Tom Gleeson
@tggleeson.bsky.social
Datasmith (retired) same handle on the Bird Site.
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Tom Gleeson
@tggleeson.bsky.social
· Jul 1
As per tradition, a cat picture for the first post on a new platform. Biscuit aka Ginger Puss
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If Nikita Hand had got proper justice her rapist would be in prison but at least now he’s been told to fuck of by the Supreme Court. Hopefully she can get on with her life and that she can heal after the constant ordeals she’s been subjected to, the past 7 years.
#spéirgorm
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December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If Nikita Hand had got proper justice her rapist would be in prison but at least now he’s been told to fuck of by the Supreme Court. Hopefully she can get on with her life and that she can heal after the constant ordeals she’s been subjected to, the past 7 years.
#spéirgorm
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The Late Late Toy Show is tonight!
Late Late Toy Show feed
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Spéirghorm / Speirgorm feed
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Streaming
www.rte.ie/player/
(Or download the RTÉ Player app)
#spéirghorm
Late Late Toy Show feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Spéirghorm / Speirgorm feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Streaming
www.rte.ie/player/
(Or download the RTÉ Player app)
#spéirghorm
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Late Late Toy Show is tonight!
Late Late Toy Show feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Spéirghorm / Speirgorm feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Streaming
www.rte.ie/player/
(Or download the RTÉ Player app)
#spéirghorm
Late Late Toy Show feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Spéirghorm / Speirgorm feed
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Streaming
www.rte.ie/player/
(Or download the RTÉ Player app)
#spéirghorm
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Best thing about this is Trump being ratioed on the BBC Sports live page
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Best thing about this is Trump being ratioed on the BBC Sports live page
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Parking problems outside the masjid on South Circular Road are used to talk trash about Muslims, a councillor says. But there’s only so much the masjid can do to police people’s bad parking – and it’s not just masjid-goers, it’s everybody, says Fazel Ryklief.
Parking problems outside the masjid on South Circular Road are used to talk trash about Muslims, councillor says
But there’s only so much the masjid can do to police people’s bad parking – and it’s not just masjid-goers, it’s everybody, says Fazel Ryklief.
www.dublininquirer.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Parking problems outside the masjid on South Circular Road are used to talk trash about Muslims, a councillor says. But there’s only so much the masjid can do to police people’s bad parking – and it’s not just masjid-goers, it’s everybody, says Fazel Ryklief.
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I think this sort of doomerism has mostly ceased to pay attention to European politics. We have literally seen a government totally flame out, collapse and fail to be re-elected when it started talking about a remigration agenda.
The only reason it's not an existential threat to the European political order is that the far right seems even better positioned to dominant the continent for the near future than the US, and they mostly agree with all this, which makes it sort of a moot point.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think this sort of doomerism has mostly ceased to pay attention to European politics. We have literally seen a government totally flame out, collapse and fail to be re-elected when it started talking about a remigration agenda.
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Eradicating malaria by 2040 would cost between $90 billion and $120 www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Eradicating malaria by 2040 would cost between $90 billion and $120 www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
Mar is deas mar a sheolfainn gamhna leat, Eileanóir na rún. "For I would love to drive the calves with you" up there with "You you like to be buried with my people" #speirgorm
youtu.be/sRk6N7UQQzY?...
youtu.be/sRk6N7UQQzY?...
Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta feat. Malinda: “Eileanóir na Rún” (2021)
YouTube video by J.H.
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Mar is deas mar a sheolfainn gamhna leat, Eileanóir na rún. "For I would love to drive the calves with you" up there with "You you like to be buried with my people" #speirgorm
youtu.be/sRk6N7UQQzY?...
youtu.be/sRk6N7UQQzY?...
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But still doesn’t beat the fact that Cleopatra is closer to us in time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
😱 "For example, the release of The Beatles’ first UK number one, Love Me Do, is closer to the reign of Queen Victoria than it is to the present day." @jackkessler.bsky.social
Time catches up with us all
When your memories become someone else’s history
www.linestotake.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
But still doesn’t beat the fact that Cleopatra is closer to us in time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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As those who follow these things know. other than the steel tariffs which are covered separately, my own view is that Trump's tariffs have no basis in law at all, and that this is so obvious that it is a test of whether SCOTUS is a court in meaningful sense.
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Hassett on tariffs: "Even if the Supreme Court disagrees with us, we have a backup plan that'll get these things in place right away. So we're gonna win either way."
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As those who follow these things know. other than the steel tariffs which are covered separately, my own view is that Trump's tariffs have no basis in law at all, and that this is so obvious that it is a test of whether SCOTUS is a court in meaningful sense.
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“After ordering Joyce to take the transparent white trousers off, Nora complained to her sister: “He’s a weakling, Kathleen. I always have to be after his tail ... Being married to a writer is a very hard life.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Bognor Bodies – Frank McNally on the Irish literary connections of an English seaside town
Its English origins stem from a holiday James Joyce and his family spent there in the summer of 1923
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“After ordering Joyce to take the transparent white trousers off, Nora complained to her sister: “He’s a weakling, Kathleen. I always have to be after his tail ... Being married to a writer is a very hard life.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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Gardaí are continuing to seek the public's help in tracing 12-year-old Tristan McCabe, who was reported missing in Thurles, Co Tipperary, on 15 November.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Thurles Garda Station on 0504 25100 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111
Anyone with information is asked to contact Thurles Garda Station on 0504 25100 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Gardaí are continuing to seek the public's help in tracing 12-year-old Tristan McCabe, who was reported missing in Thurles, Co Tipperary, on 15 November.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Thurles Garda Station on 0504 25100 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111
Anyone with information is asked to contact Thurles Garda Station on 0504 25100 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111
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Following grizzled markets veteran @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social's observation earlier today on this platform, we took a look.
www.ft.com/content/c403...
www.ft.com/content/c403...
