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Gerard Cunningham

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Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo.✒️ #journalist #writer #podcasts Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda Recent(ish) project https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerard-Cunningham/e/B002FZ5UG2/

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · Jul 8

Time to give this another boost [now available outside the Amazon ecosystem]

Space Navigator and other stories: short stories and short short stories from the lockdown

www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Naviga...

www.draft2digital.com/book/3033557

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1h

"So I'm closing my Bluesky account."
"Great."
"Now you can follow me on my substack."

"Okay but that's worse."
"You do see how that's worse, right?"

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 5h

Booting up a Windows 10 machine like a daredevil...

A masked man leans forward to type on a laptop computer

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 1d

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Laura Davison will be unable to make it to Freelance Forum next Monday. Instead, the Freelance Forum opening speaker will be NUJ joint president Gerry Curran.

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Gerry Curran has worked in Broadcasting and Media Relations for 30 years. He works for the Court Service as Media Relations Advisor “working to create an understanding of the courts through advice and information to media”, and has acted as an advisor and media liaison for five Chief Justices. He is currently joint-President of the National Union of Journalists with Fran McNulty, and former Cathaoirleach of the NUJ Irish Executive Council.

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · Aug 1

#FreelanceForum - designed to keep freelance journalists up to date

Reserve Your Place for Monday 20 October:
ti.to/freelance-fo...

From Dublin Freelance NUJ branch with support from Coimisiún na Meán.

Lunch 1.00PM
Introduce yourself to someone new, and catch up with old faces.
Networking is also a key aim of the Freelance Forum.

Session 3: 2.00PM – 3.15PM
Follow The Money
Speaker: Susan McKay, press ombudsman, Lyra McKee Bursary
Speaker: Eoghan Rice, deputy director communications DFAT, Simon Cumbers Fund
Chair: Margaret Ward
A guide to financial support and awards programmes for journalists.

Session 4: 3.30PM – 4.30PM
Copyright Briefing
Speaker: Samantha Holman, ceo, ICLA

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · Aug 1

Registration: 9.30AM- 10.00AM

Opening Address: 10.00AM – 10.30AM
Unions in the 21st Century
Laura Davison, general secretary, NUJ

Session 1: 10.30AM – 11.45AM
The Editors: Pitching to The Press
Pitching in the current newspaper environment.

Session 2: 11.45AM – 1.00PM
Funding Schemes
From video and audio documentaries to support for reporting on local issues and courts, Coimisiún na Meán administers several journalism funds. This session offers an overview of what’s available.

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · Jul 28

#FreelanceForum -20 OCTOBER

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* 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

Freelance Forum Autumn 2025 — for Photographers/Writers/PR
NUJ Dublin Freelance — Supported by Coimisiún na Meán

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Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 6h

2022.

Catherine Connolly in Dáil Éireann.
Unequivocally condemning Russia.

There's more.

Any chance journalists would do their job, do some research, and stop spouting demonstrable lies under the guise of 'concerns'?
It's the lies that should concern them.

#Áras25 #SpéirGhorm #IrishPolitics

Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 6h

From 2022.

'Blatant breach of International law by Russia'

youtu.be/34XX1hVbNas?...

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
I can supply several more such instances of Connolly, in the Dáil, unequivocally condemning Russia.

Apparently you don't bother to research.

Motion on Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine.

YouTube video by Catherine Connolly TD

youtu.be

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 6h

Best rom-com ever.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 6h

It matters down ballot. All those minor positions on town councils and school boards that nobody pays attention to until suddenly books are banned and housing budgets cut.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 17h

Dammit, I was hoping for some sort of obscure Irish version of a Taylor Swift or Drake/Lamar feud.

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 22h

I really think “We’ve made up a rapist. He doesn’t exist. Why won’t you condemn him?!?” is some of the most bizarre Brass Eye stuff we’ve ever seen

The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 23h

Like, Catherine Connolly isn't perfect and there are valid criticism of her, but instead we have been subjected to some of the most incredible nonsense over the last few weeks instead. Even things with a real basis have been pushed to nonsensical extremes. A mess.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 17h

They were always bad. They just took the masks off.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 22h

The identity of the perpetrator may be alleged. That the incident took place is verified.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

Still manages to look more appetising than coddle

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

It's movies. Everything is show.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

When a guideline becomes an iron rule, it's time to break it.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

Survey dates: 2-7 October.
Jim quit on the evening of 5 October.
So roughly 65% of those surveyed were asked how they'd vote before he quit.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

Someone is asking Alan Moore his opinion of the babyblood drinker, right?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

There's video evidence. What is the word "allegedly" doing in this sentence?
There might be some question over the assailants' identity, but the fact of the assault would seem beyond doubt.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

A documentary photographer who was allegedly assaulted by some football fans in Dublin on Saturday has said she is "overwhelmed by the support" she has received after she posted the incident online

Photographer assaulted in Dublin 'overwhelmed by support'

A documentary photographer who was allegedly assaulted by some football fans in Dublin on Saturday has said she is "overwhelmed by the support" she has received after she posted the incident online.

www.rte.ie

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2d

You need to talk to @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social about Sligo's Finest...

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for an EU-based cloud storage service, and filen.io seems a decent option.

Any pros/cons I should be aware of?

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 2d

Peter Thiel does about as bad a job reading Watchmen as Alex Jones, although he does an appreciably better job of writing individually coherent sentences, or, given his apparent drug habit, of paying a copy editor.

(Jones was of course working orally, but you somehow doubt he would have anyway.)

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like the same machismo bullshit we put junior doctors through in this country.