Dean Buckley
@deanbuckley.bsky.social
bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds. writer & critic. catholic socialist. smalltown journalist. pop punk kid. podcaster. all opinions mine.
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pros for banks of letting people launder money through them: a percentage of the illicit funds, good word of mouth among money launderers
cons for banks of letting people launder money through them: they might one day get an easily payable fine for a fraction of a fraction of it
cons for banks of letting people launder money through them: they might one day get an easily payable fine for a fraction of a fraction of it
an interesting and alarming thing I've learned while researching dark money is that, from a financial perspective, actually combating money laundering is all downside for banks, there is no incentive structure that encourages it in any way
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
pros for banks of letting people launder money through them: a percentage of the illicit funds, good word of mouth among money launderers
cons for banks of letting people launder money through them: they might one day get an easily payable fine for a fraction of a fraction of it
cons for banks of letting people launder money through them: they might one day get an easily payable fine for a fraction of a fraction of it
an interesting and alarming thing I've learned while researching dark money is that, from a financial perspective, actually combating money laundering is all downside for banks, there is no incentive structure that encourages it in any way
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
an interesting and alarming thing I've learned while researching dark money is that, from a financial perspective, actually combating money laundering is all downside for banks, there is no incentive structure that encourages it in any way
great stuff from Paulie Doyle. his description of the flood of responses to Collison's crappy article highlights the issue well. activists of true vision and principle struggle for years to get their issues on the agenda, Collison just rocks up with his "intervention"
Serious Guys’ desire for approval has them support anything the neoliberal consensus demands: abolishing neutrality and embracing EU militarisation; financialising the housing market; basing our economy on the tax receipts of a handful of US corporations.
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Comment: Taking things Seriously
Seriousness’s function in the media: setting the boundaries of acceptable opinion
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
great stuff from Paulie Doyle. his description of the flood of responses to Collison's crappy article highlights the issue well. activists of true vision and principle struggle for years to get their issues on the agenda, Collison just rocks up with his "intervention"
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also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so
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we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
as long as we're talking about press standards and the public interest, it'd be great if the Press Council got rid of its utterly absurd rule that people can only make complaints about member publications if they are "personally affected by the article"
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
as long as we're talking about press standards and the public interest, it'd be great if the Press Council got rid of its utterly absurd rule that people can only make complaints about member publications if they are "personally affected by the article"
according to real time tracking, my bus has already departed and also won't be here for twenty minutes. it goes from Waterford to either Cahir or Clonmel, depending on the time of day, and every tracker says that the Clonmel one serves all Clonmel stops but it only serves half
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
according to real time tracking, my bus has already departed and also won't be here for twenty minutes. it goes from Waterford to either Cahir or Clonmel, depending on the time of day, and every tracker says that the Clonmel one serves all Clonmel stops but it only serves half
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Did you notice the 'ceasefire' being utter fiction didn't prevent it being used to quietly squash all the boycott initiatives? They even called off the vote to keep Israel out of Eurovision
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Did you notice the 'ceasefire' being utter fiction didn't prevent it being used to quietly squash all the boycott initiatives? They even called off the vote to keep Israel out of Eurovision
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watching oliver twist with a couple of yank friends &, in an effort to bond with them, when twist asks for more i say 'just think about how much worse the people running the orphanage could be. now is not the time for criticism'
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
watching oliver twist with a couple of yank friends &, in an effort to bond with them, when twist asks for more i say 'just think about how much worse the people running the orphanage could be. now is not the time for criticism'
three things I'd really like to know about the IIEA
- who funds it
- whether any of its funding is ringfenced for certain purposes or otherwise conditional on engaging in certain activity
– how much autonomy its staff have from its board
in short: who sets their agenda
- who funds it
- whether any of its funding is ringfenced for certain purposes or otherwise conditional on engaging in certain activity