Are Warner takeovers the harbingers of financial apocalypse?
We don’t know
www.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Following grizzled markets veteran @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social's observation earlier today on this platform, we took a look.
www.ft.com/content/c403...
www.ft.com/content/c403...
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2025 MURRAY PRIZE FOR HISTORY: Dr Shane McLeod FSAScot for 'Watching the waters: sentinel sites in the Inner Hebrides and western seaboard of Scotland'.
Discover a possible co-ordinated defence system guarding maritime routes in medieval Scotland in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
Discover a possible co-ordinated defence system guarding maritime routes in medieval Scotland in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
2025 MURRAY PRIZE FOR HISTORY: Dr Shane McLeod FSAScot for 'Watching the waters: sentinel sites in the Inner Hebrides and western seaboard of Scotland'.
Discover a possible co-ordinated defence system guarding maritime routes in medieval Scotland in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
Discover a possible co-ordinated defence system guarding maritime routes in medieval Scotland in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
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A Court of Appeal judge recently told me that they would never look at SCOTUS authority because it was too politically-driven to have any value as jurisprudence. Harsh but fair, I think.
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A Court of Appeal judge recently told me that they would never look at SCOTUS authority because it was too politically-driven to have any value as jurisprudence. Harsh but fair, I think.
And if ethno-nationalism succeeds in Europe it will by its nature be nation-specific, be it Orbanism or Faragism. not a yank-brained poor copy of MAGA, and this is the reason Farage does English ethno-nationalism better than yank-brained Badenoch
Average European will see this in the same way we looked at the similar ideological internationalist nonsense that used to emanate from the USSR back in the day; yes there will be the Yank-brained just as there were (are) Tankies, but most will look at this as totally alien, repulsive & infantile.
What about Europe? It is mentioned quite a bit, with one primary focus: European identity and the alleged elites and minority governments that restrict core liberties and democratic processes. This is extremely close to JD Vance’s Munich speech.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And if ethno-nationalism succeeds in Europe it will by its nature be nation-specific, be it Orbanism or Faragism. not a yank-brained poor copy of MAGA, and this is the reason Farage does English ethno-nationalism better than yank-brained Badenoch
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Companies Cut Prices For Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drugs
Companies Cut Prices For Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drugs
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare list, the coming barriers to getting vaccines, and more.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Companies Cut Prices For Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drugs
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Note: Netflix isn't buying CNN.
It made a (so-far) successful bid for Warner Brothers assets.
CNN is part of Discovery Global, to be spun off + sold separately in 2026.
The headlines are confusing.
It's explained here in @brianstelter.bsky.social CNN report on the deal
www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/m...
It made a (so-far) successful bid for Warner Brothers assets.
CNN is part of Discovery Global, to be spun off + sold separately in 2026.
The headlines are confusing.
It's explained here in @brianstelter.bsky.social CNN report on the deal
www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/m...
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Note: Netflix isn't buying CNN.
It made a (so-far) successful bid for Warner Brothers assets.
CNN is part of Discovery Global, to be spun off + sold separately in 2026.
The headlines are confusing.
It's explained here in @brianstelter.bsky.social CNN report on the deal
www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/m...
It made a (so-far) successful bid for Warner Brothers assets.
CNN is part of Discovery Global, to be spun off + sold separately in 2026.
The headlines are confusing.
It's explained here in @brianstelter.bsky.social CNN report on the deal
www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/m...
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Imagine devoting your whole life to anti-US campism and Russia apologia, and then America just joins Russia’s side.
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Imagine devoting your whole life to anti-US campism and Russia apologia, and then America just joins Russia’s side.
Also mentions helping with coding, and without any doubt AI will change (yet again) how we code, as fundamental as the step changes from machine languages to assemblers to C/C++ to Python et al; driven by high quality training data, abundant sence=checkers such as compilers & of course programmers.
Why is my experience of AI so sharply divergent from many of my friends and professional peers?
I have a theory.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...
I have a theory.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Also mentions helping with coding, and without any doubt AI will change (yet again) how we code, as fundamental as the step changes from machine languages to assemblers to C/C++ to Python et al; driven by high quality training data, abundant sence=checkers such as compilers & of course programmers.
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Buying Time Warner is now an official point in every bubble
Oh well, what could go wrong. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Buying Time Warner is now an official point in every bubble
A wait list rather than a waiting list, is that an Americanism, first time phrase for me at least.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A wait list rather than a waiting list, is that an Americanism, first time phrase for me at least.
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Dec. 5, 1925: Benito Mussolini outlines a plan to indoctrinate the country’s children in Fascism through the public schools. “In all grades,” he says, “the Italian youth shall be educated to comprehend Fascism and the noble aims which Fascism proposes to accomplish."
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Dec. 5, 1925: Benito Mussolini outlines a plan to indoctrinate the country’s children in Fascism through the public schools. “In all grades,” he says, “the Italian youth shall be educated to comprehend Fascism and the noble aims which Fascism proposes to accomplish."
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Dec. 5, 1925: The old-money family of Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander loses a legal battle to annul his marriage to biracial Alice Jones Rhinelander. An all-white, all-male jury rules in favor of the spurned wife after a sensational case that highlighted racial and class divides. 1/6
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Dec. 5, 1925: The old-money family of Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander loses a legal battle to annul his marriage to biracial Alice Jones Rhinelander. An all-white, all-male jury rules in favor of the spurned wife after a sensational case that highlighted racial and class divides. 1/6
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I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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@fortune.com #NYC
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
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