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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay so like If I did this in Ireland I would be in a lot of trouble Like A LOT

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For a split second, I misread this as "Brian Blessed (Sharpe era)" and I was fucking INTRIGUED

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We don't hold truck with those Corkonians who take up with Jackeen "education." They probably fill their heads with all sorts of Pale nonsense, like extolling the virtues of coddle instead of bodice.

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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gutted not to get Peace or Literature this year but fair play to all the Nobel Laureates and on we go

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Irish solidarity with striking unions still goes strong 52 light-years from Earth and 400 years into the future.

Miles O'Brien; "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We accept nobody who went to Belvedere as a true Corkonian

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Although tbf at least Murphy liked trams

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's a certain type of Irish politician who's very glad indeed that the poets and socialists and iconoclasts were dead (for ~reasons~) before 1922.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That we are ending up with public executions would surprise neither William Golding nor Shirley Jackson. The only surprise is that it has taken those with power so long.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]

It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]

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End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.

On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026

Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

thenerdreich.com

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The anniversary of the finest piece of Bluesky trolling we have ever witnessed passed unnoticed. For shame.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can the latest version of Eliza on the ZX Spectrum feel empathy? It at least behaves as if it does, according to a guy who typed in the magazine code listing for it after installing a new Cheetah 32K rampack.

Hi! Spectrum Player 1
I'm Eliza. What's your problem?
I do not really have many problems
Are you saying no, just to be negative?
No I am being honest I really feel OK today
Did you come to me because you are being honest you really feel OK today
Well not really
You are being a bit negative.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gyles Brandreth is 78. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

telegraph.co.uk

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are they looking for a General Strike, or

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Siobhán Mullally for the ECtHR job?

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Surely nobody will actually pass a Leinster House picket on Wednesday? I mean, I know that the lads might think that it shows mettle or whatever tf, but the idea of not passing a picket is fairly ingrained in the Irish psyche. My parents, not exactly pinkos, had it instilled in me at about age six.

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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pouring one out to a real one

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The EHRC are stupid enough to do a blow-by-blow repeat of their previous shenanigans. I say: Yes, please do this - launch a deep investigation. Do it when our fugee-hunting Home Secretary is on TV, while Jeremy Vine asks callers whether black people can be British, while fascists riot in the street.

@TimesRadio
X.com
The Green Party has been referred to the equalities watchdog over its 'Zionism is racism' motion.
"The same group made similar complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn," says political correspondent
Terry Stiastny.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and this the response. It’s the pettiness of it that disgusts as much as anything else, and the servility of those who go along with it. To adapt the line about Caligula: “Never better slaves to a worse master.”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I need to reread Hannah Arendt on society's descent into barbarism

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For some light relief: this morning Gerry Carroll MLA accused Gavin Robinson MP of blocking a road during the summer riots. Robinson threatened legal action and Nolan shut Carroll down. So... people have found the footage of Gavin Robinson standing on a road talking to protesters.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

official confirmation that the paperwork is made up after the arrest, it is literally just a people stealing operation

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nailed it

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 09/10/2026

"That pie in the sky is almost within reach, comrades," says member of class currently dedicating every ounce of their resources to blasting themselves into space to avoid ever having responsibility toward other, lesser, human beings.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I assume this is a bombshell because a real person who matters has said it, because it was absolutely crystal clear at the time that he didn’t give a fuck and the IDF were implementing the programme of destruction and mass slaughter they had been itching to put into practice for many years.

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu's military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lorax

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(For context, the Fort Hood shooter is partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.)

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Occasionally, just to mix things up, he'll "reject" things, instead of denying them

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

only four weeks until we learn who is the winner of the 2026 FIFA Peace Prize, which means that their selection committee is probably deep into deliberations and voting as we speak. exciting!

screenshot from FIFA's website dated Wednesday 5th November 2025. text reads:

FIFA introduces the FIFA Peace Prize - an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, "Jim O'Callaghan denies" is a daily headline at this stage - remember "Yes, Minister"? "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

static.klipy.com

Yes Minister - Smudge

ALT: Yes Minister - Smudge

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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was in the Omniplex with dad last night and we queued up at the counter to buy our tickets but the girl said if you're paying by card you have to go to the machines so I said my dad is an old man so we have to buy it in person for the discount? And she's like there are no more discounts, fuck off

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026

I was trying to remember the name of the author of a novel I read earlier this year - named An Underachiever's Diary - and instead Google wrote me an AI short story about an underachiever???? what??? why??? aahhhhh!!

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