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If I cared a fuck what Claude thought about something then I'd have asked it. If I'm asking _you_ it's because I want and value _your_ opinion. Don't fucking respond with Claude screenshots unless you're admitting your irrelevance 🤦‍♂️

You think this is about AI but I think it’s about social media

Earthling@ziyatong.bsky.social

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My superpower is being able to identify different members of the Corvid family beyond just “crows”: jackdaws, hooded crows, rooks, ravens. I was genuinely delighted to discover a territory of Ravens down the road, first time seeing them in the wild I am the least impressive incarnation of The Crow

An Emergency Summer’s Day because we can’t plan when summer will happen so we need to make the most of it when it does

Big Monster Love@bigmonsterlove.bsky.social

Ireland should have one floating bank holiday and it should be tomorrow.

Irish strawberries at the farm shop. Nothing better!

Banning social media for under 16’s is functionally equivalent to requiring identity verification for anyone to use social media. It’s just that the former is acceptable to society and latter isn’t

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world doesn't need another blog post about AI, how it's changing software development, and the impending collapse of the SaaS industry and loss of our jobs. But, I guess I needed to write one anyway: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/06/20/s...

I recently heard @jessitron.bsky.social use the analogy of furniture in relationship to AI-coding: sure you can hand-craft a table but IKEA also exists for everyone else. open.spotify.com/episode/6Vua...

Lzzy and Joe from Halestorm doing an acoustic set in Dublin and bringing more noise than most bands could dream of. An epic gig. Stupidly good

The Muppets Christmas Carol

just chase@manacurves.bsky.social

Hellraiser. Doug Bradley is still Pinhead. Everybody else? Muppets.

With summers like these, who needs winter? #ireland

Went to the pool a bit low on energy but it was ok because I’d printed out both a 3km and 5km session so I could choose the shorter one. Got to the changing rooms to discover I’d printed out the 5km session twice. Whelp. That’s my #fitness hack for today

Every Fable has a lesson behind it and today’s is: you need to build and invest in frontier sovereign AI models and not rely on US tech companies.

Sometimes it’s nice just to swim because I can. No pacing beeper. No warm-up. No drills. No intervals. Just me and 2km of continuous swimming. It’s a nice surprise that I took 44secs of my best time (from January) and at ~8/10 intensity.

My experience: IBM did all those things Podia has never done any of them

Jason Gorman@jasongorman.bsky.social

Things that won't make your dev teams more agile: * Sprint planning * Daily stand-ups * Retrospectives * Backlog grooming * Planning poker * Burndown charts Things that /will/ make them more agile: * Being able to ship changes with confidence sooner Well done for forgetting that one!

I’ve been listening to Shinedown’s new album ‘Ei8ht’ on repeat since Friday. It’s always a joy when artists still produce albums like a cohesive whole and not a random collection of songs

Made this last week as a bit of fun to tease Podia’s new branding on podia.com (just launched, pending acceptance by the DNS gods). This also marks our major pivot towards community features because, in this AI world, content is dead as a creator business model and connection is everything.

Such a loserfest! 🥱 Only _one_ record “broken”, and it required drugs and a super suit banned for the last 20 years to knock 0.07secs off Cam McEnvoy’s 50m freestyle record. I’m betting Cam will smash that again in LA. Couldn’t have wish for a better advisement for clean sports

The Journal@thejournal.ie

The controversial Enhanced Games have ended in Las Vegas with just one athlete managing to beat a world record time - and that result will not be recognised by official sporting bodies. The event allowed athletes to compete while taking performance-enhancing drugs. jrnl.ie/7050757

Smol fox!

You can probably imagine your kid's first day of school but no one prepares you for their last day of school 😭