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Writer/researcher, cochlear implant recipient Work👉#MedSafety #MedsInPregnancy #VTE #Pharmacoepi #Pharmsky #Writing👉 http://noisysilence.ie Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill https://rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ #HelpUsHear dDeaf/gigs

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · Oct 20

Delighted with coverage of the long lost Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill. @nytimes.com link to Sarah Lyall’s piece👇. All proceeds benefit the Charlotte Stoker Fund (newborn deafness research) Now to figure out how to get a copy to @stephenking.bsky.social & @scalzi.com www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/b...

A Fan Discovers a New Story by the Author of ‘Dracula’

The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.

www.nytimes.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23h

People who still hang out on Twitter daily bullshitting and posting like business as usual give me the extreme ick.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 1d

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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 2d

Literally out in my anorak trying to get a photo of of one of the last 123 busses. It didn’t stop, so this was the best I could do in the dark. Got the N3 though. 🤓

Dublin Bus 🚌 on a dark, wet Griffith Avenue

Dublin Bus 🚌 on a dark, wet, leaf-strewn Griffith Avenue

123 Dublin Bus from behind 🚌 on a dark, wet Griffith Avenue

N3 Dublin bus. Stopped across the road from Marino Parish Church

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 4d

Macnas are interpreting Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill with parades in Galway (Oct 26) & as part of the Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin (Nov 2). 🧛‍♂️🤓🙌 Gibbet Hill is available in some Galway & Dublin bookshops & from rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ All proceeds ➡️ hearing loss research in vulnerable newborns

Photo of a giant (5m) puppet of a boy, a character from Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill. He wears a green tunic and white linen collarless shirt with brown trousers.

In front of him, one of the Macnas performers is frozen mid air in a cruciform jump pose

Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 2d

Fair play to the travelling man

www.christymoore.com/the-tuam-beat/

Irish Times screenshot

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 2d

BEFORE BLOCKING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, I FOUND THIS ÜBERMENSCH SHIT

@usdeptofed.bsky.social

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

My friend Andrew Lih @fuzheado.bsky.social is a freakin hero. A gunman came into his Wikipedia event, and he grabbed and disarmed him. Thanks to him and another brave volunteer, no one was hurt—not even the gunman.

Now let’s ask why we accept a society where this can happen at any large gathering.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 3d

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Water fountain in Brussels airport. There’s a photo of the Mannequin de pis strategically placed behind the fountain. Bronze sculpture of. Cherub pissing

Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 3d

Recently had the pleasure of witnessing this IN A 6 PERSON WARD IN A DUBLIN HOSPITAL. People who could really do without hearing TikTok shite and eejits listening to eejits’ voice notes. Society will collapse if this isn’t sorted soon.

old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

Alt: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper Simpsons meme. Gif animates the movement of the old man’s arm

media.tenor.com

Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 3d

Forever begin.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d

Begin by Brendan Kennelly (who died four years ago today).

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 7d

Always worth following Byline Times for real news!🤔

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 3d

We didn’t manage to engage with Arena last year as the Rotunda Foundation published this book and the associated artwork by Paul McKinley. It would be great if it could happen around Halloween this year! rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/

Little old west highland terrier looms over a yellow book with black foil. Flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon tressure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Dec 4

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

stata2r.github.io

Translating Stata to R

Learning R coming from Stata

stata2r.github.io

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 4d

Read this as “slowdown in real work”

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

EY revenue rises as AI consulting offsets slowdown in deal work

Big Four firm’s Parthenon business combining executive strategy with due diligence on deals shrank 0.4% globally

www.irishtimes.com

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 5d

#AScareADay Day 15 - The Vampire by Conrad Aiken

Our first vampire encounter in this list. However rather than a single entity preying on individuals, the vampire here seems to represent a catastrophic event. The beginning could hint at plague as much as war

She rose among us where we lay.
She wept, we put our work away.
She chilled our laughter, stilled our play;
And spread a silence there.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 4d

They’re killing the dogs…. 😔

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4d

We Rate Dogs publicly rallies against ICE after ICE shot a family dog while searching for migrants who hadn’t lived at that address in years.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4d

We Rate Dogs publicly rallies against ICE after ICE shot a family dog while searching for migrants who hadn’t lived at that address in years.

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 4d

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

lastly, a common rebuttal to contaminant reporting is that there are unavoidable levels of lead in lots of foods. some context:

taking just one serving of one of the powders we tested would expose you to 45% more lead than the average american gets from everything they eat/drink in a day combined

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 6d

#NICUMeds

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 6d

🧫 Alarming rise of superbugs in newborns

A study across Southeast Asia found most newborn sepsis cases were caused by drug-resistant bacteria, with Klebsiella and Acinetobacter showing especially high resistance.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #Health #AMR 🧪

Pathogen distribution and antimicrobial resistance among neonatal bloodstream infections in Southeast Asia: results from NeoSEAP, a multicentre retrospective study

Neonatal sepsis in tertiary hospitals in Southeast Asia is predominantly caused by gram-negative bacteria, with high rates of non-susceptibility to commonly prescribed antibiotics.

www.thelancet.com

Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone needs to see this every now and then.

J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thought I had posted it on here before but apparently not

CHILDREN YELLING: MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!

Where would the Taoisigh stand on this:

We have food at home:
Harris, Dev, the Cosgraves, Costello
Garret

*Pulls into the drive through as children cheer*
*Orders a single black coffee and leaves*
Varadkar, Bruton, Kenny

"MCDONALDS!
MCDONALDSI MCDONALDS!"
Lemass, Lynch, Bertie

“Fry”
Cowen

“Ortolan”
Haughey

Doesn’t make it to McDonalds
Reynolds

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 8d

Dearest Mina, All is well here. The Count has insisted I remain for a month to tutor him in the English Custom. Jonathan

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