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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2h

It would be so helpful if they did a big focused campaign to get rid of home heating oil. Our house (built in the 70s) is stuck with oil, and to change I'd need to spend a fortune changing the radiators, and retrofitting. I know there are existing grants, but they wouldn't go near the cost.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18h

There is still huge resentment in this town about the amount of time, energy and money that was used up by #Brexit from 2016 to 2020. The last thing people want is to start that process again only to have a new government come in and torpedo the talks.

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Brussels reacts to Burnham’s EU rejoin gambit

The assessment in the EU has not changed over the past five years; in order to start rejoin talks, they would need to see overwhelming cross-party support in the UK.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

It's also bad for European businesses: they have to play by the rules and compete with American businesses that don't. Of all the EU countries that could side with foreign authoritarian rule, I really wouldn't have thought it'd be Ireland. And yet here we are.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

In exchange for massive tax income and investment from the MAGA companies, Ireland simply doesn't apply the GDPR. Or only applies it superficially, extremely slowly, when forced to by external pressure. Because the biggest surveillance companies are there, this harms 450 million Europeans.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

And finally… PROBLEM: Ireland. GDPR enforcement follows a business's residence. So if you're in Poland and Google violates the GDPR with your data, you have to seek recourse where Google is set up, which is Ireland (same for Meta, Microsoft, and many others).

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Elmo Fire: Green Elmo in Flames

Alt: Elmo Fire but Green

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

And the funny thing is: making the data economy better for businesses that aren't tech monopolies also brings better privacy to people. Anyone telling you it's a choice between the two has been snorting too much tech lobbying.

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Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme

Alt: Why Not Both?

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

For context: Ireland is MAGA's primary beachhead in Europe. As indicated in the video, part of the proposal is that you would no longer need to consent to your personal data being used if it's for AI. The only companies this benefits are those with large existing surveillance systems: MAGA techs.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something notable about this is the use of banal - even sympathetic! - surface logic to justify the ban. "Memorials should be in a dedicated space", "it is disrespectful to have memorials where they can be stepped on" etc etc Also notable that the local CDU supported this

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sorry, are Sinn Féin seriously proposing EBT cards for poor families? fucking food stamps?

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 01/10/2026

OK, I remember how this went ten years ago on old Twitter. Time to put wax in my ears.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

German politicians deciding people will keep voting fascist unless they restore a 1980s model of manufacturing is perhaps the most depressing abdication of political leadership I've seen in a long time.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

gonna ask my GP to put me down. 👍

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On 30th September 1957 a coup* in the Republic of San Marino, supported by Italy, leads to the fall of the Communist-Socialist coalition that has governed the micro-state since 1945 and its replacement with a government led by the Christian Democrats (*coup or not? You decide) [Thread] >> 1

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God this choc ice. What geographical or party mathematics led to this hanging chad being given a whole complete entire portfolio with a booster seat at actual cabinet?

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Malcolm Tucker: He's So Dense That...

ALT: Malcolm Tucker: He's So Dense That...

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK-EU relationship is like a bad rom-com. The UK broke up with the EU. The EU was shocked and sad about it. But soon realized there was a lot about the UK that was annoying (opt outs, hostility to federalism, America’s poodle) and they moved on. 1/2

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.

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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day'

📸 Precious Life

Anti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal.

Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 30/09/2026

The enshittification of Google Maps continues. I just tried to find a locksmith along my route home, and the new Gemini button, after thinking for 30 seconds, suggested a 12 km, 1 hour detour all the way across Dublin, passing maybe 4 locksmiths along the way? Stunning, no notes

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Tom Gleeson @tggleeson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Small parties that burn intensely bright but short (usually due to being utterly destroyed in subsequent elections) often have the most long term influence in our system. Clann na Poblachta, the PDs, the Greens. Rural right-leaning breakout will be next probably? In PR-STV votes have consequences.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A FlyDubai plane issued emergency signals while heading towards Tel Aviv and IDF jets were scrambled in response. The cause: the two FlyDubai pilots had a brawl.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

says something about the workings of Ireland's democracy that we have no mechanisms to keep the government in check on climate. Climate Action Plan delayed, public transport not funded, Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity ignored

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Rose Mullen's The Mummy 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just did some quick maths (divide his net worth by 150000, then divide my yearly income by that number). This is the equivalent of me donating 0.009c (in euro, or 0.01c US)

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 29/09/2026

Ah, the British triple lock and the Irish triple lock are very different from each other. That's something I learnt today.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

