AveTeresa
@aveteresa.bsky.social
I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found.
Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive.
Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive.
Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
Sad to see Southampton go, but a very good match! #UniversityChallenge
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Sad to see Southampton go, but a very good match! #UniversityChallenge
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
Sure, it's interesting to speculate who the next Minister of Finance might be. But it's also interesting to consider who might win a bye-election, considering some of the candidates last time out.... www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
Dublin Central Election 2024: Who are the candidates in my constituency?
Dublin Central is a constituency full of big players in the world of Irish politics. Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe calls the constituency his home as does Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDon...
www.independent.ie
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Sure, it's interesting to speculate who the next Minister of Finance might be. But it's also interesting to consider who might win a bye-election, considering some of the candidates last time out.... www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
A lot of manual labour recently for me, combined with cold weather, means very dry skin on my hands, which is affecting my puzzle completion times as my finger does not always register on touch screens.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A lot of manual labour recently for me, combined with cold weather, means very dry skin on my hands, which is affecting my puzzle completion times as my finger does not always register on touch screens.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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I'm seeing a lot of political posts with images & no alt-text. A reminder: alt-text makes your post accessible to blind & low-vision users, & as disabled people are some of those most regularly & viciously targeted by this administration, they deserve & need to be included & informed in activism.
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I'm seeing a lot of political posts with images & no alt-text. A reminder: alt-text makes your post accessible to blind & low-vision users, & as disabled people are some of those most regularly & viciously targeted by this administration, they deserve & need to be included & informed in activism.
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I've lived in some houses that have been converted into multiple flats and I cant stress how dysfunctional and uncomfortable they are. Forgetting issues like space and privacy, you don't just double or triple the strain on a building's water, sewerage and energy needs without issues. #spéirgorm
The Housing Minister's reported plan to push for older people to split their homes into flats in an effort to boost supply has been defended by the Minister for Older People.
'What we’re looking to provide is choice for older people,' Kieran O'Donnell said today jrnl.ie/6876584
'What we’re looking to provide is choice for older people,' Kieran O'Donnell said today jrnl.ie/6876584
Minister for Older People defends plan to encourage older people to split homes into flats
The Housing Minister is reportedly drafting a policy to enable older people to split their homes into separate flats in a new approach to downsizing.
jrnl.ie
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've lived in some houses that have been converted into multiple flats and I cant stress how dysfunctional and uncomfortable they are. Forgetting issues like space and privacy, you don't just double or triple the strain on a building's water, sewerage and energy needs without issues. #spéirgorm
This is deeply depressing. I’d thought it might apply in manufacturing, like SPuMonI that’s used in pharma production for quality control (the kind of sensible thing specifically trained AI is really good at). AI’s been used in recommendation engines for years. But marketing AI output for cosmetics?
I guess I already knew beauty ads were fakey but now they’re fakey-fakey at scale.
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is deeply depressing. I’d thought it might apply in manufacturing, like SPuMonI that’s used in pharma production for quality control (the kind of sensible thing specifically trained AI is really good at). AI’s been used in recommendation engines for years. But marketing AI output for cosmetics?
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I read this book last year and for me, it's nostalgic having grown up the next town over, for others a fantastic portrayal of the ratty suburbs of North Dublin in the 90s/2000s
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I read this book last year and for me, it's nostalgic having grown up the next town over, for others a fantastic portrayal of the ratty suburbs of North Dublin in the 90s/2000s
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I actually do think it may be important to explain to men that there is a difference between their attractions/desires and their actions. You can have all kinds of fucked up stuff in your head and it does no one any harm. The second you act in a way that crosses someone's boundaries you're shit.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I actually do think it may be important to explain to men that there is a difference between their attractions/desires and their actions. You can have all kinds of fucked up stuff in your head and it does no one any harm. The second you act in a way that crosses someone's boundaries you're shit.
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Erm....I remember the concentration camps were full of jewellery and personal things stolen. This is one bloody awful look for Labour. Who's advising them? An ouija board of Goebbles?
