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Micks

@michaelcosgrove.bsky.social
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Environmental educator, working in the Foyle catchment in Ulster, Ireland. Geriatric millennial, LGBTQ (bi), a massive nerd and a trans ally.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 10h
This is disastrous for Le Penn and r/w types elsewhere. There is a Generation Greta in Europe who know, from experience nagging parents on climate crisis, they can change things and are at the voting age now. Many dismissed Greta a few years ago but she was right then and she's right now.
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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 21h
“The facts are known but are of no interest to the public” ~editorial Haaretz When you ‘other’ the indigenous population to such an extent that you’re indifferent to the horrors perpetrated on them, you’re sick. ☕️
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just a reminder - the previous government forced trans & gender-questioning youth who are under 18 to go through the CAMHS service (with equally long waiting lists) before being referred onto youth gender clinics - effectively hiding the numbers of trans+ kids waiting for CAMHS (and any deaths)!
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Glad Drumcree has all been resolved… it has been resolved, hasn’t it?
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For some light relief: this morning Gerry Carroll MLA accused Gavin Robinson MP of blocking a road during the summer riots. Robinson threatened legal action and Nolan shut Carroll down. So... people have found the footage of Gavin Robinson standing on a road talking to protesters.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still have a lot of “but why don’t the residents let the Order march?” Well, because they remember. A community activist from Ardoyne I won’t name, but goes under Belfast.jpeg, has compiled some of the stories. There are 21 deaths total linked to the Drumcree “dispute”.
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Claire Hanna MP @clairehanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drumcree isn’t Green v Orange, it’s Past v Future
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the last 15 years I’ve intervened on three occasions when I’ve seen a man or men behaving threateningly to women. All three occasions resulted in violence. The women got away, the last time I got a concussion. Stay calm, stay on your feet, keep moving, keep the bastards focus on you long enough.
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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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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Solution to Garvaghy road Is to remove all politicians and Jamie Bryson from the scene.
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Cllr. Séamas de Faoite @seamasbelfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trimble had his own hand in making Drumcree a problem at first, but following the murder of the Quinns this is what he said. Unionism would Lundy him, but those who are trying to re-open this dark part of our history should listen to what he had to say.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/09/2026
The Department of Education in Northern Ireland, which unilaterally and illegally ordered schools to discriminate against trans children here, is now threatening schools for using external organisations that don't also encourage discrimination against trans kids.
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Factory Jimbo @factoryjimbo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ireland, please make Janey Godley proud....
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/09/2026
The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Whilst I am really happy to see the resurgence of collecting physical media, it's clear that most people are either sleepwaking into, or couldn't give a shit about, a world in which we own nothing, and pay above and beyond for licences that are revoked on a corporate whim.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Me for The Irish News I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the joint office and mandatory coalition. It allows political parties to blame others for wider problems. If the system can't fix our problems then the system needs to go www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...
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Sarah Creighton: I don’t say this lightly, but the Stormont system needs to go
If Sinn Féin and the DUP think they could run Northern Ireland better on their own, perhaps we need to let them
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dont understand why folks won't just take their a bum for a walk. Poke it out the front/back door and let that gas go!
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Drumcree wasnt my political awakening, learning about Bloody Sunday at the age of 9 was. Drumcree was probably the angriest I'd ever been though, 15 years old and I watched the RUC beat and drag the people of the Garvaghy road off the street live on TV. Then the triumphalism, the bigoted ba*****s
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Awk no! Rest in peace Dolly ♥️
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Genuinely tickled my brain, it's like reading global trade like it's a sport. The swearing 🤣
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They have argued that COVID's not so bad since it mostly kills old and disabled people, that Gaza isnt a genocide, that the far right are brave truth-tellers, that trans people are a threat to children but MeToo and epstein files anger went too far: why act shocked when the MSM does nazi shit?
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Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 @leifb73.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
You DO know that wind turbines, solar, electric vehicles and green energy in general will result in cleaner air, right? Clean air? Deep breaths of air with less diesel perfume? You don’t want that? Okay, cool.
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The biggest logical flaw of many critiques of Woke 1 is the drawing of an equivalence between social behaviours and state power. This week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik
A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 15/08/2026
Over 200 articles were written about Jason Arday over the last few weeks in the British press alone. Here are some folks accused of plagiarism who didn’t get that kind of coverage. I’m hoping you can tell why. A thread. William O’Reilly: Professor at Cambridge who lifted 12 pages of text from… 1/
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Grimace in sunglasses looking cool as the other side of the pillow is poised at the open door of what looks like a corvette-like kit car. Xe(Grimace is non binary) has a full purple shake that rests on the roof of the sports car. There is a purple gel over the image. A low mist clings to the ground. Is this a dream? Or has this mythical badass been conjured? The song “I need a hero” is most likely blazing on xir am/fm radio.
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Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There are a lot of sociopaths in British media, way to many!
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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Soooo…Jason Arday and Johann Hari are both accused of the same thing. Hari gets multiple book deals and writes a book which is dangerous pill-shaming crap and gets wildly praised, but Jason Arday cannot be allowed to persist and must be fed to the wolves and hounded to death. Qwhite the difference.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
As far as woke 1 & woke 2, that is all utter bullshit because woke is Black people's word from our community that they stole & appropriated to do all kinds of outlandish things with, & neither woke 1 nor woke 2 have anything to do with what woke has always meant & continues to mean to Black folks.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/08/2026
Not a single progressive movement has ever "gone too far".
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
And again with the nonsensical term “anti-immigration protester” in the media. Are they attacking any immigrants? Are white french ppl targeted too? Or are they specifically targeting people who look like they’re from the global South? Everything to avoid saying racist or xenophobe.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/08/2026
The climate crisis is a 'reasonable concern' The way trans people and immigrants and the disabled are treated is a 'reasonable concern'. The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few is a 'reasonable concern'. See those in headlines much, do you?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/08/2026
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"If trans people just never interacted with other people, shared their opinions or had any interiority, they won't be attacked" isn't an argument you fucking losers
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Migration is, and always has been, our principal form of climate adaptation Just like it is for every species
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