Kevin O'Riordan

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ā€œWhen the lines blurā€: Just because it has pedals doesn’t mean it’s a bicycle, GardaĆ­ warn

Overpowered bicycle-shaped objects are actually classed as e-mopeds and must be registered and insured, with the rider required to wear a helmet, GardaĆ­ have warned. A licence is also needed for The warning comes as often these e-mopeds are mistaken for pedal-assisted bicycles, which are called e-bikes for short. Both e-mopeds and e-bikes can have pedals, but there are…

https://irishcycle.com/2026/05/28/when-the-lines-blur-just-because-it-has-pedals-doesnt-mean-its-a-bicycle-gardai-warn/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

ā€œWhen the lines blurā€: Just because it has pedals doesn’t mean it’s a bicycle, GardaĆ­ warn

Overpowered bicycle-shaped objects are actually classed as e-mopeds and must be registered and insured, with the rider required to wear a helmet, GardaĆ­ have warned. A licence is also needed for Th…

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It goes in the square hole.
Be aware: if anybody contacts you, it is a scam.
@fuzzix i think what people mean is "I miss being 20 years younger"

Further 36 infant remains recovered at Tuam mother and baby home site.

So many talking heads told us for so long there was nothing to be found there. And now no-one will be held responsible.

1975 2 boys found an underground chamber beneath a concrete slab, reportedly ā€œfilled to the brimā€ with children’s skeletons

2012 Catherine Corless told us all.

2017 an excavation found remains. But the GardaĆ­ said "These are historical burials going back to famine times."

2026 more bodies turning up.

@karhutar @infobeautiful yeah, this is just the old US gov/mil estimates, I think: https://www.state.gov/national-foreign-affairs-training-center/foreign-language-training

Not sure anyone takes these seriously.

Technical Difficulties

@sotolf yeah, everything about this AI surge has been awful. Can we have another AI winter already?

@sotolf

Cory Doctorow hit on this in his *reverse centaur* talk

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

> "... the same way an exec gives shitty notes to a writers' room. You know: 'Make me ET, except it's about a dog, and put a love interest in there, and a car chase in the second act.' ... you say that to a writers' room and they all make fun of you and call you a fucking idiot suit. But you say it to an LLM and it will cheerfully shit out a terrible script that conforms exactly to that spec

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

who called it an AI girlfriend and not ā€œslop! in the name of loveā€

It’s time to stop posting on X

https://disconnect.blog/its-time-to-stop-posting-on-x/

There aren’t any good arguments left to stay on Elon Musk’s platform

Thank you, @parismarx

(for my part, I quit Twitter in 2017 šŸ˜Ž)

It’s time to stop posting on X

There aren’t any good arguments left to stay on Elon Musk’s platform

Disconnect