Ciaránavirus
@sarklor.bsky.social
Depressed goblin nightmare boy.
Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
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Occasional freelance writer: Warhammer 40K: Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay. I am also a 2019 Hugo Award Attendee. He/Him etc.
https://ko-fi.com/sarklor
https://www.sarklor.ie/
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Ciaránavirus
@sarklor.bsky.social
· May 6
At a time when some are turning in on themselves – Ireland will continue to engage and to look outwards.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
I was delighted to speak to the Global Ireland Summit and to see so many leaders drawn from every section of our society gathered together to discuss our country’s place in the world.
This wretched coward should live his remaining days in fear over his refusal to stand up to the genocidal Israeli regime.
Following my dream led to unbearable horror, and writing silly ttrpg stuff is all I have left 🙃
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Following my dream led to unbearable horror, and writing silly ttrpg stuff is all I have left 🙃
It makes sense that Bezos would be in the epstein files, given how fucking weird (*bad* weird, no shade to decent upstanding freaks out there) the leaked texts regarding sex with consenting adults were
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It makes sense that Bezos would be in the epstein files, given how fucking weird (*bad* weird, no shade to decent upstanding freaks out there) the leaked texts regarding sex with consenting adults were
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Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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This week has been a good reminder of this April 1934 headline. Communists and Jews in Belfast disrupt a fascist rally in Library Street. Belfast will always be an antifascist city. We keep showing up for each other to defeat fascism even if the police & state backs it. [1/n]
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This week has been a good reminder of this April 1934 headline. Communists and Jews in Belfast disrupt a fascist rally in Library Street. Belfast will always be an antifascist city. We keep showing up for each other to defeat fascism even if the police & state backs it. [1/n]
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I had not previously considered that Jeff Bezos might be in the Epstein files. This decision confirms to me beyond doubt that he is
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I had not previously considered that Jeff Bezos might be in the Epstein files. This decision confirms to me beyond doubt that he is
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During Israel's Gaza genocide, @Reebok became sponsor of the Israel Football Assoc, which includes teams in illegal Israeli settlements and has a league for Israeli soldiers.
Join 367 Palestinian teams demanding Reebok end its sponsorship. #BoycottReebok
Join 367 Palestinian teams demanding Reebok end its sponsorship. #BoycottReebok
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
During Israel's Gaza genocide, @Reebok became sponsor of the Israel Football Assoc, which includes teams in illegal Israeli settlements and has a league for Israeli soldiers.
Join 367 Palestinian teams demanding Reebok end its sponsorship. #BoycottReebok
Join 367 Palestinian teams demanding Reebok end its sponsorship. #BoycottReebok
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Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
There are radio ads for the Charities Regulator claiming how trustworthy they are and I think that's adorable, considering the fucking *monsters* they continue to give charitable status
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There are radio ads for the Charities Regulator claiming how trustworthy they are and I think that's adorable, considering the fucking *monsters* they continue to give charitable status
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it is fucking monstrous to make children go through this before getting medication they NEED
how can this be justified
how could you live with yourself having any part in this
how can this be justified
how could you live with yourself having any part in this
Real questions in the puberty blocker study:
How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery?
How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery?
How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery?
Continued...
How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery?
How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery?
How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery?
Continued...
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
it is fucking monstrous to make children go through this before getting medication they NEED
how can this be justified
how could you live with yourself having any part in this
how can this be justified
how could you live with yourself having any part in this
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My dude, you're facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza. Something you could actually do something tangible about. But you're just happy to be sitting on the international stage waffling platitudes while ignoring your culpability and at the same time entrenching Irish complicity.
Whisht.
Whisht.
Our world is ever more interconnected & interdependent. Our commitment to international law & multilateralism motivates us to advocate for an inclusive system.
We must work to end war & conflict.
We must work to end war & conflict.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My dude, you're facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza. Something you could actually do something tangible about. But you're just happy to be sitting on the international stage waffling platitudes while ignoring your culpability and at the same time entrenching Irish complicity.
Whisht.
Whisht.
Shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit
Our world is ever more interconnected & interdependent. Our commitment to international law & multilateralism motivates us to advocate for an inclusive system.
We must work to end war & conflict.
We must work to end war & conflict.
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
The wealthy lie. They always lie. Fuck Collison and the lying wankers singing his praises.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The wealthy lie. They always lie. Fuck Collison and the lying wankers singing his praises.
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One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
One pair of numbers nicely illustrates where the Irish housing crisis actually originates.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
* There were 1000 housing units awaiting planning permission due to judicial review in 2024.
* In 2024 there were more than 80,000 housing units with planning permission on which construction had not started.
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
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Roderic O’Gorman TD on advice from the Attorney General on inclusion of services:
“As someone who received the same legal advice from the Attorney General in the summer of last year, I can say there was absolutely no reference within it to a need to make a distinction between goods and services.”
“As someone who received the same legal advice from the Attorney General in the summer of last year, I can say there was absolutely no reference within it to a need to make a distinction between goods and services.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Roderic O’Gorman TD on advice from the Attorney General on inclusion of services:
“As someone who received the same legal advice from the Attorney General in the summer of last year, I can say there was absolutely no reference within it to a need to make a distinction between goods and services.”
“As someone who received the same legal advice from the Attorney General in the summer of last year, I can say there was absolutely no reference within it to a need to make a distinction between goods and services.”
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John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies
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I try not to dehumanise anyone, but the bourgeoisie just keep vindicating my feeling that they have willingly renounced humanity and are merely vessels of The Tumour Logic now. Total p-zomies regurgitating corpospeak.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I try not to dehumanise anyone, but the bourgeoisie just keep vindicating my feeling that they have willingly renounced humanity and are merely vessels of The Tumour Logic now. Total p-zomies regurgitating corpospeak.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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