Fran O'Reilly
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Dad, husband, agilist, technophile, Skerries Goat, droch-labhraimeoir na Gaeilge. Sortition, environment, sci-fi. Nazis can go fuck themselves. I swear a lot as a […]
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Hypocrisy isn’t just a failure of some rhetorical purity test
It signals someone is selectively applying a policy to further their own agenda
Never forget that
It signals someone is selectively applying a policy to further their own agenda
Never forget that
December 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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#trump has been accusing the #eu of #censorship via its #digitalservicesact, but is any of what they are saying true?
Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#trump has been accusing the #eu of #censorship via its #digitalservicesact, but is any of what they are saying true?
Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
Stephen’s day, and a Terrys Chocolate Orange for breakfast. 🎄
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Stephen’s day, and a Terrys Chocolate Orange for breakfast. 🎄
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/115759307049951565
I mean, this is what bugs me about the incessant "What can we learn about Software Delivery from F1 teams?"
Nothing.
The answer is Nothing.
You don't have a multi-million pound R&D budget.
The engine of your business needs to last longer […]
I mean, this is what bugs me about the incessant "What can we learn about Software Delivery from F1 teams?"
Nothing.
The answer is Nothing.
You don't have a multi-million pound R&D budget.
The engine of your business needs to last longer […]
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sleepyfox/115759307049951565
I mean, this is what bugs me about the incessant "What can we learn about Software Delivery from F1 teams?"
Nothing.
The answer is Nothing.
You don't have a multi-million pound R&D budget.
The engine of your business needs to last longer […]
I mean, this is what bugs me about the incessant "What can we learn about Software Delivery from F1 teams?"
Nothing.
The answer is Nothing.
You don't have a multi-million pound R&D budget.
The engine of your business needs to last longer […]
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Fran O'Reilly
Morning, all,
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound […]
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Morning, all,
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound […]
From an edition of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that fell through a wormhole from a thousand years in the future:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens: an allegedly intelligent species of hominids indigenous to the Planet Earth that drove itself to extinction “because it made sound […]
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Interesting topic: If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268709
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268709
如果人工智能取代了工人，它是否也应该纳税？
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (english.elpais.com)
08:17 ↑ 104 HN Points
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Interesting topic: If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268709
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268709
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Reposted by Fran O'Reilly
I was thinking about ways to visualize just how insanely much money a billionaire owns. What I came up with now is using length: let's say 1,000€ is 1 millimeter. Each millimeter counts.
So most people go through their daily lives with a finger's width or less (1 centimeter is 10,000€). Even […]
So most people go through their daily lives with a finger's width or less (1 centimeter is 10,000€). Even […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I was thinking about ways to visualize just how insanely much money a billionaire owns. What I came up with now is using length: let's say 1,000€ is 1 millimeter. Each millimeter counts.
So most people go through their daily lives with a finger's width or less (1 centimeter is 10,000€). Even […]
So most people go through their daily lives with a finger's width or less (1 centimeter is 10,000€). Even […]
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The #bbc is so "biased towards the left" that @robinince just had to resign because he speaks openly against bigotry and asks people to be kinder - to themselves and others.
#sciencecommunication at the BBC just got worse. My regard for the corporation also decreased significantly.
#lasttoot
#sciencecommunication at the BBC just got worse. My regard for the corporation also decreased significantly.
#lasttoot
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The #bbc is so "biased towards the left" that @robinince just had to resign because he speaks openly against bigotry and asks people to be kinder - to themselves and others.
#sciencecommunication at the BBC just got worse. My regard for the corporation also decreased significantly.
#lasttoot
#sciencecommunication at the BBC just got worse. My regard for the corporation also decreased significantly.
#lasttoot
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
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December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Fuck you, Labour, you cunts. You are dead to me.
BBC News - Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c773vm4n3n0o
BBC News - Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c773vm4n3n0o
Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events
The conference will take place in 2026 after being cancelled for a year in light of the Supreme Court's gender ruling.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Fuck you, Labour, you cunts. You are dead to me.