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Erm....I remember the concentration camps were full of jewellery and personal things stolen. This is one bloody awful look for Labour. Who's advising them? An ouija board of Goebbles?
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There is no debate here. If you want to get out of providing internationally recognised fundamental human rights to all humans in your jurisdiction, you are being authoritarian at best and fascist at worst, and you are not fit to govern.
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
There is no debate here. If you want to get out of providing internationally recognised fundamental human rights to all humans in your jurisdiction, you are being authoritarian at best and fascist at worst, and you are not fit to govern.
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Today is International Day of Tolerance.
In today's world intolerance is growing at an extreme pace. So it's more important than ever to stand up for tolerance and humanity.
Stand up for one another,stand up against hate, bullying and bigotry. Even if you stand alone sometimes
In today's world intolerance is growing at an extreme pace. So it's more important than ever to stand up for tolerance and humanity.
Stand up for one another,stand up against hate, bullying and bigotry. Even if you stand alone sometimes
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Today is International Day of Tolerance.
In today's world intolerance is growing at an extreme pace. So it's more important than ever to stand up for tolerance and humanity.
Stand up for one another,stand up against hate, bullying and bigotry. Even if you stand alone sometimes
In today's world intolerance is growing at an extreme pace. So it's more important than ever to stand up for tolerance and humanity.
Stand up for one another,stand up against hate, bullying and bigotry. Even if you stand alone sometimes
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I guess it's okay for some people though?
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I guess it's okay for some people though?
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People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#speirgorm #livemusic #SugarClub #dublingigs #Free #Tickets
I have a pair of tickets for Martin Stephenson & The Daintees at the Sugar Club, Dublin, Thurs 20th.
FREE to any taker.
I've double-booked myself for Thursday, but I'll see the show on Friday night!
I have a pair of tickets for Martin Stephenson & The Daintees at the Sugar Club, Dublin, Thurs 20th.
FREE to any taker.
I've double-booked myself for Thursday, but I'll see the show on Friday night!
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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All the objective studies show that for roles where remote is possible, productivity goes up or is unaffected and there is no drop in team building or innovation. I enjoy IRL contacts on my on-site days, besides needing them to fulfil my role, but I wouldn’t begrudge suitable roles fully remote.
Hybrid working still a ‘red hot’ issue, say worker representatives
Hybrid working still a ‘red hot’ issue, say worker representatives
Union reps push back on idea hybrid working is a problem
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
All the objective studies show that for roles where remote is possible, productivity goes up or is unaffected and there is no drop in team building or innovation. I enjoy IRL contacts on my on-site days, besides needing them to fulfil my role, but I wouldn’t begrudge suitable roles fully remote.
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A third man, aged in his thirties, arrested by Gardaí in Co Laois in connection with cross-border investigation into far right terror cell.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A third man, aged in his thirties, arrested by Gardaí in Co Laois in connection with cross-border investigation into far right terror cell.
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Job advert:
The Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social advertises a permanent, full time position for research support and consultancy. The successful candidate will support the digital research and technical development of the Institute and of funded research projects.
The Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social advertises a permanent, full time position for research support and consultancy. The successful candidate will support the digital research and technical development of the Institute and of funded research projects.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Job advert:
The Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social advertises a permanent, full time position for research support and consultancy. The successful candidate will support the digital research and technical development of the Institute and of funded research projects.
The Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social advertises a permanent, full time position for research support and consultancy. The successful candidate will support the digital research and technical development of the Institute and of funded research projects.
I mentioned a few times that we were given notice on our house. Just to say we’ve secured a new place! We’ll be moving in Dec, in for Xmas. Greatly relieved! Thanks to many on here who did a bit of minding; it is tough out there. Ta also to all of you who make me laugh &/or share interesting stuff 🥰
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I mentioned a few times that we were given notice on our house. Just to say we’ve secured a new place! We’ll be moving in Dec, in for Xmas. Greatly relieved! Thanks to many on here who did a bit of minding; it is tough out there. Ta also to all of you who make me laugh &/or share interesting stuff 🥰
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."