Susan G
@susangriff.bsky.social
🇮🇪Limerick born & back now. Ex-Wales & ex-Cork. Likes film, good tv, books, music, Munster Rugby. Wife, mother, dog mama, ex-academic. Retired early. Living with Heart Failure. Anti-racist. Anti-fascist. I care about our world. Worried about it right now
Pinned
Susan G
@susangriff.bsky.social
· Sep 21
A timeline cleanser for your Sunday. 15 seconds of the "sounds of the sea" today at Doughmore Beach, Co Clare. I wish I could share the sea air too!
Reposted by Susan G
“It was a chance to be innocently happy.”
- the late great Nell McCafferty, describing how Italia 90 was for Ireland, recalled today by Malachy Clerkin.
www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... #coybig #CaoimhinKelleher #TroyParrott #happy
- the late great Nell McCafferty, describing how Italia 90 was for Ireland, recalled today by Malachy Clerkin.
www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... #coybig #CaoimhinKelleher #TroyParrott #happy
Troy Parrott gave us a chance to be innocently happy. Whatever happens from here, that lasts forever
Over the campaign, this Ireland side showed themselves to be all the things you’d want from a team representing the country
www.irishtimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“It was a chance to be innocently happy.”
- the late great Nell McCafferty, describing how Italia 90 was for Ireland, recalled today by Malachy Clerkin.
www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... #coybig #CaoimhinKelleher #TroyParrott #happy
- the late great Nell McCafferty, describing how Italia 90 was for Ireland, recalled today by Malachy Clerkin.
www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer... #coybig #CaoimhinKelleher #TroyParrott #happy
Reposted by Susan G
"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"
Reposted by Susan G
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
Reposted by Susan G
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Reposted by Susan G
Love that my entire timeline on here is currently some version of OH MY FUCKING GOD (positive)
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Love that my entire timeline on here is currently some version of OH MY FUCKING GOD (positive)
Reposted by Susan G
10 years in the wilderness of international football and now within the space of 4 days, I've witnessed two of the greatest results in my life. COYBIG.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
10 years in the wilderness of international football and now within the space of 4 days, I've witnessed two of the greatest results in my life. COYBIG.
Reposted by Susan G
Football’s coming Heim.
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Football’s coming Heim.
Reposted by Susan G
The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Reposted by Susan G
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by Susan G
Reposted by Susan G
Fiadh, running on a mirrored sky.
"This might be heaven."
County Clare, Ireland.
"This might be heaven."
County Clare, Ireland.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Fiadh, running on a mirrored sky.
"This might be heaven."
County Clare, Ireland.
"This might be heaven."
County Clare, Ireland.
Today is the *first anniversary* of me joining Bluesky.🎉 My first post on 14th Nov '24 was a pic of my "smiley" doggo, and me saying "happy to be here". I'm still happy to be here, and thankful for the communities discovered (special mention : #speirgorm), and for all the interactions along the way.
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today is the *first anniversary* of me joining Bluesky.🎉 My first post on 14th Nov '24 was a pic of my "smiley" doggo, and me saying "happy to be here". I'm still happy to be here, and thankful for the communities discovered (special mention : #speirgorm), and for all the interactions along the way.
Reposted by Susan G
These are just gorgeous
Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s national park posters – in pictures
Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
These are just gorgeous
It is a nice emoji, 🦜, isn't it?! Irish Bluesky (#speirgorm) at the moment is like Hitchcock's "The Birds" there's so many 🦜 🦜 😄 #coybig 💚 The boy Troy! 💚
Massive 45 minutes to come 🤞🏿
Massive 45 minutes to come 🤞🏿
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It is a nice emoji, 🦜, isn't it?! Irish Bluesky (#speirgorm) at the moment is like Hitchcock's "The Birds" there's so many 🦜 🦜 😄 #coybig 💚 The boy Troy! 💚
Massive 45 minutes to come 🤞🏿
Massive 45 minutes to come 🤞🏿
Reposted by Susan G
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Reposted by Susan G
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Reposted by Susan G
Reposted by Susan G
The private ownership claim to Lough Neagh (Loch nEathach) originates with Sir Arthur Chichester, English commander during the Nine Years’ War and one of the architects of the Plantation of Ulster. There was even an attempt by colonists to rename the lake ‘Lough Chichester’.
“Main cause is an overload of phosphorus & nitrogen from agriculture, including farm runoff, fertilisers & animal waste”.
The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster
Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The private ownership claim to Lough Neagh (Loch nEathach) originates with Sir Arthur Chichester, English commander during the Nine Years’ War and one of the architects of the Plantation of Ulster. There was even an attempt by colonists to rename the lake ‘Lough Chichester’.
Reposted by Susan G
It's CRAZY that the UK was not prepared for this bullshit after seeing events in the US - will Ireland be able to dodge the worst of it?
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It's CRAZY that the UK was not prepared for this bullshit after seeing events in the US - will Ireland be able to dodge the worst of it?
Reposted by Susan G
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
Reposted by Susan G
So proud of my father for all the passion, courage,care and vision he brought to the last 14 years as President of Ireland. Both my parents have always been driven by a deep wide love for Ireland & the world, for people, planet & possibilities. Looking forward to their next chapter! #Grá #spiergirm
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
So proud of my father for all the passion, courage,care and vision he brought to the last 14 years as President of Ireland. Both my parents have always been driven by a deep wide love for Ireland & the world, for people, planet & possibilities. Looking forward to their next chapter! #Grá #spiergirm
Reposted by Susan G
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Reposted by Susan G
Sorry for sharing a post from the other website, I know, but JCO's remarks on that website's owner feel like something that'll be narrated over the end credits of a Musk biopic.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sorry for sharing a post from the other website, I know, but JCO's remarks on that website's owner feel like something that'll be narrated over the end credits of a Musk biopic.