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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All joking aside, I am really proud of Ireland today. Today the Irish government tried to overturn democratic norms and our opposition parties put aside their differences, presented a united front, and refused to be steamrolled. #spéirghorm #irishpol

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Dáil suspended until tomorrow. Fair play to the entire opposition (the real opposition, excluding Aontú). Now we need to keep this energy up for the entire Dáil term, not necessarily with continuous disruptions but definitely by constantly battering the government on their inevitable failures.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Verona Murphy must go, her position is completely untenable. Hopefully the opposition can either derail things enough to prevent government nomination today or get themselves all thrown out of the chamber. #GE24 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

No we have the same amount now, 2 each. Ruth Copinger is Solidarity/Socialist Party, not PBP.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I suppose if you want someone to represent "the Right" more broadly he's the go-to because Aontú are so distinct from the other parties. Realistically us in PBP get disproportionate airtime too for the same but opposite reason, we're the most obviously different left wing group vs the centre left.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You can't, it's a completely separate ecosystem.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Well the Mastodon equivalent. It uses ActivityPub like Mastodon which is fundamentally different from the AT protocol used here.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I already hated Ebert but oh my God what an absolute melt. The embodiment of the 🤓 emoji but backed by fascist militias.

Text describing Friedrich Ebert's annoyance at Philipp Scheidmann announcing a socialist government of the new Republic on 9 November 1918 from the Reichstag. He was irritated because the composition of the government would only be decided after the upcoming elections.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Did they do that here too or are you getting confused about the shenanigans in Austria? They hardly did the same thing there after getting caught here?

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

value must be being extracted as profit, so the company could afford and be forced to treat their employees better. There's no contradiction there, if anything socialism predicts that more people will fall into the ranks of unskilled labour over time due to increased automation.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This type of post has come over from Twitter now? As a socialist who has had worked multiple unskilled jobs before getting my current one, unskilled labour objectively exists, requiring less education and training and being less productive. However, under capitalism if the job exists at all surplus

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Caves of Quds, Balatro, basically any Atlus game, Vampire Survivors, highly modded Ravenfield.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hamas, not Palestinians as a whole. But yeah arrest warrants have been issued for their leaders (well just Deif now because the other two are dead) for the crime against humanity of extermination, among other things.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I really should keep studying for my final exam but I picked up Caves of Qud last night and played it for nearly three straight hours, I can't stop thinking about it now. It's soooooo good.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How do you mean? I'm talking about the undeniable core facts that have been confirmed by the UN, HRW and many others. The Israeli press did invent a handful of things but the core narrative of it being a murderous war crime is absolutely true.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

the most obvious example of which is the rampant October 7th denialism among people who are extremely pro-Palestine.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Not necessarily. Like I hate FG but they have done the bare minimum on Palestine and I wouldn't say they want the destruction of Palestine tbf, but one of their councilors came out with this a few months ago www.irishtimes.com/politics/202.... People who think they're on the left engage in it too,

irishtimes.com

FG councillor who said US economy is ‘ruled by the Jews, by Israel’ referred to party disciplinary process

Punam Rane, a councillor for Kimmage-Rathmines, made the remarks at a meeting of Dublin City Council

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

You're the first Irish politician as far as I'm aware to be (correctly) labelled a transphobe by bsky.app/profile/asuk.... It's good to know she's keeping up with goings on over here.

Screenshot showing Naomi being labelled for Enbyphobia, Transmisogny and Transphobia by the Asuka's Anti-Transphobia Field labeller

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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Do Sinn Féin not realise that we can see what they do in NI?

