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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 11h

“The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.” ― Stephen Grosz

Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 11h

“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness -- the feeling that someone is trying to think about us -- something we want more than praise?” ― Stephen Grosz

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.” ― Napoleon Hill

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” ― Kamand Kojouri

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

♫ My Last .fm weekly stats: My Top Artists: Whiskey Dust The Dubliners Vanaheim Asenblut Max'n My stats: Scrobbles - 370 282 artists 259 albums 329 tracks 22% mainstream score Top Track: Neon Rain · Metalite www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBg... #NowListening #Music #LastFM

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METALITE - Neon Rain (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Reigning Phoenix Music

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day: Féirín (also: féireann and fairin') 'Féirín' comes from the English word 'fairing' and has a few meanings: 1. A keepsake, a present; a 'stand' (for betting).

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

♫ My Last .fm September stats: My Top Artists: 1 The Dubliners 2 Rancid 3 Grimner 4 Aethoria 5 囁揺的音楽集団AsMR My stats: Scrobbles - 1,932 1,008 artists 1,123 albums 1,522 tracks 26% mainstream score Top Track: The Battle of Stirling Bridge - Brick Top Blaggers #NowListening #Music #LastFM

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Brick Top Blaggers - The Battle of Stirling Bridge (Live at House of Blues Anaheim 2013)

YouTube video by Brick Top Blaggers

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Lies, misinformation, and conspiracy theories are not free speech. They are fraud and propaganda.” ― DaShanne Stokes

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.” ― Phil Plait

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These prairie dogs aren't in love. They aren't even in an open throuple with a nearby badger. They're greeting each other. The French custom may be a kiss on each cheek, but prairie dogs really get in there, swap some spit. Prairie dog for "hello". Let's talk about it. (📷: Jennifer Verdolin)

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Maria Dunn Music 🇨🇦 @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BandcampFriday Oct 2/26! Continuing their support for musicians, @bandcamp.com again waives revenue share on sales this Fri, Oct 2, midnight to midnight PT. You can download my newest album Hardscrabble Hope AND my #Junos2022 winning Joyful Banner Blazing thru Bandcamp here mariadunn.bandcamp.com

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It doesn't get much more meta that the people who have just made a pop culture moments (are living a pop culture moment) talking about pop culture moments! Tickets are free - but there is only so much room left! www.eventbrite.ie/e/... 2/2

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Pop Culchie: Páraic Kerrigan in Conversation With Vicki Notaro at Chapters

Irish pop culture goes under the lens! Join author, academic & current Traitors Ireland player Páraic Kerrigan for the launch of Pop Culchie

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's coming this month? Forthcoming books & book events at the website. (Please tell us what we're missing.)

Forthcoming in October 2026: Bread on Uncle Milad's Table (Mohamed Alnaas, tr. Sawad Hussain), Musings of a Young Woman (May Ziadeh, tr. various), new translations by Ghassan Kanafani and Hanaa Ahmad Jabr.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026

Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat

Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.

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💀PhaseMoth Art💀 @phasemoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yooooooooo I've designed some of the Furb pins now & you can check them out ( and follow the project! ) here - www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p... Suuuuper excited to be part of Pintober this year! It launches in 20 days, go go go! #bsnm #pintober #furby #darkart

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Frightful Furbs - An Enamel Pin Badge Set

Get notified when Frightful Furbs - An Enamel Pin Badge Set launches on BackerKit!

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tyrant Lizard Queen comes out this month! October 27th. So, let's do something fun. First reply to give me a number between 1 and 194, I'll share something from that page. 🦖

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Tyrant Lizard Queen

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...

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Galway Advertiser @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new documentary detailing the “calculated dismantling of life itself” in Gaza is screening at the Town Hall Theatre for one night only on October 8, at 8pm, with a special Q&A afterward featuring Dr Victoria Rose, Prof. Nick Maynard, and Alaa Alqaisi www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

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The devastation of Gaza - from doctors’ eyes

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sierra bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WE ARE LIVE!!! Come feast your eyes on this collection of holiday horror, featuring a story about the Kukeri (one of my personal favs!) by yours truly! GO BACK IT!!

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Galway Advertiser @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Galway householders are being urged to bring their batteries, electrical, and electronic waste to a set of free collection days to help the county meet national e-waste recycling targets for 2026 www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

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It’s time to recycle your e-waste

Galway householders are being urged to bring their batteries, electrical, and electronic waste to a set of free collection days to help the county meet national e-waste recycling targets for 2026.

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day: Feck The word 'feck' has a few different meanings: 1. To steal or take what is not strictly yours (e.g., "they had fecked cash out of the rector's room"). The word is not used for serious theft but for a misdemeanour such as slogging apples.

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” ― Stephen Hawking

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy spood month, know your spoods #arachtober #InvertebrateShitposting

a doodle in four parts.

top left is a doodle of a jumping spider with massive adorable eyes. text says, a spood.

top right is the butt of a spider that has run off screen. text says, a spood doin' a scoot.

bottom left, a pair of spiders stacked on top of one another, hugging. text says, two spoods doin' a spoon.

bottom right, a spider covered in cloth like a sheet ghost, with speech bubble saying insect populations are experiencing a sharp decline, threatening every part of their food chain, including birbs, spoods, and the agricultural produce they pollinate. the text says a spood doin' a spook.

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

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Lyndon White @lyndondraws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1 day until a fire demon is unleashed on the town of Wispmire! I've been working on Embers for over a year and I'm really excited to be at this point, ready to share everything I've been working on. Launching on Kickstarter tomorrow at 11am (UK time). #comicbooks #fantasy

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 30/09/2026

this is one of my favorite things i've written for a long time. i don't often get the chance to even lightly report stuff, and i had some of the most fascinating conversations of my whole life while unpacking this piece.

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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 30/09/2026

Space scientist Maggie Aderin tells Karmela Padavic-Callaghan about these stunning photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, which feature in her new book

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Maggie Aderin explores stunning images of the universe captured by JWST | New Scientist

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day: Féar gortach (Also: forgortha) 'Féar gortach' is quaking grass also called 'starvation grass'. (Though its direct Irish to English translation is ‘Famine Man’, 'féar' meaning 'man' and 'gortach' meaning 'famine'.)

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” ― Frank Herbert

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.” ― Frank Herbert

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Fionnbharr @fionnbharr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day: Faix (Also: faikins) In Hiberno-English, 'faix' (also spelled 'faiks') is an interjection meaning "in truth", "faith", or "indeed," used as an archaic or dialect exclamation of affirmation or surprise.

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