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Celtic FC , Leinster and Munster, Republicanism, Scottish independence, wine ,wood working ,travel , economics and philosophy, rarely all at once though.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: the court has paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting the dumping of toxic East Wing debris & creating a Trump golf course We raced to court with partners Democracy Forward & Lowell & Assoc, & filed for an emergency hearing--today at 10am!
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
It really is time for this entire generation of democratic leadership to retire. We get it: you’re rich, tired, and don’t give a shit anymore. Go away.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
"What Trump is doing now is next level. He’s not just attacking Somali residents. Rather, he’s calling for Minnesotans to attack them as well. And of course, it’s all based on absolute lies." — @snipy.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All thanks to the tireless work of @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social who were ignored for years, and in Carole’s case hounded through the courts for years. I’m glad the PM is at last speaking the truth; but the real heroes surely deserve a Pulitzer!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I try to avoid this language, but what a fucking piece of 💩
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tee hee 😹
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, we shouldn't allow Swinford or other Times journalists to escape criticism here. They should be standing up for the right of all journalists to access senior politicians in the Tory party. But rather than challenge Badenoch's free press lie, they just nod along.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why are rapists innocent until proven guilty, but victims are liars until proven otherwise?-
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beachylinda.bsky.social @beachylinda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So now Tom Cotton shld publish Trumps cell number!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🟥 Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our own problems and the freedom to choose a better path. 1/2
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Burnham is wrong - Scotland needs independence to tackle the cost of living
Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. That’s hypocrisy. Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨 A federal judge just threatened AG Todd Blanche with civil contempt for withholding handwritten FBI interview notes from the Epstein files. Stop the coverup this Saturday morning. Demand Congress force the unredacted release now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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Sharkmeister77 @sharkmeister77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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ftfdec.bsky.social @ftfdec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Tax the banks — cut our bills!
Getting banks to pay more tax on their profits to help us with the cost of living is common sense. They’re raking in billions while the rest of us are struggling. We've seen this pattern before. The h...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Their message was consistent & urgent: when corporations control medical practices, patient care suffers. When physicians control medical practices, communities are safer. Oregon lawmakers say that’s the model they want to take nationwide with the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act" .
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Oregon lawmakers introduce federal bill to end ‘corporate America’s chokehold’ on health care
Oregon’s fight against corporate control of medicine moved onto the national stage on Wednesday as U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle and Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden were among a group of lawmakers to introduce...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17/09/2026
ed sheeran 🤝 starbucks and their union-busters
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds
Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Republicans' Sales Pitch for the Midterms: "All your problems were created by another dude three or four years ago, which we are 100% incapable of fixing now, but will magically disappear a day after the midterms. Trust us that this will happen. Oh, also trust us on getting $5,000 we don't have!"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It now goes all the way to the top. While Melania appeals to Putin over stolen Ukrainian children, her stepson reportedly accepts lavish hospitality from a sanctioned, Putin-linked Russian oligarch whose family circle is connected to the very machinery accused of removing them. Hypocrites👇
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wages taxed at rates of 20%-45%. Earners also pay national insurance. Capital gains taxed at rates of 18% to 24%. By taxing capital gains at the same rates as wages £12bn to £14bn could be raised. More, if NI charged. Why are workers taxed at higher rates than return on wealth Will the govt act?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-jay-bhatt... The problem is he may be telling the truth about that.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 15/09/2026
Four supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore is dropped over Palestine comments
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Four supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore was dropped
The artists announced they were pulling out of the tour hours after Ed Sheeran broke his silence on the controversy
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ftfdec.bsky.social @ftfdec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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From the Music community on Reddit: Lukas Graham pulls out of Ed Sheeran concerts
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's ironic that Sheeran's desperation to be everything to everyone, while offending absolutely no one, is the reason why millions now despise him. It's also the reason why his music has ALWAYS sucked.
Macklemore's post about a spineless Ed Sheeran with the words: FUCK ED SHEERAN.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every last one of these hogs thinks pointing out child murder is thousands of times worse than murdering Palestinian children. A just society would send men like this naked into the wilderness.
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Alyn Smith MSP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @alynsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would say this wouldn’t I, but the commitment across all three nations not just to independence from the UK but to EU membership is a significant driver of the need for change.
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m not surprised #FoxNews won’t interview the #EpsteinSurvivers are you? #Politics #EpsteinFiles #Blues #Democracy
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Stephen Swan @stephenswan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you for sharing. No comment necessary from me. Please share far and wide.
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