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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

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

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 4h

Still manages to look more appetising than coddle

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 5h

It's movies. Everything is show.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 5h

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

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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Dublin Freelance @dublinfreelance.org · 7h

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:
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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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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 7h

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

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 1d

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

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

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.

filen.io

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering.

The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

Disregard All Adult Converts And Listen To Da Pope.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

I think having a Chicago Pope may act as a wake-up call to a lot of the Irish-American Catholics who were just drifting along with the current

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, he went *FULL* Monstrance.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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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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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 1d

This is such an extraordinarily bad idea - and I suspect would have very little popular support across the EU: so not just bad in itself, but very bad for EU democracy as a whole...

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

It's just not that funny a script. He's capable of humour and deadpan.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

All The Lads playing a blinder with their bejaysus smear campaign, obviously.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Independent Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Substantial lead for Connolly in Áras race, poll suggests

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests.