An Frúidíneach
@froodie.bsky.social
Bespectacled, not respectable
Merseyside via Shannonside
GenAI Luddite
Merseyside via Shannonside
GenAI Luddite
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Originally a limited edition linocut print, this giclée print reproduction is "Men Of The Blaskets", based on a photo by C.W. von Sydow c. 1924 - a reminder that people have lived and survived the toughest of times, through the strength of community 💪
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Originally a limited edition linocut print, this giclée print reproduction is "Men Of The Blaskets", based on a photo by C.W. von Sydow c. 1924 - a reminder that people have lived and survived the toughest of times, through the strength of community 💪
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
Considering how many immigrants work in the UK civil service at lower grades (you would need to be promoted 4 times to earn enough to stay) who have just been shat on with this piece of excrement, PCS (union) better go nuclear on this one.
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Considering how many immigrants work in the UK civil service at lower grades (you would need to be promoted 4 times to earn enough to stay) who have just been shat on with this piece of excrement, PCS (union) better go nuclear on this one.
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If you you can't pay us or be put to work by us then you're not human
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If you you can't pay us or be put to work by us then you're not human
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Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
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Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
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It's Toy Show night so I can't wait for American blueskyers to get mad at us because there's someone in the administration called Glenn ToyShow and he's the deputy secretary of the department of crushing orphans or something.
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It's Toy Show night so I can't wait for American blueskyers to get mad at us because there's someone in the administration called Glenn ToyShow and he's the deputy secretary of the department of crushing orphans or something.
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Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
My grandfather in Limerick City, my mum thinks it was probably late 1940s. How does he look so damn *cool*?
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My grandfather in Limerick City, my mum thinks it was probably late 1940s. How does he look so damn *cool*?
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Repeatedly, charities have chosen to cooperate with the ongoing exclusion of trans people from public life rather than take a serious risk to defend us. They will survive this shit. We fucking won't. Girl guiding or the People's History Museum or whatever get to do on. We die alone.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Repeatedly, charities have chosen to cooperate with the ongoing exclusion of trans people from public life rather than take a serious risk to defend us. They will survive this shit. We fucking won't. Girl guiding or the People's History Museum or whatever get to do on. We die alone.
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Hmmm where is my cat?
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hmmm where is my cat?
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I really appreciate the societal context from which chatgpt arose that Eryk provides in this piece
ChatGPT is 3 years old this week — what was the world like in late 2022, and how did that shape what ChatGPT has become? I wrote about ChatGPT as a pandemic technology, centered on expectations of social isolation in ways that continue to define it. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-cha...
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I really appreciate the societal context from which chatgpt arose that Eryk provides in this piece
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
I am still thinking about this lovely moment my friend experienced and smiling.
It's kind of magic how even if we don't realise it we can get worked into the fabric and pattern of other people's lives.
I hope if it happens to me it's a pleasant thread.
It's kind of magic how even if we don't realise it we can get worked into the fabric and pattern of other people's lives.
I hope if it happens to me it's a pleasant thread.
Yesterday a woman and kid got off the bus and the kid looked at and shrieked "mam it's the coat!!!". The woman, absolutely mortified, explained to me that the child sees me around every year and doesn't consider winter to have started until she sees me in my big fluffy winter coat.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I am still thinking about this lovely moment my friend experienced and smiling.
It's kind of magic how even if we don't realise it we can get worked into the fabric and pattern of other people's lives.
I hope if it happens to me it's a pleasant thread.
It's kind of magic how even if we don't realise it we can get worked into the fabric and pattern of other people's lives.
I hope if it happens to me it's a pleasant thread.
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
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Yesterday a woman and kid got off the bus and the kid looked at and shrieked "mam it's the coat!!!". The woman, absolutely mortified, explained to me that the child sees me around every year and doesn't consider winter to have started until she sees me in my big fluffy winter coat.
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yesterday a woman and kid got off the bus and the kid looked at and shrieked "mam it's the coat!!!". The woman, absolutely mortified, explained to me that the child sees me around every year and doesn't consider winter to have started until she sees me in my big fluffy winter coat.
Just got mad at my partner for *checks notes* being traumatised.
I am the fucking worst. Don't be like me.
I am the fucking worst. Don't be like me.
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Just got mad at my partner for *checks notes* being traumatised.
I am the fucking worst. Don't be like me.
I am the fucking worst. Don't be like me.
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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This is just England & Wales and only hate crimes against trans people reported to police.
The result of politicians / media going to town on a minority are well-established and predictable. No one can claim they didn't know what doing it would lead to.
(2024/25 isn't a drop, it's a partial year)
The result of politicians / media going to town on a minority are well-established and predictable. No one can claim they didn't know what doing it would lead to.
(2024/25 isn't a drop, it's a partial year)
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is just England & Wales and only hate crimes against trans people reported to police.
The result of politicians / media going to town on a minority are well-established and predictable. No one can claim they didn't know what doing it would lead to.
(2024/25 isn't a drop, it's a partial year)
The result of politicians / media going to town on a minority are well-established and predictable. No one can claim they didn't know what doing it would lead to.
(2024/25 isn't a drop, it's a partial year)
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A Concretion that has eroded from the shale layers in the Cliffs and then been polished smooth by the sand and Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A Concretion that has eroded from the shale layers in the Cliffs and then been polished smooth by the sand and Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.