheet links - I'm a few hours behind so they'll need updating, but I'll share a master link to a full folder of them when they're all up to speed #ge24

The FF-FG coalitions will continue until morale improves

From RTÉ, a full breakdown of tallies for Cork South-West based on 97% of ballots were tallied. Two polling stations of Pat Whooley's house on Long Island (electorate: 18) and Gerard Murphy's house on Dursey Island (9) are among those not included in the data. #GE24

It’s General Election Day in Ireland. I submitted quite a few cartoons based on it. But this last minute idea occurred to me and I had to knock up in like 15 mins or miss the deadline. It’s in the latest Phoenix Magazine. #cartoon

"Im voting for fffg bc i want my 30 year old daughter to finally move out" "You think fffg is going to fix the housing crisis?" "I don't think anyone will, but she said if fffg get back in she'll move to australia" #GE24

The thing I currently want to know from the election count is to find out, in Dublin Mid-West, how many votes transfer from Eoin Ó Broin to Eoin Ó Broin.

The wall-to-wall live coverage of the general election today has its roots in a telephone service introduced in 1922. #GE24 #Ireland #history

Tell me that FF/FG are two cheeks of the same arse without telling me that FF/FG are two cheeks of the same arse. #GE24

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

I’m nowhere near his constituency but still, a loss of Thomas Pringle in this #GE24 would be so disappointing. A wonderful voice in the Dáil.

Always cool to see people liking stuff my brother worked on! Also yeah loved it 😁

Loving the PR-STV love-in on Irish Bluesky tonight. Happy #ge24 eve all! Hope you get a gift and not a lump of coal from your Returning Officers tomorrow!

Use your transfer votes and vote down even if you don't like other parties. Just don't vote for Aontú, Irish People, National Party, Ireland First, Gavin Pepper, Ben Gilroy + be careful of independents. Below, racist comments I've gotten over the yrs. Vote so people like me can live in peace #GE24

IMPORTANT THANKSGIVING PSA every ranking of the “Friends” Thanksgiving episodes you will find on blogs or in magazines is wrong and I alone am correct there are 10 altogether, only 5 are any good, and it is mostly not the ones you are thinking

Reminds me of the time on FB I made the post about how FB will censor your password for you ***** and my brother, unprompted, replied like "OMG it works *******"

In Kilkenny it’s so cold that they’re putting scarves on the dinosaurs.