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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'll say it again you don't need AI to make a compelling poster for your business you need a crayon and a pure heart
A hand drawn crayon poster for a poetry collection launch event A hand drawn sign in a bar window advertises books, furniture, stationary and more for saleA hand drawn sign reads "more seats upstairs" with drawings of different areas of seating in a café A hand drawn sign reads "we don't serve genocide supporters or sympathisers"
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Screaming
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ahab’s Irish granda checking in with him at Sunday dinner:
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The problem AI is being designed to solve is wages.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I actually love billions going to subsidise fossil fuel companies instead of long term solutions. It's class that we can afford to prolong the issue of fossil fuel dependency indefinitely. I love it
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Pintbaby @pintbaby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Father Dougal of Leinster House
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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IanMoore3000 @ianmoore3000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Young'Uns song about the Battle of Cable Street, when people united to block Mosley's Black Shirts from marching through east London. youtu.be/AKhAlsXgOy8
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Cable Street
YouTube video by The Young'uns - Topic
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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Terrible long distance photo on my phone. But here’s a Kingfisher underneath the Castletown River Bridge in Dundalk this morning. #Speirgorm
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Delaney’s of Smithfield #speirghorm
Sign on a pub door: Notice! We will not be showing Ireland v Israel. Sorry for the inconvenience
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Ben Walsh @bwalsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the infuriating thing about the whole Heather Humphreys saga. "They call us sectarian just because we're in the Orange Order" YES BECAUSE IT'S A SECTARIAN ORGANISATION. If you can't understand that and interrogate what that means then you're not getting anywhere.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The British front pages have largely ignored events in Drumcree jrnl.ie/7179590 "No story here", says Brit media as the deep state resurrects a 28 years old sectarian standoff to coincide with the party conference speech of the UK's first ever Catholic PM with Irish antecedents
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The British front pages have largely ignored events in Drumcree
RAF Fairford, Manchester City and Andy Burnham have been big news in Britain this week.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think Rupert Murdoch actually cares about one of these more than the others
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have given Lansdowne Road an upgrade. 💚
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Physics top left. Bottom right? Well. It's a long list. Let's start with Cultural Studies
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday!
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Chef’s kiss
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
even conceding the distorting effects of colorblind discourse post Cold War / apartheid, it's wild how committed people will be to applying this skepticism to periods of history where the commitment to white supremacy was completely explicit
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.
Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Don't really think Ireland as a whole deserves a pat on the back for the work of some artists, activists, and the people who pressure and protest, when our government watered down the OTB, the GAA refuses to drop Israeli weapon insurer Allianz, and the FAI is happy to play Israel without Irish fans
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Frankly, we haven't a scooby"
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Breaking: In a potentially landmark decision, a major data centre project in Mayo has had planning permission overturned over climate concerns. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social this evening.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the importance of Jim Henson’s good taste and good character
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wonder what The Blowfish is up to these days? Gotta be hard to hear your former band mate all over the news and no one even remembers you.
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Huge news guys, Restore Britain are bringing anti Irish racism back…
19th century carton from the magazine Punch picturing a savage, barely human Irish man threatening the sword wielding righteous  Britannia 19th century carton from the magazine Punch picturing a savage, barely human Irish man  being sneered at by John Bull 

HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.
TENAS TO JoEs BULL—" SPADE A TRELE, YEA HONOUS, FOR A POON INET LAD TO HET A NITOR-
* The atate of Indund became sore sasatiafactery tomanda the sod of 1640, and ore than ose sparin mander vas19th century carton from the magazine Punch picturing a savage, barely human Irish man  threatening an English gentleman the caption reads, THE IRISH FRANKENSTEIN.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 06/09/2026
(if you don’t know the sun is fake pls don’t argue with me in the comments, that’s not the sun)
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is anyone else (who is aware the sun is fake) starting to actually get deeply impacted by it? I could tolerate it for a few months but I genuinely can’t handle that it’s fake anymore because it feels like every day it gets more and more obvious (if you don’t know the sun is fake pls don’t argue with me in the comments, that’s not the sun)
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
god forbid a woman have hobbies 🙄
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come the fuck on
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
a fun activity is 'try to come up with a political philosophy taylor-made for justifying settler colonialism' and then check out locke's work on private property
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Paul Bowman @helvetius66.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"I never thought the face-eating leopards would eat MY face" wails world's most insincere man contender
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