Notices by Gerard Cunningham ✒️ (faduda@mastodon.ie)

As Picard Day/Bloomsday (16 June) approaches, once again calling on all Trekkies to get into the spirit of things by showing up in Dublin in Starfleet uniforms to cosplay the crew arriving in the Edwardian era after encountering a subspace anomaly

@skinnylatte Ramadan begins tomorrow.

Bezos must be so proud of himself today

EDIT: Over 82.5% now. Come one folks, let's do it.

Ireland has gone from 58% to 70% in the last 24 hours. Can we keep the momentum going? Only 2000 more signatures needed to reach our national target. Sign and share.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#/screen/home

in the future, everyone will be prime minister of France for 15 minutes.

@kevinrns @Oldfartrant
2016: America shot itself in the foot.
2020: Having considered the consequences last time, America reloaded and took aim again.

@dalias @frosch @codinghorror

Won't matter. I can add a plugin, and it clearly expressed my preference. That's enough for a Court to make a ruling.

@frosch @dalias @codinghorror

Eventually an EU court will declare DNT legally binding, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Anyone who uses AI for profit, to generate an image an illustration, or for any other reason, needs to be shunned.

This is what you are promoting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html

Do you still think *any* US corporation can be trusted with your data.
It's never an isolated incident. MS was just honest enough to say it out loud.

Microsoft Acknowledges It Cannot Shield Foreign Data From U.S. Government Requests - TechStory
https://techstory.in/microsoft-acknowledges-it-cannot-shield-foreign-data-from-u-s-government-requests/

@Nickiquote

Well he's doomed...

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0724/1525242-trump-alleged-assassin/

@artemis Supergirl spent several seasons pushing the same immigrant storylines. They weren't subtle about it either, so much so that Dean Cain left the show in a huff.

We had some loose talk about an Irish honours list a few weeks ago.
Here's the thing.
Official Ireland would have seen to it that Sinead O'Connor would never have made that list.
And that's why it's not worth having.
We already know who our heroes are.

@dec23k If no title is conferred then that becomes moot.
Otherwise you'd find everything from Scott medals and Gaisce to Aosdana declared unconstitutional.

@dec23k

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

@Antiqueight Honestly I'd rather save a newsroom

@Antiqueight @nwhyte

John.

@Antiqueight @gutenberg_org
Household Words would have been another publication, which merged/was taken over

@Antiqueight
https://www.thejournal.ie/last-council-seat-women-breed-more-kildare-6408002-Jun2024/