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Artist & Children's Author with a love of technology. [email protected]

[Us_Irish - 🕊️ @Us_Irish]

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[Us_Irish - 🕊️ @Us_Irish]

This is the spirit of the World Cup I want to witness!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Seven girls—ages eleven to fourteen, six of them visibly pregnant—stood on the train platform at Boston's South Station on September 22, 1920, being led by two men and three women toward a train bound for "St. Mary's Home for Wayward Girls" in upstate New York—when suddenly a woman in the crowd, Mrs. Catherine Walsh, age fifty-two, had shouted "THOSE ARE CHILDREN! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THEM?"—and within seconds, over thirty women on the platform had formed a human chain blocking the train doors, and Mrs. Walsh had confronted the group's leaders: "Why are pregnant children being taken to New York?"—and one of the women had answered "These girls are unwed mothers going to a home for rehabilitation"—but Mrs. Walsh had walked up to the girls and asked directly "Are you married?"—and five of the six pregnant girls had whispered "Yes" and shown wedding rings, and one girl, age eleven, had sobbed "They told my parents I have to go there after my baby comes to learn to be a good mother, but I heard they take the babies"—and Mrs. Walsh had shouted to the crowd "THESE ARE CHILD BRIDES BEING TRAFFICKED! SOMEONE CALL POLICE!"—and the thirty women had refused to move from the train doors while Mrs. Walsh had kept the group there until police arrived—and investigation revealed the "home" was actually a facility where child mothers were separated from their babies (adopted out for fees), then kept as unpaid labor for years—and all seven girls were taken into protective custody, their "husbands" (ranging in age from thirty-two to forty-seven) were arrested, and the "St. Mary's Home" was raided, revealing forty-three child mothers being held there—and Mrs. Walsh and the thirty women who'd formed the human chain were credited with exposing a multi-state child trafficking operation.
The youngest girl, age eleven, lived until 2005, dying at age ninety-six. Before her death, she reflected: "I was eleven and pregnant, being taken to a train that would separate me from my baby. A stranger on the platform saw us—seven pregnant children being led away—and shouted 'Those are children!' Within seconds, thirty women formed a human chain blocking the train. They wouldn't move until police came. That human chain of strangers saved seven of us and led to forty-three more girls being rescued. One woman's shout, thirty women's bodies blocking a train, changed everything.

[Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ @CnaG]

'. . .students who do not study Irish are missing out. The language is the wellspring of Ireland’s distinctive culture, national identity & sense of self. There are also more tangible benefits, such as access to certain job opportunities & the lifetime benefits of bilingualism.'

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

URGENT UPDATE: Illegally detained Sumud volunteers are now on their 4th day of a dry hunger strike (no food, no water) and their condition is critical.

Since Monday, ten people detained in Benghazi have been refusing food, with many also refusing water, in protest of prolonged illegal detention, mistreatment, and being denied legal counsel. Some have been forced to break the strike, but many continue as their health deteriorates.

Their lives are at risk. They’ve received no medical care and are being held in “black sites" (unknown areas).
We demand their immediate release and we need you to act now.

Call. Post. Pressure the authorities. Share this update widely.

Email the foreign ministries of those detained at https://t.co/jixZ6iF35U

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Re-Turn is the scam that keeps on scamming.

Fine Gael councillor was hired by Re-Turn to lobby a Fine Gael Minister to remove 23% VAT on the unclaimed bottles!!

The councillor previously worked for the PR company Teneo whose client is ReTurn.

ReTurn is sitting on €100m after just one year but they’re still not happy. They wanted tax exemptions on top.

A humiliation gravy train.

[Conor Winkle 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗿🖖 @conorwinkle]

Once again, this cannot be emphasised enough. This is not made in Ireland anymore, it is owned by a Zionist company now.
Please buy Irish made alternatives that aren't soaked in blood, they are just as good.

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.

Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.

We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.

Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o

[Lawyers For Justice Ireland @LFJIreland]

Globalist corporations have the Irish government in their back pocket. Irish households paying more than DOUBLE the price for electricity than Data Centres. Ireland is the largest data centre and cloud hub in Europe and serves as the primary gateway for global corporations such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft etc. Data Centres. In 2024, Data Centres accounted for more than 22% of all metered electricity in Ireland. Globally data centres are responsible for just 1.5% of total electricity consumption, meaning Ireland is a huge outlier.

While everyday billpayers in Ireland pay around 36.8c per kWh, large corporate energy users pay just 19.1c per kWh.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints

In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints

For this who don’t remember

Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods

That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe

So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers

Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it

The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints

Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after

Common Resident Complaints Being Logged

- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Erin Brockovich is back, and this time she's coming for the AI industry, calling out Big Tech's data center boom as the next great environmental shakedown of American communities. She launched a self-reporting map at https://t.co/ODEJlqLss3, and within a week over 1,600 residents had filed complaints spanning noise pollution, skyrocketing utility bills, and serious water depletion concerns. The pattern she's seeing looks awfully familiar: corporations dangle promises of jobs and tax revenue, municipalities wave projects through with minimal environmental review, and the people who actually live there get left holding the bag.

The water issue alone should be setting off alarm bells. Data centers gulp enormous amounts of water to keep their cooling systems running, and some are being planted directly above critical aquifers. As Brockovich put it plainly, "Wasting heat is wasting water. We can't afford either." The technology to capture and reuse that waste heat already exists, it's just not being required. That's a policy failure, not a tech failure.

A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities, with many saying they'd rather live near a nuclear plant. Brockovich's demand is straightforward: if Big Tech is going to drain public water supplies and jack up utility bills, the public deserves full transparency. "If you're using public resources, the public has a right to know how much. Sunlight is the best disinfectant."

[Lorraine Morris @MLorrM]

Absolutely spot on Steve.

This is a story of teamwork from people who refused to stay silent.

Back when I first dug into the paperwork and realised what had actually been done with those fraudulently sold swaps, I was physically sick with disbelief.

The toxic, one-way bets deliberately & fraudulently sold to SMEs who were told they were “required” or “safe” or “for protection”.

The moment you understood the embedded break costs, the hidden mark-to-market losses & the deliberate asymmetry in the contracts… it was obvious.

This wasn’t a mistake. It was systematic with banks walking away with enormous profits and then denying everything.

And the most staggering part?

Even after the scandal broke, even after the FCA in U.K. redress scheme, even after parliamentary scrutiny and whistleblower evidence… the Irish cases still dragged on.

Denials continued. Falsehoods from regulators. Victims being stonewalled. Documents going missing. False pleadings before the Irish courts.

The cover-up machinery in the law firms - aided & abetted by unscrupulous barristers - it just kept on turning, despite the documented proof & the whistleblower testimony - just like the post office scandal - the documented proof & the whistleblower testimony will eventually end this kind of embedded institutional rot.

[aoife 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @aoife_s29]

friendly reminder for the Eurovision boycott this weekend AND that Ireland actually created boycotting in the 1880s #irishtwt

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

The court of appeal ruled today that Mr Justice Johnson had no jurisdiction to refer Rajiv Menon KC directly to the High Court. This was unlawful.

It is no coincidence that this attempt to silence a barrister is connected to activists who disrupted Israel’s genocidal war crimes.

[𝕋o𝕄y 𝕃e 𝕄a𝕘n𝕚f𝕚q𝕦e @MagnifiqueTomy]

🚨Nicholas Kristof, grand reporter au New York Times, signe une enquête qui va faire mal. Très mal. Sa question finale, il l'emprunte à Netanyahu lui-même, celle que le Premier ministre israélien lançait au monde après le 7 octobre : « Where the hell are you ? » Aujourd'hui, Kristof la lui retourne. Et elle tombe comme un couperet.

