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Toronto, ON. Originally from Cork with stops in Glasgow and Limerick. IT Manager. Dad to a boy living with autism. Interested in urban development, mass transit, science fiction, politics.
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One of these but for picking up the badges of your enemies near you then making the sound of the sensor in Aliens
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Trend Micro should stop being used by journalists as a reliable source due to their usage of generative AI, featuring me and Krebs. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse đ¤ âIt could happen at any timeâ
This Toronto mom is afraid to send her autistic child to kindergarten. Inside the unfolding crisis of special education in Ontario schools. Educators and parents warn that a lack of support isnât just failing kids who need it, but entire classrooms.
Someone at Met Ăireann is either Dutch, a âFor All Mankindâ fan, or both
Wubboâs trip out in the storm didnât end well for him #ForAllMankind
I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
Someone could add him to the SSA master file, if thatâs the case www.brookings.edu/articles/imm...
New tourism campaign âI canât believe itâs Ontarioâ
Itâs been very disappointing watching members of my profession parrot political talking points that arenât backed up by reality.
Not the point, obviously, but it's super weird and un-American to call him "Mayor Giuliani." He hasn't been the mayor of anything for almost a quarter century, and it's not a noble title. It doesn't attach to his person; it's the name of a job. (Same for all the rest: "President," "Secretary,"...
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantisâ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Presumably the only thing keeping it there is US financial contributions, albeit often delayed or abridged.
Ultimately itâs gonna be about who will front Brad Squared or anyone else ~$3m, surely?
The only enjoyable thing about John Tory being weak enough to decide Toronto needs his talents again: screenshotting every time Derek Guy roasted the picture of him resigning in disgrace before running away before the media could ask questions (and didnât have block the exits until he did)
Canât mock America for being a shame free society if this city will entertain John Tory being given any public responsibility ever again #Toronto #topoli
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
The Gilded Rage
The Lamentation, Anonymous (Georgian), 1470, đ¸ by Alex Kim
Remember "facts don't care about your feelings"?
Ontario moving toward allowing underground carbon storage on a large scale -- but some are wary #ONPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
What if Michael Gove, but with a brain worm and reeking of dead whale juice.
âNow that we are quorate, I propose we get a doctorâ âAll the good doctors had their licenses taken by Kennedy, or deported.â âYes, because they annoyed the raw milk influencersâ âSo any doctors left in DC are *bad* doctorsâ
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of âDid this dictator die or just disappear for a day?â Weâve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Waiting and hoping for the Dear Leader to die - bcos that's the ONLY way things can change - is not something that people living in functioning democracies do.
Will probably move the conversation about as much as inflation does these days
Anyway, we may have to consider the possibility that Republican arguments calling Biden's modification of student loan payments a tyrannical usurpation of Congress were made in bad faith bsky.app/profile/reut...
AB Gov: You must ban books with explicit sex School District: So like CanCon classic The Handmaid's Tale? AB Gov: LOL no...no not that book SD: So....Atlas Shrugged? AB Gov: Haha no not that book either SD: Which books, exactly? AB Gov: Oh, you know the ones
The decision is stayed because itâs going to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court refused to hear Trumpâs appeal (as if) then the tariffs would be struck down
How many American fan bases will say what they feel, and how many will claim they are holding back because of âcivility and respectâ youtu.be/uCgqwO3ZeJw?...
ai is built on violations of consent facebook is founded on misogyny
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
NEW: WhatsApp has fixed a "zero-click" security flaw in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into Apple devices. Amnesty said the hacks were part of an "advanced spyware campaign." WhatsApp tells me they sent fewer than 200 threat notifications to affected users.
When is his personally formed branch, Space Force, marching?
What a cursed sentence (gift link) âThe A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.â
Oh. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...
Nice touch. âA self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at a South Florida Starbucks. Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along.â
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenariosâthe government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communitiesâliterally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Wonder how much effort GBN put into having that pulled down, and how much they would if someone faked them reporting Nigel Farage was retiring from politics
and so it begins - the price of buainess is a Trump on the board
Anyone seriously declaring that genAI is going to put more money in artist pockets is a respin on the "Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!" meme
Just make movies that have actual people doing stuff with actual things in actual places again, dude.
i tried to imagine a wnba athlete as boastfully, indulgently, and wholly fucking dumb as michael porter jr
âThe world's largest sand battery just went live in Finlandâ
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
One sees some resentment online about Porterbrook et al as being âunnecessary intermediariesâ. I was a little surprised Bombardier never tried it with bilevels or LRCs given they had exposure to aircraft leasing - but very different regulatory environment unfortunately.
If she was picked in January, how did her nomination papers get signed? Surely the candidate has to sign somewhere?
