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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17m

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

Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 1h

ah yes, Jim Power, the economist for hire who writes all the reports claiming greyhound racing is an important part of our economy

ITIC believes that extending the VAT break would support businesses that draw tourists to towns and communities across the country.

Research by economist Jim Power shows the extension would cost the Government €17 million.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 2h

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty funny that ESPN provided the video proving that Jack Smith was at the Iowa-Maryland game. The GOP is a clown car wreck.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.

A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15h

an actually insane response to an award-winning independent news outlet

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 18h

Oh I understand them all right - they’re antisemites!

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15h

he came for the football, stayed for the networking opportunity

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Catholic Arena
@CatholicArena
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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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 21h

There was more punishment done against a trans professor giving a Christian student a low grade than the Cornell rapists ever received.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 17h

If I had to pick a favorite kind of conflict? It’s gotta be internecine

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

bylinetimes.com

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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David Mac Redmond @davidmacredmond.bsky.social · 16h

Must be exhausting to see every issue through the lens of racism

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16h

I actually appreciate Laoise making it this explicit that The Countess is only interested in exactly these culture war issues and otherwise has zero interest in safeguarding women or children

We at
@TheCountessIE
will never allow spurious accusations of racisms or bigotry stop in from calling our policy that places women and children at risk regardless of how in vogue it is or how sacred the protected class it pertains too. It is the birthright of women and children to be safe in this country and we will continue undaunted, to provide policy scrutiny and alternatives when it comes to trans ideology in all sectors of life and open border immigration.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 21h

your regular reminder that Martin Mansergh died on a visit of the Irish Association of Former Parliamentarians to Morocco during which they went to Occupied Western Sahara to "explore economic opportunities" for Irish companies

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 22h

> Country illegally occupies neighbour in post colonial mess > Builds settlements for its own citizens to move into the land > Ongoing insurgency and repression for decades > Builds "security barrier" to keep the occupied population confined > Surprise! It's Morocco

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 23h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 23h

An annoying argument in favour of FPTP is the idea that any PR system breaks the connection between MP and constituency. This argument is exceptionally annoying given that the UK's closest neighbour, Ireland, has a PR system that is arguably too locally focused. www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/policy-h...

Statement that "FPTP ensures that there is just one MP per
constituency. Polling shows this constituency link
to be very popular with British voters."

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in 2023, Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh of ethnic Armenians in a blatant war crime in October 2025, the UK dropped its longstanding arms embargo on Azerbaijan less than a year later, a junior defense minister is with 18 British companies at an arms industry conference in Baku

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

all these hockey shows getting greenlit and no one buying the international distribution rights to Shoresy

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met

Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

people on the other place are wetting themsleves with excitement at the latest supposedly thorough database of public spending. €49 a year he's charging for "Every line of public spending in Ireland", but it clearly isn't comprehensive if it doesn't show Mattie McGrath's contracts with Tipp CoCo!

X post by William Kennedy. It reads

I have spent the last few weeks building Public Purse Ireland.

Its aim is simple. List every line item of government expenditure with the supplier, description and the amount, starting with grants and purchase orders.

No fancy charts, no broad economic strokes, but just there in black and white.

The information is out there, scattered and hidden on the web. Public Purse brings it under one roof.

Every line of Irish public spending. Yours to use.
One licence unlocks the full dataset, a developer API, and AI assistants that can answer questions about the money in plain English. Support Public Purse while the early price still exists.

€49 VAT included · 12 months

This founding price is limited. Once it goes, it goes — lock it in before the offer ends.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again all it takes to get left wingers to adopt a an antisemitic nazi meme is drawing a very thin line through "Jews" and hastily scribbling "Israel" above it. Your solidarity is being twisted, you are being memed into using their terms, you are being played for absolute fools

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is true and well-put but it is not unique to this matter. if the purpose of a system is what it does, one of the main purposes of social media is the mass production of reckless speculation. one of the most powerful pollutants in our informational ecosystem

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026

Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men like Tracey have a much more radical understanding of sexual violence than even some feminists - they know that rape isn't an individual moral failing, but a weapon in a larger war, and they're terrified of being disarmed.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??

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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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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think it's pretty bad that a senior lecturer in Irish politics is issuing statements on Drumcree that'd be embarrassingly ignorant from an undergraduate, a senior lecturer who recently used his newspaper column to boast that he refuses to "decolonise" his curriculum

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

an astounding statement from the leader of the supposed party of non-sectarian centrist liberalism

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

after the government ran its rigged "consultative forum" on security, they managed to increase support for abolishing the Triple Lock by two points. unfortunately for their scheme, they also managed to increase support for maintaining the Triple Lock by two points.

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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 28/09/2026

You have to cook the question this much and it's still plurality in favor of the triple lock. C'mon lads, pack it in

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!

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Dáiligh @dailigh.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

The five stages of the One Ring’s journey to Mount Doom

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Phasers On Fun @humanspareparts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this podcast is freely available to the public but it will make you feel like an insider

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just heard a radio report refer to the Orange Order as "strong supporters of remaining in the United Kingdom" which, while not inaccurate per se certainly feels a little inadequate as a description

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

who's he talking to? the real Alex Jones popped like a balloon. I saw it on InfoWars

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sorry, this is even more shocking given I've now seen Paul Murphy stayed with the protesters longer

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

rural schools close down for lack of pupils year in, year out, and the right want to make it harder for immigrant families to move here we are seeing unprecedented levels of school refusal from young people in mental distress, and one of the right's main targets is a school anti-bullying policy

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hot Fuss was such a great British indie pop album, all the more impressive for the fact it was made by some Mormon boys from the American Southwest

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

Someone should tell Bryant there already was a compromise. It was the alternate route that's been taken for nearly 30 years and has worked pretty well despite the regular antagonising applications from Portadown Orange District LOL 1 to parade down Garvaghy Road where they're not wanted.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

some of the attendees, including Gavin Pepper, are calling it a "monster meeting". I've not heard such self-aggrandising bollocks in my life. it's a few hundred people in a hotel

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