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1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í Opinions my own siobhanmcelduff.com

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Soon after, they said, they noticed other signs that some course materials were AI-generated, including American English inconsistently edited to British English, suspicious file names, as well as “generic, surface-level information” that occasionally referred inexplicably to US legislation.

Soon after, they said, they noticed other signs that some course materials were AI-generated, including American English inconsistently edited to British English, suspicious file names, as well as “generic, surface-level information” that occasionally referred inexplicably to US legislation.

imagine you are a teenager and you already are at a disadvantage because covid happened while you were in school and you need to be prepared for the real world and this is what they give you

20.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

My dude, you're facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza. Something you could actually do something tangible about. But you're just happy to be sitting on the international stage waffling platitudes while ignoring your culpability and at the same time entrenching Irish complicity.
Whisht.

22.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"

2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.

23.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 75    🔁 45    💬 5    📌 0

These are in the shop now for all youse Dublin 7 fans! Yup Phibsboro etc

🌐 selkiesstudio.com/shop/crossguns

23.11.2025 11:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A new version of my article on Barbara Clegg appears in this.

23.11.2025 11:23 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

"At least the far right don't have anyone in the Dáil ..."
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22.11.2025 22:57 — 👍 50    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 0
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Hey neighbour #boar #hongkong

19.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Page of the script of An Unearthly Child, written by Anthony Coburn and C.E. Webber and later novelised by Terrance Dicks.

Page of the script of An Unearthly Child, written by Anthony Coburn and C.E. Webber and later novelised by Terrance Dicks.

It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...

23.11.2025 10:49 — 👍 97    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 8
A pile of beautiful red and pink strawberries contrast with dark blueberries. A thin pale crepe peeks out the side. Dark brown chocolate sauce glistens in the light. Pale hazelnuts and a bright yellow flowers are scattered over the dish. In the background, we can see a similar topping on French toast.

A pile of beautiful red and pink strawberries contrast with dark blueberries. A thin pale crepe peeks out the side. Dark brown chocolate sauce glistens in the light. Pale hazelnuts and a bright yellow flowers are scattered over the dish. In the background, we can see a similar topping on French toast.

Add alt text. Because not everyone can see your brunch, but everyone deserves to know it was aesthetic, like this 🥑

23.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...

The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.

23.11.2025 03:01 — 👍 343    🔁 201    💬 16    📌 8
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Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

21.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 1653    🔁 395    💬 38    📌 45
Gendry in front of the TV when Gothmog says time of the orc has come

Gendry in front of the TV when Gothmog says time of the orc has come

22.11.2025 22:13 — 👍 225    🔁 23    💬 12    📌 0

Calling Vancouver…

22.11.2025 06:33 — 👍 133    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0
A postage stamp issued by Canada Post featuring a drawing in the style of Kate Beaton showing an oil worker reading her graphic novel "Ducks"

A postage stamp issued by Canada Post featuring a drawing in the style of Kate Beaton showing an oil worker reading her graphic novel "Ducks"

They put Kate Beaton on a stamp. THEY PUT HER ON A STAMP!

www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/person...

22.11.2025 23:43 — 👍 43    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2

Calling yourself Artisan and being an AI company should bring about swift retribution from the gods.

22.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 28    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'd like to know how many uni administrators have even the slightest awareness of these harms. How is it not utterly egregious to impose novel technologies at scale without so much as considering possible negative consequences? Either they understand nothing about AI or they are fine with the risks.

22.11.2025 23:37 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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St. Anthony "Found Em" AirTag Holder Keychain {PREORDER NOW} >> PREORDER NOW! << Introducing AirTag Tony, an AirTag compatible* St. Anthony keychain! (*AirTag not included. AirTag® is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. )   THIS IS A PREORDER. ORDE...

St Anthony airtag keyring. Cunning. thelittlecatholicbox.com/products/st-...

22.11.2025 22:30 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

What a fecking hideous excuse for a human being.

22.11.2025 22:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In reality, he'd be shoving her into the sea so she could get there faster with the gun.

22.11.2025 22:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How AP News whitewashes genocide.

TESTING THE CEASEFIRE??

Israel is *BREAKING* the ceasefire. Do you really think this would be the headline if Hamas killed 24 Israelis?

AP doesn’t even have the integrity to say Israel killed Palestinians. “Are dead” is passive to avoid attributing liability.

22.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 468    🔁 185    💬 20    📌 11

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

22.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 4829    🔁 1475    💬 40    📌 50
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Festive Episodes Of All Your Comedy Favourites! It is actually possible to make it all the way through a box set of seventies and eighties ITV sitcom Christmas Specials without hurling it at a blazing yule log…?

Yes it's still November, but if you want to join in with my traditional 'advent calendar' of ITV Sitcom Christmas Specials, you'll probably need to start hunting them down online slash on Talking Pictures TV round about now...

timworthington.org/2017/12/01/f...

22.11.2025 09:18 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Black-and-yellow bird with a blue eye ring perched on a strand of barbed wire against a soft green background.

Black-and-yellow bird with a blue eye ring perched on a strand of barbed wire against a soft green background.

I'm not sure if I'm legally allowed to post two #birdoftheday posts for #birdonawire

But here's a closer view of the male Black-headed Trogon, showing his darker head and iridescent back.

#CostaRica #birds #trogon #nature

22.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 402    🔁 56    💬 12    📌 1

Such a wee dote.

22.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We have a kitten, so you must have spam

22.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A man on a copper plate print from 1607, holding a very big wine glass. Source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/2335

A man on a copper plate print from 1607, holding a very big wine glass. Source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/2335

The joys of holding a wine glass as big as your forearm in 1607…

22.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 66    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1
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$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.

Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.

22.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 1124    🔁 215    💬 14    📌 14

Same here.

22.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
The shoemaker sits at his workbench surveying four brightly coloured pairs of soft leather boots

The shoemaker sits at his workbench surveying four brightly coloured pairs of soft leather boots

Elf-made shoes
‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’, 1965
Artist: Robert Lumley

22.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 258    🔁 33    💬 13    📌 7

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