Eils_G 📎
@eils1.bsky.social
Somewhere over the rainbow 📎
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.....
She/Her
Donegal, Ireland
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.....
She/Her
Donegal, Ireland
"Charismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday."
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful dies at 84, family says | BreakingNews
Jackson, an inspirational orator and long-time Chicagoan, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2017.
www.breakingnews.ie
February 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
"Charismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday."
"Judge Helen Boyle jailed the man for six years but suspended the last year and a half of the sentence...The age and ill health of the man were taken into consideration when the sentence was being calculated." Absolute bollox, he cared nothing for the wee 4 yr old he abused. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Man (78) jailed for the sexual abuse of his granddaughter (4) | BreakingNews
The court heard that the parents of the child even moved house so they would not be near the defendant.
www.breakingnews.ie
February 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM
"Judge Helen Boyle jailed the man for six years but suspended the last year and a half of the sentence...The age and ill health of the man were taken into consideration when the sentence was being calculated." Absolute bollox, he cared nothing for the wee 4 yr old he abused. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Public bodies should suspend their use of X now.
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Just a few headlines from a short trawl of a newspaper today.
What the fuck is wrong with men?
What the fuck is wrong with men?
February 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM
"The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has opened an inquiry into social media platform X over the use of the AI tool Grok to generate sexualised images of adults and children." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Grok #NoExcuses
Irish data watchdog opens probe into X over Grok images
The Data Protection Commission has announced that it has opened an inquiry into social media platform X over the use of the AI tool Grok to generate sexualised images of adults and children.
www.rte.ie
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
"The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has opened an inquiry into social media platform X over the use of the AI tool Grok to generate sexualised images of adults and children." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Grok #NoExcuses
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Jesus Christ! Watters is, in effect, joking about a man who trafficked CHILDREN.
Disgusting & unacceptable.
Disgusting & unacceptable.
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Jesus Christ! Watters is, in effect, joking about a man who trafficked CHILDREN.
Disgusting & unacceptable.
Disgusting & unacceptable.
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We already have a two-tier marriage system: marriages that work and marriages that don't.
February 16, 2026 at 8:39 PM
We already have a two-tier marriage system: marriages that work and marriages that don't.
Over 50,000 Israeli soldiers are dual nationals, most have US or European passports.
This means their gov't's have to decide whether to prosecute them for war crimes and genocide. Israel has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
🔗: aje.news/8x2sk3 | #Infograph
This means their gov't's have to decide whether to prosecute them for war crimes and genocide. Israel has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
🔗: aje.news/8x2sk3 | #Infograph
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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More than nine-in-ten Irish people believe our country has benefitted from EU membership. 🇮🇪🇪🇺 That's the 2nd highest figure of any member state (just behind Malta). Ireland would not be as wealthy and modern a country today if we had not joined in 1973.
europa.eu/eurobaromete...
europa.eu/eurobaromete...
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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I'm very annoyed by the way Google posts an AI summary ahead of everything else, it seems impossible to turn it off
February 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I'm very annoyed by the way Google posts an AI summary ahead of everything else, it seems impossible to turn it off
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I dug down into one of the scans and the reasoning was that my writing, and I'm quoting here, "used precise and technical word choice which prioritised clarity and specificty"
Soooo, a professional writer then?
Soooo, a professional writer then?
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I dug down into one of the scans and the reasoning was that my writing, and I'm quoting here, "used precise and technical word choice which prioritised clarity and specificty"
Soooo, a professional writer then?
Soooo, a professional writer then?
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People are bad at spotting AI writing, but think they're good at it. The em dash thing is largely a myth. But human writers are having to avoid writing tricks we've used for years to avoid boring "that's AI" reactions.
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
People are bad at spotting AI writing, but think they're good at it. The em dash thing is largely a myth. But human writers are having to avoid writing tricks we've used for years to avoid boring "that's AI" reactions.
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Yep.
And, similarly, there are those people posting quite obviously AIgen images and using an "ai detector" to "prove" that the images are not AI which the credulous instantly believe.
We are losing our capacity to think for ourselves very rapidly
And, similarly, there are those people posting quite obviously AIgen images and using an "ai detector" to "prove" that the images are not AI which the credulous instantly believe.
We are losing our capacity to think for ourselves very rapidly
February 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Yep.
And, similarly, there are those people posting quite obviously AIgen images and using an "ai detector" to "prove" that the images are not AI which the credulous instantly believe.
We are losing our capacity to think for ourselves very rapidly
And, similarly, there are those people posting quite obviously AIgen images and using an "ai detector" to "prove" that the images are not AI which the credulous instantly believe.
We are losing our capacity to think for ourselves very rapidly
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"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
Plenty of politicians today (justifiably) concerned about schools having dramatic cuts to SNA allocations for the forthcoming school year.
After a root around I can find one (one) TD who raised issue when the NCSE signalled the soft policy change in a revised policy document that led to these cuts.
After a root around I can find one (one) TD who raised issue when the NCSE signalled the soft policy change in a revised policy document that led to these cuts.
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Same, same, same.
I second that emotion.
Can confirm.
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Same, same, same.
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Yes, Jim Ratcliffe could have sorry for being racist, rather than his choice of racist language for UK consumption.
Using his #ReformUK assisted moneybags ex-pat (immigrant) megaphone from Monaco, no better a look than Dick Lice and Jisabelle Cumshot beaming it in daily from Dubai 🇦🇪
Using his #ReformUK assisted moneybags ex-pat (immigrant) megaphone from Monaco, no better a look than Dick Lice and Jisabelle Cumshot beaming it in daily from Dubai 🇦🇪
February 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Yes, Jim Ratcliffe could have sorry for being racist, rather than his choice of racist language for UK consumption.
Using his #ReformUK assisted moneybags ex-pat (immigrant) megaphone from Monaco, no better a look than Dick Lice and Jisabelle Cumshot beaming it in daily from Dubai 🇦🇪
Using his #ReformUK assisted moneybags ex-pat (immigrant) megaphone from Monaco, no better a look than Dick Lice and Jisabelle Cumshot beaming it in daily from Dubai 🇦🇪
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Honestly the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Most people sincerely enter marriage thinking "this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with" and unfortunately things happen. What Steen seems to think is that everyone doctrinaire turbo-Catholics like herself are just cynics.
Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce.
#FeckOffIona
#FeckOffIona
February 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Honestly the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Most people sincerely enter marriage thinking "this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with" and unfortunately things happen. What Steen seems to think is that everyone doctrinaire turbo-Catholics like herself are just cynics.
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Now that's a bold proposition. Not sure I follow the link between "confidence in marriage" and "civil contract that parties can't walk away of". Also, marriage is already a lifelong commitment for the catholic church, I wonder what divorced and remarried catholics think about that...
Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce.
#FeckOffIona
#FeckOffIona
February 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Now that's a bold proposition. Not sure I follow the link between "confidence in marriage" and "civil contract that parties can't walk away of". Also, marriage is already a lifelong commitment for the catholic church, I wonder what divorced and remarried catholics think about that...
Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce.
#FeckOffIona
#FeckOffIona
February 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The aftermath of the flooding at that garage on Nutgrove Ave last week. www.instagram.com/reel/DUGqELT...
#SpeirGorm
#SpeirGorm
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who will never see a football match again and our spineless coward of a Tánaiste @simonharrisireland.bsky.social thinks it would be too big of a burden on our lads to miss a single tournament
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Leave her alone you fucking ghouls. She did nothing wrong.
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Leave her alone you fucking ghouls. She did nothing wrong.