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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 9h

Israel is supported by the European Union.

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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 15h

Manifest destiny and if you will it it is no dream are the same thing!

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Native American Land Cessions Map

Alt: Native American Land Cessions Map

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 16h

This is a very good point. The ESRI data showed that the sector wasn't in crisis at all yet the government did this on the basis of hearsay and interviews with whining hoteliers. They didn't need to blockade anything, their interests were viewed as automatically paramount.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 13h

Well its not like we had any sort of existential questions about our Economic position in 2002... *opens DotCom Bubble Wiki* Oh no... *opens 9/11 Wiki* Oh no! *opens China & The World Trade Organisation Wiki* Oh dear God, NO!

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US 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 2002

Yields on the US Treasury’s longest-dated bond rose for a sixth straight day, crossing another key threshold amid a deepening selloff across global debt markets.

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Alex is Alive 🏳️‍⚧️ @modestlyhottownie.latinsky.app · 13h

Next phone I get is gonna be a punkt or jitterbug, I tell yeah!

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 18h

Ffs 😒 #SpéirGorm

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 18h

The UK government is still selling arms to Israel making all the UK cabinet complicit in genocide, ethnic cleansing & war crimes meme via Mark Andresen

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 20h

New report uses publicly available data to explore data centre development & 'disproportionate drain on public resources' — 'Data centres may have consumed as much water in Ireland last year as about 340,600 homes, some 18.5% of total number of occupied dwellings' www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Data centres ‘may have used as much water’ last year in Ireland as more than 340,000 homes

New research highlights poverty of information about energy-intensive sector’s footprint

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 28/09/2026

A bad week for government and their promotion of big tech and their data centres. A good week for the public, who can clearly see the Irish government's absolute subservience to big tech.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Contagious yawning has been observed in humans, but there is also evidence for interspecific contagious yawning among non-human animals. Original post

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fifty years ago, British Labour leader James Callaghan used his party conference speech to promote some of the key ideas associated with neoliberalism. A close look at the speech can help explain why neoliberalism keeps defying predictions of its demise.

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A Labour Prime Minister Inaugurated Britain’s Neoliberal Era

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thrilloilogy 🍉🔻 @thrilloilogy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh look, the Brits genociding people through starvation again

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Paul Steel 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇵🇮🇪🇸🇯🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇹🇨🇭🇨🇦 🇬🇱🍉 @pasteel61.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How can it be a war when only one side has all the weapons? I think what he is calling for is accelerated genocide! Just like his buddy, Ben Gvir who wants 30-40 Palestinians killed every night. These people are pure evil with full western complicity!

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shiny stage moments don't work for generating major government commitments anymore The EU announces $810M "to help people affected by crisis in Africa". Sounds great! Small print: $430M of it is to tackle migration and support voluntary return www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

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EU unlocks humanitarian aid for crises worldwide

EU allocates majority of aid to sub-Saharan Africa to fund actions related to migration, conflict and food insecurity.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At least the soup-takers had the humility to bow their heads during the Israeli anthem, but it didn't come across as a gesture of protest - instead, it looked like shame. May the stain of this night never leave them.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We must support Gavin Bazunu for standing up against genocide. He’s being thrown under the bus with no support from his team and may be in a lonely place. Fuck the FAI and well done to Gavin for his strength. #StoptheGame #FreePalestine www.instagram.com/p/DdwuIoGRaO...

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gavin_bazunu on Instagram

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Getting the evil spirits out

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Those who have the connections and money, will keep going to see healthcare professionals in other EU countries, and those who can't will use prescription medication smuggled into the country. Sound familar? #mybodymychoice #TransHealthCarenow #Spéirgorm

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ali mcforever @alimcforever.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

control that narrative pete #evil

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Sado @marinovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When The Clock Broke By @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is a masterpiece. I came of age in the 90’s and so I am aware of most of these stories but I don’t think the avg person gets how much of history is rhyming right now. Rodney king and George Floyd Ross Perot and Elon musk It’s nuts. 1/2

Of course, Gates ostensibly believed that the officers should have been prosecuted.)
What Chief Gates knew was that the LAPD was as much about image as anything. Officers had to look tough, they had to look imposing, they had to look professional to represent the idea of an elite praetorian guard for society. This was part of their marketing to the public, as Parker had put it. The beating of Rodney King was its own kind of propaganda, in keeping with the LAPD's image, a propaganda of the deed: this was a message, a statement that this is what will happen to you. It was a message delivered many times before, but it was not meant to be seen by the entirety of the public, that stuff was just to be known about by certain communities.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The West helped create Vladimir Putin. A senior Western diplomat warned in 1994 where capitalist 'shock therapy' would take Russia. They ignored him - and ended his diplomatic career.

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll just say that the Irish delegates that attended and didn't walk out are fucking cowards and do not represent Ireland as a nation. #FuckIsrael

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Irish government supports Israel's genocide.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Palestinians run in fear after an Israeli airstrike hits families sheltering in tents, as pools of blood stains the streets of Gaza.

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😒😒😒 #SpéirGorm

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly painful listening to a former Irish *justice minister* who is a shameless Zionist genocide apologist on RTE Radio One just now.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/09/2026

For the longest time, ambiguity has circulated on who in the USG under the Biden administration was in favor of the Israeli plan to "temporarily" expel Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai, and it seems it is abundantly clear that at least Blinken and Satterfield wanted to push it. Egypt said no.

At the beginning of the war, Ahmed reports, U.S. humanitarian envoy David Satterfield suggested moving the population of Gaza into Egypt. Satterfield denied this when asked, but the book strangely omits context from the time suggesting that someone in the administration (if not Satterfield himself) was considering this gambit. In the first week of the war, Blinken tried "to negotiate the safe passage of Palestinian civilians from Gaza to Egypt," only to pull back on the plan when Egyptian leaders said it sounded like a permanent expulsion, according to The Washington Post. Around the same time, the Israeli intelligence ministry circulated a paper that did propose a forcible, permanent expulsion of Palestinians into Egypt, and The Economist reported that diplomats of unnamed nationality were hoping to use promises of debt relief to get Egypt to take in Palestinians.

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Jay @ the deep dive @thedeepdive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DOE reaching out to trading firms and refiners about participating in crude oil loans tied to its 172 million barrel SPR drawdown.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3M Gallon Spill After the largest oil & gas spill in WI history, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations. Article at our site.

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

€25million worth of property. Not happy with just occupying Palestine and South Lebanon, Israeli illegal occupations now include Ireland.

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"Israeli landlords seeking retention permission for illegal rental properties
An Israeli-owned property company with a history of prohibition notices for its rentals in Ireland is seeking retention permission for the third time in Phibsborough for an illegal letting."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump: I call Steve Witkoff "Henry Kissinger Jr"

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