Gerard Cunningham
@faduda.bsky.social
Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo.✒️
#journalist #writer #podcasts
Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda
Recent(ish) project https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerard-Cunningham/e/B002FZ5UG2/
#journalist #writer #podcasts
Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda
Recent(ish) project https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerard-Cunningham/e/B002FZ5UG2/
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Gerard Cunningham
@faduda.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Time to give this another boost [now available outside the Amazon ecosystem]
Space Navigator and other stories: short stories and short short stories from the lockdown
www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Naviga...
www.draft2digital.com/book/3033557
Space Navigator and other stories: short stories and short short stories from the lockdown
www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Naviga...
www.draft2digital.com/book/3033557
This feels like Russia setting up an alibi so they can deny future attacks
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Russia says Ukrainian-British plot to hijack hypersonic missile foiled
Pilots of Russian warplane tempted with money and Western citizenship to take part in false flag op, Moscow asserts.
www.aljazeera.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This feels like Russia setting up an alibi so they can deny future attacks
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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It's the hope that kills you.
Chuck Shumer in a burning room saying "This is fine"...
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's the hope that kills you.
Chuck Shumer in a burning room saying "This is fine"...
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Chuck Shumer in a burning room saying "This is fine"...
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lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
Ireland takes over the EU presidency next July.
Let them know what you think their priorities should be.
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Let them know what you think their priorities should be.
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ireland takes over the EU presidency next July.
Let them know what you think their priorities should be.
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Let them know what you think their priorities should be.
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Ivan Yates being interviewed is not a great advertisement for Ivan Yates Media Training...
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ivan Yates being interviewed is not a great advertisement for Ivan Yates Media Training...
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The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ reacts to BBC leadership resignations
The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive.
www.nuj.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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Client confidentiality...
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
‘Golden rule’ - Ivan Yates cites client confidentiality as reason he didn’t disclose media training of presidential candidate Jim Gavin
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Former broadcaster Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to former presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Client confidentiality...
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
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"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
I knew those reports that Micheál Martin was blaming the Europe for housing woes sounded familiar.
Anyway, back in May 2023 I sent an AEI request to the EU Commission for "copies of communications ... regarding public housing and the regulation of short-lets ..."
faduda.ie/data-journal...
Anyway, back in May 2023 I sent an AEI request to the EU Commission for "copies of communications ... regarding public housing and the regulation of short-lets ..."
faduda.ie/data-journal...
Housing, Europe and AirBnB – 200 Words
A while back, Irish and other news outlets reported that Irish efforts to tackle the housing crisis by restricting short-lets such as AIrBnB ran into an EU roadblock.
faduda.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I knew those reports that Micheál Martin was blaming the Europe for housing woes sounded familiar.
Anyway, back in May 2023 I sent an AEI request to the EU Commission for "copies of communications ... regarding public housing and the regulation of short-lets ..."
faduda.ie/data-journal...
Anyway, back in May 2023 I sent an AEI request to the EU Commission for "copies of communications ... regarding public housing and the regulation of short-lets ..."
faduda.ie/data-journal...
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
Notice how quickly this became 'normal'...
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Notice how quickly this became 'normal'...
@tupped.bsky.social Don't you have a thread on this?
What are we all buying our dads for Christmas? I am once again desperate for ideas.
He loved the six pack of Folláin jams I got him last year but you can't do that two years in a row. (I do recommend them though! Delicious and 50% of their profits between now and January go to the Simon Community)
He loved the six pack of Folláin jams I got him last year but you can't do that two years in a row. (I do recommend them though! Delicious and 50% of their profits between now and January go to the Simon Community)
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@tupped.bsky.social Don't you have a thread on this?
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Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.
At this point you suspect Thiel is waiting for the AI crash before 25ing the couchfucker, so they can blame the Old Man for the recession and pose as saviours
Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
At this point you suspect Thiel is waiting for the AI crash before 25ing the couchfucker, so they can blame the Old Man for the recession and pose as saviours
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Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
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.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
George Lee on RTÉ R1 This Week, once again making global climate collapse sound less dangerous than a stock market crash.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
George Lee on RTÉ R1 This Week, once again making global climate collapse sound less dangerous than a stock market crash.
Checking a list of the best new film releases to see what's worth watching in November.
Pedro Pascal seems to be in about 30% of them.
Pedro Pascal seems to be in about 30% of them.
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Checking a list of the best new film releases to see what's worth watching in November.
Pedro Pascal seems to be in about 30% of them.
Pedro Pascal seems to be in about 30% of them.
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.