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Karlin Lillington

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Retired (mostly...) Irish Times tech columnist. Chair, New Music Dublin. Privacy/infosec/human&digital rights. Likes ๐Ÿฆ‡. Lots of 4-legged talls/smalls ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿซ๐Ÿด. Talkative. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช www.newmusicdublin.ie

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Much better than watching a movie on a tiny screenโ€ฆ

03.03.2026 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That image with the lights of towns below was somewhere slightly north of Winnipeg, where I was born. That landscape down there is right about where my dadโ€™s Icelandic immigrant grandfather farmed. Dad had stories about helping in the harvest as a child, & riding the draught horses home

03.03.2026 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Equally beautiful on the way over in daylight as we neared and passed over Greenland then Canada, above frozen seas. Again, no one was looking out their windows!! Poignant too, thinking about whether these scenes will be gone forever as the world warms

03.03.2026 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I mean this was so so mesmerising, the snow reflecting so much star and moonlight that it looks like early morning but this is pitch dark night, transformed

03.03.2026 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pushing for Answers about Ruben Ray Martinezโ€™s Death Looking into ICEโ€™s fatal shooting of another US citizen, and Trumpโ€™s efforts to avoid accountability and delay public records lawsuits.

WHy ICE covered up that they shot and killed US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez.

americanoversight.org/newsletter/p...

03.03.2026 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 248    ๐Ÿ” 80    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Marking #InternationalWomensDay (8 March), OPW Heritage Sites are hosting special events celebrating inspiring women in Irish history.
Kilmainham Gaol | The Custom House | National Botanic Gardens
Details: https://cutt.ly/IWDEvents

#IWD2026 #OPW #HeritageIreland


03.03.2026 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A bit of aurora on the flight from SFO to Dublin overnight. It was so bright out โ€” this at about midnight but the snowy Canadian landscape meant the ground was clear to see. So beautiful and yet I donโ€™t think anyone was looking out their window except me

03.03.2026 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Joyce Carol Oates โ€ข @JoyceCarolOates
X.com
Twitter is the place for nonentities classifying entities colossal as those redwoods you, squatting below, can't see the tops of.
โ€ข Brad R. Torgersen โ€ข @BradRTorgersen โ€ข 14h
Beatles are a first-rate second-rate band.
There. I said it. And I am not sorry.

Joyce Carol Oates โ€ข @JoyceCarolOates X.com Twitter is the place for nonentities classifying entities colossal as those redwoods you, squatting below, can't see the tops of. โ€ข Brad R. Torgersen โ€ข @BradRTorgersen โ€ข 14h Beatles are a first-rate second-rate band. There. I said it. And I am not sorry.

second JCO heater in less than 12 hours

03.03.2026 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 191    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes Residents of Irelandโ€™s five main cities want more space for cyclists, even at the expense of cars

Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes

03.03.2026 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

@tadethompson.bsky.social ๐Ÿ˜

03.03.2026 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The power to declare war was considered among the most dangerous by the Founders, which was why it was given to Congress instead of the president (require higher threshold/buy-in than one man)

That a future Congress would abdicate that power would be unthinkable for them

bsky.app/profile/davi...

02.03.2026 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie . Alt: a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .

Filmmakers: what is currently the WORST streamer for writer/directors? Which one would be most likely to say โ€œnahhhโ€ฆnmโ€ and then shelve your project after it was done to write it off? Like, THAT bad.

Not asking for meโ€”for a character in a story.

03.03.2026 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fake post about death toll in Iran.

Fake post about death toll in Iran.

This is a fake, and the post has thousands of likes and reposts inflated by a bot army. Report and block.

01.03.2026 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 360    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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So so cool

03.03.2026 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If youโ€™re passing through the airport in San Francisco this fab exhibit is still there to see in Terminal 1 next to gate B5 and very highly recommended

03.03.2026 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3431    ๐Ÿ” 811    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Vibe

02.03.2026 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Could we get this for Ireland too, please

01.03.2026 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UCLA's website in 1997

01.03.2026 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 264    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
The sign says
"Dog Tie and Water Bowl"
Below it a log, foreground two metal watering bowls

The sign says "Dog Tie and Water Bowl" Below it a log, foreground two metal watering bowls

High degree of canine literacy here.

#Castleward
#StrangfordLough
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpรฉirGhorm

01.03.2026 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared - emptywheel Among the things that have gotten forgotten about Trump's Iran invasion is that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were purportedly negotiating peace, which of course they weren't.

Reup, on the forgotten claim that Jared and Steve were purportedly seeking peace.

emptywheel.net/iran-things-...

01.03.2026 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 552    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

01.03.2026 05:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2639    ๐Ÿ” 1161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73

*whispers* FIFA Peace Prize

01.03.2026 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. Iโ€™m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13967    ๐Ÿ” 4438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 472    ๐Ÿ“Œ 358
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Remember this?

01.03.2026 01:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 818    ๐Ÿ” 245    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Whipped up a quick chart of views of Iran for the newsletter this morning. Long story short: Same old story.

Read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...

28.02.2026 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 365    ๐Ÿ” 103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Still up on the official White House website:

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

28.02.2026 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3260    ๐Ÿ” 1115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 61

๐Ÿ˜‚

01.03.2026 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reported airstrike hits Iranian girlsโ€™ school Iranโ€™s ambassador to the United Nations said the strike killed more than 100 children at the girlsโ€™ elementary school in southern Iran.

The U.S. military is โ€œlooking intoโ€ reports of a strike on a girlsโ€™ elementary school in Minab after Iranโ€™s ambassador to the U.N. said more than 100 children were killed.

Footage verified by the Post showed a frantic crowd outside the school.

01.03.2026 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 342    ๐Ÿ” 159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25456    ๐Ÿ” 8646    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 273    ๐Ÿ“Œ 314