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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦

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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m disappointed but not surprised for some reason about the majority of EU states capitulation on this. This lends itself to saying “any data we create is not our own”, which can extend to “anything we create we do not own”
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"This policy, without doubt, would be one of the most self-defeating and self-destructive that Ireland, in particular, could take. It would rival DeValera's Economic War and protectionism of the 1930s-1950s for sheer bladed self-denosing. " www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
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The Gist: What if?
The Government wants to reduce immigration. This is the Gist.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 19/09/2026
Billions face hunger, yet agrifood investments are often poorly targeted or considered too risky. @fao.org’s Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum brings together governments and investors to unlock data-driven, high-impact agrifood investment opportunities. Join us: shorturl.at/kedKC
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 18/09/2026
Our world runs on natural resources. As we decarbonise the global economy, critical energy transition minerals such as copper are becoming increasingly important, with demand for these minerals on track to double by 2040. Follow the journey of one mineral - copper - to understand what’s at stake.
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stunning thread in its entirety.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been pushing the Minister for Transport to ensure the delivery of the N8, a direct route between the Blanchardstown Town Centre and Dublin Airport. A link between Dublin 15 and the Airport is absolutely critical.
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026
"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A diver stumbles across a whale shark trapped in a commercial fishing line in a marine sanctuary that bans fishing, while the giant lies still while the rope is cut. The footage also shows the scale of a whale shark vs a human. [📹Smithsonian Channel] Original post
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
OTD 23rd of August 1989 Baltic Way protest was timed specifically to the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP). For decades, Soviet official policy denied that the secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe into Soviet and Nazi spheres of influence existed. 🧵 1/9
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The silence of Western Europe in the face of the inhumane crimes that the russians are committing is deafening,and it will come back to haunt us all. Four people were murdered by russians yesterday, including three children in Mykolaiv, two of the children were 11 years old, while the third was 12.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot of Pluto.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If we extend it to week. We can add trying to burn down weapons factory in Estonia, shooting several drones into Romania, shooting a drone into Latvia and jammed eastern Gulf of Finland that all traffic was stopped. IN ONE FRACKING WEEK! Are we sleep? #visaban #diplomaticban #tradeban #embargo
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So just in the last few days russians shot a missile into Moldova, USV-ed Romanian gas platform that supplies EU, planted weapons for assassins in Germany, dug a tunnel under Latvian border, flew a spy plane in Finland airspace and we are still calling it 'hybrid' and keep tossing them visas?
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
❤️PLEASE SHARE: Bad Baltic Takes' has done an amazing job of sharing the history of the Baltic States, highlighting the importance of defending freedom against russian terror, all with a typically Baltic feistiness. Due to popular demand, it has also become an online magazine. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 www.badbaltic.com
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BAD BALTIC
We help celebrate the Baltic countries in a world where it's still ok to laugh at nonsense too.
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A message from Prof. Jason Arday's family
Statement from Professor Jason Arday's family mourning their tragic loss, thanking supporters for kindness and solidarity, condemning the public cruelty he endured, and urging greater compassion.A family’s memorial statement asking for respectful, peaceful remembrances of their loved one, urging sharing of positive memories and quoting that “every human life has a purpose.”Invitation to share a message of condolence, memory, or support with Jason Arday’s family, with an email contact provided.
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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Irish People, don't forget it's Heritage Week Loads of cool things on www.heritageweek.ie
heritageweek.ie
Home | National Heritage Week 15th – 23rd August 2026
National Heritage Week celebrates Ireland’s cultural, built and natural heritage. It brings together volunteers, community groups and heritage enthusiasts to share their experience, knowledge culture ...
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A LAST WORD ON FARAGE - FOR NOW Turnout: 44.37% Farage: 22,239 votes Count Binface: 9,455 votes So around 33% of those who could potentially vote voted for Farage, meaning 66% didn't. Just as important Essex Police said that it was not true (Farage claimed this early this morning, lying again),
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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
According to the CSO Data Centres consumed 23% of Ireland's metered electricity in 2025 and could consume up to 30% by 2030! Time they paid for the bigger share! @greenparty.ie are proposing a levy on Data Centre energy usage. It could raise up to 100 million plus in revenue! #datacentres #budget
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Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Screen-free. Hands-on. Interactive. Real science for real kids. Today's curious kids. Tomorrow's scientists. 🌟 Explore. Engage. Empower. 🌐 www.junioreinsteinsscienceclub.com #JuniorEinsteins #STEMeducation #ScienceForKids #HandsOnLearning #KidsStem #STEMkids #GirlsInSTEM
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@nidajr.bsky.social
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@nidajr.bsky.social
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 05/08/2026
He risked his life daily so no Ukrainian hero would be forgotten. Oleksii Yukov, head of Platsdarm, was killed on the front lines while recovering fallen soldiers to return them to their families with dignity. 🧵 1/5 ⬇️
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🇷🇺Russia is a terrorist state. 🤡putin is a war criminal.
