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John Horan

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 11h
Kremlin-affiliated outlets continue framing EU member states as warmongers unwilling to end the war. In reality, Russia rejected seven peace proposals last year alone, while Europe’s increased defence spending is a response to the growing Russian threat.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please share the information about Oleshky everywhere you can! ​Russia is starving residents of the town and nearby villages by denying food supplies and evacuation. People in Oleshky need help, or else they won't survive the winter!
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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They do not want justice, equality, or prosperity, any of those goddamn things, and you cannot buy them off. Their sole animating emotion is spite.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New, from me: Everything seems awful, but Co. Kerry, Ireland is great. A photo essay on what to do if you visit (especially for Killarney and Dingle). Replies are open, so please add your own suggestions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Kerry
Why you should visit the best county in Ireland
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One of the (many) interesting details in Belfast's excellent Titanic Museum is the explanation that the reason people came to do ship building there is that those were good middle class jobs!
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hydration break
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Verify your age" I first used the Internet in an internet cafe, paying roughly IR£1 for 30 minutes.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 06/07/2026
I'm 39. All financial news looks like this:
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That Belgian FA statement, with alt. The can of worms FIFA have just poured over themselves is huge. This has spooked all the European FAs. Their whole deal with FIFA has ALWAYS been that you don't let the leopard bite their faces. They just chomped on Belgium's nose www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...
Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours.

After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations.

As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA.

For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA’s own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible.

All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests.

Furthermore, during the match coordination meeting, FIFA deliberately removed the section concerning the automatic suspension of players from its presentation. This topic had nonetheless been part of all such meetings before each of the previous four matches. The RBFA questioned FIFA, both orally and in writing, about the reasons for this change, yet once again received no response.

To be clear, as of this moment, the RBFA has still not received any decision or any explanation from FIFA regarding this matter. It therefore has no alternative but to challenge the player's eligibility for the upcoming match.

Regardless of the sporting outcome of this match, the RBFA is deeply concerned by the course of events and will continue to fight in the coming hours, days and months in defence of the fundamental principles of ethics, fair competition, and the interests of football as a whole.
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My view that no-one asked for: 1. Shitty red cards are part of the game. Infuriating and can change tournaments but... that's life 2. Football is corrupt, mostly in institutional sense: money, governance. Duh. 3. Pres calling up FIFA is a bit different: state power to tilt a sporting process
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
one of the greatest moments of early Twitter was a Glaswegian who made the local papers because a chippy in Edinburgh gave salt n sauce for free but was charging him for ketchup and he claimed to be "racially discriminated against based on condiment preference"
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/06/2026
Begun the #memeswars have. First image is a still from a video...the rest is the internet being the internet. #MoscowIsBurning
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hydration break
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
apropos of nothing every single time Americans say the words 'Scottish independence' I know that just the oddest goddamn take is about to happen, sorry. what's so hard to understand about "the country is divided fifty fifty on it"
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Personally, I don’t think you should be able to call yourself a trillionaire unless you could, today, go and buy one trillion Arizona Iced Teas. If you have to “liquidate stock” or whatever, then, imho, you’re not a trillionaire. *pls i am trying to bait elon musk into buying a trillion ice teas.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Racist pogroms are bad but..."
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's time to shut the loophole that feeds Irish raw materials from Limerick to Russia’s military industry. It's time for effective EU sanctions. Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times europeangreens.eu/news/eu-loop...
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Andrej @tepid.meme · 25/05/2026
As I’ve said many times before, if you think X is a vector for fascism you should also be worried about Facebook which, even with its recent troubles, still has an order of magnitude more users than Twitter ever did, and which is being pumped full of Restore and adjacent propaganda
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
As a general aside, the marked tendency of late to suggest there is no difference between solid, boring EPP parties and fascists/right-nationalists is spectacularly unhelpful because those solid, boring EPP parties are where the firewall is. You want to reinforce that, not undermine it.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
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In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created
The agreement to end the Trump family's lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority to distribute nearly $1.8 billion to those who, like the president, have claimed they have been targets of a
"weaponized" justice system.
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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
so @stephenkb.bsky.social wins the early morning Internet because he knows how to write a subject line for his newsletter. I laughed out loud.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?
antisemitic banner at the United the Kingdom rally
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As someone who loses a few socks now and again, this is a life hack
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Catcher in the Wheat
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Siobhán M @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Every Irish pop culture podcast/person that I listen to or follow has talked about the fuel protests and spouted the “cut the revenue on fuel and that’s the issue fixed” talking point over the last few weeks. I’m not sure how you counter this level of poor understanding of the basics to be honest
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/04/2026
this doesn't feel ideal, as a development www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yes. Netanyahu is bad, but nothing justifies this
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Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism
British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
it'll be back in three days
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Andrej @tepid.meme · 08/04/2026
It'll be like all his isthmuses have come at once 😓
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
While Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar & Jordan & concluded substantial 10-year defense agreements, the US has sent no senior official to these purported allies during one month of its unannounced war on Iran. No other administration would be that negligent.
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Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It’s important to start daylight saving while you’re young, because it leverages the power of compound interest, allowing small, consistent amounts to grow significantly over time.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is absolutely fine for the Prime Minister of a G7 nation trying to juggle several, era-defining geopolitical crises at once. No, the PM should not travel economy on commercial airlines just because it's cheaper. Leave idiotic, baited responses to yourself.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“We think that we should be in the thick of a war that helps the Russian economy” - a really important call that you absolutely should not be willing to sacrifice to the polls. You just shouldn’t hold it because it is absolutely crackers.
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The oil price war
For an Iranian regime facing existential struggle, pushing crude up is key measure of success
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I need the most Glasgow sign you've got #Iran No that's too Glasgow
Members of the Iranian community take part in celebrations following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on March 01, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Sign reads "Khamenei is fucked"
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Anyway the one thing I can say unambiguously is that Khamenei was one of the most evil men alive and he unquestionably deserved to die, and I hope the families of his many, many victims are able to take some satisfaction from that at least.
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John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yeah I can see Allister writing sometime with this as the headline
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Good. I will admit to being heartily sick of the pretence in Irish discourse that the only choices are nothing without the UN, ignoring the P5 dictatorships vetoing anything in the UN; NATO crippled by Trump’s attempts to veto; or doing nothing about attacks while pretending to be moral paragons.
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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”
A photo of figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito. Above them, text reads “Alt, Gay, and from New Jersey”: The “Babes of Glory” are TikTok Fancam Fuel. The post was made by Them.
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Tilman @tilmane.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It is pure #horror People need to realize: #Putin is an evil murderer, comparable to #ISIS and #Hamas terrorists! When will #Europe step up to respond? @ec.europa.eu Thxs @anneapplebaum.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
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The Ukraine War Grows Deadlier
More civilians are dying now than when Biden was president
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