Tell the auditors from our clients who are demanding that we create and produce a PQC planâŚ
Meteorologists now face a Trump âloyalty testâ when applying to National Weather Service jobs www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Relevant cartoon by @pinkwug.bsky.social
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
That link is 404ing for me Steve
âHow am I supposed to explain to my kids that some kids have two moms??? Anyway, this is fine.â
There will be nothing surprising, or shocking, to be learned when all those books come out on the convicted felon when he is gone. All those 'insiders', who didn't have the guts to reveal damaging information in real time, won't get one cent from me.
We wanted to know if Trump's attempts to bully the Fed could unintentionally cause mortgages to become more expensive. So we talked to a podcaster who'd spent the past 6 hours trying to get Grok to say the N-word.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Denmark summons top US envoy over âcovert operationsâ in Greenland www.politico.eu/article/cove...
State Republicans favouring a two state solution feels like something that would make the national party a bit nervous
> When a senior citizen in Bellingham emailed about not being able to afford utilities, a city official pasted his email into ChatGPT and asked for âa sympathetic response.â Thereâs something especially bleak about using an LLM to generate something intended to sound sympathetic
Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this: www.knkx.org/government/2...
Church isnât going to do that to Vance when it reopens the GOP demand for sanction of Biden re abortion rights, but they could simply use their own agencies to assist immigrants in a public way, and dare Trump to move against them
Imagine a thief warning that charging them with felony B&E was going to ruin the burglary & stolen property resale industries
I just finished producing a firearms analysis for my colleagues from what I can gather of todayâs shooting. I used to teach internal/external/terminal ballistics in the Marine Corps. Itâs hard writing this information up, having seen first hand what these rounds are capable of.
NS Liberals will table the Social Media Responsibility Act. If passed Bluesky will no longer be available in Nova Scotia. The platform would be required to prove all users are 16 years of age which it has refused to do in other areas.
fwiw people are calling this nullification and I donât think thatâs quite fair. they were charging a felony and he didnât commit a felony. the grand jury did their job faithfully and well.
CDC going all Ivan Drago on the American populace
Its giving "look I CAN read" . Yes you can sweetheart have an ice pop
More for @banditelli.orgâs âthe National Guard are now scabsâ argument
Update: it got funny again
Is nobody at Number 10 aware that not all illegal immigrants to the UK are black...? Because this is really quite unfortunate.
DOJ: We can use that schedule, but may require supplemental briefing on matters that may arise. Judge Xinis: DHS has felt very free to tell the world that it plans to deport Mr. Abrego to Uganda. All indications are that we have to get this part of Mr. Abrego's case moving.
CNN has "Former Prosecutor Weighs In On Possible Taylor/Travis Prenup" My brothers and sisters in Christ what are u doin
Would probably be more productive to ask DC restaurants to suspend delivery until the snatch gangs leave and protest those who wonât - why download to individual consumers? The anger at having no burrito taxi whether or not you care about delivery folksâ safety might cause actual political change
YES, YES
Itâs going to be awful. On the other hand, we might get an Armando Ianucci movie from it (âall the good doctors were deported on RFKJrâs ordersâ) if we all survive the aftermath
Iâve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
'Back To School' Doesn't Apply To Children With Additional Needs, Clarifies Minister For Education https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/08/27/back-to-school-doesnt-apply-to-children-with-additional-needs-clarifies-minister-for-education/
Letâs all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnât write it
Join the national guard, be treated like a low level offender doing menial work for their community service obligation
Remember the time Disney was forced to abandon an argument that the arbitration agreement for Disney+ covered claims for wrongful death at its park restaurants in the face of public approbation? This feels like that. www.law360.com/articles/238...
The people who really worry me are those who will never call for neighbours to be rounded up and removed, who would never consciously support it, but who, deep down, wonder whether, if others got their hands dirty, they would really mind the world it would usher in and then put it out of their mind.
It is said that paper never refused ink. But I feel that, in this case, paper could have just made an exception.
With this little self-respect and dignity, how do you muster the ability to dress yourself in the mornings?
I'm genuinely glad for Canada and this is a smart business play by Moderna but it also stings when you consider the Moderna vaccine exists because of $10 billion dollars of US taxpayer money. And RFK Jr. might kill our access.
Probably no long term consequences here. Certainly nothing to learn about how unwise it is to create a centralised identity database fall into a shadow state of legality.
If they canât give it up, they could at least change their sign to âSwastika (1908)â as the Swastika Laundry in Dublin did en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastik...
The total lack of basic journalistic professionalism of this BBC story - summarising Farage proposals with (at time of writing) no attempt to include the views of other parties, refugee advocates etc www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Watching countries eventually buckle to Trumpâs demand will have given a lot of bad people worse ideas, and Farage has been in Trumpâs orbit longer than most
Heâs a wrecker. I would suspect his next response would be âsay bye bye to the Common Travel Area, in so far as it relates to GBâ