Dónal Cunningham
@donalcunningham.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, brother, geek, first aider, wood turner, singer, gamer.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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This is such an amazing opportunity to work with a leader in the field doing really important work!
As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?
As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is such an amazing opportunity to work with a leader in the field doing really important work!
As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?
As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?
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"Where did she go? OUT
What did she do? EVERYTHING!"
The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, 1991
What did she do? EVERYTHING!"
The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, 1991
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"Where did she go? OUT
What did she do? EVERYTHING!"
The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, 1991
What did she do? EVERYTHING!"
The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, 1991
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If the leader of your country can declare he's sending tanks into a major city to deal with non-violent protests against his own extrajudicial abductions by an unregulated and largely anonymous government paramilitary group, that's a fascist country that you have there. Sorry.
June 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If the leader of your country can declare he's sending tanks into a major city to deal with non-violent protests against his own extrajudicial abductions by an unregulated and largely anonymous government paramilitary group, that's a fascist country that you have there. Sorry.
This idea is madness. Coming to you live from the Uncanny Valley!
In a country renowned for its storytelling, award-winning, world renowned authors, writers and poets, it’s bizarre and disturbing for them to share this so-called ‘charming’ AI-Guide rather than investing in a human being who could do the job a million times better.
June 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This idea is madness. Coming to you live from the Uncanny Valley!
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Only in Ireland: I'm at a pub event; barman seeks owners of 2 cars blocking others in pub's strangely arranged carpark; 1 of them is mine (morto!); I go out & apologise to man whose car I unknowingly blocked; turns out we know each other from 20 years ago; big hugs, & we chat forever in the carpark
June 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Only in Ireland: I'm at a pub event; barman seeks owners of 2 cars blocking others in pub's strangely arranged carpark; 1 of them is mine (morto!); I go out & apologise to man whose car I unknowingly blocked; turns out we know each other from 20 years ago; big hugs, & we chat forever in the carpark
I first met @peter.petermorwood.com in 1996 at the first Discworld Convention - and many times since. He brought joy, laughter, Tobacco sauce, swords, cooking and a metric ton of stories into my life.
ko-fi.com/dianeduane will help his wife @diane.dianeduane.com with funeral expenses.
ko-fi.com/dianeduane will help his wife @diane.dianeduane.com with funeral expenses.
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I first met @peter.petermorwood.com in 1996 at the first Discworld Convention - and many times since. He brought joy, laughter, Tobacco sauce, swords, cooking and a metric ton of stories into my life.
ko-fi.com/dianeduane will help his wife @diane.dianeduane.com with funeral expenses.
ko-fi.com/dianeduane will help his wife @diane.dianeduane.com with funeral expenses.
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"Look, if I could brainwash your darling crotch goblins, I'd make them read the syllabus, turn in their assignments on time, and be absolutely allergic to GenAI." -- every professor everywhere.
Here's the secret of
"university indoctrination."
Professors aren't doing it.
Your little darlings are finally meeting a diverse group of people and realising that the stereotypes you've been feeding them are closed-minded garbage.
"university indoctrination."
Professors aren't doing it.
Your little darlings are finally meeting a diverse group of people and realising that the stereotypes you've been feeding them are closed-minded garbage.
April 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Look, if I could brainwash your darling crotch goblins, I'd make them read the syllabus, turn in their assignments on time, and be absolutely allergic to GenAI." -- every professor everywhere.
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The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today.
I'll always feel grateful to the people who made it happen - and tbh, even after all this time, am still quietly amazed almost to the point of disbelief that they prevailed.
A fundamentally human miracle; imperfect, resilient, generative.
I'll always feel grateful to the people who made it happen - and tbh, even after all this time, am still quietly amazed almost to the point of disbelief that they prevailed.
A fundamentally human miracle; imperfect, resilient, generative.
April 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today.
I'll always feel grateful to the people who made it happen - and tbh, even after all this time, am still quietly amazed almost to the point of disbelief that they prevailed.
A fundamentally human miracle; imperfect, resilient, generative.
I'll always feel grateful to the people who made it happen - and tbh, even after all this time, am still quietly amazed almost to the point of disbelief that they prevailed.
A fundamentally human miracle; imperfect, resilient, generative.
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The fact that there is a highway to Hell, and a stairway to Heaven, says a lot about anticipated traffic flows.
March 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The fact that there is a highway to Hell, and a stairway to Heaven, says a lot about anticipated traffic flows.
