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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · 4d ago

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A mysterious buying spree is unsettling Europe’s booksellers Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that tech companies are using them to train AI. Last May Tomás Kenny of famous Galway book retailer Kennys received what he describes as a “bananas” online order for 5,000 books. But it was less the scale of the order that caught his eye and more its eclectic selection. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europes-booksellers/ #ai #slurp #bookstodon

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Jul 19, 2026

Today I discovered that Ireland has the largest trove of Bronze Age musical instruments in Europe. I heard the ‘Wicklow Pipes’ from Charlesland, Co. Wicklow, dating to circa 2,240 BC, with a 6 tone scale. https://www.ancientmusicireland.com/ Simon O’Dwyer and Maria Cullen O’Dwyer https://www.dorlindon.com/en/music-in-the-forest/june-august-2026/index.php Ancient Music Festival Music In The Forest 2026 Weekend Afternoons | June–August 2026 | 3–5pm Dorlindon Nature Sanctuary, Co. Wicklow #music #archaeology #ancientmusic #ireland

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @dbattistella@mstdn.ca

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca 18 years after Whitacre's Cloudburst.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @MJmusicinears@mastodon.world

@MJmusicinears@mastodon.world @skykiss@sfba.social One of the Communist fellow travelers we've been warned about.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · May 11, 2026

Replying to @Pauliinalievonen@mementomori.social

@Pauliinalievonen@mementomori.social Or put two or three fingers stacked vertically in your mouth. Next, sing all the different vowels without changing your mouth shape; puts the focus on the tongue position.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · May 02, 2026

#LeMOT 1575 3/6

🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜
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#LeMotLeJeu

https://www.solitaire-play.com/lemot/

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · May 02, 2026

Replying to @runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz

@runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz It must take acute hearing to identify all these:

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 30, 2026

#LeMOT6 1517 3/6

⚪🔵🟠🔵⚪⚪
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🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠
#LeMotLeJeu

https://www.solitaire-play.com/lemot6/

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 30, 2026

https://www.aramblersblog.com/post/world-war-1-walk-in-gorey

World War I recalled with Gorey town walk
Mick O'Callaghan writes:
"I have participated in many events in Gorey over the years, but this war walk was the best. The weather was unkind and wet but over 30 people attended. The walk was led by Willy Willoughby to remember all the men from the Gorey area who fought in World War 1. Brian Kenny an expert on The Great War, joined the group and he was accompanied by 3 others dressed in World War 1 uniforms....."
#WW1 #Gorey #walk

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 26, 2026

I haven't seen these in a while.
#vintage #cars

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @janwwbosch@mastodon.ie

@janwwbosch Israeli soldier photographed in antisemitic act.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @AoifeGreenhamIllustrations@mastodon.ie

@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations@mastodon.ie €2 buys a pack of three toothbrushes and you get the bonus of finger exercise.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @nigelharpur@musicians.today

@nigelharpur@musicians.today @mcmullin@musicians.today @composers@fedigroups.social The story of pretty well every special interest group on mastodon except cat pictures and US politics. Present company excepted.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @carnage4life@mas.to

@carnage4life@mas.to to the guy who cut Medicare, increased drug prices with tariffs and then portrayed himself as a miracle working healer?

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @jlin@cosocial.ca

@jlin@cosocial.ca thank you!

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @jlin@cosocial.ca

@jlin@cosocial.ca lovely! What piece are they singing?

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Apr 11, 2026

Tempting treats at this morning's Farmers Market.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Mar 23, 2026

Michael Gelb’s How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci
https://www.kennys.ie/other-categories/psychology/how-to-think-like-leonardo-da-vinci-seven-steps-to-genius-every-day

Try (4)
Sfumato (literally, “Going up in Smoke”) – A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Mar 19, 2026

Replying to @claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

@claralistensprechen3rd @Michigander With a VT.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @sabinehiller@mastodon.ie

@sabinehiller @EUCommission @Bundesregierung "The Isfahan governor, Mehdi Jamalinejad, said the damage had been inflicted even after coordinates of the historic sites had been circulated among the warring parties and after blue shield signs – denoting historical treasures under the 1954 Hague convention for the protection of cultural objects in war – had been put on the roofs of important buildings."

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Mar 01, 2026

https://www.cmc.ie/opportunities/choral-sketches-2026
Deadline: 2 March 2026 12:00
Chamber Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland are now seeking applications for Choral Sketches with composer mentor Rhona Clarke.

Choral Sketches is a unique artist development opportunity for composers resident in Ireland who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music with mentoring from renowned Irish composer Rhona Clarke.

#Competition for #choral #composers
@thearcanecomposer@mastodon.art

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @Sevapopov@mastodon.ml

@Sevapopov@mastodon.ml @meganmariehart@mastodon.social Follow @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I just use the web interface. In my settings I entered various search terms I was interested in so I see them in my feed. Use US and British spelling eg #humor #humour

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @Sevapopov@mastodon.ml

@Sevapopov@mastodon.ml @meganmariehart@mastodon.social AFAIK people can opt out of allowing full-text search of their posts. If so, you can only find people talking about opera if they use a hashtag #opera.

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Jan 27, 2026

Replying to @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social

@andrewstroehlein 'Judy is a rabbi. “I did protective presence in the West Bank,” Lime told me, referring to a form of protest in which activists try to deter settler violence by simply being present in Palestinian communities. “This is very similar.”"

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Dec 13, 2025

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Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

Seeding the LLM training data

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Aug 27, 2024

Replying to @TFFPrisoner@mastodon.social

@TFFPrisoner@mastodon.social @bartholin@fops.cloud 🙂 😄 👍

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Aug 27, 2024

Replying to @bartholin@fops.cloud

@bartholin@fops.cloud "togue"?

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Jul 13, 2024

Also, my arm and my liver

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Patrick O'Beirne @PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie · Sep 21, 2023

Replying to @IanMoore3000@mastodon.ie

@IanMoore3000@mastodon.ie @TeamMidwest@glammr.us So did I - slightly disappointed that it's not an abbreviation of Glamorous 😏 "#GLAM is an acronym for #galleries, #libraries, #archives, and #museums, and refers to #cultural #institutions with a mission to provide access to knowledge" I'd use the direct method - google for the national / city institutions of interest and email them. Eg island.is #mastodaoine

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