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Paul Duane 🥔
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A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist and mystic. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 6d
PSA: if you repost people in Gaza asking for funds to survive, please quote them and put the link to their fundraiser in your quote, because mostly their accounts get deleted daily by Bluesky, for some inconcievably cruel reason, but if you quote-post at least their funding link will still exist.
paulduane.bsky.social
Dear The Irish Times, you are spoiling us with this front page covered in images of Eddie Hobbs and Ryan Tubridy, surely there's an upper limit to the delight we can be filled with on a rainy Saturday in January?
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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fergalc.bsky.social
For years there was a belief in the media - apparently shared by the man himself - that Ryan Tubridy held a special place in the nation's affections. But I'm not sure people even notice he's gone
eidin.bsky.social Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social · 2d
There is a lot of Ryan Tubridy redemption in the papers today
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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aritalks.bsky.social
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
minneapolismn.gov City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 2d
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Vehicles abandoned due to ICE detention will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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darach.bsky.social
Anyway, Irish people used do be obsessed with the Kennedys, and I think Tubridy might be unintentionally responsible for healing us of that.
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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edzitron.com
These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.
Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated Al's capabilities. They have found that AI simply can't cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints. But the problems go far deeper than that. Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass Al layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong Al-generated responses that Al is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it. But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill. However, these staff were fired in the Al layoffs. Expertise, experience and skilled employees are really hard for a company to acquire. You see, much of the expertise, experience, and skills required are unique to the company and its operations. These operations will have quirks, common problems, and unique issues that even the most experienced outsider will really struggle with, but are effortless to someone with experience within the company. As such, these attributes are not only vital, but are nurtured and grown within a company, and cannot be hired in on a whim. What Salesforce has done is chuck all this experience out the window, and now they are suffering. To say this is a damning indictment on Benioff, his capabilities as a CEO, and his cult-like push for Al is an understatement. It demonstrates that he is dangerously ignorant, as it was painfully evident that this would happen; more on that in a minute. Salesforce is doing a U-turn, and is "reframing its AI strategy," shifting away from trying to replace workers, and instead doing what executives call "rebalancing." Basically, they are trying to re-hire these critical roles and expertise they have lost, take Al out of the driver's seat, and augment workers rather than replace them. More on why that is still a terrible idea in a minute.
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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recombobulating.bsky.social
if you assume that you're ideologically pure and all reasonable humans must agree with you then you will end up assuming that those who disagree must be something other than human
January 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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oceanclub.bsky.social
Reminder that RTE paid Tubridy and co huge salaries based on the claim they would simply walk out into higher paid jobs in the UK.
eidin.bsky.social Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social · 2d
There is a lot of Ryan Tubridy redemption in the papers today
January 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.

Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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janematthews1.bsky.social
Elon Musk just been labelled a 'creepy little slimeball' in the Dáil by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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erichaywood.bsky.social
Oh, good. I was planning on canceling anyway and this is just the push I needed.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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neiljackman.bsky.social
If you have a moment please make a submission before 5.30pm today 👇
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
paulduane.bsky.social
Isn't this the same Palantir that the UK have just signed a massive defence deal with? The one run by famous British fascist Oswald Mosley's grandson?
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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jonathanslaght.com
My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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klillington.bsky.social
Banning X would not 'betray free speech', just as breaking up or closing down corporate giants that seriously violate competition or criminal law would not 'betray commerce' (for anyone reading an Irish Times opinion piece today who might be unsure)
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone.

"Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."
Blessed are the whistle blowers
Resistance to the ongoing brutality is everywhere. One need only step outside to find it.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
paulduane.bsky.social
Please help Nasma if you can, she's raising three young children alone:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-nasma...
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
This is why our friends need our help.
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The 100 children who have been killed in Gaza by Israel since the beginning of the 'ceasefire' do not include those who have died from winter conditions without access to resources needed to survive.

news.un.org/en/story/202...
Gaza: A ceasefire that still kills children is not enough, says UNICEF
Airstrikes, drone attacks and hypothermia continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire, with more than 100 youngsters killed since early October, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
news.un.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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danrueck.bsky.social
Hard to imagine anywhere else where the occupying power kills a child a day during peace time.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d
UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.'

“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
“That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva. “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones,” he said, speaking from Gaza City. “They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from [remote-controlled] quadcopters.” Mr. Elder pointed out that more children have also died of hypothermia in the last few days, as harsh winter conditions expose the most vulnerable Gazans.
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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dublininquirer.com
"The idea for this cover was an ode to the post workers, couriers and delivery drivers who just (literally) carried the Christmas season on their backs," writes @selkies.bsky.social, about the image she made for the cover of our most recent print edition. www.dublininquirer.com/cover-image-...
An illustration showing couriers and posal carriers delivering on a Dublin Street.
January 14, 2026 at 10:48 AM
paulduane.bsky.social
An unforeseen aspect of the current crisis is, as the rich buy up gold & platinum to hedge against currency collapse, the rising cost of platinum is making prosthetic VFX more expensive (it's a necessary component in the process) while the rising cost of RAM makes digital FX more costly too.
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
paulduane.bsky.social
Please help Mohammed and his family if you can, conditions in Gaza are desperate right now:

chuffed.org/project/1574...
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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theblueststar.bsky.social
Howling at this excerpt from Mikey out of off of Boyzone's wiki page
Mobile. Like his bandmate Shane Lynch, Graham had worked as a mechanic before finding fame as a singer;[4] Lynch has stated in an interview that during the early days of Boyzone, he and Graham had a heated argument over exhaust pipes and barely spoke to each other for fifteen years.[5]
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
paulduane.bsky.social
The most basic plank of every Irish government since I was born has been "If we're nice to the Yanks they'll be nice to us".
What are the chances of the current Government abandoning this policy? I would say slim to none, and none is about to leave on the next stagecoach.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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jamalzuhir.bsky.social
I never thought I would ask strangers for help.
But war leaves no pride untouched.

My family and I are from Gaza. We lost everything after gencide.
If you can donate or share, you are helping real people stay alive.

Solidarity is life. Thank you. 🤍
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM