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James McShane

@jamesmcshane.bsky.social
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Wannabe Writer from Dublin, Ireland. Lover of books, movies, all things pop culture, a bit of politics, equality in all things, Manchester United (for my sins), and, of course, my beautiful wife. Kidney transplant recipient, July 2023.

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 1h
I've had to invent the expression 'tone dead' to describe this. #IrishPolitics www.thejournal.ie/canvass-fine...
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Fine Gael canvassers get chilly reception from Dublin commuters ahead of price hikes
Budget 2027 has been criticised for leaving public transport commuters out in the cold, so it might come as no surprise that they were a bit frosty this morning.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 22h
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 19h
The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 05/10/2026
Were I a Russian politician, I'd simply make my office on the first floor of the building
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's crazy the headline "A Powerful 80 Something Republican Who Raped Children and Convicted in Hush Money Case Died Today" isn't specific enough.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
New in PN: Reflecting on 5 years of Public Notice Thank you to all my readers for making PN such a huge success!
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Reflecting on 5 years of Public Notice
And a look forward to what’s next.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026
On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 05/10/2026
For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tapping the sign
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Eris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm so glad we played these games. Really terrific. Well done to the FAI
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg"
Speaking on behalf of Lutnick, the White House said: "The BBC's pathetic and desperate attempt to slander Secretary Lutnick will do nothing to change the fact that he has been the most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history."
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Emma Rua @ealadubh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #SaoirseDonPhailistín 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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James McShane @jamesmcshane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Space1999 Breakawayday
Alt: Space1999 Breakawayday
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The whole point of being an adult is that you now get to make the rules.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With the rise of the Far Right, we’re in a situation where every election could potentially be the last one. No excuse not to vote with rigour.
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Remy 🌱 @remy.gay · 03/10/2026
This series has it all. Talking animals. Dragons. Intrigue. Queerness. Magic systems like no other. A million plotlines/character arcs that converge BEAUTIFULLY. also you WILL cry and you will THANK ms hobb while doing so
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 03/10/2026
Imagine if Suella Braverman tried telling Phil Lynott he wasn’t really Irish.
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fabulous idea! shop.rnli.org/pages/christ...
If we were all to send Danny Tommo an
@RNLI Christmas card simply
containing "LOL", it would make a lot of money for a brilliant charity and be hilarious at the same time.
Cards can be purchased here shop.rnli.org/collections/ch...
Please spread the word.
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The British state has openly shown their two-tier policing and judiciary yet again with our brother Danny Tommo, and RAF Fairford.
Show Danny your support:
Daniel Thomas
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HMP Winchester
Romsey Rd, Winchester SO22 5DF
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👌🏼 sin é a chairde
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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scene from Aliens movie where two characters are looking at a computer readout of tracking devices fitted to people they're trying to rescue
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
X: The hallucinatory Bespoke Realities generator that all the politicians and journalists happen to be on
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 01/10/2026
Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht says only "the hand of God" could have rescued the people on the FlyDubai flight. (God did not prevent the attack or land the plane. Passengers/crew rushed the cockpit. Other pilots on board took over and landed the plane safely.)
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 01/10/2026
Sure glad we got directly to the bottom of a major breaking aviation event halfway across the world so quickly. Now we can all enjoy this highly digestible outcome. Helps a ton when you take the word of a single government at face value and immediately report it as fact.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/09/2026
Send in the Clowns. And get rid of this buffoon.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.
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rset70.bsky.social @rset70.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George c scott was a much better actor than Hegseth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this Pete Hegseth speech is indistinguishable from parody. words fail to describe the absurdity. here he's talking about governors coming to the Pentagon to grovel to him and Trump so they can be rewarded with a new military base
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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 30/09/2026
Genuinely do not get his thing with beards aside from he likely finds them too attractive?
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James McShane @jamesmcshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly deplorable man.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would just like to announce to the world that the band that pulled out of Ed Sherran’s Zionist concerts a few weeks ago over the Macklemore farce has now joined the Garvaghy Rd Fleadh tent. BEOGA ! 🎶🎻🇵🇸 @unamullally.bsky.social @tonygroves.bsky.social
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Caveat Frogs @caveatfrogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Life Is Pretty Great!*
An illustration of a modern jazz dancing frog 
Text reads:
LIFE IS PRETTY GREAT!*
* if you try not to think about all of the truly horrible things happening everywhere all over the world
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I grew up in a simpler time. I drank from a garden hose. I rode home on a stingray bike when the street lights came on to find my mother washing down Valium with Boone's Farm, Strawberry Hill and dad on his 3rd martini calling Walter Cronkite a pinko commie bastard for questioning the Vietnam War.
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James McShane @jamesmcshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republican politicians are the dumbest fucks in all of history.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy McGoohan Day!
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Extremely funny how hard they underestimated Alexander Siddig's silver fox era
Alexander Siddig in old man make-upActual Alexander Siddig looking far more handsome around the actual age
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fascism is back. Why? Because the West's crimes are boomeranging home. Get my new book, 'The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It', here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing makes my blood boil like humans taking animals with them in their march to destruction. Unbelievable cruelty.
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out the cover of my new book - out May/June next year - published by Penguin in US
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