Stephanie Costello
@stephaniecostello.bsky.social
Journalist at Dublin Inquirer and elsewhere. PhD candidate in trust and social class in Irish media and journalism lecturer at TU Dublin. Stephanie@dublininquirer.com
Kicking off today's Climate MESS seminar; panel on Data Centres, Dependency, Ecology and Inequality with Donal Lally, Deirdre Duffy and Dylan Murphy, moderated by Ciara Graham
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Kicking off today's Climate MESS seminar; panel on Data Centres, Dependency, Ecology and Inequality with Donal Lally, Deirdre Duffy and Dylan Murphy, moderated by Ciara Graham
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As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
October 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
A research group I'm part of is hosting its first conference this Friday. Free to join, set to be thought-provoking and engaging!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-me...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-me...
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A research group I'm part of is hosting its first conference this Friday. Free to join, set to be thought-provoking and engaging!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-me...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-me...
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1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
ow.ly
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
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#FreelanceForum -20 OCTOBER
ti.to/freelance-fo...
* Laura Davison NUJ
* Yvonne Hogan (Independent), Amy Forde (Farmers Journal), Deirdre Reynolds (Sunday World+)
* Sound+Vision; Democracy & Courts Reporting schemes
* Simon Cumbers fund, Lyra McKee bursary
Copyright Briefing - Samantha Holman, ICLA
ti.to/freelance-fo...
* Laura Davison NUJ
* Yvonne Hogan (Independent), Amy Forde (Farmers Journal), Deirdre Reynolds (Sunday World+)
* Sound+Vision; Democracy & Courts Reporting schemes
* Simon Cumbers fund, Lyra McKee bursary
Copyright Briefing - Samantha Holman, ICLA
July 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#FreelanceForum -20 OCTOBER
ti.to/freelance-fo...
* Laura Davison NUJ
* Yvonne Hogan (Independent), Amy Forde (Farmers Journal), Deirdre Reynolds (Sunday World+)
* Sound+Vision; Democracy & Courts Reporting schemes
* Simon Cumbers fund, Lyra McKee bursary
Copyright Briefing - Samantha Holman, ICLA
ti.to/freelance-fo...
* Laura Davison NUJ
* Yvonne Hogan (Independent), Amy Forde (Farmers Journal), Deirdre Reynolds (Sunday World+)
* Sound+Vision; Democracy & Courts Reporting schemes
* Simon Cumbers fund, Lyra McKee bursary
Copyright Briefing - Samantha Holman, ICLA
An unexpected surprise today from the @lawsocireland.bsky.social I've been shortlisted in two categories of the Justice Media Awards for a @dublininquirer.com story about the family of Terence Wheelock and their near 20 year long battle for an independent public inquiry into his death
May 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
An unexpected surprise today from the @lawsocireland.bsky.social I've been shortlisted in two categories of the Justice Media Awards for a @dublininquirer.com story about the family of Terence Wheelock and their near 20 year long battle for an independent public inquiry into his death
This has the potential to be absolutely hilarious
Pop star Katy Perry and all-female crew go to space in Bezos rocket
Pop star Katy Perry and all-female crew go to space in Bezos rocket
Katy Perry among those on Blue Origin flight
www.irishtimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This has the potential to be absolutely hilarious
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Japanese poster for BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967), directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty - BOTD in 1937
March 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Japanese poster for BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967), directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty - BOTD in 1937
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I am starting to see a pattern in who is always threatening to take us to court: it's landlords.
March 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I am starting to see a pattern in who is always threatening to take us to court: it's landlords.
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Past! Pass it on to the freelance journalist/student in your life.
Only two weeks to go to #FreelanceForum.
Reserve a space today
Only two weeks to go to #FreelanceForum.
Reserve a space today
Freelance Forum Spring 2025
for journalists and students.
* Artificial Intelligence
* Dealing with Far Right disinformation
* Meet the Editors: Pitching guide
* State Archives
* Vertical Video
Monday 14 April, Dublin 1.
NUJ members/Students €5, others €20.00
dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...
for journalists and students.