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hi Aaron, it's been two days of nothing now. Aside from the trust and safety aspects of your flip-flopping on this (trans people apparently don't deserve those) does it really make business sense to force some of your most active and passionate users off the platform? They built this community.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The idea that people actually follow all on starter packs is deranged. The only one I did the on was 404 media but that's only because there's like 6 of them lol. It should be disabled on any packs over 10 accounts long.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

HTS' official stance now seems to be that they will respect minorites and treat them equally as Syrians. They're obviously not secularists but they seem to have gone more heavily into Syrian nationalism than Islamism recently bsky.app/profile/char.... If you believe them that is.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Wow, they're actually in Damascus already. Hopefully HTS aren't too bad, their recent talk about reform and national unity is promising if they're telling the truth. Hopefully the worst case scenario of a complete collapse into infighting like Libya can be avoided. #Syria

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Wow, I was fully on the nothing ever happens train up to now but this is the clearest indicator yet that they might actually take Damascus. God help the Syrian people, no matter who wins.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yeah, there's a clear lack of class analysis. People are blaming him and other executives as individuals when it's the shareholders and their broader class who perpetuate the problem. Individual terrorism or murder won't fix anything because they'll just be replaced.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Why do liberals feel the compulsive need to support equality before the law? I'm not even a liberal but come on man, it's a core part of the worldview.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

No, even a suppressed .22 pistol will cycle reliably youtu.be/eHgTC1ZPyc8?.... As I said in another reply I wonder if the killer was using very low pressure ammo to be as quiet as possible.

youtu.be

Ruger Mark IV Tactical Suppressed .22LR Review (Hitman's Krugermeier) 22 pistol

YouTube video by 9-Hole Reviews

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Yeah, it doesn't actually do anything. We have no information yet so it could be an emotional/personal thing but if it was political or ideological it won't make a difference. Trotsky had a good piece on this www.marxists.org/archive/trot...

marxists.org

Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1911)

Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1909)

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hm, those don't look like normal jams if it's failing to cycle every time. Maybe very low pressure/power rounds without enough energy to cycle the bolt were used to be as quiet as possible?

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Castets is the only choice now. If Macron won't appoint her he should resign.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Target Down. Well done 47, now head towards an exit.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

No young people are using Facebook though.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The environment and experience is obviously much better than the other place but the decentralized potential is even more exciting. Every new detail I learn about atproto is fascinating, when I get the time over Christmas I'm definitely going to sit down and read all the documentation.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Francis Fukuyama the wrongest man in history

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fully presidential. From wiki: The President and Minister of National Defense are in charge of the entire military establishment, maintaining civilian control of the military. Presidential systems are idiotic.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What a goofy guy. Seriously though, who could've seen it coming that the man who openly admires Park Chung Hee didn't like democracy?

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If we're always going to be factional it's better to have open, organized factions than having them hidden. Ideally the socialist party would join too but I can't see that happening. It's still a fully coherent party though, unless you think FFG, Labour etc don't have competing wings inside them.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Oh no I agree with you that Solidarity is purely a front, you can't actually join it. RISE is not a party though, it's an organisation inside PBP, basically an officially recognized faction. I agree PBP was originally an SWP front but with the other networks there now it's much broader than that.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Solidarity isn't a real party (just a front group), it's actually the Socialist Party. RISE isn't a party at all but a network inside PBP, Paul is a PBP member.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In the Europeans (not this time because I managed to get her to properly transfer left) my mam went PBP, Aontú, Labour, FG, FF lmao.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Green Wipeout. It was always going to happen, hopefully the SocDems take a good amount of their seats. #GE24

A meme with an image of Roderic O'Gorman, leader of the Green Party, jokingly saying they got zero seats.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

More of a drop was predicted, although they are running too many candidates with too little of a local base for that kind of vote. Labour are on similar but have local party apparatuses and are more transfer friendly (for the center right). The Green vote will be heavily diluted.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Socialist Party I assume you mean? Yeah, the SP seems to be half abandoning the Solidarity front name. I don't know what the solution is though because it wouldn't make any sense to contest the same constituencies when we agree on 95% of things but a merger is also never happening.

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Bright Circuit @brightcircuit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

3.1%, quite a good result. Well done to all the PBP candidates for a strong campaign. Well done to the SocDems especially too, that's a great performance. #GE24

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