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Éibhear Ó hAnluain

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Matrix address: @eibhear:matrix.gibiris.org Free Software user and supporter Civil Liberties enthusiast 100% personal account Also operating @theauldsthretch.bsky.social Re-post policy: https://bsky.app/profile/eibhear.gibiris.org/post/3l3g3cukuru2f

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain

This reminds me of an "MS Teams" call I was on some years ago (as an external IT consultant to a gov. department) with reps from the garda. The topic was defining an API for access to dept. data. The subtopic was defining what was to be shared. "Give it all to us and we'll use what we need" was ...

Ken Foxe

When you see redaction like this in records, you can appeal. Names of staff of public bodies aren't exempt from release under FOI. My book Shining a Light explains exactly how to have decisions like this overturned: Available in print and digital at: www.kenfoxe.com #ireland #journalism #media

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"The purpose of a system is what it does."

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"Homelessness in Ireland rises to 17,482, latest figures show" Rises again. Fine Gael is in government for the 15.5yrs. Fianna Fáil has been their partner for last 10.5 yrs. As homelessness has been rising all that time, it *must* mean that this is the goal. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain

"Homelessness in Ireland rises to 17,482, latest figures show" Rises again. Fine Gael is in government for the 15.5yrs. Fianna Fáil has been their partner for last 10.5 yrs. As homelessness has been rising all that time, it *must* mean that this is the goal. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Homelessness in Ireland rises to 17,482, latest figures showLatest Department of Housing figures show more than 5,600 children were living in emergency accommodation during Junewww.irishexaminer.com
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This is an excellent piece.

John Scalzi

I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

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Peeve: Twitter is not now, never has been, analogous to the town square. It was always a *private* space that allowed you in as long as you followed their rules. A pub is a closer analogue.

Joe Noonan

Twitter had its faults but it didn’t have an overt political agenda. Musk bought it and leveraged it as a tool for right-wing propaganda. - Eoin Burke-Kennedy

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The play "Cosima", written by Sheena Lambert and starring Mary Murray, tells the story of Liszt's younger daughter, and casts the composer, virtuoso pianist and heartthrob in a ... say ... *interesting* light.

The Public Domain Review

The Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, and heartthrob Franz Liszt died #onthisday in 1886. Leon Botstein explores what we can still learn from the life and music of "possibly the greatest pianist that has ever lived” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/w... #OTD

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If I understand things correctly, this photo is, on its own, a war crime.

Yossi Bartal

Der 22-Jährige auf dem vor Kurzem auf dem Instagram-Account einer israelischen Soldatin geposteten Foto heißt Mahmoud Al-Drimli. Er wurde im November 2024 in Gaza entführt. Bis heute weiß seine Familie nicht, ob er lebt. Dieses Foto ist das erste Lebenszeichen von ihm, das seine Mutter erreicht.

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Worth noting that the "apology" implies that the report was not authorised by @amnestyuk.bsky.social for publication, meaning they threw whoever did publish it under the bus. That individual has no incentive to be quiet about the internal discussions, and I expect the detail will emerge soon enough.

Lee Hurley

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

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How it should have gone: 1. @amnestyuk.bsky.social publishes a report describing some groups as "anti right"; 2. One nasty group bullies with "take that down and say you're sorry!" 3. Amnesty replies "we'll leave it up, but we are indeed sorry you're so shitty."

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Hi @amnestyuk.bsky.social, @amnesty.org, you didn't *have* to destroy your reputation like that, y'know. You could have, like, stood up to them and told them to take a long walk off a short pier. You've just acknowledged that your own rights are for sale.

Lee Hurley

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

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Factor L!

Carausius

Book 2, l.122-123: the 1st written mention of sunscreen when Phoebus applies it to Phaethon’s face? “tum pater ora sui sacro medicamine nati contigit et rapidae fecit patientia flammae” Then the father covered his son’s face with sacred ointment, allowing it to endure the swift fire [of the sun]

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MH370* took off on my birthday in 2014, so I've maintained an interest in learning what happened to it. * The Malaysia Airlines plane that inexplicably disappeared over the Indian Ocean with no real clue as to what happened even now, 12.5 years later.

G. Willow Wilson

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

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Consequently, parents tell their kids to cycle on the footpath to be safe. These kids get bigger, and get bigger bikes, but retain the belief it's safer for them to cycle on the footpath ... which makes the footpath more dangerous, particularly for the very young and those with less mobility.

Joe Noonan

Two thirds of children killed on the roads in the last decade were walking or cycling. By @kevinhargaden.bsky.social 2025 www.jcfj.ie/2025/03/27/w...

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The irresistible "vote blue no matter who" force is going to encounter the immovable "cognitive dissonance" object in November.

#StupidSuez

FOUR POLLS IN TWO DAYS Mitchell Research 🟦El-Sayed 52% 🟦Stevens 38% Emerson poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 54% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39% Tavern Research Poll 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 48% 🟦Haley Stevens 37% SoCal poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 56% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39%

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"full back catalogue"? "full-back catalogue"? "full back-catalogue"? or "full-back-catalogue"?

Éibhear Ó hAnluain

As I race through the full back catalogue of The Medieval Irish History Podcast (with @niamhwycherley.bsky.social), I note her suggestion that "Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib" is just screaming out for movie treatment.

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I first read that address as *collison*-tracker-dot-ie, and y'know, I think there's an arguable case for such a thing.

Sam Tranum

Using the recently updated collisiontracker.ie - which now includes RSA data and a tool to analyse by time period - I had a look at this transport corridor, in an article that unexpectedly veered into the debate on judicial reviews. There's a cool visualisation by Brian Rogers too.

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