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Póg mo Joan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😷
@clickhere.bsky.social
Mastodon enjoyer. Find me there: https://mastodon.ie/@clickhere

Data protection practitioner. Big fan of The Hibernian Menace. Huge.
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Unsolicited DMs = block.
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“We’ve heard nothing from the Minister for Justice about it. I’m quite disappointed that he hasn’t said anything at all. He’s responsible for crime and safety, and he’s said nothing.” — Me
www.thejournal.ie/indian-attac...
'I'm leaving this country': Migrant workers call for immediate action in wake of attacks
Migrant workers protested outside of the Department of the Taoiseach today and handed in a petition demanding action in relation to recent attacks.
www.thejournal.ie
August 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
August 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Clamp down on the far-right agitators spreading hatred online.

Implement the National Action Plan against Racism.

Implement hate speech laws instead of defending our failure to comply with EU laws in the Court of Justice of the European Union.
August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan on this issue that he is directly responsible for for three weeks is sickening.
August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Heartbroken to see a sign saying "I'm leaving this country" at the protest against racist violence outside Government Buildings. That's exactly what they wanted.
August 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Have you been on holiday in Italy and stayed in a hotel there? I hope you had a great time — but your data may have been stolen. It’s unclear, however, which hotels are involved www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/...
COMUNICATO STAMPA - Furto di dati negli hotel, Garante privacy avvia verifiche
www.garanteprivacy.it
August 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Journalists - if you are going to report or repeat Israel's statement that one of the Al Jazeera journalists it murdered overnight was a Hamas leader, please outline for readers, viewers and listeners how you verified their claim before presenting it to your audience.
August 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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August 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ITV News film Gaza from an aid drop flight

Emma Murphy, "Building by building, Gaza is being erased"

Since Dec 2023 the UK's RAF has flown 500+ flights over Gaza gathering intelligence, photographing, and filming, they literally have a record of the destruction of Gaza and have said nothing
August 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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We’re going to hell in a handcart, but some 2500 years ago someone in what is now modern eastern Italy made this kyathos to mix wine in and it’s still an object of deep joy
August 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Bike investment vs. car investment.
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Me, whenever I go on Facebook
July 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Question: would you be a passenger on an aircraft that has been programmed with code produced entirely by an AI system, with no human oversight?

#AI #ML #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence
July 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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It is my opinion that introducing age verification now is irresponsible, mainly because we have now reached the point where Western governments *are* using "the database state" and exploiting online surveillance to be repressive - just as privacy activists warned for decades. This applies to UK & US
July 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This, and it doesn't work.

Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.
It is my opinion that introducing age verification now is irresponsible, mainly because we have now reached the point where Western governments *are* using "the database state" and exploiting online surveillance to be repressive - just as privacy activists warned for decades. This applies to UK & US
July 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Paging Ireland:

#AgeVerification
This, and it doesn't work.

Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.
It is my opinion that introducing age verification now is irresponsible, mainly because we have now reached the point where Western governments *are* using "the database state" and exploiting online surveillance to be repressive - just as privacy activists warned for decades. This applies to UK & US
July 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Is anyone joining the Cycle for Palestine on 16 August?
July 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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As the French say, "Bon chancery!"
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I thought 'consent or pay' was effectively unlawful in the EU?

I keep seeing it cropping up on websites. Meta is certainly at it (again).

#GDPR #DataProtection #ConsentOrPay #PayOrOkay
July 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
* the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition wanted
Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not
One does not simply... rewrite the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

😅😅😅😅😅...😭
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
July 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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If there is one person in the world today who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, it is Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.

#FrancescaAlbanese #NobelPeacePrize
July 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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"He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious"

Luke 23:7
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM