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No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland.

Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.
358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%.
tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu

☑️Belgium 103%
☑️Finland 100.5%
☑️France 296%
Ireland 58.7%
Italy 79.8%
Netherlands 31%
Poland 51.4%
☑️Spain 111.9%
Sweden 81.6%
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Please share. 💔
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Wrote about plans afoot in Leitrim in Ireland to rebuild Gralton's Hall, the subject of Ken Loach's film, Jimmy's Hall.

Behind this project is a small group of people including a powerhouse of dance and Leitrim culture, Edwina Guckian.

You can find out more about the project at graltonshall.com
Gralton’s Hall: The rebirth of an important ‘den of iniquity’ in Co Leitrim
Built in 1921, it was a place of great reverie, dance, debate and music. It was also a target of the Catholic Church
www.irishtimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.

On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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I hope no one here needs this information but if you think you may need some support here are some useful helplines open over Christmas. Take care of yourselves and each other.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The evidence for my PhD on how Father Ted is a documentray continues to grow.

Don't miss pt 2 below.
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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It will cost you nothing to share my work but it could change my year!

Tis' the season for sales and corporate greed, I am just your friendly neighborhood LOI guy, a one man band making work about things we all love.

You know where I am if you need any seasonal gifts 😇
Hi, I'm Barry an artist from Ireland ⚽☘️

I drew that thing you like. A life long League of Ireland truther and enjoyer of old stadiums. Available for commissions in 2025, Lets work together 🤝

Portfolio: barrymasterson.com
Shop: shop.barrymasterson.com
Email: [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Bonnie Tyler and Rod Stewart are entirely interchangeable #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's a genuine health and societal concern.
And it needs to be stopped.
UK gambling firms spent ‘astronomic’ £2bn on advertising last year
Calls for Rachel Reeves to increase taxes in budget as estimate outstrips duties collected from online casinos
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
RIP Mani xx
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The survey is open, #speirgorm do your thing! More than 83% of primary schools are of Catholic patronage, which is definitely not the case for the Ireland of today www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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“We need to respect the opinions of everybody who spoiled their vote”
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
October 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Catherine Connolly has won the Irish Presidential Election. She will be the 10th president. That would make her 10CC, would it not? #irishpresident
October 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Corrs strongly echoing Edie Brickell here #totp
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not a Foo Fighters fan, but this song is beautiful #totp
October 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Very few cover versions work, but Neneh Cherry doing I Got You Under My Skin was just brilliant. That constant driving bass, the dirty unpolished feel, just amazing. #TOTP
October 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Brianna 🥰 #totp
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I am not a Celtic supporter, but I have to say this is wonderful.
👏👏👏
(from Bullsquirt on Reddit)
October 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM