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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 13h

Horse and greyhound fund up €3m in the budget, up to €102m - split €81.6m horseracing, €20.4m greyhound racing. In 2020, the fund stood at €84m, so it's gone up 21% over the past six years...

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 15h

I actually love billions going to subsidise fossil fuel companies instead of long term solutions. It's class that we can afford to prolong the issue of fossil fuel dependency indefinitely. I love it

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 05/10/2026

Yet another grim budget cobbled together by inertia alone. They have no vision for any sort of future. There's no compassion in their hearts. Feckless dolts governing only for the sake of governing.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 21h

[All national infrastructure slides further into a sinkhole; A&E waiting times move closer to 13 hours; it costs eleventy trillion euro to buy a house] yay I have €750

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"A.I." boosters vs "A.I." critics

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Any online community centred around dislike or opposition to something inevitably descends into a self reinforcing spiral of toxicity, even if it started off reasonably.

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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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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"oh well what if unionists don't feel represented by the flag of a United Ireland" that is literally nothing to do with the design of the flag do you know what unionism is

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I propose that the flag of a United Ireland should be one-third orange to represent the Protestants. Oh wait.

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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's never an emergency meeting about homelessness, never an emergency meeting about the public mental health services, never an emergency meeting about public transport but if someone tries to get a one-up on sports funding....ooooh boy! A shower of sniveling slibhín parish pump parasites.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

irish times politics podcast chortling at the 'manna from heaven' / 'magical money tree' as funding for a green party idea to subsidise solar panels for people to lower energy bills and pollution but completely normal for the state to spend millions per month to keep us locked on petrol and diesel

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The "shifting rhetorical focus" was one of the most eye opening things in Ur-Fascism for me

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As Terry Pratchett regularly highlighted, "privilege" means "private law". One rule for me and another for you. O' Callaghan is working hard to exacerbate that inequality and hurt those who effectively live and contribute as second class citizens in Ireland. It's just plain racism #spéirgorm

rte.ie

Citizenship a privilege, says minister ahead of overhaul

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 16/09/2026

What's the cost-revenue deficit of the Oireachtas committee?

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We need to get flying helicopters, planes are too safe

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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:

thejournal.ie

We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them

This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 10/09/2026

The "Fuck off and fix your own problems" Government

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My One Plus turned 8 years old this summer, the battery's a bit shit but otherwise it works fine, I'm not replacing it until that changes. It's the expensive phone I bought myself as a treat, I think it was €400.

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I find this is often true of ESL speakers whose native language doesn't have gendered pronouns; Turkish and Bangla

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In a museum for cartoon objects

A 19th century 30kg barbell in a museum display case. It looks like something from Looney tunes; two black balls connected by the bar.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Irish political parties in power looking at attempts by governments around the world to appease the far right absolutely not working

But it might work for us meme from Arrested Development

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anita Orbàn, no relation I assume

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary is going to cause me physical pain to witness and no power on earth will stop me from seeing it opening night.

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Fianna Fáil insiders have bemoaned the loss in recent years of the Total Cunt vote, and the feeling within the Parliamentary Party is that Jim O’Callaghan is the man to win those Total Cunts back. Micheál Lehane, RTÉ News

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A reason why it’s imperative to get Fianna Fail and Fine Gael out of office at the next election because they’ve made it very clear that their political project is ‘make everything worse forever’

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cuaron was asked when he made this (2006) how he created such a convincing, organic-looking future Britain. He said he looked at what was happening at the time and then just assumed for the movie that everything would keep going on much the same trajectory as it was then, for twenty years or so.

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

15% is the lowest increase, some longer commuter train tickets are going up more

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They don't even know about the Blackfyre rebellion

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Using Google's self reported Gemini user figure when every single google search is automatically a Gemini query now

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Increasing bus fares while passing € 1 billion in fuel subsidies is a conscious decision. Cancelling public transport infrastructure projects while approving new roads is a conscious decision. Underpaying solicitors & public servants while the country has a massive budget surplus is a....

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Bus and train fares for adults to increase by average of 15% from January, NTA confirms

The move has been criticised by opposition parties.

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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 03/09/2026

So the government cut excise on fuel to reduce fuel prices but are increasing public transport fares because of inflation. In a cost of living and climate crisis. Make it make sense.

Commuters to face increased fares on buses and trains
Rising cost of State funding for public services has been a spending concern for some time

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the impressive things about the film was that she was the monster, the source of fear in most scenes, but still never stopped being the victim

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Britain had to ban him from entry to protect our critically important transphobia industry

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This will never stop being relevant

Screenshot of a tweet from @hilaryagro that reads: "During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard."

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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 01/09/2026

Number of data centres: Ireland: ~129 China: ~449 USA: ~5400 But we need more apparently

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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Finn @finnahern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Even the OG Nazis knew some stuff needed to be hidden or at least talked about euphemistically

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

tax is policy. it's as much about what you make easy to do and what you make hard to do as it is about revenue generation. you can just stop or at least not incentivize so many socially destructive things

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