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Sorcha O’Brien

@sorchao.bsky.social

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design history, technology & other hybrids. also crochet, SFF, gardening badly and occasional dye experiments. she/her. pronounced like ‘portia’.

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Sorcha O’Brien @sorchao.bsky.social · Jan 14

This was a really fantastic audience for a lecture, so happy to see it out and available to the public!

Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Jan 14

& if your interest is piqued about #womensgrassrootsactivism you can watch & hear the great @sorchao.bsky.social give her fantastic public lecture on the ICA's craftivism & activism via this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggrN...
@womensinstitute.bsky.social

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Colin Dickey

@colindickey.com

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Vulture @vulture.com · 7h

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

www.vulture.com

November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)

@drspacejunk.bsky.social

Gender relations and the domestication of space technology.

'She looks at the console. "Close hatch," she orders. I shut the washing machine. She begins the countdown, "Five.....four.....three..."'

#WomenInSTEM 🔭 🧪

Space Age Suds: women, washing machines and the astronautics of everyday life

'Space Age Suds' is a charming and slightly alarming little vignette which is about the seeping of the Space Age into domestic life, machin...

zoharesque.blogspot.com

November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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Brendan Harkin

@brendanjharkin.bsky.social

Katherine Butler - a nun who was one of the first women in Ireland with a pilot's license

Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus

Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 1d

The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

Any counteroffers?

November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence

programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Jonathan Bailey

@plagiarismtoday.com

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...

#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright

The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet

AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here’s why that’s happening and what can be done about it.

www.plagiarismtoday.com

November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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Sarra Manning

@sarramanning.bsky.social

They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead

www.rightmove.co.uk

November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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Dave Vetter

@davidrvetter.bsky.social

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Animesh Chatterjee

@electricpunkah.com

I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com

November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

PLEASE tell every author you know about this!

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5d

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild

In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...

authorsguild.org

November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Laura Bee

@writerlaurabee.bsky.social

Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

www.malwarebytes.com

November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM

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Office of Public Works

@opwireland.bsky.social

The OPW are hiring seasonal tour guides across the country!
If you're passionate about history, storytelling & Irish heritage, apply today via https://cutt.ly/GuideRecruitment

#OPWJobs #IrishHeritage #TourGuideIreland #HistoryJobs #HeritageIreland
📷Fáilte Ireland

November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

@susankayequinn.bsky.social

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al
PC with Copilot at the center of
it all.
Here's how to get rid of Copilot
completely from your computer
(1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
1/ Settings App
> Personalization
> Taskbar
> Other System Tray Icons
> Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off
This hides Copilot from your
taskbar

$(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value$ @forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

@forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Molly Crabapple

@mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM

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Victoria Strauss

@victoriastrauss.com

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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#BruceSterling

@bruces.bsky.social

*I've got a real soft spot for hackers who want to build functional versions of sci-fi props.

youtu.be/3T6Yu9QF310?...

Hands-On with The Fallout 3 Pip-Boy 3000 Working Replica!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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November 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦

@showerabsolute.bsky.social

Apparently

November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM

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Betty Cracker of Florida

@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social

I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome.
youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo?...

Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

YouTube video by Viral Reddit

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February 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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Adrian Weckler

@adrianweckler.bsky.social

AI is making us into morons and subverting democracy, Ireland’s parliamentary (Oireachtas) Committee heard today.

Full story: www.independent.ie/business/tec...

November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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All Our Yesterdays

@allouryesterdays.bsky.social

Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."

"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...