This goes for Ireland too. I have not seen one single MSM journalist ask O’Callaghan, Burke, or Lawless how they reconcile their desire to cut immigration numbers with their own governmental reports showing an economic need for MORE inward migration. #speirghorm

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm out on the Pantibar/Pennylane staff summer party and I've been dragged to a straight club for the first time in a long time, and I just want to say to straight people: I am *so* sorry. I had no idea! It must be so awful being straight. All my love! Sending thoughts and prayers. 🙏

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Gaz Ubermick @ubermick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good lord II - go harder.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cooking in a Bedsitter has arrived in Secondhand. Is that a mouse hanging on the cover? 🐭 Inside: a lovingly handwritten recipe involving beans, chilli, “thickish brown gravy” and fruit added at the end. We cherish the note. We have some questions about dinner.

A handwritten recipe on a torn sheet of lined paper found inside the book. It begins by simmering red beans, then adds onion, chilli powder, mushrooms and meat. The beans are stirred into “thickish brown gravy”, with fruit added near the end.

Worn black paperback cover of Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. A candle stands beside a row of hooks holding a cup, food, a knife and a small furry object that looks rather like a mouse.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No explosives were found in the three white vans, Bloomberg reports. The investigation continues.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'i once got the president of the united states to congratulate us on the arrest of some doggers we found in a lane in gloucestershire'

bob mortimer reading a prompt card on would i lie to you?

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David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So that man who started that IDF chant at the match yesterday, as seen in that video doing the rounds? Same guy in the pic visiting the Dáil to visit Jennifer Carrol McNeil of Fine Gael and the Ireland Israel Alliance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoseph_... #Spéirgorm

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Notes from the Apocalypse Number 18,780 in an occasional series: A crypto casino, Betbolt, has teamed up with Tommy Robinson to do a live fundraiser for Danno Tommo's "legal defence fund"...

To support the fight, all dealer tips on the Blackjack table today will be sent directly to Danny Tommo's cause. *
Tommy Robinson * • @TRobinsonNewEra • 4h
I was given this opportunity today & have decided to donate all the money I'm making from this to Danny tommo's family & his fight for freedom.

To support the fight, all dealer tips on the Blackjack table today will be sent directly to Danny Tommo's cause. 🇬🇧
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I was given this opportunity today & have decided to donate all the money I’m making from this to Danny tommo’s family & his fight for freedom.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026

My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can someone who is good at negotiations explain to me why capitulating to these guys didn’t placate them? Please my country is dying

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Will you not.

Former Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has just walked into the press box here in the stadium. His name was on the media list on behalf of the Jerusalem Post', and the 75-year-old has been very outspoken on his pro-Israel views regarding the current confleit in Gaza.

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John A @jengoallen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Garvaghy Road simplified.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Foreign Minister of the apartheid state. How often will the Irish government and the FAI allow these genocide perpetrators to insult us, to insult our team? The games against Israel must not go ahead. #StopTheGames

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Paedar Toibin and representives from FG, SF and Independent Ireland along with Malachy Steenson addressing the crowd alongside the 3 core fuel protest leaders.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping.

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Governor General to be dispatched by East India company to revolting region. He will travel via the Cape.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t think people hear the voices of the mothers, who earlier walked to the police line with their signs screaming “why? Why? Why would you do this? What if this had to be your nephew? Why?” The pain in their voice is unbearable. Unbearable.

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brianmaxhouston.bsky.social @brianmaxhouston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh I for one *can’t wait* till all these people are in my Republic /s/

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Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey guys, does anyone know what ‘envelope gravy’ is? Photo taken in a Real Canadian Superstore in Toronto. I previously assumed it was your arse crack when you’ve had a wet fart. ‘Oh no, I have envelope gravy!’ sort of thing.

It’s a big blue sign hanging over Aisle 8 in a supermarket. It lists these things: Cake Mixes
Sugar & Spices
Envelope Gravy
Rice Crackers
Shake N' Bake

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Jason Roche @jasonroche.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know a lot of you love & tolerate racist relatives. They do love you too after all & want all the best for you in life. But them trying (always completely unprompted btw) to convert you to their rotted bigotry is where a line has to be drawn.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you'd listened in to the conversations between Himmler and his inner circle at Wewelsburg, you'd have been certain they were a gang of third-rate cranks. They killed millions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsb...

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Throughout history, old men have sent off young men to fight their wars..

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Michael Taylor @michael103.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

4. Club nights where you have to call a phone line to find the location on the evening and you pay on the door.

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