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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What happens if you have legitimate concerns about someone else’s legitimate concerns? You’d probably need to have some sort of system to represent that this stuff is complicated. Maybe a debating chamber and votes. Perhaps different voices and views could be represented there.
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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When the rain comes…
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👌😎 youtu.be/Xkl36pu8aLY?...
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Dolly Parton - Jolene (Todd Terje Remix)
YouTube video by Discolypso
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 14/08/2026
I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
this is what men look like in this shoe color
Four men. Three of them are wearing bright reddish orange shoes. Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck from Duck Tales. They have bright orange feet.
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Brick's House 🍁 @brickmahoney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
spaghetti, for when you want your food to gently spank your face
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looks like it's going to be even warmer today 😁
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's one of those days 😁
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand
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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Tank-fly, boss-walk jam nitty-gritty, you’re listening to the boy from the big bad city."
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
- Do you know your brother’s a nonce? - You hum it, I’ll play it.
Charlie Formby with his instrument.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
AI is the Japanese Knotweed of technology.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/04/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Pete Hegseth saying "And Jesus said they call it a Royale with Cheese"
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey, billionaire tech guys; if arts degrees are so worthless why do you keep stealing all the work we created with ours?
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
3 panels. First panel, photo of Calvin Klein, caption: Calvin Klein
Second panel, photo of CK at an angle, caption: Calv Incline
Third panel, line drawing of CK, caption: Calv Ink Line
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Love this 💪🇮🇪💚 #COYBIG #CzecVIre 📽 @niallfromwexford TikTok
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There is no issue more riddled with Experts than “defence”. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we’ve listened to the same cabal of academics, all brandishing identical talking points about emerging threats and changing realities. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
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Comment: The trouble with Experts
Whatever the topic, however serious or frivolous, an Expert is available.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/01/2026
JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
how far is Davos from Dignitas
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
State agency Bord Bia last year paid more than €135,000 for “food costs” to a catering company directed by under-fire chairman Larry Murrin and owned by his wife. www.ontheditch.com/bord-bia-paid/
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Bord Bia paid €135k to company directed by its chairman
Larry Murrin's wife owns the company.
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Back in one of my favorite shops in Edinburgh, Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk. Easy to spend an entire afternoon here 🙌
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A chilly Edinburgh yesterday. Morning.
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Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Happy International Mens Day 😎 youtu.be/7KbdnZ_Tx04?...
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David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging - live 1979 (excellent quality) Kenny Everett Video Show
YouTube video by Mister Sussex
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Melty Shirts @meltyshirts.com · 11/11/2025
Gwan Catherine! Let's Go!
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#speirgorm
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Just for context and Elon Musk’s claim of “widespread slaughter” in Europe. The per capita murder rate is EIGHT TIMES HIGHER in the US
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
JUST IN: Trump declares escalators a terrorist organization.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2025
Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-…
Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. 

It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025
"It isn’t just that Trump has ramped up his own personal self-dealing (though he has). Just as important, his administration is enacting a sweeping set of policy changes that will make it more likely that Americans will themselves be the victims of all kinds of scams." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
A golden age for scammers
The conman in chief remakes the government in his own image.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Fine Gael senator Paraic Brady didn’t declare a property sale to Longford County Council for €67,000 – nearly double what he paid for it – while sitting on the council’s social housing committee. Robert Troy also made undeclared sales to this council. www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-se...
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FG senator didn't declare €67,000 property sale to council
While sitting on social housing committee.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Statement from Illustrators Ireland on genAI. Any writer or musician worth their salt would care enough about their own work to avoid the use of genAI images. Damaging other workers in the arts for short-term gain is incredibly selfish and hugely disappointing. www.instagram.com/p/DKKAmTLi3Z...
First slide of the Instagram post from Illustrators Ireland, on a green background. It reads "Generative AI is targeting already vulnerable artists working in the arts sector, with resources the individual artist does not have a chance to object against. This creates a very uneven balance of power. Swipe to see more." #art #arts
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The last fifteen years of social media have persuaded too many people that having opinions on everything is both necessary and rewarding. Let me assure you it is absolutely neither of those things.
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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is AI a good thing?
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh – set to become government’s housing tsar – registered ownership of his home using the alias “PB McDonnacha” despite taking out a mortgage on the same property in his own name. www.ontheditch.com/housing-tsar...
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Housing tsar used two aliases in property dealings
Brendan, PB, Padraig.
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johnmacdonagh.bsky.social @johnmacdonagh.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter 😁
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Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy "Spot the grass" Day to all who celebrate
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Nothing sums up the difference between AI-generated images and human-made art than the genAI toy trend belching out thousands of near-identitical, aesthetically homogeneous images while the ones people drew for themselves looked wildly, wonderfully unique to those makers. Long may that continue.
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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 29/03/2025
hear hear
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/03/2025
Ethical Diamond Company Only Uses White Children To Mine theonion.com...
Ethical Diamond Company Only Uses White Children To Mine
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