Philip K Hole
@pcerm.bsky.social
Ok rte, pile of shit season as it was, you get a tv licence this year. #traitorsirl
September 22, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Ok rte, pile of shit season as it was, you get a tv licence this year. #traitorsirl
Keepie uppie vs keep ye down
Statement from President Connolly:
We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked.
I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.
We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked.
I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.
September 12, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Keepie uppie vs keep ye down
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A 6% increase in public transport use, roughly four times the population increase
Record numbers using the trains in the history of the state
Today's announcement about a public transport price increase is a farcical failure of policy, completely incoherent #Ireland #ClimateEmergency
Record numbers using the trains in the history of the state
Today's announcement about a public transport price increase is a farcical failure of policy, completely incoherent #Ireland #ClimateEmergency
Passenger Journeys Up 6% Across the TFI Network in 2025
The NTA today announced that 6% more passenger journeys were made across the TFI network in 2025 when compared to the previous year
www.transportforireland.ie
September 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
A 6% increase in public transport use, roughly four times the population increase
Record numbers using the trains in the history of the state
Today's announcement about a public transport price increase is a farcical failure of policy, completely incoherent #Ireland #ClimateEmergency
Record numbers using the trains in the history of the state
Today's announcement about a public transport price increase is a farcical failure of policy, completely incoherent #Ireland #ClimateEmergency
I asked my girlfriend if Pluto was smaller than the moon.
"I don't know" she said. "Maybe it's just very far away".
"I don't know" she said. "Maybe it's just very far away".
August 30, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I asked my girlfriend if Pluto was smaller than the moon.
"I don't know" she said. "Maybe it's just very far away".
"I don't know" she said. "Maybe it's just very far away".
Jean Paul Sartre did not write a 1,000 page phenomenological ontology, that he'd been thinking about for years, in the space of four weeks while taking speed just for today's press to say ADHD is made up.
Philip K Dick did not spend much of the sixties waiting until he had so little money he was reduced to eating cat food, spending everything he had on speed, and then writing a novel in a weekend to get more money, just for today's press to say ADHD is "made up".
Hunter S Thompson did not go on week long speed binges to almost meet his deadlines just for today's press to say ADHD is "made up."
August 19, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Jean Paul Sartre did not write a 1,000 page phenomenological ontology, that he'd been thinking about for years, in the space of four weeks while taking speed just for today's press to say ADHD is made up.
"Using Meta's Ray-Bans, it’s possible to identify a stranger's full name, home address and personal details within approximately one minute simply by looking at them on the street."
August 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"Using Meta's Ray-Bans, it’s possible to identify a stranger's full name, home address and personal details within approximately one minute simply by looking at them on the street."
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Meta using disabled people to justify the obscene pervert glasses & the disgusting violation of privacy for everyone, everywhere.
Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers.
It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion.
#spéirghorm
novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers.
It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion.
#spéirghorm
novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
August 14, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Meta using disabled people to justify the obscene pervert glasses & the disgusting violation of privacy for everyone, everywhere.
Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers.
It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion.
#spéirghorm
novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
Meta is being sued for targeting & firing its own disabled workers.
It’s not about accessibility, it’s faux-inclusion.
#spéirghorm
novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/m...
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“Developers are capable of incorporating privacy into the principles of inclusive design and using inclusive design to build their tools—particularly those they are going to market to the disability community—limiting the need for trade-offs.
With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.
techpolicy.press
August 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
“Developers are capable of incorporating privacy into the principles of inclusive design and using inclusive design to build their tools—particularly those they are going to market to the disability community—limiting the need for trade-offs.
With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
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I read the article. I take the pill he took, and based on that experience, if I'm completely honest, I don't think he took it. I think he's lying.
Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time:
I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
August 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
I read the article. I take the pill he took, and based on that experience, if I'm completely honest, I don't think he took it. I think he's lying.
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A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public.
jrnl.ie/7122123
jrnl.ie/7122123
Concerns over supporting data centres ahead of transport or housing scrubbed from government report
Several aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector were later cut from the final version released to the public.
jrnl.ie
August 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public.
jrnl.ie/7122123
jrnl.ie/7122123
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There's a lot of issues all wrapped up in here obviously, but the extent to which some English people believe that the Irish are lower ranked subjects, who should be forced in line by coercion (economic or otherwise), is never less than staggering to me.
Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event.
A nauseating spectacle of spite.
A nauseating spectacle of spite.
July 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
There's a lot of issues all wrapped up in here obviously, but the extent to which some English people believe that the Irish are lower ranked subjects, who should be forced in line by coercion (economic or otherwise), is never less than staggering to me.
