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CailleachPortach

@fiadhwild.bsky.social
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Bog hag (sí/í) Leftist Artist dnd Aspiring Gaeilgóir, Saoirse don Phalaistín Trade unionist dreaming of becoming a set builder Is sóisialaí mé Déghnéasach Aonarán A gaze in a trenchcoat AuntyFiadh@mastodon.ie Upscrolled @fiadhwild No TERF/AI/ML/bots

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Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 18h
⁨So that $810m in congressionally allocated funding that OMB is rescinding? It includes $70m for Dept of Education's international education programs. Which is a major chunk of the annual funding for IFLE, which oversees Area Studies programs and Fulbright.⁩ www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
screenshot from White House statement discussing "Ed Funding for Woke International Education"
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, remember how us radical trans extremists were warning that you have to go on the attack against transphobic Dems immediately because otherwise other politicians will take the lack of consequences as permission and the bigotry will spread? Yeah...
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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm making a documentary about the RLNI situation and I am contacting various organisations. However I thought I'd turn to bluesky as well, I'm looking to interview people either connected to the RNLI, to refugees/those working with refugees and also with counter-protestors. Please share.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 20h
Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir's NHS contract Palantir just offered a fat salary to former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Is it already collecting a return on its investment?
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Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir's NHS contract
Palantir just offered a fat salary to former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Is it already collecting a return on its investment?
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMFG they tried to spin this as a thwarted terror attack by the Iranians, but it was actually just a bunch of grifters from London trying to pike red diesel off yokels. Wild shit.
Looks like the Fairford five were fuel thieves
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google Earth images of Rafah I remember in 2024 President Biden stating that an Israeli invasion of Rafah would be a "red line" for him. He even threatened to withold some weapons deliveries. Over one million displaced Palestinian refugees were sheltering in Rafah and in tents on the beach then.
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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's all we need, these fuckers on the rampage. Public opinion is not going to be so kind this time around. Where were you all when the man responsible was over for a golf tournament? Certainly weren't protesting, you fuckers.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY POINT IN HISTORY WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE BEST INTEREST OF WOMEN TO DEPEND UPON THE BENEVOLENCE OF MEN
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkehist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a classic example of the fact that no GB politician gives a flying FcuK about NI. At All. Not even a tiny bit. All GB politicians want from NI is that everyone STFU and leave them alone.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unbelievable scenes on the Garvaghy Road. PSNI tactics have been incendiary, heavy-handed & discriminatory. Your reminder of the Sam McBride interview in June that detailed PSNI doing loyalist paramilitary road closure work for them on the Newtownards Road during the June 2026 racist pogroms. [1/2]
Text: Your reminder that journalists witnessed PSNI closing roads and facilitating unlawful roadblocks for loyalist paramilitaries in the June 2026 pogroms.

Graphic: a riot scene in Belfast.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We need a health minister to put in place stuff to secure an ailing maternity service that delivers 1700-1800 babies annually, from collapse. When Stormont collapses, women delivering on the roadside will be of no concern to those who picked open a 30 year old wound, just to keep feeling important
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s an entire generation of British politicians who’s entire worldview is made up of buzzwords and corporate jargon and that really doesn’t translate to places like Northern Ireland where politics is actually real
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We must support Gavin Bazunu for standing up against genocide. He’s being thrown under the bus with no support from his team and may be in a lonely place. Fuck the FAI and well done to Gavin for his strength. #StoptheGame #FreePalestine www.instagram.com/p/DdwuIoGRaO...
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gavin_bazunu on Instagram
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PaulyMac 🇨🇦 @mrpaulymac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My reaction to every bit of pop culture since I had kids.
Nacho Man
@PapaFazuul
Damien Owens
@OwensDamien
I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like
this:
'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG
AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A
GRUNT'
8:40 PM . Jan 6, 2022
se SB Nation ₩ @SBNation . Jun 7
Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King, or is he just getting
rizzed up by Livvy?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them


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Lady Levain @breadbae.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Definitely feels like this was made for children. Like they want children recording children.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A message for Andy Burnham from Rob Del Naja (Massive Attack), Huda Ammori (Co-Founder, Palestine Action), and Michael Mansfield KC. Deproscribe Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
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Straight Outta Yankton @somehooplehead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
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Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026
It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Amazingly, no one was responsible
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only time Netanyahu should have a public platform in front of international delegates is when he's in the dock in the Hague.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is fucking gross and libraries have a duty to our communities to refuse to purchase books produced this way www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance
The Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. “This is not a self-driving car,” notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. “It’s more like handing ...
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
15 years from now the next CMAT is gonna be namechecking Micheál Martin for their childhood trauma caused by policy-induced homelessness #spéirgorm
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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zbo1.bsky.social @zbo1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dear #France, you really don’t want #QualifiedImmunity
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Heydon owns 245 acres of land in Kildare and Laois, estimated to be worth between €2.2 and 4.5 million." Big industrial ag has Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in its pocket, producing an ongoing catastrophe for Irish nature, less wealthy farmers, and the taxpayer. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
Minister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and Senators
Irish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.
Carl Quintanilla
@carlquintanilla
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(FT) - About $18bn of loans tied to a data centre leased to Oracle in New Mexico slid into stressed territory on Friday, highlighting investors' fear that increasing local backlash will derail the tech group's massive Al infrastructure build-out.
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Oracle Corp
+ Add to myFT
Oracle's $18bn data centre debt under strain amid local pushback
Investors grow wary of permitting and construction delays as opposition mounts in
New Mexico
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I want white folks to understand is when you let your friends, business partners, elected officials, consultants talk about us this way, we don’t trust you either. So ask Walmart & Hewlett Packard about the ppl they pay as lobbyists.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh, this is a useful set of statistics. You can use it to assess just what sort of numbers of JOBS the Government means when it says we need the data centres in Ireland for the JOBS. You’d create more employment running a small chain of centras.
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CailleachPortach @fiadhwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With actual alt text.
This summer a series of unsigned, unattributed gold-plated reliefs appeared in the Reach, a newer Kennedy Center annex that is slated to remain open during the main buildings closure. The images depicted include Mr. Trump raising his fist after he survived a 2024 assassination attempt, the billionaire Elon Musk and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Inside the center, the removal plan targeted 15 artworks in the African Lounge, an events space near the Opera House that opened in 1977 and was closed and locked some time after Mr. Trump took over. The lounge's textiles, artwork, and a carved wood sculpture from Ghana representing Africans' grief over Kennedy's death were removed without public explanation.The center's first Trump-appointed director, Richard Grenell, pursued a plan, not previously reported, to replace works in the center's art collection, including gifts from foreign nations honoring Kennedy, with art selected by Trump patrons. "You can definitely start sending stuff back to the countries who donated it now," Mr. Grenell said in an email to Josef Palermo, a curator he hired."Figure out everything you don't want and just send it back ASAP."
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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reform are campaigning on the basis of (among other things) - millions needs to be removed from the UK "Just because you came here legally, does not mean you get to stay here forever." And many people are oblivious to the actual implication of this - even many of those likely affected by it.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran ditched his friend on the demands of a right-wing billionaire and has the nerve to say "in these situations, you really find out who your friends are" and " I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me." You abandoned them. You had all the power here.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
i assume this would be for murdering civilians
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
echolive.ie
'I’m not an activist but I wanted to know what it was like in Palestine': Fermoy man reveals role as volunteer
Armed with just his mobile phone, James Ryan was able to document settler violence, highlight the abuse and hostility continuing to grip these areas.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
nice of him to give away the game. so, they want americans to "be healthy" enough to... work more. notice how they don't talk at all about happiness or well being. they only want to extract the maximum value out of you until they dispose of you
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Seeing a recurring issue: people who consider themselves not racist have racist imagery they never noticed pointed out to them, & b/c their ego is so invested in the idea of themselves as Not Racist, they think they're being called racist for not seeing it, which makes them insist it isn't racist.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026
Grammarly is now Scammerly
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