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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 27/09/2026

As Breandán MacCionnaith said "If [Garvaghy] were a Jewish or a Muslim or a black community in London then there is no way [the British government] would come down and tell us that we should be making concessions to the people responsible for all the bigotry against us" These days maybe they would.

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Kate @katemck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are you looking to be outraged, are you? www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/...

So last weekend in Portadown, when Orangemen were receiving plaudits for restraint, an American woman observer on Garvaghy Road was pulled over a wall and hospitalised by marchers. Saturday evening mass at St John's was disturbed by bandsmen who decided that the roundabout was a traditional and, of course, endless route. One of their newer traditions was to shout the name of Rosemary Nelson, along with those of Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death two years ago and Gavin Tennyson, one of several young Catholics who have committed suicide on the estate in recent months. A year under siege has taken its toll on people's spirits.

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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And I have no doubt that whatever happens it will be reported that locals should have risen above it and swallowed their pride once again to keep the peace, not that orange supremacists shouldn't have forced their gloating on a community that didn't want it imposed on them

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 26/09/2026

Parenting small children often feels like having something nice slapped out of your hands. Told 2 year old it was naptime. He asked to be carried. "Oh this is nice" he says. I say "Goodnight, Mama" to my wife. Immediately he's screaming crying, hitting me, demanding mama instead. I'm so tired.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The UK has, unfortunately, provided the Irish government with a decade’s worth of *demonstrable* evidence that making immigration harder is an act of economic self harm. *AND* that the UK government’s performative acts of cruelty against migrants does not appease far right voters.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In children's publishing, this has been like VE Day.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 17/09/2026

@blumineck.bsky.social is maybe one of the top three male role models on the internet. youtube.com/shorts/LZhS_...

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Educating haters (again)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 15/09/2026

Genuinely jealous that USians can get updated Covid boosters while here in Ireland I'm flatly told I'm not in an at-risk category.

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 04/09/2026

The Israeli Defence Minister openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I don't see much moral difference between the Israeli government and the Serbian one of the 1990s. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlement

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 03/09/2026

I don't want to live in the States but I would like to live somewhere that this would ship to. gastondesign.com/product/utah...

Replica Utahraptor foot from Gaston Design. It costs $350 and I still want it.

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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.

theverge.com

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

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

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 02/09/2026

There's a 9 ton block of sandstone with multiple Utahraptors in it that is being painstakingly excavated. How cool is that? geology.utah.gov/popular/dino...

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Utahraptor Megablock Fossil Project - Utah Geological Survey

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 02/09/2026

It's neat that DriveThruRPG are doing a sale on Solo RPGs for September. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?pr...

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DriveThruRPG

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 02/09/2026

Parenting tips learned the hard way. Don't start an activity 25 minutes before you need to get them out the door. If they fall asleep just as they arrive home, let them sleep in the car for 10 minutes before moving them. Christ, today has been a shitshow.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 23/08/2026

Toddler, running into my room at 4am: "Daidí, sing Misty Mountains!" Me, blearily with a scratchy throat: "🎶 Far over the Misty Mountains cold 🎶" We did not get back to sleep.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 19/08/2026

If I can get to Kakariko Village and hunker down there, I'll be fine.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 18/08/2026

I really like that @hellomcdm.bsky.social are offering softcovers of the Crows RPG rulebooks. They make premium products so it's great to have them at a more accessible price point. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Crows: Fortune or Death

MCDM‘s sophomore album featuring: better dungeon crawling, overland travel, a quaint town, the goat, and a lot of adventurers whose ambitions often exceed their skill.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 12/08/2026

This is very good advice. One thing I've done is use MacroDroid to automatically open my ebook app every time I unlock my phone.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 10/08/2026

So the new AIB app is a pile of shite, eh?

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Funny how racists in Ireland who do be proclaiming knowledge and pride in the pivotal 1916 Rising do be also forgetting that James Connolly, Countess Markievicz, Margaret Skinnider, and Thomas Clarke were migrants, and Padraig Pearse was the son of a migrant...

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 07/08/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday. So if there's an artist you like, today they get all of the revenue when you buy an album. daily.bandcamp.com/features/ban...

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Today is Bandcamp Friday

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 07/08/2026

Someone flew a flag in Eyre Square that was Palestinian on one side and the Progress Pride flag on the other and I love it because it will make the very worst people have absolute aneurysms.

Flag flying in Eyre Square, Galway. It is Palestinian on one side and progress Pride on the other.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 07/08/2026

"I just want you to know that when you use [Gen AI in your product] you look like you're cheap and lazy ... and people will assume your work, your content, your everything is cheap and lazy as well". Excellent video from @mysticartsdm.bsky.social youtu.be/spq0HSP4Mnc?...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/08/2026

Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card 📚

kavishj611 from Threads

All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:

If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other Al tool?

Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 02/08/2026

Bluesky needs a fixed tag for "this is explicitly not for the USA", probably blinking in red.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 02/08/2026

Finally got round to watching season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina and I've got to say I think this was the weakest season in terms of writing. The same pacing issues, characters having the exact same conversation multiple times, and I absolutely hated where they went with Pike.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 31/07/2026

Good for @freeleagueunbound.bsky.social. I hope this is a success. Some folks are being really obtuse and expecting previous purchases to just show up here. It's a totally different product than a pdf reader. www.freeleagueunbound.com

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Free League Unbound

Free League Unbound - the Official Digital Toolset for Free League Tabletop Roleplaying Games - Push Your Play - Without the Stress - Digital Reader, Game Compendium, and Character Tools Coming Soon!

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 30/07/2026

Subsistence farmer and subsistence farmer. For my wife, from the US, it would be cobbler and mill worker.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 22/07/2026

Today I learned that Schleich do fantasy creatures and some of these would make incredible DnD boss minis. www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toy... #ttrpg #DnD

Schleich Eldrador 70790 Ice Dragon. A gnarly white and blue dragon. Its wings look frozen and there's ice along its back from head to tail.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

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sam @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill going straight upstairs.

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