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Once I got the DIRTIEST look during a conference panel when a facilities manager asked me if technology gave me hope for the future. I said ramps are older than old and we still can’t get those put in, so no, it doesn’t.
Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.
Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.
I really need people to stop acting like technology is gonna solve disability.
I have a pretty technologically advanced wheelchair. It still doesn’t make my back not broken, and it sure as shit doesn’t make ableds build more ramps.
I have a pretty technologically advanced wheelchair. It still doesn’t make my back not broken, and it sure as shit doesn’t make ableds build more ramps.
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Once I got the DIRTIEST look during a conference panel when a facilities manager asked me if technology gave me hope for the future. I said ramps are older than old and we still can’t get those put in, so no, it doesn’t.
Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.
Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.
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I befriended a crow. I'd put scraps of food out on the balcony and watch it eat.
After a while it started to bring gifts in return. Bottle caps, disposable lighters, that sort of thing, left on the table.
I accepted them.
But this morning it was waiting for me, holding a diamond ring.
Should I?
After a while it started to bring gifts in return. Bottle caps, disposable lighters, that sort of thing, left on the table.
I accepted them.
But this morning it was waiting for me, holding a diamond ring.
Should I?
March 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I befriended a crow. I'd put scraps of food out on the balcony and watch it eat.
After a while it started to bring gifts in return. Bottle caps, disposable lighters, that sort of thing, left on the table.
I accepted them.
But this morning it was waiting for me, holding a diamond ring.
Should I?
After a while it started to bring gifts in return. Bottle caps, disposable lighters, that sort of thing, left on the table.
I accepted them.
But this morning it was waiting for me, holding a diamond ring.
Should I?
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This is far from done, but the agreement in principle is a huge leap forward for research in Ireland! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Ireland's application to join CERN accepted in principle
Ireland's application to join the European Organisation for Nuclear Research has been accepted in principle, paving the way for the country to become an associate member in 2026.
www.rte.ie
February 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is far from done, but the agreement in principle is a huge leap forward for research in Ireland! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Good thread on how encrusting workers with rules to prevent "waste" causes a much larger amount of waste
because "paying 15$ to the european guy who made the free program irfanview" wasn't on our 2010 congressional budget, it couldn't be done. The accountant said it could maybe be put on the next-next budget, but they weren't sure it'd get approved.
February 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good thread on how encrusting workers with rules to prevent "waste" causes a much larger amount of waste
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This.
Amid the cynical hatemongering, I will continue to accept, respect and support LGBTQIA+ people. Everyone is entitled to the same civil and legal rights without question. I know who I am better than anyone else and I expect people to believe me. I extend that courtesy to others. It's not difficult.
February 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This.
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Of course there are no fairies and of course you don’t fuck with them.
February 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Of course there are no fairies and of course you don’t fuck with them.
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“Lá Fhéile Bríde” to all! #StBrigidsDay #Imbolc ☘️
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Lá Fhéile Bríde” to all! #StBrigidsDay #Imbolc ☘️
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I can't recall a single point in my life where I've been scared of a trans person.
Unfortunately, I can think of many, many times that I've been scared FOR trans people.
Unfortunately, I can think of many, many times that I've been scared FOR trans people.
January 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I can't recall a single point in my life where I've been scared of a trans person.
Unfortunately, I can think of many, many times that I've been scared FOR trans people.
Unfortunately, I can think of many, many times that I've been scared FOR trans people.
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I once rang Hotel Doolin to ask them if I could use their loos for a group of just arrived Syrian families who were on a day trip across Clare and when we arrived they had muffins & hot chocolates ready for all the children and teas and coffees and scones for the adults ready in their barn.
The same company/family run Hotel Doolin and The Armada in Clare, they are the absolute real deal never missing a chance to support their communities whatever way they can: this from them this morning-
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I once rang Hotel Doolin to ask them if I could use their loos for a group of just arrived Syrian families who were on a day trip across Clare and when we arrived they had muffins & hot chocolates ready for all the children and teas and coffees and scones for the adults ready in their barn.
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We have all been at funerals where the eulogy was given by the priest who clearly hadn’t a rashers about the person. A phoned in eulogy. A eulogy given by someone who loved the deceased injects the personality of the person into the funeral. @katiehannon.bsky.social #eulogy
January 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We have all been at funerals where the eulogy was given by the priest who clearly hadn’t a rashers about the person. A phoned in eulogy. A eulogy given by someone who loved the deceased injects the personality of the person into the funeral. @katiehannon.bsky.social #eulogy