BBC News - Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c773vm4n3n0o
BBC News - Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c773vm4n3n0o
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Evidence, if you needed it, that these deportation flights are a silly waste of money, it's nothing but mean spirited theatrics.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/05/deportation-flight-carried-more-than-triple-number-of-gardai-as-failed-asylum-seekers/
#iepol #mastodaoine
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/05/deportation-flight-carried-more-than-triple-number-of-gardai-as-failed-asylum-seekers/
#iepol #mastodaoine
Deportation flight carried more than triple number of gardaí as failed asylum seekers
Deportation operation to Pakistan cost €474,000 and involved 24 failed asylum seekers
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Evidence, if you needed it, that these deportation flights are a silly waste of money, it's nothing but mean spirited theatrics.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/05/deportation-flight-carried-more-than-triple-number-of-gardai-as-failed-asylum-seekers/
#iepol #mastodaoine
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/05/deportation-flight-carried-more-than-triple-number-of-gardai-as-failed-asylum-seekers/
#iepol #mastodaoine
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On 28th November, after a previous hearing, #mrjusticecregan had reminded #enochburke that he could leave prison whenever he wanted to: all he needed to do was to purge his #contemptofcourt by promising to stay away from the school.
Full judgment: https://tinyurl.com/bdfzzzrb
Full judgment: https://tinyurl.com/bdfzzzrb
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
On 28th November, after a previous hearing, #mrjusticecregan had reminded #enochburke that he could leave prison whenever he wanted to: all he needed to do was to purge his #contemptofcourt by promising to stay away from the school.
Full judgment: https://tinyurl.com/bdfzzzrb
Full judgment: https://tinyurl.com/bdfzzzrb
Has anyone ever seen Captain Pike and Donal Skehan in the same room? Anyone? I thought not. #rte #startrek #strangenewworlds #separatedatbirth
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Has anyone ever seen Captain Pike and Donal Skehan in the same room? Anyone? I thought not. #rte #startrek #strangenewworlds #separatedatbirth
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just learned my new all time favorite irish word thanks
you can describe a human person as being faoileánach if seagulls just don't fuckin leave them alone
#gaeilge
you can describe a human person as being faoileánach if seagulls just don't fuckin leave them alone
#gaeilge
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
just learned my new all time favorite irish word thanks
you can describe a human person as being faoileánach if seagulls just don't fuckin leave them alone
#gaeilge
you can describe a human person as being faoileánach if seagulls just don't fuckin leave them alone
#gaeilge
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
I’d believe it if this was an article published in “Trump University Journal of Alternative Facts” rather than literally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world. How the hell did this make it past peer review in Nature?!
https://union.place/@jaythurbershow/115628113963544830
https://union.place/@jaythurbershow/115628113963544830
Jay Thurber Show (@jaythurbershow@union.place)
Attached: 1 image Nature just published a "scientific" (sic?) paper about autism by a Chinese researcher that includes this banger of a graphic. It's enough to give my medical frymbial a runctional fexcectorn. Nature says "criticisms ... are being considered by editors" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9 #AI #enshittification #slop
union.place
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’d believe it if this was an article published in “Trump University Journal of Alternative Facts” rather than literally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world. How the hell did this make it past peer review in Nature?!
https://union.place/@jaythurbershow/115628113963544830
https://union.place/@jaythurbershow/115628113963544830
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#enochburke's campaign is based on four #lies:
LIE 1: Burke was ordered to address a trans pupil as they.
REALITY: Burke didn't teach that pupil. He was not involved.
LIE2: the request breached his religious rights.
REALITY: the request to staff was for courtesy, not to take a view on the […]
LIE 1: Burke was ordered to address a trans pupil as they.
REALITY: Burke didn't teach that pupil. He was not involved.
LIE2: the request breached his religious rights.
REALITY: the request to staff was for courtesy, not to take a view on the […]
Original post on mastodon.ie
mastodon.ie
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
#enochburke's campaign is based on four #lies:
LIE 1: Burke was ordered to address a trans pupil as they.
REALITY: Burke didn't teach that pupil. He was not involved.
LIE2: the request breached his religious rights.
REALITY: the request to staff was for courtesy, not to take a view on the […]
LIE 1: Burke was ordered to address a trans pupil as they.
REALITY: Burke didn't teach that pupil. He was not involved.
LIE2: the request breached his religious rights.
REALITY: the request to staff was for courtesy, not to take a view on the […]
Reposted by Fran O'Reilly
Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]
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I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM