Jane

Eclectic person who loves all things sci-fi and kinda nerdy so my tweets have the potential to be quite random . Other loves include F1 and music

[Jane @JaneFraher]

So @Buseireann can you explain the rational behind removing priority seating stickers from #Waterford city buses? #disability #olderpeople

[Jane @JaneFraher]

https://t.co/7hTXJ4RaUc

[Graphite Czech 🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸 @CzechArtGirl]

Liverpool’s St George’s Hall was hiding a secret: Minton Tiles 🤎

Watch as the beauty is revealed!!

[Jane @JaneFraher]

Had you heard of this song? I hadn't and that idea kind of shocked me....
Great article on how algorithms are affecting everything 😲🫨
Demise of the monoculture: why so many have never heard UK’s record-breaking No 1 single | UK charts | The Guardian https://t.co/xNYKOrYYTV

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Our intro video from ATN on Saturday night 💚🤍🧡 📺

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sky News reports that a 28-year-old Palestinian woman, six months pregnant and suffering severe internal bleeding, was being transported from Qaryout in the occupied West Bank to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus when Israeli soldiers stopped her ambulance at the Awarta checkpoint.

Video shows Israeli forces detained the ambulance crew for more than 30 minutes, subjected the bleeding, critically ill woman to a physical search, and ordered the driver to turn off the engine, cutting power to the vehicle’s onboard medical equipment.

During the forced delay, a nurse was forced to deliver the fetus stillborn inside the stranded ambulance. The woman was eventually allowed to proceed to the hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery and saved her life. The baby could not be saved.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

“One Jewish life is worth ten million Palestinian lives.”, said an Israeli settler lawyer. His justification? Theology of chosen-ness.
My response: There can be no peace while theologies of supremacy remain unchallenged.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The West was incensed when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

Crickets as Israel blows up a UNESCO heritage site in Lebanon.

[Jane @JaneFraher]

https://t.co/5Z1yPsjR9G

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The Irish Minister of justice Jim O Callaghan is blocking students from Gaza studying in Ireland for the following reasons
There are gaps in their education
They can’t provide bank statements
They can’t prove they’ll return to Gaza.
Still silent?

[Jane @JaneFraher]

Couldn't agree more!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The works of Austen, Dickens & Shakespeare were written to be enjoyed by ordinary, working-class people, and the idea that they can only truly be read and understood by elites is profoundly bad for society.

[Jane @JaneFraher]

So great ideas for urban waterfronts do exist....

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Chicago's Riverwalk is a great model for urban waterfronts.

Besides the passage itself, the marina plaza has restaurants, outdoor dining, boat docking and stepped seating close to the water.

And then the grand river theater, or sculptural staircase that connects Upper Wacker Drive to the river. It doubles as seating and an event space.

[Hywel Davies @HywelCymru]

Science always moves on - but Jodrell Bank isn't a relic, it's a current suite of instruments, working with other telescopes, undertaking research *today*. And an inspiration to future scientists. Closing it to save just £3m would be so short sighted https://t.co/xn3kvgB0PZ

[The IMEU @theIMEU]

“In Gaza, it is the complete obliteration of cities and towns and annihilation of families off the registry. And in the West Bank, it is taking different methods and forms, and that is through the use of the Israeli settler, military and judicial system.”
https://t.co/i955djgOOn

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

RTÉ's montage after Mayo won the All-Ireland.

Hand me back the box of tissues, would ya?

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

If you're missing the World Cup, we present these scenes from Ireland 🏆

Mayo, after 75 years of hurt, a curse and 11 consecutive defeats in the final, are All-Ireland (Gaelic) football champions. Look what it means. This is why we love sports ❤️‍🔥

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

A call to action from the Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Ramallah about the growing, violent settler attacks on Palestinian villages which continue with impunity. ‘I do not want to share statistics, he says, ‘I am tired of numbers. We're not numbers. We're not headlines. We're talking about mothers, fathers, children, grandparents — with names, with stories, with futures that are being cut short’

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Fine and fearless report from the West Bank by the great @christinalamb- with a deeply moving ending: "My son was on my wife’s lap when the IDF shot him dead’"
https://t.co/eBnokaRmLU

[The Nation @thenation]

"Human rights are for the people—not for academics to write expensive books about" — @FranceskAlbs.
https://t.co/T4EIW6rN1e