I find the claim HIGHLY dubious.
Any future invite only ecosystem would benefit a lot from starting as far away from California as possible.
Start in Madagascar.
Any future invite only ecosystem would benefit a lot from starting as far away from California as possible.
Start in Madagascar.
Tomorrow is "Shoutout the Person Who Gave You a Bluesky Invite Code" Day.
It was a cool time for cool people to drag other cool people here.
It was a cool time for cool people to drag other cool people here.
July 22, 2026 at 11:13 AM
I find the claim HIGHLY dubious.
Any future invite only ecosystem would benefit a lot from starting as far away from California as possible.
Start in Madagascar.
Any future invite only ecosystem would benefit a lot from starting as far away from California as possible.
Start in Madagascar.
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I wasn't convinced that data centres are using *that* much drinking water, but the refusal of the government to even look into it makes me way more suspicious tbh
July 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM
I wasn't convinced that data centres are using *that* much drinking water, but the refusal of the government to even look into it makes me way more suspicious tbh
Minister McGrath unilaterally agreed to every public service desk jockey being given Microsoft's Co-Pilot at a time when it had no recognisable value proposition or justifiable use case, with TOS saying that it was "for entertainment purposes only".
The state seems to be getting deeper and deeper in bed with Microsoft in particular, while the rest of Europe is pulling back and starting to consider other options.
July 17, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Minister McGrath unilaterally agreed to every public service desk jockey being given Microsoft's Co-Pilot at a time when it had no recognisable value proposition or justifiable use case, with TOS saying that it was "for entertainment purposes only".
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Multiple Irish State agencies are using software for internal messages that runs directly on the computers of companies they are tasked with investigating and regulating. Most of them come from a country with a history of global surveillance, unjustified military aggression and genocide enablement.
Multiple Irish State agencies are using password software with deep links to a Russian technology company licensed by Moscow’s intelligence service, an Irish Times investigation has found.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Irish State bodies use password software licensed by Russian intelligence
Irish Times investigation finds software involved in handling of sensitive information with at least three agencies
www.irishtimes.com
July 17, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Multiple Irish State agencies are using software for internal messages that runs directly on the computers of companies they are tasked with investigating and regulating. Most of them come from a country with a history of global surveillance, unjustified military aggression and genocide enablement.
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Commentator was saying a bunch of stuff in German I was not following until he said, in carefully enunciated English, "sixty years of hurt"
July 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Commentator was saying a bunch of stuff in German I was not following until he said, in carefully enunciated English, "sixty years of hurt"
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"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...
July 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...
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Hit the data centres with the nighttime restrictions first. If you try to look at a website after midnight you just see Aertel instead.
Uisce Éireann is "urgently calling" on the public not to use the garden hose this weekend, and for as long as the hot weather continues, as drinking water usage remains "exceptionally high".
jrnl.ie/7098097
jrnl.ie/7098097
Uisce Éireann 'urgently' calls on public not to use garden hose during hot weather
The state body said nighttime restrictions in the Greater Dublin Area are under “active consideration” if water use is not reduced.
jrnl.ie
July 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Hit the data centres with the nighttime restrictions first. If you try to look at a website after midnight you just see Aertel instead.
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IT op-ed by @aideenod.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social & myself arguing that President Catherine Connolly should refer bills that undermine the Climate Act & flout childrens rights to Supreme Court
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social
Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it
Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it
The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren
www.irishtimes.com
July 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
IT op-ed by @aideenod.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social & myself arguing that President Catherine Connolly should refer bills that undermine the Climate Act & flout childrens rights to Supreme Court
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social
@maynoothlaw.bsky.social @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @clmirl.bsky.social
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You could for example do commercial law, like Jim O’Callaghan did, where you can charge approximately the same amount for an hour of your time that he’s now paying for an entire criminal case start to finish
July 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
You could for example do commercial law, like Jim O’Callaghan did, where you can charge approximately the same amount for an hour of your time that he’s now paying for an entire criminal case start to finish
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Fair.
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish https://theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despite-presence-of-irish/
July 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Fair.
I'm anticipating a huge amount of Euroscepticism and a slow swell of support for Irexit across the political spectrum of Facebook, Instagram and, God help them, Threads users over the coming months. The only tool I have is deriding the platform users. It's really past time to push people off them.
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
I'm anticipating a huge amount of Euroscepticism and a slow swell of support for Irexit across the political spectrum of Facebook, Instagram and, God help them, Threads users over the coming months. The only tool I have is deriding the platform users. It's really past time to push people off them.
What's it like inside your head?
June 29, 2026 at 8:19 AM
What's it like inside your head?