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Neil Michael 🇱🇧
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Irish Examiner hack Social Justice Media Award winner. Ex-Washington Post stringer/BBC pundit Ex Daily Express/Daily Mirror staffer.
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anewshack.bsky.social
Murdered farmer Michael Gaine’s remains being taken from his cattle shed by a friend of his and a relative.
May 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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williamdance.bsky.social
New from me 🚨

“Disinformation and Algorithms: Amplification, Reception and Correction”

I contribute to the theory around disinformation and misinformation studies and then carry out a corpus-based analysis of the use of tokens like ‘disinformation’ on Twitter.

www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
May 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic.

“The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”
May 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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paulmurphy.pbp.ie
A personal statement apologising for provoking Deputy Lowry by filming him last week.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
New York stands with Ukraine. #3E #USprotests #StandWithUkraine
Thousands of protesters in New York
March 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
anewshack.bsky.social
The narrative is - in effect: there really is not anything to be seen here. Everything is grand. Talk to mothers and fathers of babies that continue to die needlessly in Irish maternity units, and it's very far from grand. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
HSE commissioned external reviews into two stillbirths at MUH
As well as commissioning external reviews at the Mayo hospital, the HSE also conducted additional internal reviews into another five stillbirths there in 2023
www.irishexaminer.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—

Oh wait.
February 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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carlowweather.bsky.social
High resolution image of #StormÉowyn yesterday as center moved away. I’ve had reports that all are safe on Aran Islands but no power of connectivity there at present.
January 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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carlowweather.bsky.social
Heavy rain and sleet moving into the West with thunderstorms in Southwest and lightning strikes in Kerry. Wind will increase as band of showers cross the country too.
January 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
anewshack.bsky.social
I have a hope for 2025 and the next 4/5 years - it is that people here and “the other place” stop incessantly reminding everyone how odd, petty, sexist, ridiculous, tedious, nashty, etc etc “yer man” is. Those of us who cannot stand the guy can see most of it for ourselves. Please hear our groans.
January 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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carlowweather.bsky.social
A milder morning with a lot of cloud but some sunny spells developing today, feeling fresh in breeze.
January 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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caugustenborg.bsky.social
I'll be on RTE Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social from about 8:15 to talk about this week's Draft Programme for Government.

Get the coffee on and join us! ☕️
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1
The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.
www.rte.ie
January 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has announced that the Gaza ceasefire will start on Sunday at 8:30 am [06:30 GMT].

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dcziju
January 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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oisinoconnor.bsky.social
"You can't have trees and bikes replace the cars on this street. The Dutch just love their cars too much and it rains sometimes."
- Dutch automobile lobbyist, 1988
hackneycyclist.bsky.social Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · Jan 11
Gerard Doustraat, Amsterdam in 1988 and today.
Top historical image shows a V shaped road junction with car parking dominates on both sides of both roads and also at the junction. The junction is wide and laid out of tarmac. Bottom modern day image the car parking has been vastly reduced with no car parking at the junction at all. Footways have been vastly increased with flowers, trees, cycle parking and outdoor dining. roadways much reduced in size so crossing is easier and quicker for pedestrians. Brick paving has replaced tarmac which reduced car speeds and indicates to drivers they are sharing the road with pedestrian and cyclists, who have priority
January 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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sebastiangarof5.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
REPOST

gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
gavinnewsom.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
anewshack.bsky.social
This morning’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
A screen shot of this morning’s Irish Examiner, which carries - as its main picture - a photo of a mother and her two children standing in the snow blocking the driveway to her house.
January 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: The Pacific Palisades fire is now the most destructive in Los Angeles city history, with an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed.

Follow AP's live coverage.
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Live updates: Pacific Palisades wildfire is most destructive in LA history with at least 1,000 structures burned
The Palisades fire, Pasadena's Eaton fire and Hurst fire in the San Fernando Valley are raging in the Los Angeles area, fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds. At least two people are dead and over 1,000 ...
apnews.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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natalieoregan.bsky.social
DULF's 3rd paper gives us a look at a Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre.
What once stood as a safe haven, offering dignity and hope in a society bent on punishment, has been crushed under legal pressures and political scorn.

#Drugsky

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Qualitative findings from North America’s first drug compassion club
In Canada, the ongoing fatal overdose crisis remains driven by the unpredictable potency and content of the illicit drug supply. From August 2022 until October 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front [DU...
journals.plos.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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akellyucc.bsky.social
Hear UCC scientists talk food, artificial intelligence, ancient scripts and dinosaurs at free public lectures!

Our popular @ucc.bsky.social Science in Society lectures will run from 14 January to 3 April, every Tuesday & Thursday at 6:00 PM in Boole 2. Details below

www.yaycork.ie/hear-ucc-sci...
Hear UCC scientists talk food, ancient scripts and dinosaurs at these free lectures
Find out more for free.
www.yaycork.ie
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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haaretzcom.bsky.social
Trump posts video of controversial economist Jeffrey Sachs calling Netanyahu "a deep, dark son of a bitch" who is responsible for orchestrating U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
'A deep, dark son of a bitch': Trump posts video of historian criticizing Netanyahu
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www.haaretz.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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pippacrerar.bsky.social
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says that Elon Musk's attacks have "turned her world upside down" and left her fearful for her own safety.

The X billionaire "knows absolutely nothing" about grooming gangs scandal, she tells @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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wagatwe.com
I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide
January 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
byrontau.bsky.social Byron Tau @byrontau.bsky.social · Jan 4
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM