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Barry O'Neill

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software guy, trying not to make things worse

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lede to an irish times article about Harry and Meghan by Patrick Freyne.

lede to an irish times article about Harry and Meghan by Patrick Freyne.

A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

09.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6

Once you recognize the New York Times special β€œexculpatory tense” for right wingers you see it CONSTANTLY

06.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei - Official Music Video
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei - Official Music Video YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Do you know what, it's brilliant to see a talented synth and electronics nerd become a Eurovision entrant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XR2...

06.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, β€œYo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 9564 πŸ” 2166 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 34

There will be no deal with the Gorn except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, we will work to make the Gorn Hegemony bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. 'MAKE GORN GREAT AGAIN!' Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Gul Dukat.
#StarTrek #Sisko197

06.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The subscribers get the really good propaganda

05.03.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more doorbell cameras, we may have already β€˜solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case The CEO revealed a suspicious car was caught on a Ring camera two miles away from Guthrie’s home, and he thinks the doorbell camera is a good example of why people should have cameras.

There’s no tragedy they won’t attempt to exploit.

04.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

03.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 1119 πŸ” 416 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 47

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

03.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 17706 πŸ” 4069 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 837
02.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 1353 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

structurally indifferent to truth is a good line

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

01.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 2569 πŸ” 497 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 14

What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.

27.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6
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I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment

#australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

21.02.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 15

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to Anthropic"

The bar is SO low for ethics that we’re cheering on Anthropic for rejecting only the most egregious uses of their product. Beyond that, they’re super happy to work as a close partner with the military-industrial-surveillance complex.

27.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

26.02.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 6149 πŸ” 1246 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 71
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Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teensβ€”even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information

26.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 10
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26.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 11334 πŸ” 3196 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 42

Ireland's housing system is not 'broken' - it's actually hugely efficient at doing what it is designed to do.

25.02.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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24.02.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

24.02.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 15622 πŸ” 2744 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

23.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 2074 πŸ” 413 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 20
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One can’t receive a higher recommendation than this!

20.02.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

14.02.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 1934 πŸ” 447 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 27

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

19.02.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 3769 πŸ” 612 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 14

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

19.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 6460 πŸ” 1901 πŸ’¬ 147 πŸ“Œ 47
Reddit ad for an "artificial intelligence lawyer"

Reddit ad for an "artificial intelligence lawyer"

Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail

19.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 4270 πŸ” 507 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 55
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

18.02.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 20518 πŸ” 6591 πŸ’¬ 468 πŸ“Œ 455
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

18.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 40991 πŸ” 10912 πŸ’¬ 310 πŸ“Œ 339