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London-born, Killarney-based, rugby fanatic, IT professional, beer enthusiast

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23h
I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hahahaha, I will share any map that uses the phrase "Putin Only Fans"... HT @kos_data
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me, now posted at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/manche...
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The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy
How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage * This is a post is on the decision by an independent commission on Manchester City. In pa...
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Deep beneath London, a strange steel creature stirs. Its headlights glow as it cautiously emerges from the tunnel, sniffing out the platform ahead. For a moment, it surveys the territory, then vanishes back into the darkness. Taken at Sloane Square.
London Underground station
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me at the Empty City (£) emptycity.substack.com/p/the-manche...
The club is now not in a happy place legally.

Not only has it been found to be in breach of various regulations, the commission ruling uses terms like “sham”, “disguise” and “conceal” in respect of those breaches, on the basis of “strong, cogent evidence”.

But this post is not about that evidence. This post is about what the club did once it knew it faced an investigation about those matters.

It made a decision not to cooperate.

It made a decision to put forward witnesses to provide evidence on key points which was found by the commission to be dishonest.

Those were aggressive decisions the club made once it know it knew it was in regulatory and legal peril.

And it would have done so knowing the likely consequences of those decisions in the findings of the commission.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels. That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate
The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.
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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Four years ago I was in a place to pay for my car with cash, and I did. But it was an illuminating process: the dealership *did not* want to do it. They couldn’t say no, obviously, but they fought me at every step. That’s when I realized they weren’t in the business of selling cars, but rather debt.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d not panic. It’s treatable with antibiotics.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In many Romance languages, one way of saying “my name is” is “I call myself”: Italian ‘mi chiamo’ Spanish ‘me llamo’ Portuguese ‘chamo-me’ These verbs all stem from Latin ‘clāmō’. At first glance, cl- changed in very different ways, but it all started with one common change. My graphic explains:
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If Saudi society ends up with no choice but to have to engage in the restructuring needed to learn to fight effectively, that could end up having domestic, geopolitical and geoeconomic implications that reach far beyond the frontlines between Najran and Aden
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@primawesome

My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets anew cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An annoying argument in favour of FPTP is the idea that any PR system breaks the connection between MP and constituency. This argument is exceptionally annoying given that the UK's closest neighbour, Ireland, has a PR system that is arguably too locally focused. www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/policy-h...
Statement that "FPTP ensures that there is just one MP per
constituency. Polling shows this constituency link
to be very popular with British voters."
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Either it’s a voluntary union, with its members having their own rights to self-determination, at any point or points of their choosing, or it isn’t. If it isn’t, it is an involuntary one where the largest member decides on their behalf. London denies Scotland that right, so it is the second.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And these utter prats don't pause for one moment to think "how will this make me look to anyone sane?" I mean, just imagine this is true, for a moment. Just imagine being such an entitled arsehole that a couple of speedbumps make you uproot your family and leave the country that you claim to love.
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those who actually study the numbers are deeply sceptical of the China Shock 2.0 narrative taking over the EU. But heck, why let the facts or indeed the absence of any actual strategy get in the way of a really good panic?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2024
I may be an optimist but I believe the tenor of online debate could be vastly improved if more people were capable of distinguishing “this is what I believe reality to be” from “I heartily endorse this”
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster): This is a small passerine bird native to southeastern Australia. Photo taken by Nikki Long, Tasmania, Australia. #robin #pinkrobin #australia #bird #wildlife #pink
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arrest. Deny bail as likely to commit further offences. Prosecute.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Send out the RNIB to rescue him!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
Map of the Governorates of YemenTopographic map of Yemen showing low lying green areas along the coast, and more elevated brownish areas in the interior, with a ridge of greyish mountains running down the western edge of the elevated areas before the coastA map of Yemen's (non-perennial) waterwaysA map of population density by governorate in Yemen with the eastern 2/3 of the country being relatively lightly shaded and the western one-third darkly shaded, especially in the southwest in Ta'iz and Ibb
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump misstating and touting a meaningless deal over Greenland, while the entire Middle East security architecture falls apart due to his own actions, is emblematic of this administration’s foreign policy.
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RunsOnⓋeg🥑🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻 @runsonveg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
💭The fuck am I supposed to do with this?💭
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One way we can reconstruct ancient trade networks is via the presence of foreign coinage. This map shows locations of recovered coins of /purported/ Roman lineage. In 2013, on the island of Okinawa, 4th-century AD Roman bronze coins were excavated from the ruins of Katsuren Castle.
A crude relief/ecology map of Eurasia and Northern Africa, showing the location of Roman coinage (purported, many of these were amateur finds never confirmed), and the concentrations are in Europe, the Nile and India, with some coins in China, Vietnam and Japan.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder: supporting Ukraine is not an act of charity, but self-interest. "Putin's armies are well-practised in asymmetric drone warfare, and they are learning all the time. Europe, by contrast, is unprepared. It must learn from Ukraine by backing it" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
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The selfish case for helping Ukraine has never been stronger
Rapidly changing technology, wielded by a lawless enemy, may be the future of war
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This animated map shows every river in mainland Spain and Portugal, animated using only its own water flow. The Iberian Peninsula practically breathes: river discharge swings from just 890 m³/s at the summer low to 33,600 m³/s at the February 2026 peak. A 38-fold difference. HT @AaronJBecker
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whoever made this 👏👏
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Dan Stirk @jdanielstirk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As someone on here put it, America is not how it is because Trump is President. Trump is President because America is how it is.
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Dan.G 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @dangurden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You mentioned this...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One thing I did come away with is that while doubtless considerably more aware of Canadian wrath than Americans seem to be, I definitely underestimated it myself. If asked to describe in one word the vibe off Carney's choice of words, I think I'd have to go with: Ukrainian. Canada *means* it.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I laughed when I read this I know I shouldn't because this has serious consequences but it's such a childish move He doesn't want us, Canada, playing with other kids so he's going to smash our toys - or at least try to Under Trump the US has become a joke www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Trump signs memorandum to identify and remove Canadian products from U.S. federal procurement | CBC News
U.S. President ‌Donald Trump ​signed a presidential ​memorandum on ​Wednesday to identify Canadian-origin goods ‌in federal civil government procurement ‌and take steps ​to remove them, the White Hous...
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On 17 Sept. 1939, exactly 87 years ago, Soviet tanks rolled into Poland to seize the east half of the country as per the USSR's secret deal with its ally Nazi Germany to carve eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Fascist Russia is trying to achieve much the same in Ukraine.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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