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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18h

Last RT: I know someone who asked a mate to provide a blurb for his novel, and instead of reading it the mate fed the whole book into ChatGPT and got that to blurb it instead. I had to be very gentle as I explained that meant his book was now in the cloud, his life's work stolen by a alleged friend

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h

POPE LEO: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment…”

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.
The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
6:30 AM • 10/10/26 • 217K Views

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 18h

a lot of people are convinced that it's impossible for the Faithful to banish all the Traitors before the final episode, but it is possible, it just requires one player to make a selfless choice (refuse blackmail). it will never happen, but the rules absolutely permit an early win

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Cornelius (aka Con) Traas @theapplefarmer.bsky.social · 19h

Nice day for picking apples. Red Prince at The Apple Farm, near Cahir.

Picture of an overfull bin of bright red apples, with a farmhouse in the background.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 20h

I just think it's kind of tiresome how, in a country with incredibly weak unions and industrial relations legislation, the government are trying to act wounded and outraged that unions are doing literally the only thing they can do to exercise leverage

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 21h

Ming Flanagan, Kathleen Funchion, Lynn Boylan, Aodhán Ó Riordáin, Michael McNamara

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the senior civil servant who worked on the report for McGuinness was on the mailing list of Agenda Europe, the secretive network of ultraconservative Christians he is currently the head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Dublin

His name is also on a leaked list of subscribers, from 2016, to a Google group for the previously mentioned Agenda Europe network, which campaigns against sexual and reproductive rights. Along with O'Beara, other names on the leaked list include two secretaries of state for the Vatican, other representatives from the Holy See, and the COMECE lobby group.

O'Beara also did not respond to requests for comment on this article.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

her brief as special envoy includes opposing religious discrimination across the world, but imo she discriminated against religious minorities while producing this report. she consulted eight Christian orgs, just one Muslim org, three secular groups (inc. the Masons?), but no Hindus or Buddhists

Mixing religion and politics
McGuinness’s report was prepared after consultation with 16 organisations in February. Half of those present were Christian.

The European Humanist Federation says the report’s recommendations are effectively “an endorsement of the requests made by Catholic organisations”. The federation was one of just three secular groups involved in the consultation.

Other groups consulted were Baha’i and Hare Krishna associations, one Muslim group, two Jewish groups, and the European Masonic Alliance.

openDemocracy understands that when humanists asked McGuinness whether she was listening more closely to religious voices, she said she did not have to treat all dialogue partners equally. When asked directly about this over email by openDemocracy, she did not respond.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

when Mairead McGuiness was the vice president of the European Parliament, she tried to give the religious lobby special privileges while blatantly favouring Christians this year, she was made the EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom or Belief outside the EU www.opendemocracy.net/en/revealed-...

opendemocracy.net

Revealed: controversial plan to boost religious lobby in Brussels, as far right pledges to fight for ‘Christian Europe’

Leaked proposals from a senior Irish politician, backed by powerful Christian lobbyists, raise stakes in European elections, where the far right is pushing for big gains

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

huge "every accusation is a confession" energy here, given Fine Gael is a not insignificant vector for infiltration of public institutions by Catholic fundamentalists who claim adherence to democratic values while working to undermine them

An X post by Fine Gael councillor Jim O'Leary that reads

EU is wakening up: Parliament passes resolution addressing concerns about Islamist entryism as a calculated strategy of infiltration in public institutions & civil society, pursuing a fundamentalist agenda that claims adherence to democratic values while working to undermine them

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

one of the most anti-union govts in Europe. still haven't legislated collective bargaining rights even

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I saw a video of his remarks in which Micheál Martin stated he was directly elected by the people, with the implication this gives him greater legitimacy than unions. he was, of course, only directly elected as a TD for Cork South-Central, which means he represents fewer people than SIPTU

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

correct. and Ulick McEvaddy was a funder and member of the No to Lisbon campaign back in 2008 with fellow US military contractor Declan Ganley

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

many such cases in Ireland. I am 100% sure Dan O'Brien would back a coup to topple a left government in this country. there is no question in my mind. he'd be straight in with a column on how sometimes you have to save democracy from itself. but it is most acute in FFG, for obvious reasons

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Micheál Martin does not actually believe in democracy, he believes in the periodic ratification of elite consensus at the ballot box, and he treats any attempt to oppose, resist or even question elite consensus as an attack on "democracy"

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"the Soc Dems are obviously angling to go into government with FFG" as opposed to SF who are much more obviously angling to go into government with just FF

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

obviously FG are fine with it all too, but it is quite interesting that it's FF leading the war on migrant rights, egged on by SF (led by an ex-FFer), Aontú (founded and led by an ex-FFer) and Independent Ireland (chaired by an ex-FFer)

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

also, absolutely incredible to bring up Armenians while defending the Israeli state against claims of genocide. the main state selling arms to Azerbaijan throughout the blockade and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, and which sponsors settler terrorism in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem.

