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Do you think we could have a week or two without hearing from Binlid or Carla. Also an embargo on the phrase “rule of law”? For our health, you know?

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Moira Rose's Iconic Shush

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 10h

Wee puce Jim is literally going to burst, isn’t he? We happened to be in Ballymoney last week and husband actually rolled down the car window to give his constituency office the finger. It’s on a bad bend, so if you feel the need, do get a friend or spouse to drive you. Safety first and all.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 15h

Using a firing squad to execute a man who has to be put in a chair due to an inability to stand *nearly always* ends well doesn’t it? It practically never causes such horror and revulsion that the populace rise up to overthrow the government. Almost never.

James Connolly.

Those that overthrow the government definitely don’t name hospitals and train stations after the executed person either.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The child is at a birthday party, so I am at the Port, eating ice cream with my bad self.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

God. Imagine getting stuck beside that roaring dose on public transport? Or in a pub.

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Man with Spray Bottle Meme

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This week on Apocalypse Carousel:

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TIL that Ellliott from ET likes to lick fascist boots. I’m going to need to take some time to reassess.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My god, can we normalise not treating people in public facing roles as if we are entitled to their time and politeness? No, they don’t want to go and get coffee with you. No, they don’t want to discuss their personal life. No. You are inches from death, desist. 😡

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brendan Behan: "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse”.

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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey you guys! We broke another Secretary of State! He’s posting positive affirmations and dissociating. Good job everyone!

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Ice Poseidon: Everybody Give Themselves A Round Of Applause

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those following at home, this is the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, day 5 of the stand off

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teenage son has just passed me and he’s carrying an industrial endoscope (attached to a phone). Has “some things to investigate”. 🧐 As long as it’s nothing organic I suppose.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 28/09/2026

If you have never seen a man drowning on dry land before

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great now I've had to witness an English person try to pronounce Armagh

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look at this lovely thing in my apple trees; a Red Admiral.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bryant is basically in the same mold as Barry Gardiner or before him Prescott, a big pugnacious presence who you deploy to run an aggressive news cycle against someone/something and that just isn't really compatible with "every side regards you as an agent of an enemy state."

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The moon is fat and, as always, resistant to camera photography. I am not up to telescoping this evening due to existential malaise, so this will have to do.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Political Unionism rarely thinks long-term. It thinks it's won a victory with the court decision on the Drumcree parade but it's actually shot itself in the foot. Its leaders are entirely to blame for allowing themselves to be brought back into a settled dispute.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also people, often outsiders or naïve, who are suggesting people just suck it up and let 35 men walk down the road, you are missing a context of decades of marches being deliberately routed through Catholic areas. Causing so much historical violence and contributing to the outbreak of the Troubles.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How on earth did the Parades Commission think that allow this parade after 28 years of peace and quiet, would be a good idea? the mind boggles at the sheer incompetence #drumcree #garvaghy

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

11 people murdered to get marching here and it’s reduced to both sides need to behave. We mean nothing to these people and have to pay taxes for the privilege of indifference

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Notice here how people from the North don’t actually exist in his mind. The people “looking to be outraged” are down here, the existence of actual residents being intimidated hasn’t even occurred to him.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, nefarious political madness aside, my parents have a hazel tree which is covered in nuts, and today the squirrels found it. I have been sent several photos, and this is my favourite so far:

Squirrel interrupted whilst stripping the hazel tree. “An wha?”

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The complete nihilism in bringing this back. Lots of people on both sides keen to bring the Assembly down. Some sympathy with the uselessness arguement. But for the life of me can't see how how either side get something better out of it.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder what it’s like to live in a place that is competently governed? Where politics is something that happens in the background and doesn’t manifest itself in your daily life on a regular basis? How wonderful to be afforded complacency 🙄

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Cllr. Séamas de Faoite @seamasbelfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three summers of paramilitary directed racist violence, enabled by Unionist politicians talking about “legitimate concerns”. Children burnt out of their homes. The rest of us, from all backgrounds, aren’t stupid. We know what you’re at. We’ve seen what the future can be, you’re trying to stop it.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Safe to say the FAI board needs replaced. This stain won't wash out.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s fine, they didn’t win. I can let the hatred go now. I am freed.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am a couple of episodes behind on Irish Traitors and my loathing for a specific player has reached silly proportions. If they win I’m going to have to burn something.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brace yourselves. I have found the most annoying thing on the Internet. Behold: fridge styling. Frankly I think we might as well let our AI overlords finish us off.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What sad times are these, when I have to show my son the eBay price of the 99/00 Ireland football shirt I just let him have so that he doesn’t leave it at his arse. “This is the most expensive football shirt you own”. A little respect is needed.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ooooo the gasp I just did. I don’t even know what I need this for, just that I do actually need it.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Catherine Connolly was a Clinical Psychologist before she was Uachtarán na hÉireann. Imagine putting that roiling, septic mass of personality disorders in front of a clinical psychologist? Jeepers. She’ll need a stiff drink and a dark room.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just had some random children knock on my door and ask to pet the Shetland pony. I live very rurally, we aren’t near anywhere, and I know all my nearish neighbours, so of course I end up asking if they have an adult with them. Both wearing vest tops in what is pretty much blowing a gale 🤔

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee

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Sean @huckelcommasean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These are imperial officer uniforms from Star Wars, with some added Nazi-esque Wingéd Eagle appliqués.

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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh. My. God. Have you seen the new hair?! Are we genuinely supposed to not point and laugh at the bloated fool? Or is it decreed that the hair was *always* like that?

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Derry Girls Claire

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