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Priest in the Church of Ireland. Interested in History, theology, and nerd-culture stuff.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I found a Rarity-62 word worth 87 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 778 points · 10 rare words. Only 6 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/CPXNMW
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OUTLIER · Day 103
player-3073 scored 778 on Day 103. Can you beat them?
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not even the most ardent Orangmen I know have ever once even mentioned Drumcree in years. This issue was settled for *everyone* except a vanishingly small minority. The Parades Commission dropped the ball, but that is not justification for this kind of rhetorical rubbish.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make you favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: After inheriting his uncles' estate, local man goes on a really long walk.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don't think Burnham meant to imply that a unity referendum would never happen (if he did he should resign immediately) but his words were extremely ill-judged and could be used to rile up tensions. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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United Ireland referendum 'off the table' - Burnham
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said a referendum on a united Ireland "is off the table".
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Geralt of Rivia: It's Time for a Game of Gwent
ALT: Geralt of Rivia: It's Time for a Game of Gwent
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It depends on how you define 'historic' but either Princess Diana dying or my parents going out to vote for the Good Friday Agreement.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As an aside to this great thread: I think we vastly underestimate the damage done by Iraq War propaganda.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Blink 183
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I decided to find out whether Cork City ever returned a Tory MP. Turns out they did, and more than once. The last was one William Goulding. He sat for 4 years but only because the Nationalist vote was split in the by-election of 1876. He was defeated in the GE of 1880.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ah yes, Cork: famous Tory heartland.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think a lot of people don't really understand that the reports of Russian forces looting museums in occupied Ukraine (particularly Kherson prior to liberation) were not just "soldiers being soldiers" but rather an extremely intentional occupation policy meant to steal cultural heritage
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You’re not being smeared by being called a racist if you think black people are inherently intellectually inferior to white people and that in a just world you’d have a chair in race science at Harvard.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I will admit I still listen to TRiH primarily because they spin a good yarn while I'm making the dinner. More and more I find myself grimacing at their takes. Sandbrook's insistence that fascism is a phenomenon unique to the interwar period being an example.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Having not watched it yet, I find reactions to RoP fascinating. No one seems to think it's just 'all right.' Either people love it to bits or loathe it with a passion.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ADHDers will definitely get round to complaining to Channel 4 at some point
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 18/08/2026
Say kids, let me tell you about another "Vine" whose reboot made us all call him "Divine"
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Vine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required - Engadget
Divine now has more than 2 million videos from Vine's original archive.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The clouds parted just enough at exactly the right time.
The 2026 solar eclipse as seen through cloud cover in Donegal.
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
here's the answer: because wanting the state to seize control of the economy while simultaneously using that power to destroy the lives of minorities is literally just the nazi party
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 11/08/2026
Truth
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's about time we had our moment in the sun.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice" A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
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Labour Hub @labour-hub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
An open latter to Diane Abbott MP By Sacha Ismail and Christopher Ford  Dear Diane, As socialist labour movement activists, we were very concerned to learn that at the “International Conference Against War” in London on 20th June you described Russia’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine…
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An open latter to Diane Abbott MP
By Sacha Ismail and Christopher Ford  Dear Diane, As socialist labour movement activists, we were very concerned to learn that at the “International Conference Against War” in London on 20th June you described Russia’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine as “the NATO campaign against Russia”. You cited the Ukraine war as the final, emphatic item in what was clearly intended as a list of crimes by or backed by Western imperialist powers, including Israel’s murderous violence against the Palestinians. In similar vein, you condemned the overthrow of the murderous tyranny of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, kept in power by extreme violence and by bloody Russian and Iran military intervention, as a Western-backed “coup”.
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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This might have been the one thing which caused Humphrey Smith to buy a computer if he had lived to find out about it.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I served my curacy in Derry and I am ashamed to say that when I arrived I had no knowledge of this part of the city's history. About half of the parishioners had grown up in the city and left during the Troubles. Some had never set foot across the Foyle again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Londonderry: New research examines movement of PUL community in city
The report explores the movement of some families from the Cityside to the Waterside between 1968 and 1998.
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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Creative Industries added £124 billion to the UK economy in 2023, but yes, let's not bother to fund any training and education in them. I mean, it's not like we're known for music, fashion, artists, filmmakers, performers. Make it make sense.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
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IRELAND FOCUS TREE CONFIRMED
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/07/2026
In fifteen years, the UK has deleted coal power from their power system, halved fossil gas use, replaced most of that with wind and solar, and the country has not suffered the hellish blackout apocalypse conservatives and media outlets promised would happen. ember-energy.org/data/electri...
Stacked area chart showing UK electricity generation (terawatt‑hours) from 2000–2025, highlighting a steep fall in coal, declining gas and nuclear, and steady growth in wind, solar and other renewables over time.
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 29/07/2026
This is devastating news. I can't quite believe it. RIP Glen Hansard. www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
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Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard dies in Dublin motorcycle crash
Renowned musician Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin’s Lucan.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Last night I went aboard HMS Caroline, last (I think) survivor of the Battle of Jutland in order to play DnD with complete strangers. History's a funny old thing.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is the kind of self-evidently true statement which will get Burrows sacked as UUP leader in about 5 minutes. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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UUP leader admits his party’s Stormont governments discriminated against Catholics
Ulster Unionist leader John Burrows has admitted his own party’s governments discriminated against Catholics through gerrymandering and employment during its 51 years of unbroken rule at Stormont.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Carrickmacross: Police 'intercept car with bomb on way to attack in NI'
Two people are arrested after a vehicle was stopped in County Monaghan in an operation targeting dissident republican activity.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Thank God they were caught.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spain with 16 shots/11 on target, and Argentina with 0/0 is a crazy stat.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A computer can no more 'know' that it exists than the minute hand on a clock 'knows' it's telling the time.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 17/07/2026
Turns out, the Falklands are an amusingly bad topic for unwary take-havers. A colony whose 'indigenous population' were only ever other colonists or penguins, full of people who always wanted to be governed by themselves & UK, but invaded by a fascist regime whose failure pushed AR back to democracy
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So If England lose, domestic violence increases by 38% If they win or draw its 26% It's gonna be a lose-lose for some tonight womensaid.org.uk/get-involved...
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Football and domestic abuse - Women’s Aid
For many, football means passion and pride, but for survivors, match days can bring fear. Explore how we can help change the score.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What kind of team thinks they've won once they go 1-0 up at 50 mins when Messi is on the pitch?
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A natural follow-on from the 'Everyone is 12' theory of current events is that a certain subsection of 'Everyone' want the world to be an MMO.
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Johnny Lowden 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @johnnylowden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Faisistigh.
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