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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Having now had twenty-odd years of social media depleting our stocks of sanity, like overfishing North Sea cod, I think now might be a good time for a strict social media quota for about 20 years or so, to let stocks recover.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Im not sure if youve ever seen his defense of Larkin? The first published thing I think we have by him and writtem (IIRC) at 17 and its for a.... unfashionable poet with proper love. He's genuine in it I think and it went beyond trying to attract girls

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

love Malachy Clerkin’s wide-eyed political coverage. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great profile of Breandán Mac Cionnaith by Gerry Moriarty Who is Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Road protest leader for decades? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Who is Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Road protest leader for decades?

Former IRA prisoner split with Sinn Féin over policing, but remains as committed as ever to his cause

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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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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chilling report by Seanín Graham from portadown today. As an outsider, it’s incomprehensible there’s another standoff in drumcree. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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‘It’s like going back in time’ – after 28 years, communities stand off on Garvaghy Road

Politicians defiant as tensions expected to continue for days over planned Orange Order march

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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our investigation into one of the capital's most notorious housing complexes. Originally billed as luxury flats which would rejuvenate the inner city, its real role was to launder money. It soon became one of Dublin's worst slums and a base for organised crime www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

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Buckingham Village was supposed to reinvigorate Dublin’s inner city. By 2022, it was its worst slum

The north inner city flat complex has had more warning notices in recent years than any other development in Dublin

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 27/09/2026

Don’t be at all surprised if Stormont collapses one way or another this week – SF because the present-day structures don’t serve the interest of nationalists; DUP because the First Minister participated in an unlawful protest gathering – and for another stalemate that last for *years*.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, overnight, the Orange Order's appeal was allowed. The parade is due to commence imminently. Blesk is not the word.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The person in the edit suite.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand has a better record in the Balkans than the Irish national football team

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Hannah McCarthy @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Netanyahu's address at UNGA: "I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, and. the entire world. That's exactly what we did."

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Denis Staunton’s newsletter is a good read as always. UN members on the the ongoing killings of Palestinians by Israel and ethnic cleansing in the west bank view.comms.irishtimes.com?vawpToken=ZK...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There’s lines all over this website. “The only thing that can beat a religious faith is a better religious faith. “war of the cradle” … “genuine, muscular Christianity”

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 19/09/2026

Latest: Christy Kinahan, founder of the transnational organised crime group the Kinahan cartel, has had his UAE visa cancelled, Bellingcat and @thetimes.com can reveal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/09...

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Christy Kinahan's UAE Residence Visa Cancelled - bellingcat

Irish crime boss Christy Kinahan, who is being pursued by authorities around the world, has had his UAE residence permit cancelled.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you speak up for trans people you realise that the people who hate them talk of women's rights and defining a woman because they don't think you're a woman either. Women are women who agree with everything they say.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I may have posted before this excellent short video discussing Mar-a-Lago face from an anthropological point of view. It’s so good. I want to quote almost every line. Subtitles are on if you don’t like sound m.youtube.com/shorts/A-1Kf...

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Mar-a-Lago Face #makeup #anthropology #beauty #psychology #womenempowerment #culture

YouTube video by AnthroDorphins

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

opener for most of ed sheeran’s shows in south america just now on IG:

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Reform again accused of leaking the Telegraph a story it had been approached about by another outlet. This “spoiler” tactic is causing concerns among some at the Tel. Insiders say this isn’t fair - reporters didn’t know it was a spoiler. Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

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‘Significant unease’ at the Telegraph over Reform using outlet for ‘spoiler’ tactics

Recent instances of Nigel Farage’s party trying to gain sympathetic coverage leads to debate over reporting practices

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the documentary NAZA, the Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor spoke to 24 different Israeli military or intelligence whistleblowers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of civilians. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA

Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Online people talk about the imminenent threat of mankind’s extinction by the most powerful technology ever conceived. In Dublin four men operate traffic lights at every second crossing

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 10/09/2026

One year after his death, Charlie Kirk has become the Harambe for Gen Alpha. A meme so strange and hideous that no brand or government can ever co-opt it. And MAGA has never felt older and weaker and more out of touch. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

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Charlie Kirk is the Harambe of Gen Alpha

12 months later, MAGA has never felt older and weaker and more out of touch

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the apoca app isn’t great, having a system where people have to report issues… idk Clamping vans to exit Dublin city after almost 30 years www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

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Clamping vans to exit Dublin city after almost 30 years

New enforcement contract to focus on public reports of illegal parking

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interesting alphaville on the irish gdp numbers vs eurozone. Points are familiar to an irish audience. Eventually this will pop and we’ll have energy credits etc to show for it. www.ft.com/content/769a... Is it time for Eurozone GDP ex-Ireland?

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Is it time for Eurozone GDP ex-Ireland?

Once the Celtic Tiger, now the tail that wags the bloc

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On the narrow question of policing: although it's changed somewhat in recent years, the default British policing approach to protest (especially protest with risk of violence) is containment and surveillance, followed by subsequent arrest. However, there are some real problems in this case.

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I thought this was really good by Cliff Taylor on how Irelands economy is both prosperous and rickety. There’s no cost-of-living crisis for Ireland’s quietly prosperous class. Who are they? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Cliff Taylor: There’s no cost of living crisis for Ireland’s quietly prosperous class. Who are they?

There is, indeed, a crisis for many people. But there is also a minority doing very well

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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The verbatim reporting is devastating. So much stands out, but for me, they had the story of the year in Jan after four months work. Yet they stayed with it for another eight months nailing it. www.verbatiminvestigations.com/about

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About Verbatim

Investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.

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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK

A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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