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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah I just don’t get why

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been on the fence so many times and then not bought a book because it was hardcover

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 21h

If you continue to hold on to your X account..
If you continue to drive a Tesla...
If you continue using Starlink...

Remember who and what you’re supporting.
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel

buff.ly

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 20h

Have never ever understood why it works the way it does

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 1d

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

www.irishtimes.com

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

Early days but I don’t think Cam Ward is very good at being an NFL quarterback

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I’ve ever seen a QB summed up better than “Tua throws an interception while checking down on a Hail Mary”

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Tua gets picked trying to start the hook & ladder 😭

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

Which then immediately goes into the only game on for the moment, which is between two 1-4 teams

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

A fun set of early games for RedZone

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

You can FINISH campaigns?????

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Danny Page @danny.page · 1d

If Major League Soccer doesn’t care enough to watch their own games in order to write about them, why should we watch their games?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 1d

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

Taysom Hill with a two-yard TD run to try justify having the biggest cap hit on the Saints roster this season

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been watching the NFL since 2002. In that more than 20 years, the Jets have only managed to be even semi decent like once and that was a decade and a half ago. You’d think they’d even manage it by accident in that time

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

the Jets finish the day with -10 passing yards, the fewest in a game since 1998. (Although the Giants had -9 passing yards against the Jets in 2023!)

stathead.com/tiny/raGwF

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50 Plus Döner @50plusdoner.bsky.social · 1d

This is a gumbo nuke my word.

Mainz vs Stuttgart Frauen Bundesliga. Mainz were up 4-0 but lost 4-5

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Getting into a long term relationship via a dating app in the same year ChatGPT was released feels like rebooking your flight and then finding out the plane you were meant to be on crashed

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Olivia Smith has been at Arsenal for like a month and she has already scored one of the best and one of the worst goals I’ve ever seen an Arsenal player score #WSL #ARSBHA

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Using up litres upon litres of precious clean drinking water because there’s just no way I could have come up with “it was lovely to meet you” all by myself

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Using 20 litres of clean drinking water to get the computer give me increasingly generic messages to send to someone I am trying to make a personal human connection with

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta admit, it’s a very funny bit to go on stage, ask for audience help and then say the audience is usually funnier than that and move on like that isn’t your own failure as a performer. Weird to just go up there and admit you suck at stand up

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 2d

Ariel really was just a weeb but for humans, huh?

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 3d

So I’ve been reading a little about María Corina Machado and suddenly remembering that they also gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize because maybe these awards are just another extension of imperialist interests rather than an objective arbiter of right and wrong

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 3d

A good friend of mine wrote her dissertation on disaster films with that one a particular focus, if I remember correctly

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 4d

There are parts of my job that involve dealing with the general public for various reasons which means that once a week, someone will ignore my incredibly straightforward instructions in a way I had never even imagined was possible

Truly I will never fully comprehend the diversity of the human mind

kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not exactly a new phenomenon either. Same with “pro-life” people who support the death penalty. Maddening how we just have to take all right wing branding at face value because they pretend to be upset when you push back against it

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 4d

Just read an article about María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize win. I’ll admit, I don’t know anything about her really so I was hoping to learn about the incredible work she has done to win such a prestigious award.

The entire article was about Trump’s whining. Zero info on why the winner won

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