Reposted by John HoranEUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 11hKremlin-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. 47031
Reposted by John HoranKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please 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! 10587429
Reposted by John HoranTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026They do not want justice, equality, or prosperity, any of those goddamn things, and you cannot buy them off. Their sole animating emotion is spite. 116734
Reposted by John HoranDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026New, 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...donmoynihan.substack.comWelcome to KerryWhy you should visit the best county in Ireland 6142544
Reposted by John HoranSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on 693337693
Reposted by John HoranTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026One 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! 2719
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. 020
Reposted by John HoranJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 06/07/2026I'm 39. All financial news looks like this: 715525
Reposted by John HoranJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/07/2026That 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... 30637204
Reposted by John HoranAndy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026My 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 56710
Reposted by John HoranIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026one 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" 171
Reposted by John HoranSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/06/2026Begun the #memeswars have. First image is a still from a video...the rest is the internet being the internet. #MoscowIsBurning 510836
Reposted by John HoranTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 16/06/2026apropos 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" 612912
Reposted by John HoranBrian 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 413837483
Reposted by John HoranThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Also, 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. 161395463
Reposted by John HoranNick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Personally, 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. 213225
Reposted by John HoranAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"Racist pogroms are bad but..." 71800150
Reposted by John HoranCiarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026It'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... 25823
Reposted by John HoranAndrej @tepid.meme · 25/05/2026As 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 19380104
Reposted by John Horantimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026As 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. 1143
Reposted by John HoranSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center. 17469891634
Reposted by John HoranSteven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026so @stephenkb.bsky.social wins the early morning Internet because he knows how to write a subject line for his newsletter. I laughed out loud. 35510
Reposted by John HoranJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them? 1453128907
John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 08/05/2026As someone who loses a few socks now and again, this is a life hack 010
Reposted by John HoranSiobhán M @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever 961018314
Reposted by John HoranSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Every 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 0326
Reposted by John HoranMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/04/2026this doesn't feel ideal, as a development www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 69013
Reposted by John HoranAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Yes. Netanyahu is bad, but nothing justifies thisbbc.co.ukSpat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitismBritish Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism. 2343896
Reposted by John HoranDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026it'll be back in three days 15470981099
Reposted by John HoranMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026you 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. 301181133748
Reposted by John HoranAndrej @tepid.meme · 08/04/2026It'll be like all his isthmuses have come at once 😓 1426748
Reposted by John HoranAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The 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. 14755700216896
Reposted by John HoranAnders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026While 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. 38721
Reposted by John HoranPatrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 29/03/2026It’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. 35410
Reposted by John HoranThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This 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. 214020
Reposted by John HoranGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco 504106172914
Reposted by John HoranStephen 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.ft.comThe oil price warFor an Iranian regime facing existential struggle, pushing crude up is key measure of success 712215
Reposted by John HoranGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I need the most Glasgow sign you've got #Iran No that's too Glasgow 2368
Reposted by John HoranDanielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Anyway 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. 24212
John Horan @flornight.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Yeah I can see Allister writing sometime with this as the headline 000
Reposted by John Horantimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Good. 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. 3193
Reposted by John Horansam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey” 733223526
Reposted by John HoranTilman @tilmane.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It 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...open.substack.comThe Ukraine War Grows DeadlierMore civilians are dying now than when Biden was president 1017974