* Artificial Intelligence
* Dealing with Far Right disinformation
* Meet the Editors: Pitching guide
* State Archives
* Vertical Video
Monday 14 April, Dublin 1.
NUJ members/Students €5, others €20.00
dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...
March 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Past! Pass it on to the freelance journalist/student in your life.
Only two weeks to go to #FreelanceForum.
Reserve a space today
Only two weeks to go to #FreelanceForum.
Reserve a space today
Today! Looking forward to talking women in media and class!
Looking forward to heading up to Queens University Belfast this time next week to chat with student led radio The Scoop about being a woman in journalism. 📰 How cute are these graphics! 💗
March 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today! Looking forward to talking women in media and class!
Journalists with digital only publications, how are we saving good quality PDFs of our work (that doesn't look like shit?) x
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Journalists with digital only publications, how are we saving good quality PDFs of our work (that doesn't look like shit?) x
A GOOD TIME 🙏🙏🙏
February 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A GOOD TIME 🙏🙏🙏
Looking forward to heading up to Queens University Belfast this time next week to chat with student led radio The Scoop about being a woman in journalism. 📰 How cute are these graphics! 💗
February 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Looking forward to heading up to Queens University Belfast this time next week to chat with student led radio The Scoop about being a woman in journalism. 📰 How cute are these graphics! 💗
Closest thing to compare it to for me is wrestling, you get grand slams, hell in a cell etc "It is the spectacle of excess" as Barthes famously wrote
The Real Housewives franchise is like football to me. I don't follow either but my friends really enjoy it and will sometimes put up a picture of someone with the caption "The GOAT" and when I look them up on Wikipedia they have a "crimes" section.
February 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Closest thing to compare it to for me is wrestling, you get grand slams, hell in a cell etc "It is the spectacle of excess" as Barthes famously wrote
Just excitedly sung "that pom po pom pom pom" to myself as I clicked my 20 min pomodoro timer so yeah you could say I'm having a pretty normal and not stressful at all Sunday
February 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just excitedly sung "that pom po pom pom pom" to myself as I clicked my 20 min pomodoro timer so yeah you could say I'm having a pretty normal and not stressful at all Sunday
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spoiler: the answer it spat out was from an already published paper but the BBC is basically the yellow pages for llm scams at this point so that part was conveniently left out of this piece
These researchers are shocked that Google's AI spat out a result that they worked on for years on but haven't published.
My question is, did they ever email about it using Gmail? Put it in a Google Doc?
The idea that Google hasn't trained its AIs on everything they have access to seems naive to me.
My question is, did they ever email about it using Gmail? Put it in a Google Doc?
The idea that Google hasn't trained its AIs on everything they have access to seems naive to me.
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
www.bbc.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
spoiler: the answer it spat out was from an already published paper but the BBC is basically the yellow pages for llm scams at this point so that part was conveniently left out of this piece
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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
February 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
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A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” More here: dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...
A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway - Dublin Inquirer
In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.”
dublininquirer.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” More here: dublininquirer.com/2025/02/19/a...
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PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert
Filmography: David Lynch : David Lynch : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Posted in respects of the late David Lynch (1946–2025). All of Lynch's feature-length content.Eraserhead (1977): A hapless factory worker tries to survive...
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February 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert
Excellent opportunity here for some budding reporters who want to work in independent media
We’re hiring two reporters. If you’re interested, please apply by Wednesday 19 February. dublininquirer.com/2...
We’re hiring two reporters - Dublin Inquirer
If you’re interested, please apply by Wednesday 19 February.
dublininquirer.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Excellent opportunity here for some budding reporters who want to work in independent media
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Three people believed to have been stabbed in attack in Stoneybatter, Dublin
Three people believed to have been stabbed in attack in Stoneybatter, Dublin
Gardaí apprehended a suspect nearby
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Three people believed to have been stabbed in attack in Stoneybatter, Dublin
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Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech - Dublin Inquirer
Why’s this new social media network different? What does it mean to be able to pick your own algorithm, instead of having Musk or Zuckerberg pick for you?
dublininquirer.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...
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