L'article est accablant. Des Palestiniens, hommes, femmes, enfants, sont violés systématiquement par des soldats, des colons, des gardiens de prison. Des viols avec des matraques, des carottes, des bâtons. Des chiens dressés pour pénétrer des détenus. Des hommes qui urinent du sang après qu'on leur ait ligoté les testicules. Des femmes dénudées, battues, giflées, présentées comme un trophée à chaque relève de garde. Des enfants menacés qu'on leur enfonce un bâton dans le cul s'ils ne coopèrent pas.

Ce n'est pas une exception. C'est une politique. Un rapport de l'ONU parle de « procédure opérationnelle standard ». Une pratique généralisée, encouragée par l'impunité totale. Ben-Gvir traite les détenus de « raclures » et « nazis ». Netanyahu qualifie les poursuites contre des soldats violeurs de « blood libel » et les réhabilite. Et les États-Unis ? Ils appellent ça 'de simples allégations'. Allégations. Qu'ils aillent dire ça aux enfants qui ont vu des chiens les monter.

La question de Netanyahu, « Where the hell are you ? », Kristof la retourne : où étiez-vous pour les Palestiniens ? Où sont les condamnations ? Où sont les sanctions ? Où sont les ambassadeurs qui se déplacent avec des caméras ? Où sont les suspensions d'aide militaire ?

Nulle part. Parce que les victimes ne sont pas les bonnes. Parce qu'être Palestinien, c'est être une victime de seconde zone. Parce que l'Occident a choisi son camp, celui du violeur plutôt que du violé.

Et bien sûr, la hasbara est aux abois. « l’article le plus antisémite des temps modernes ». Leur seul argument : crier au loup pour qu'on ne regarde pas leurs monstres. Mais les victimes, elles, ne crient pas. Elles saignent.

Article du NYT en commentaire.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

israel just committed a crime in European waters. It defies all morality—and respect for international law—that just days from now, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will welcome the perpetrator to whitewash its crimes before 50% of the European population.

Governments have a duty to protect their citizens. Inarguably, governments also have a collective obligation under international law to do everything in their power to protect people everywhere, and anywhere, from genocide.

This includes isolating perpetrators of war crimes at the cultural level and refusing participation in propagandistic efforts to scrub the face of genocide clean. Russia was banned from Eurovision over its invasion of Ukraine—a crime exceeded by the pariah state of israel many times over in scope, and in cruelty. The lack of moral consistency is glaring.

Fans, participants and broadcasters have a duty to act.

#BoycottEurovision

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

JURY FAILS TO CONVICT MAJID!

'The state exhausted considerable resources trying to prosecute me based on emojis, duas (prayers), and posts online'

'I welcome the opportunity of a retrial because it means the evidence of what "israel" has done to Gaza the brutality the systematic destruction of an entire people will once again be placed before a jury of the British public' - @Majstar7

DROP THE RETRIAL.
FREE MAJID. FREE SPEECH. 🇵🇸🇬🇧

[Areti Athanasiou @AretiAthanasiu]

Φραντσέσκα Αλμπανέζε: «Δεν υπάρχει τίποτα στον κόσμο τόσο εύθραυστο όσο τα φτερά μιας πεταλούδας.
Αλλά αν τα φτερά όλων των πεταλούδων στον κόσμο αρχίζουν να χτυπούν όλα μαζί, αυτό δεν είναι ποίηση.
Είναι φυσική!
Είναι το "φαινόμενο της πεταλούδας".
Και μπορούν να προκαλέσουν τσουνάμι.
Και αυτό είναι το τσουνάμι που πρέπει να προκαλέσουμε κάνοντας το σωστό όλοι μαζί.
Ας κάνουμε δικαιοσύνη.»

[Petra Schurenhofer @PetraSchur]

@thiagoavilabr Reminder (if one is needed) that Israel kidnapped Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila in European waters. In Greece’s search and rescue zone. Over 600 miles from Gaza.

Great to see that they are finally free!