– how much autonomy its staff have from its board
in short: who sets their agenda
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
three things I'd really like to know about the IIEA
- who funds it
- whether any of its funding is ringfenced for certain purposes or otherwise conditional on engaging in certain activity
– how much autonomy its staff have from its board
in short: who sets their agenda
- who funds it
- whether any of its funding is ringfenced for certain purposes or otherwise conditional on engaging in certain activity
– how much autonomy its staff have from its board
in short: who sets their agenda
Declan Ganley began his career exploiting privatisation opportunities in the former Soviet bloc during the age of shock therapy, so it actually makes perfect sense he'd think Javier Milei is doing God's work in Argentina
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Declan Ganley began his career exploiting privatisation opportunities in the former Soviet bloc during the age of shock therapy, so it actually makes perfect sense he'd think Javier Milei is doing God's work in Argentina
I hope the full joint committee is in attendance when Ivan Yates et al. are called before the Oireachtas, I'm keen to hear Alison Comyn and Evanne Ní Chuilinn's thoughts on the blurred lines between politics and the press
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I hope the full joint committee is in attendance when Ivan Yates et al. are called before the Oireachtas, I'm keen to hear Alison Comyn and Evanne Ní Chuilinn's thoughts on the blurred lines between politics and the press
Dan O'Brien has moved to the "actually, it might be good if the far right take over France, Germany and the UK as long as they keep their repression internal like Meloni and don't fuck up this good thing we've got going" stage of accommodating fascism
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Dan O'Brien has moved to the "actually, it might be good if the far right take over France, Germany and the UK as long as they keep their repression internal like Meloni and don't fuck up this good thing we've got going" stage of accommodating fascism
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
the Irish government's contempt for basic principles of public justice is bottomless
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
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Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
the Irish government's contempt for basic principles of public justice is bottomless
Nick Offerman is a delight as Chester A. Arthur in Death by Lightning, by far my favourite performance in the show, and my favourite character
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Nick Offerman is a delight as Chester A. Arthur in Death by Lightning, by far my favourite performance in the show, and my favourite character
we've had many Lincolns, including Spielberg's, and now we have Death by Lightning. who will complete the Robert Todd Lincoln Presidential Assassination Cinematic Universe with a movie about Leon Czolgosz splattering William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition?
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
we've had many Lincolns, including Spielberg's, and now we have Death by Lightning. who will complete the Robert Todd Lincoln Presidential Assassination Cinematic Universe with a movie about Leon Czolgosz splattering William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition?
extremely funny for Netflix to tag Death by Lightning with "Fight the Power". it's about the US president getting shot point blank by a mentally ill con man
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
extremely funny for Netflix to tag Death by Lightning with "Fight the Power". it's about the US president getting shot point blank by a mentally ill con man
listening to "The Ballad of Guitea" from Assassins to get myself hyped before I start Death by Lightning
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The Ballad of Guiteau
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November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
listening to "The Ballad of Guitea" from Assassins to get myself hyped before I start Death by Lightning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvX...
Irish militarists love to say that their opponents can't debate them, yet it's them who needed the government to put their thumb on the scale by doing a "forum on neutrality" rigged in their favour instead of a citizen's assembly
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Irish militarists love to say that their opponents can't debate them, yet it's them who needed the government to put their thumb on the scale by doing a "forum on neutrality" rigged in their favour instead of a citizen's assembly
establishing my "anti-imperialist" bona fides by proposing a red-brown alliance against the ZOG on a racist website founded and funded by right wing Catholics with ties to the US security state
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
establishing my "anti-imperialist" bona fides by proposing a red-brown alliance against the ZOG on a racist website founded and funded by right wing Catholics with ties to the US security state
it's really quite something that as far as I can tell, not a single member of government has had anything to say about the conviction of Josip Strok's murderers. not even a token "glad to see justice has been served"
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
it's really quite something that as far as I can tell, not a single member of government has had anything to say about the conviction of Josip Strok's murderers. not even a token "glad to see justice has been served"