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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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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this post has been stuck in my head because I was trying to reverse engineer the logic of why just these three genocides count, according to David Quinn. I still can't figure it out, but it is nonetheless interesting the only genocides that count are ones that were allowed to proceed uninterrupted.

An X post by David Quinn that reads

Genocide happened to the Jews, the Armenians, the Tutsis. The definition of genocide must not be stretched to meaninglessness.

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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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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."

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Yes Minister - Smudge

ALT: Yes Minister - Smudge

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 09/10/2026

A contentious hearing at rental regulator the RTB heard how gardaí were twice called to resolve disputes between Ireland's biggest landlord, Ires Reit, and a tenant who previously worked for the firm. jrnl.ie/7183257

jrnl.ie

Ireland's biggest private landlord firm tries to evict former employee from Dublin apartment

At a tribunal hearing, details were laid out about a souring of relations between Ires Reit and the tenant.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

as we face into weeks of industrial action by public workers, all I can say is: give 'em hell, comrades! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK...

youtube.com

Solidarity Forever

YouTube video by Pete Seeger - Topic

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The moral bankruptcy of these people. And to think so many liberals held up Tom Watson as some kind of moral paragon un the Corbyn years...

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Believes that the practice of concealing the face in public spaces and premises open to the public poses an unacceptable challenge to public security, identification and effective law enforcement; supports, therefore, all national measures aimed at prohibiting full-face coverings (niqab or burqa) in public spaces and premises open to the public as a necessary step to ensure social cohesion, public safety and the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, in particular women

whereas separatist narratives, systematic victimhood, antisemitism, anti-Christian hatred, hatred of Israel, conspiracy narratives, challenges to secularism, the use of religion as a tool of social control or the contestation of equality between women and men may constitute markers of ideological radicalisation or Islamist influence;

whereas the ongoing investigations into suspected electoral fraud in Borlänge and Järva, Sweden, illustrate the particular vulnerability of diaspora communities to organised attempts at electoral influence; whereas such vulnerabilities may be exploited by malign foreign actors or transnational ideological networks pursuing covert agendas

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

How you know there’s a Garda resignation crisis

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/10/2026

The best way to deal with satire is to let the satirists and everyone in the vicinity know that they hit their target dead-on

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love interior design magazines. “Take a piece of the Burren indoors this autumn with silver Italian ice cream cups from Brown Thomas”. Sure, nothing means anything, let’s go

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

US moving forward with just straight up experimenting on poor children in a foreign country. Everyday they resemble more and more one side in the 1940s and it wasnt theirs

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

anything that makes women more independent is to be opposed at all times

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder does David know Norma Foley isn't the minister responsible for child benefit or if he just wants to make it seem like she is because the real reason it hasn't gone up since 2016 is that social protection was held by the party he supports for almost ten years, inc. three by his friend Regina

X post by David Quinn that reads

Can
@NormaFoleyTD1
please be asked why Child Benefit has not been increased since Budget 2016? (And why the assumption everyone wants to put their children into daycare?)
@drivetimerte

Leo Varadkar May 2016 - June 2017

Regina Doherty June 2017 - June 2020

Heather Humphreys June 2020 - January 2025

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

genuinely unclear to me if Big Jim realises the end of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees is a future event and he could have egg on his face before the end of the year or if he's just brazenly lying

“Those reductions in costs have been achieved through difficult reforms that Colum [Brophy] and I have introduced as policies, but they’ve also been done sensitively and methodically.

“And I’m pleased to say they have not resulted in, what some people thought may happen, homelessness of Ukrainian people in the area,” O’Callaghan said.

Between now and the end of next month, contracts with 158 private hotels housing over 4,000 Ukrainians will be terminated by the government.

In addition to this, the accommodation recognition payment (ARP) for private hosts accommodating 40,000 Ukrainians is set to end at the end of March 2027.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/10/2026

Leinster House could be a casualty of public sector strikes next week… no agreement today at the Business Committee on whether to schedule any Dáil sittings, with some in opposition say they will refuse to come in if it means passing pickets of Oireachtas staff. An unusual second meeting now planned

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have noticed a lot of people getting pushed into conspiracism by the genocide in Palestine and the horrific attempts by the media to pretend it isn't happening, as well as all the main characters in the Epstein files going completely unpunished

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Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The lack of disabled voices in the budget discussions is so demoralising. It's all carers, and how difficult it is for them to care for disabled loved ones. What is the point of dedicating yourself to advocacy if nobody wants us in the room?

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've noticed a new slop post format that goes "I'm so autistic I thought [common saying or phrase] literally meant [what the common saying or phrase means]", which then gets hundreds of replies saying "but that is what it means"

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

great to know the founder of a company that launches satellites has less awareness of how heat works in space than the writers of the Mass Effect games

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have been told this repeatedly but not by anyone who's provided proof. even if it were started by just one guy, I see no reason to assume he wouldn't get other people involved as it grew.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

has anyone else noticed how much more yank brained catholic arena has got lately

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

even if examined from a neutral viewpoint, Gript is plainly the most politically biased news outlet in Ireland because it gives a hugely disproportionate amount of coverage to a handful of Oireachtas members

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