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We're just going to talk about Irish now, like a couple of cool guys

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fascists are paranoid but this guy has nothing to fear as regards consequences or retribution from democrats or prosecutors. He should, but he won't
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 15h
Everyone I heard on the radio giving out of the strike audibly #UnWell
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j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 23h
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Calvin's dad's views on the economy would never be this half-baked
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 14/10/2026
“…James’ Volume II feels crafted for entirely alien or even existential landscapes. It transports listeners to spaces that feel ritualistic, cosmic and almost spiritual, evoking the sound of the void or purgatory.” Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works Volume II’ turns 30:
jhunewsletter.com
Rediscovering Aphex Twin’s cult classic: Selected Ambient Works Volume II turns 30
“It’s like standing in a power station on acid,” said Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, of his landmark album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Thirty years later, its beautiful yet unsettling dreamlike soundscapes remain as captivating as ever, and earlier this month the album returned with an expanded anniversary edition.
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I suppose for a lot of people its v comforting to think they can get rid of four or five bad corrupt guys by voting and sanctions and droning data centres and the world can go back to how it was when they were young. This is Burnhamism
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🧠
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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This Sally Rooney news makes me feel insane. What a stupid fucking time we live in.
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Exactly
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fascists are paranoid but this guy has nothing to fear as regards consequences or retribution from democrats or prosecutors. He should, but he won't
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Dan @flashinthedan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How many trees, homes, hosptials, lives, have been destroyed since you started a census of angels on a pinhead
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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Glad to have a new poem published in the October edition of 'The Honest Ulsterman' 🎨 Plenty of good reading in the issue as a whole 📚 www.humag.co/poetry/in-june
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hauliers and ag logistics should 100% get out there with the nurses teachers. If only for the discourse
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Unserious country
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absolutely non stop chorus of beeping cars vans trucks from all directions. Can hear it from the gaff. Massive support all over don't let them tell you any different
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glow moss @tolecrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Aaron Sorkin died "very badly" late last night, Variety reports
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
gork how do i engage in counterintelligence
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oshii's best, I think. Amazing film
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Once asked a very serious tradhead for his view on Pat Collins' biopic of Seosamh Ó hÉanaí. He said hearing a Kerry reel being played in 1930s Connemara took him out of it
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I understood it to be making fun of English people of Arab descent
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Is my v recently obtained understanding
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Exactly it
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Finally got the difference between united versus popular front squared in my head. Was thrown off for years cos pbp does the latter but calls it the former
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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matt @therockisdead.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think everyone should be forced to strike every five years just so everyone knows how they work
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's next to no point. Same fluoride stare response I get from talking about Lebanon or wildfires or the oceans pH
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Doesn’t he ever feel... embarrassed?” - Simon Reynolds on Noel Gallagher:
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
pyjamasblack.substack.com/p/the-hilari...
pyjamasblack.substack.com
The Hilarious Eejit leading Ireland’s Online Right
The online right in Ireland are in a constant state of searching for representatives who aren’t as big a freaks as they are.
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is the editor of Jacobin Australia on here? I used to have fun @'ing him and telling him I was taking his job, here's your notice, his stuff is still on his desk could he clear it out please etc
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A British state cover up of three decades of conflict & their role in it. 'Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said: “For too long, veterans have faced uncertainty over historic investigations, despite serving honourably during the Troubles.' And there we have it - Irish bloodshed has no consequence.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Government unveils Troubles Bill overhaul promising ‘robust legal safeguards’ for veterans
The Government has claimed a new package of amendments to the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill will introduce “robust legal safeguards” for veterans of the Troubles.
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
blaming Brexit on Russia is a wonderful idea and indicates how serious Burnham is about solving that country's many many many deeply entrenched and multifaceted systemic problems
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Guessing they stopped begging to negotiate…. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC):
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's easy to think you know what's going on or how things are developing but I could go in on doomer w all this
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
third, contested hegemon betting the house on the infinite compute & fossil fuel model, as against China's approach
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
reckon AI is going to break our social order one way or another. Linear energy demands on states subsidising business to their own detriment for decades is one, valuations premised on the idea of proletarianising the educated (it can't do their jobs but it can probably take them) is two,
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joe @joeyp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am going to need to see *a lot* (read: any) evidence of decreased far-right bot traffic due to the strikes on yandex data centers. This place is a fucking turbo-charged lib version of a Facebook comments section sometimes.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Did a bit of pumpkin painting with a pal and think I fixed it
A pumpkin painted as the famous Irish Samhain turnip carved head.


#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exactly well put
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
[Cw: old guy holding forth on pop music these days] Whenever I've heard a later career taylor swift song they sound mad cluttered. Paragraphs on paragraphs of lyrics in there
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As for civilians, well,
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
our good, indigenous, western merchants of death must be insulated from consequences
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No strikes but the facilitation of strikes
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Does anyone have institutional access to this dataset and would like to help me get at it www.cntsdata.com
cntsdata.com
Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS) Data Archive | all countries 1815 - present | Databanks International
Over 200 years of global Economic, Political and Legislative data. Domestic Conflict Event data unique to Databanks International, including Riots, Purges, Terrorism/Guerrilla Warfare, Major Governmen...
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I could believe this easily
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It looks like a lot of fun. But the licence is prohibitively expensive
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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Does anyone have institutional access to this dataset and would like to help me get at it www.cntsdata.com
cntsdata.com
Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS) Data Archive | all countries 1815 - present | Databanks International
Over 200 years of global Economic, Political and Legislative data. Domestic Conflict Event data unique to Databanks International, including Riots, Purges, Terrorism/Guerrilla Warfare, Major Governmen...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“It’s not enough to reject the Nobel Prize, you have to not deserve it in the first place.” - Guy Debord
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
School shootings and transgender rights causing US citizens to seek asylum in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
irishtimes.com
School shootings and transgender rights causing US citizens to seek asylum in Ireland
Ninety-four people from United States sought protection here last year, up from 22 the year before
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j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What are the pipers of western Marxism up to these days
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Help Wanted: In May 2025 International Criminal Court President publicly asked for help from the EU. Specifically, to implement its own law that would protect Judges from sanctions being imposed on them *within the EU*. The EU has ignored request for help. We are 17 months on.
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