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three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

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Have studies been done on dereliction as a contagion? I'd feel very reluctant to purchase and repair a derelict property that shares a wall with another derelict property that isn't being repaired. It feels risky to invest in repairs when neighbouring buildings can undermine that work .

A bit more vivid on camera but it's only my dad's phone. The most visible to the eye I've ever seen

Every few years we get a glimpse but you've got to luck out with the weather too

Aurora borealis

Aurora borealis

Aurora borealis

Looked out the window then ran to the park and look! Aurora borealis. Visible to the naked eye too. Incredible.

Yes the Mayo for Sam jokes have already started in the local group chats 🏆❤️💚

Red and green borealis with stars over a black hillside in silhouette

Red and green borealis with stars over a black hillside in silhouette

Red and green borealis with stars over a black hillside in silhouette

Red and green borealis with stars over a black hillside in silhouette

Aurora over Achill, 19th Janaury 2026

This was some of the funnier litter picking I've done. When you see these videos of me talking and singing to myself, I need you to remember that my neighbours do pass me on the road 😅

Finn kept me company on a beach clean the other day but always looks so betrayed that I won't throw the litter for him

Fine Gael saw 63% of voters back left-wing values but chose to pander to a perceived right-wing vote of 13%. Remember that when they try to claim they're "middle of the road" or centrists. They're a right-wing minority who are about to start pushing far-right. #spéirgorm

Now the Áras campaign is over, we cant afford to forget the Garda vetting story. We still don't have assurances that this information wasn't leaked by An Garda Síochána to harm someone. This is a criminal offence. AGS have form here and must be prevented from returning to those practices #spéirgorm

Daniel’s bail hearing is on this Wednesday at 1.30pm Irish time. There will be a gathering outside the German Embassy to let them know what we think of the German state’s repression of anti-genocide activism

German prosecutors have charged the five with being part of a ‘criminal organisation’ an offence created to target organised crime recently been used instead to prosecute climate and Palestine activists.

Daniel from Dublin, and 4 others have been imprisoned for allegedly disrupting an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm, Germany last month. Elbit is an Israeli weapons manufacturer whose weapons are central to Israel’s genocide. Daniel is held 23 hours daily in their cell, including meals, no phone calls

Look Gaeilge Uladh isn't for the feint of heart on a good day

Now you see me....

Now you don't!

A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back

And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves...

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I also recommend having TG4 on or an Irish podcast, even if it's above your level a bit. Your ears start to get it and your brain will catch up

It always sounds more confusing explained in grammar terms. You don't really sit and think about it like that most of the time, anymore than you would with English, once you get used to the rhythm. I just had to learn English and Irish like this so it sticks around 😅

I will say that online translators over use cuid because it means they don't have to restructure the sentence as much. Irish uses pronouns differently and it's easier for a computer to change my homework to mo chuid obair bhaile then to an obair bhail a bhfuil agam

"Dance change"

It's to do with the nouns in use. If the noun describes a concept or something that there's lots of, Irish grammar tends to want you to specify. You could say "an obair bhaile a bhfuil agam anocht" and it flows better than "m'obair bhaile" though the second isn't technically wrong.

What a time to be alive

James has changed the name of the group chat to Dangerously Woke Youth

Need to get a "Critique of powerful institutions is good actually" sign to tap now that people can't differentiate between that and conspiracy nonsense

I did.

I remain incredibly sceptical about how positive their influence was. Most of the climate policies brought in in the last five years were either mandated by EU or UN agreements, more press release than reality, or some combination.