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Dervish🏴‍☠️Eire 86 47 @irishdervish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Omg! The nations disgrace! Mc Gregor is like an Irish Tate brother! Then again Trump wouldn't know about George Bernard Shaw! Ocar Wilde, James Joyce, WB Yeats, Bram Stroker, hell what about Maureen O Hara? Liam Neeson ? I can go on! But rapist mc gregor is his favourite!

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Netanyahu is a war criminal

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“She had called for help,” writes El Akkad, “She had picked up the phone and begged for help. She cried, said she’d wet herself. She was five years old.” Her decomposing body was recovered alongside the remains of six members of her family. There were 335 bullet holes in the car she was in.

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Chimney Sweeps Local 420 @bobbby.online · 10/02/2025

Beans in chili are woke. What a great bit

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Quentin Rey - Photographe d'orages ⚡️ @quentinrey.com · 24/01/2025

Vidéo depuis l'Aquarium de Galway cette nuit ! "[...] High time was just after 12, & flooding started by 2.30am. Matt is safe but this is some of the worst we’ve seen [...]" Source : x.com/GalwayAquari... #StormEowyn #Eowyn #WxSky #Ireland #Weather #Météo

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is a beautiful tribute.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

These figures exclude: Homeless people sleeping rough Homeless people sleeping in cars/vans Homeless people couch surfing Homeless women & kids in domestic violence hostels Homeless refugees in shelters Homeless people in hospital Homeless people in detention irishexaminer.com/news/arid-415471…

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Record-breaking homelessness as over 15,000 access emergency accommodation

This includes 10,541 adults, and 2,168 families with 4,658 children who are facing into Christmas without a home

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2025

I'm going to put together a thread covering the House Speaker vote. Follow along for clips and commentary.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18/12/2024

I can’t believe we’re now living this

Mulder asks a black cat hanging out down on the docks: “Hello, are you a UFO?”

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This article says “Both by drawing an erroneous (and offensive) equivalence with Northern Ireland and Palestine”. Like stop.Here’s a quote from a high Ranking British colonial officer who helped to found the place.There’s no false equivalence.Do some research. Talk to a historian t.co/l68x1bDXIN

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Die Hard is a reverse horror movie, the cast of characters are slowing being picked off by a monster getting around using ventilation shafts, it's like Alien from the perspective of the Xenomorph

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

News is scrambling to find a narrative which is anything other than “he was radicalised by the normalised evil of profit driven health insurance ”

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This gives a taste of the scale of this project, delivered on time and to budget (€750m). The government promised it would be completed and reopened in 5 years, and that has been delivered. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iU02... #France

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Surprising archeological treasures discovered during the restoration of Paris' Notre-Dame

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“A sign it might be there to stay” This is how you talk about a frog that you’ve welcomed into your biodiversity pond. Not illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thanks to Conor Pope of the @irishtimes.bsky.social for these words on Kennys.ie in today's list of 100 Irish websites to shop with this Christmas.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Polish poster for GREMLINS (1984), directed by Joe Dante - BOTD in 1946

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The government contacting the national broadcaster to intervene in a story that makes them look bad is not a signifier of a functioning democracy

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m nearly a decade seeing the tweets of bigots and fascists, daily. Never once has it broadened my horizon or changed my perspective. It’s miserable and dysfunctional

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Publishing the watered down, heavily manipulated and yet absolutely shameful homelessness figures in advance of #GE2024 risks exposing our watery-like rhetoric, societally manipulative behaviour and shameful record in tackling homelessness.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tonight RTE1. An excerpt from my documentary which explores the role of early Christianity in the Irish writing tradition. I loved making this

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People Before Profit @pbp.ie · 19/11/2024

Profiteering. That's what no one is talking about here... There doesn't have to be a cost of living crisis. In fact for some, it's a cost of living Bonanza". - @richardboydbarrett.bsky.social on #RTÉUpfront #AnotherIrelandIsPossible

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year. It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land. It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells. Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 17/11/2024

Public input sought ahead of new draft design for College Green and Dame St plaza irishcycle.com/2024/11/17/p...

Image of Dame Street looking towards College Green.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/11/2024

Make America Healthy Again lasted less than a Scaramucci

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Me to all the people welcoming the same craic that destroyed the last place

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John @johnorami.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Got around to seeing the Substance. Kronenberg, Kubrick and Lynch walk into a bar….

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

First look at my new documentary. It's an essay about the impact of early medieval Christianity on the Irish writing tradition. This is the closest I've come to bringing the podcast hug to television, I cant wait for ye to see it. Next Thursday RTE 1 10.15PM

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 12/11/2024

Ireland 🇮🇪 Starter packs here 1. go.bsky.app/Mh5ihbM 2. go.bsky.app/44QEcbP Thanks @annapr.bsky.social

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“Thirty Two County Socialist Republic.”

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The recipe for soda bread from a well-established Irish chef casually includes the instruction to cut a cross on it "to let the fairies out", because there's only two things people correctly fear on this island: open slurry pits, and angering the Aos Sí

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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"In Gaza, where more than 43,000 of us have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasions – and many more thousands are lost, feared dead, under the rubble – we have been punished with hunger now for more than a year." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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‘Stripped of our human dignity’: What it means to be hungry in Gaza

Al Jazeera contributor describes what it’s like to starve alongside her family under Israel’s relentless bombardment.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I honestly didn't foresee them using the riots as a reason to back down on pedestrianisation. Credit where credit is due. They somehow make the argument that having no cars makes streets less safe. Have a good think about that there.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Renowned artist Roger Kastel has passed away...

One sheet poster: The Empire Strikes Back

One sheet poster: The Great Train Robbery

Book cover: 50 Great Horror Stories. A skeletal, robed hangman

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 12/11/2023

My friend Ross McDonnell is missing in the New York area since last weekend. Please help his family and loved ones by sharing this with NY people in your network, especially anyone in the Fort Tilden area.

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Hard to thread, so briefly: I've launched the 2023 ROSBC Xmas Appeal in aid of the DSPCA, Epilepsy Ireland, Fighting Words NI and My Lovely Horse Rescue. I've raised €190k since 2018, I'm aiming for 40k this year. A few quid and a share of this would be great x www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Multiple things can be true at once: 1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes 2. The war on Gaza is a horror 3. Antisemitism is rising 4. Islamophobia is rising Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Compiling the list for Sunday's Gold Lounge Halloween Special... Harry Belafonte sings about zombies, Louis Armstrong has ghosts, Eartha Kitt contemplating being a witch, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and one song set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear nightmare... Sunday at 9am on RTE Gold... gold.rte.ie

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RTÉ Gold

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 24/10/2023

The council has been paying more than €2.3m a year for an Aungier Street hostel, which it says is empty. A council spokesperson says the building, which is meant to be a homeless hostel, is not in use because it needs remedial work and a new fire cert. dublininquirer.com/2...

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Tomás Kenny @tomaskenny.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Our lovely bookshop is on Bluesky!

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 23/10/2023

In Gaza City, a father waited and hoped for a visa to see his kids in Ireland again. Then came the bombs. “I applied for a visa but was rejected, and here I am, waiting. They’re all in Ireland,” said Abdullah Musleh, weeping, crouched on a sea of rubble. dublininquirer.com/2...

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In Gaza City, a father waited and hoped for a visa to see his kids in Ireland again. Then came the bombs. - Dublin Inquirer

“I applied for a visa but was rejected, and here I am, waiting. They're all in Ireland,” said Abdullah Musleh to a news crew, weeping, and crouched on a sea of rubble.

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