Chris Hapka
@chapkachapka.bsky.social
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Manhattan Peanuts Ltd have taken a judicial review against the Luas Finglas project
This is an important time of year for crisp companies… lots of hungry people in pubs
Remind them with your wallets that they shouldn’t hold up essential public infrastructure
This is an important time of year for crisp companies… lots of hungry people in pubs
Remind them with your wallets that they shouldn’t hold up essential public infrastructure
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Manhattan Peanuts Ltd have taken a judicial review against the Luas Finglas project
This is an important time of year for crisp companies… lots of hungry people in pubs
Remind them with your wallets that they shouldn’t hold up essential public infrastructure
This is an important time of year for crisp companies… lots of hungry people in pubs
Remind them with your wallets that they shouldn’t hold up essential public infrastructure
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If a train wore trousers would it wear them like this or like this?
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If a train wore trousers would it wear them like this or like this?
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December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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You want niche? Oh, we got niche.
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
You want niche? Oh, we got niche.
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Whatever spin you may hear from politicians, there are only two actual positions on healthcare. “Universal healthcare that covers everybody,” or “we must protect the huge industry of insurance middlemen making money off of it.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Whatever spin you may hear from politicians, there are only two actual positions on healthcare. “Universal healthcare that covers everybody,” or “we must protect the huge industry of insurance middlemen making money off of it.”
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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You see Captain, it was the 32 County Toy Show vehicular parade that led directly to Irish re-unification in the 2020s. #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
You see Captain, it was the 32 County Toy Show vehicular parade that led directly to Irish re-unification in the 2020s. #LateLateToyShow
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It's just not the #LateLateToyShow if a 9 year old doesn't sing with the voice of a 94 year old pub singer who looks like they're made out of turf.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's just not the #LateLateToyShow if a 9 year old doesn't sing with the voice of a 94 year old pub singer who looks like they're made out of turf.
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This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women."
blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/o...
The book at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124
#books #literature
blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/o...
The book at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124
#books #literature
On the Beauty of Women
When Distributed Proofreaders recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary, its volunteers were given a rich array of special projects to work on involving the number 25. Among these projects is a fasc…
blog.pgdp.net
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women."
blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/o...
The book at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124
#books #literature
blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/o...
The book at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124
#books #literature
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
Anyone else notice that when the Irish press is reporting on someone, often a cyclist or pedestrian, being killed by a car driver, the default stock image is a Garda sign saying the road is closed (to cars)?
Two cyclists die on Friday in Co Meath, Co Carlow incidents
Man is killed in Carlow crash involving car, second man dies in Meath hit-and-run
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Anyone else notice that when the Irish press is reporting on someone, often a cyclist or pedestrian, being killed by a car driver, the default stock image is a Garda sign saying the road is closed (to cars)?
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Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
So it turns out Skynet’s Achilles’ heel is…poetry?
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So it turns out Skynet’s Achilles’ heel is…poetry?
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Car Phases - $6.75 - inzanelyrejected
Buy this product for only $6.75
inzanelyrejected.printify.me
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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The significance here isn't that the Pope is groovy or progressive, but rather that the Pope sets the standard for mainstream conservative thought.
Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.
Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The significance here isn't that the Pope is groovy or progressive, but rather that the Pope sets the standard for mainstream conservative thought.
Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.
Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.
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Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all.
#COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft
#COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all.
#COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft
#COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft
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Voting accomplished!
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Voting accomplished!
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One of the items in my bag got flagged for extra screening, and didn’t just get an extra look-see/swab, but a thorough check and sent through on its own multiple times before it was allowed back to me. The item in question…
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
One of the items in my bag got flagged for extra screening, and didn’t just get an extra look-see/swab, but a thorough check and sent through on its own multiple times before it was allowed back to me. The item in question…
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Great #BramStokerFestival Mount Jerome Cemetery tour - with a @swanriverpress.bsky.social shout-out at LeFanu’s grave.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Great #BramStokerFestival Mount Jerome Cemetery tour - with a @swanriverpress.bsky.social shout-out at LeFanu’s grave.
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Happy Samhain 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Samhain 🔥
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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???