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Peteritis Kocinsh/ Big Naturals @tavamamma69.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
russians are simply lesser thans. Creatures.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
35 years ago today, seven Lithuanian officers left for work and never came home. In the early hours of 31 July 1991, Soviet OMON forces carried out the Medininkai massacre, killing seven unarmed border and police officers.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ABC News pumped out a horrific piece of anti-Ukrainian, pro-russian propaganda. It printed the lies of the Gauleiter of russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya region about an attack that never occurred. @ABC used a photo of the aftermath of a russian attack on Kyiv to worsen their crime against public trust.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"I'm so glad my country shares a border with russia", said no country ever.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
1/5 Demographic destruction is one of the quietest yet most brutal forms of genocide, and Russia is actively executing it across Ukraine. While child abductions and mass graves draw headlines, the demographic stats reveal an equally dark reality designed to erase Ukraine's future
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Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Did the various authorities have no inkling that this was happening?” says a victim. The blind eyes were turned by authorities, state and church. How does anyone want the church to run the schools? Out, I say, out out out. #Speirghorm www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Former Christian Brother ‘likely to die in prison’ after being jailed for five years
Christian Brothers’ ‘morally bankrupt and totally unfair’ approach to victims criticised by judge in case of Liam Coughlan (90)
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This weasel-faced totem of inadequacy really puts the “ha” in “alpha”
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💙 amsterdamred 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪 Please NO DM'S Please. Just an Old Hippie @amsterdamred-5280.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Anyone who has access should release the Epstein files in full, only REDACTING the victims (children who were sexually assaulted) and leaving the perpetrators UNREDACTED. Everyone needs to know the names of the scum.
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’d like @denisebreen.bsky.social’s opinion as our resident TNG expert 🤖
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A class based policy. The wealthy will get their referral and be able to pay for treatment. The working class, who will be policed 10 times more, will be criminalised for poverty. Pathetic.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A reminder that, on one day in the last election, FF, FG and SF all visited the IFA and told them that they would work to shelter Agriculture from climate protecting laws.
IFA invited to Make-A-Wish
FF, FG and SF all trouped in to the IFA to promise them, in turn, that Farmers were their Bestest Boys and Girls and that it was the Mean Green Party who had forced climate mitigation targets on them at all.
"Mary Lou McDonald said her party. would push for more payments for farmers and criticised the Carbon Tax, calling it
"thoughtless and lazy".
The Agriculture sector was responsible for 34% of all greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland this year. This made it the largest source of Ireland's emissions.Simon Harris said "When parties, including my own, publish our manifestos, a lot of the projects in those manifestos are funding off the back of tax receipts paid by the agri-food sector in Ireland."
In Q1 of 2024, the CSO says that Agriculture was only the 10th largest source of GDP, contributing a total of 1.28% of the top 10 sources of domestic product. Revenue's figures show Agriculture contributed 0.75% (three quarters of one percent) of all tax revenue in 2023."Fianna Fáil committed to retaining the derogation on the Nitrates Directive, if it is returned to government."
The EPA reported in August 2024 that nitrogen concentrations in Irish waters had not improved between 2020-2023. It said
"Agriculture has been identified by the EPA as the most prevalent significant pressure on water quality, impacting over 1,000 waterbodies or approximately 60% of all waterbodies that are 'At Risk".
The head of the IFA, in response, complained that farming didn't get enough supports from the State.
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Irish Hospice Foundation @irishhospice.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Grief doesn’t always look the way people expect it to. Our Bereavement Support Line is here with care and compassion: 💙 Freephone: 1800 80 70 77 🕙 Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm 👉 bereaved.ie #SoulfulSunday #GriefSupport #YouAreNotAlone #IrishHospiceFoundation #SayTheirName #GriefAndLove
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Isn't it about time the UK began arresting perpetrators of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, obliteration of schools & hospitals, mass child murder instead of arming them ... meme via Yunus Elias
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There are standards and then there are standards.
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Zelensky doesn’t know the speed of the Irish government too well so 🤷
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Kim @kmbrly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You’re clearly not doing anything important so listen to this.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2026
Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency | Johnny Ryan
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Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency | Johnny Ryan
The country is dependent on the global giants that call Dublin home. Irish ministers can’t be trusted to chair vital European digital sovereignty talks, says Irish civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The girl who was killed by russian glide bomb in Kharkiv today came to the city for her university graduation. ​A graduation robe lies next to her body...
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In today’s Vatnik Soup and our “Degenerate Russia” series, we’ll discuss what kind of lowlifes sink low enough to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, lie on Russia’s behalf, promote Russian BS, and even gather in Moscow or St. Petersburg to help the Kremlin wage its war. 1/21
Vatniks Scott Ritter, George Galloway, Rick Sanchez and Christopher Helali at the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3–6, 2026.
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Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
👇 #FeedingFamilies #EveryLittleHelps #FoodPoverty #Tesco
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Gerard Larkin 🇮🇪 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @occupanther.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great piece by @lizcarolan.com today. www.thebriefing.ie/were-being-r.... It speaks to the sentiment that is growing in volume: AI in its current form, is a fugazi, misnomered, and misrepresntative.
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We’re being robbed of the benefits of human ingenuity
I gave a keynote today at an event on “AI and Accountability” hosted by the Children’s Rights Alliance, and I used it to untangle two ideas; that we can love tech while also being deeply enraged by th...
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