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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 38m

The Twits, coming to Netflix this week, boasts about having original music from David Byrne and Hayley Williams in a trailer entirely soundtracked by the Kaiser Chiefs 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZI...

The Twits | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 2h

On @2fm.rte.ie shortly to talk about the EA acquisition and speculate on the future of the gaming industry. 📻

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 12h

Heather Humphreys' attempt to deflect the stink of #SmearTheBejaysus by going on the attack is really quite the choice.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 1d

When life imitates art

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Susan HayesCulleton @susanhayesculleton.bsky.social · 1d

Have we passed peak social media? I ask @elaineburke.bsky.social and Chris Stokel-Walker

WHAT is going on with French politics, the economy and bonds?

What will the expansion of credit union lending mean?

Listen back to @newstalkfm.bsky.social #TakingStock👇

www.newstalk.com/podcasts/tak...

Peak Social Media, Firey French Economics and a Changing Mortgage Landscape | Newstalk

This week on Taking Stock Susan Hayes Culleton looks at the growing trend of people tuning away f...

www.newstalk.com

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 1d

Like happening upon a Charizard in the wild.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 1d

Everything a good neighbourhood

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 2d

This is already having an impact beyond campaign ads. Get the full download on what's happening from Liz's interview: pod.fo/e/33a104

For Tech’s Sake @fortechssakepod.bsky.social · 2d

As of today, 10 October, the rules governing online political advertising in the EU have changed.

Listen to tech and democracy expert @lizcarolan.com explain how “malicious compliance” with these rules might make things even murkier:

pod.fo/e/33a104

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 3d

Contrast this with the speech made by Micheal Martin at COP27, where he said:

"If this generation doesn’t step up urgently, future generations will not forgive us.

As leaders, it is our responsibility to drive the transformation necessary."

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ceej @ceej.online · 3d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 3d

Time for a Halloween game I like to call... Whose IP Is It Anyway???

A baby in a Chucky outfit but the costume is labelled "Baby Bad Doll"

A Pikachu onesie for a baby, except it's called "Electric Chinchilla"

A "Phantom Hunter" costume that looks suspiciously like a Ghostbuster. I know who I'm gonna call...

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 3d

There's a baby CMAT somewhere out there right now who'll be penning a diatribe against this man who sold out her future.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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CÚRAM Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices @curamdevices.bsky.social · 3d

Two of CÚRAM's Investigators Prof Madeleine Lowery and Prof Garry P. Duffy recently joined the @fortechssakepod.bsky.social to explain their work on sensors and soft robotics..
@researchireland.ie @universityofgalway.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social Listen at shows.acast.com/for-techs-sake

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 3d

Committee: "I'm worried that we're running out of ways to ignore women for the Nobel prize"

Wang: "Wait! Have we thought about the machines? What if we give *them* prizes?!"

Committee: "Wang you genius, you've done it. Go home and have your wife make you a sandwich, you deserve it"

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 3d

Mr.Scisors is my fave. ✂️

A men's costume consisting of a hockey jersey and (probably sold separately) a hockey stick and mask. It's a clear knock-off of Friday the 13th's Jason, but has been renamed "Jazz Dead" for some bizarre reason.

A Freddy Krueger costume dupe called "Mr.Scisors" (despite apparently not including any semblance of Freddy's bladed glove).

A "Crazy Harlequin" costume that has no resemblance to a jester-like commedia dell'arte character but a striking likeness to Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn from the Suicide Squad film series, although her raglan rip-off says "Dangerous Girl" and not "Daddy's Lil Monster".

Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 3d

Time for a Halloween game I like to call... Whose IP Is It Anyway???

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 3d

Article seems to have been deleted 🤔

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · Dec 18

This sea gull swooped down and swiped Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú’s wallet on the Dáil plinth just now, but he dropped after an energetic chase from the Louth TD.

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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 4d

Communications platform Discord has provided an update on a recent security incident, explaining that as many as 70,000 users globally may have had their government IDs stolen in a malicious breach.

70,000 users may have had IDs leaked in Discord breach

Communication platform Discord has announced that 70,000 government IDs may have been exposed in a recent cyber attack.

www.siliconrepublic.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 5d

We all want everything a good neighbourhood but how money pay for it??

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 5d

disappointed to learn that Borgo is just a restaurant and not some kind of hallucinatory concept that I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of characterising.

Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 5d

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage.

This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories.

The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

A post from Instagram stories with a swipe up link for the Irish Times. A composite image of Leinster House, Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe is titled "Budget 2026: Main Points" but the bullet points that follow comprise non-sensical filler text (Lorem ipsum) and snippets apparently borrowed from a restaurant review (One point reads: "Borgo review: Well-priced and welcoming", the next "everything a good neighborhood", and finally "restaurant needsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet")

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