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@geraldineishere.bsky.social
Org Dev & Change, Psych, Food Security, Biodiversity, Forestry, Saoirse don Phalaistín ✊
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📍 Ireland.
She/her, Sí/í
📍 Ireland.
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Have I mentioned I love where I'm from?
Why screen just 1 short documentary on #Maharees when we have 4?!
If you're #Dingle or #Kerry based, join us at Spillane's Bar, Dec 3rd. Email [email protected] (so we have enough mince pies....🎄) #speirgorm #climate #wildatlanticway
Why screen just 1 short documentary on #Maharees when we have 4?!
If you're #Dingle or #Kerry based, join us at Spillane's Bar, Dec 3rd. Email [email protected] (so we have enough mince pies....🎄) #speirgorm #climate #wildatlanticway
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Have I mentioned I love where I'm from?
Why screen just 1 short documentary on #Maharees when we have 4?!
If you're #Dingle or #Kerry based, join us at Spillane's Bar, Dec 3rd. Email [email protected] (so we have enough mince pies....🎄) #speirgorm #climate #wildatlanticway
Why screen just 1 short documentary on #Maharees when we have 4?!
If you're #Dingle or #Kerry based, join us at Spillane's Bar, Dec 3rd. Email [email protected] (so we have enough mince pies....🎄) #speirgorm #climate #wildatlanticway
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everyone in tech has worked with that one 10x coder whose superhuman efforts required at least ten people to clean up, but was deeply loved by management for setting unrealistic expectations
Saying you "coded for 36 hours straight" is something only people who have never programmed, and have no idea what programming is, would think is an impressive thing.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
everyone in tech has worked with that one 10x coder whose superhuman efforts required at least ten people to clean up, but was deeply loved by management for setting unrealistic expectations
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At every single set of lights in this country drivers sit staring at their phones, accelerating ahead without even looking up, and the Gards are still pushing the idea that pedestrians and cyclists can protect themselves at all from this dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving they refuse to punish.
Dangerous driving they refuse to punish.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At every single set of lights in this country drivers sit staring at their phones, accelerating ahead without even looking up, and the Gards are still pushing the idea that pedestrians and cyclists can protect themselves at all from this dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving they refuse to punish.
Dangerous driving they refuse to punish.
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Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing.
But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
👀 Can you see me now?
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing.
But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
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Right, it's ok to be angry though, it'd be weird to discuss the housing crisis and not be angry
Simon Harris and Pearse Doherty clashed in the Dáil this afternoon during a heated debate on rising rents.
Harris dubbed Doherty “angry Pearse” and remarked that Sinn Féin is the “only party receiving very significant financial funding from builders and construction companies”.
jrnl.ie/6887123
Harris dubbed Doherty “angry Pearse” and remarked that Sinn Féin is the “only party receiving very significant financial funding from builders and construction companies”.
jrnl.ie/6887123
Harris describes Sinn Féin as the ‘party of big American building companies’ during Dáil clash
‘You are the party of the big American building companies, you are a hypocrite,’ said Simon Harris to Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty in the Dáil.
jrnl.ie
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Right, it's ok to be angry though, it'd be weird to discuss the housing crisis and not be angry
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This is neither an overhaul or tighten. Asylum seekers make up a small proportion of inward migration. They’re also the worst off. Making their situation more painful to appease a few morons who believe refugees make their own lives worse, it’s brutal
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is neither an overhaul or tighten. Asylum seekers make up a small proportion of inward migration. They’re also the worst off. Making their situation more painful to appease a few morons who believe refugees make their own lives worse, it’s brutal
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Are my eyes bad or how the FUCK did this get signed off??
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Are my eyes bad or how the FUCK did this get signed off??
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
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Missed this clip at the time... what will it take before social media is regulated?
This particular political deepfake account uses the same brand styling as RTE. Its last fake video here, not quite as slick but still passable, got 114k views, 268 comments and 309 shares on Facebook. It’s still live after four days.
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Missed this clip at the time... what will it take before social media is regulated?
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How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
1961: Should IRISH IMMIGRATION to BRITAIN be Restricted? | Panorama | World of Work | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
youtu.be/KR-xyYf53yQ?...
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
How we were openly spoken about on British television not too long ago. How quickly we forget.
Lunchtime wfh outdoor break on a pretty miserably grey day.
River Barrow flooding still not fully receded, but the swans have moved back in!
River Barrow flooding still not fully receded, but the swans have moved back in!
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Lunchtime wfh outdoor break on a pretty miserably grey day.
River Barrow flooding still not fully receded, but the swans have moved back in!
River Barrow flooding still not fully receded, but the swans have moved back in!
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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This is outrageously propagandistic
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is outrageously propagandistic
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Lads, the FT has spoken: we need to start firing missiles at random ships in Irish waters, or we're failing Europe.
Despite these high stakes, Ireland has no dedicated intelligence agency, just four working navy vessels and the smallest defence budget in the EU. In fact, the only thing the Irish navy can do when it spots a suspicious ship lurking is say “hello”.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Lads, the FT has spoken: we need to start firing missiles at random ships in Irish waters, or we're failing Europe.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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There has been almost nothing on @news.rte.ie, the national broadcaster, about the US military build up in the Caribbean and threatened invasion of Venezuela. At the same time, we get well-paid columnists asking why Irish people are 'anti-American'?
We need all the independent media.
We need all the independent media.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
There has been almost nothing on @news.rte.ie, the national broadcaster, about the US military build up in the Caribbean and threatened invasion of Venezuela. At the same time, we get well-paid columnists asking why Irish people are 'anti-American'?
We need all the independent media.
We need all the independent media.
Trump lobbied on behalf of Brett Ratner, pal of Bibi who moved to the genocidal apartheid state after the many Me Too allegations against him in the US?
Well of course he did.
archive.today/hC5GF
Well of course he did.
archive.today/hC5GF
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trump lobbied on behalf of Brett Ratner, pal of Bibi who moved to the genocidal apartheid state after the many Me Too allegations against him in the US?
Well of course he did.
archive.today/hC5GF
Well of course he did.
archive.today/hC5GF
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Why an earth would we want to rename the airport that already explains to everyone where it is, what it is, what it's for and what county it's in.
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why an earth would we want to rename the airport that already explains to everyone where it is, what it is, what it's for and what county it's in.
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The media as a whole has to seriously grapple with why it is so happy to mislead and shit stir and confect nonsense, but that seems unlikely given the defensive tantrums from certain quarters that result when they come under any kind of criticism
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The media as a whole has to seriously grapple with why it is so happy to mislead and shit stir and confect nonsense, but that seems unlikely given the defensive tantrums from certain quarters that result when they come under any kind of criticism
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It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
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I’m enjoying Pluribus a lot but if I wanted to be cruel about it I would describe it as The Good Place for people who made a point of staying on Twitter and not going to Bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m enjoying Pluribus a lot but if I wanted to be cruel about it I would describe it as The Good Place for people who made a point of staying on Twitter and not going to Bluesky
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It'll be about five minutes before Jim O'Callaghan starts muttering about how we'd better abolish trial by jury because the Brits are doing it.
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers
David Lammy is proposing that judges hear cases alone for crimes that could result in a sentence of up to five years to tackle court backlog
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It'll be about five minutes before Jim O'Callaghan starts muttering about how we'd better abolish trial by jury because the Brits are doing it.
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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