Peter McGuire

Peter McGuire

@petermcguire.bsky.social

Semi-retired journalist. Now mostly comms, copywriting & content design. Former bylines include @irishtimes @TJ_investigates He/ him 🏳️‍🌈

1,577 Followers 966 Following 78 Posts Joined Aug 2023
3 weeks ago
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The face of a man who knows he’s FUCKED

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3 weeks ago

I recently discovered that when you're an adult, you can eat pancakes any time you like.

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3 weeks ago

How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you

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3 weeks ago
Cat with a plate of pancakes.

When puss comes to shrove...

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1 month ago
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1 month ago

So funny for him to travel down to Enniscorthy just to be like 'now of course as you know, I can't do anything about this'

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1 month ago

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

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1 month ago
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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1 month ago

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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1 month ago
Don’t shoot the messenger, but am I alone in wondering whether The Traitors has fallen victim to its own success? Whether the bubble has burst?

I’m genuinely worried that what started off as the real-life version of a cheery family board game has segued into one of those joyless, bloodshot Monopoly all-nighters where it’s all come down to screwing your favourite rellies for rent and counting up the cash.

Series 1 involved voting off a woman because she only had one hand and a Scottish guy making several people cry by yelling at them. What are you talking about.

#TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

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1 month ago

Stephen won them the final, but Rachel won them the game. Masterclass, really deserved victory #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #traitors

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1 month ago
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two players made Traitors in the first episode winning the game together is honestly incredible game play #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

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1 month ago
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I LOVE YOU, YOU LABRADOR THAT GOT CURSED WITH THE WEIGHT OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

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1 month ago
Traitors winners Rachel & Steven, with Claudia, standing over a crock of gold

Transphobia exists to break the powerful queer & women alliance. But when we stick together and have each other’s backs, we win #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

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1 month ago

Yeeeeees! This is why gays and girls are the greatest alliance ever #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

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1 month ago
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WOW! WHAT AN INCREDIBLE BOARD OF PEACE!

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1 month ago
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Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.

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1 month ago

Those secret relationships added nothing to the game at all. But a good future twist on secret relationships would be to get a couple who are genuinely friends and in love and make them both traitors #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

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1 month ago

Faraaz doing 2 turns on the carousel and coming out the other end a mastermind <3 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

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1 month ago

FFS they cut Roxy finding out how wrong she was in order to make time for people I’ve already forgotten opening an envelope to react to utterly irrelevant family connections #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors #Uncloaked

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1 month ago

Now it's as good a time as any to start working out how to transfer your digital services away from Google or Azure towards something based in Europe. If you run a business do you want to risk your office infrastructure being severed by a trade war?

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1 month ago

This is the thing isn't it? Can you imagine any other Taoiseach in our history saying "I accept these people are publishing CSAM but I will continue to avail of their services" out loud for everybody to hear

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1 month ago
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

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1 month ago

🚨 Breaking

Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal.

"We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

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2 months ago

NEW: "Given Ireland's very significant history of deference to institutions... We don't want to allow a similar level of deference to large corporations to lead us into the same failure."

@conorom.bsky.social on X and Grok and Ireland's response on @virginmedianews.bsky.social at 12.30

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2 months ago

There is no reason the Irish Gov departments can't do simular.

Run it's own server here in the country.

ec.social-network.europa.eu/about

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2 months ago

Excellent Gist.

I had forgotten about the Garda visit to Today FM about the Brian Cowen painting.

#IrishPol

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2 months ago
Lots of abusive and misogynistic far-right posts on X are the first replies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

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2 months ago

I know we are all the frogs being boiled but, when it really hits you, the question of 'should the world's largest producer of CSAM be banned' and the governments response is to just flop around. This situation is absolutely crazy.

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