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Ruairí Newman

@rnewman.ie
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Irish 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Bibliophile & IT workaholic. #ADHD #Autism. #Liberal as fuck. #Sweary Trans Rights are Human Rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Fuck Putin. For humans, by a human; AI regurgitates, not creates.

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Whonix @whonix.org · 13/03/2026
TGIF
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NPR announced it won’t air sound bites from the Trump White House until further notice. NPR needs to start a subscription service to keep that sound off. I’d subscribe to never hearing that orange fucking lunatic again.
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Marf @marv88-88.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's crazy cuz his kids have all the vaccines he just wants yours to die.
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Riveting reading...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Spotted in Washington DC during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Source MeidasTouch
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is clear: We will get justice. A reckoning is on the way. We will not be distracted from the #EpsteinFiles. We will not be distracted from the #EpsteinFiles. We will not be distracted from the #EpsteinFiles. We will not be distracted.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 14/03/2026
Is this the same #Trump who has missed no opportunity to fuck over any nation that was a US ally? #FuckTrump, fuck his tariffs, and fuck his calls for other countries to help him. Let Israel help him.
Headline: Trump urges other nations to help secure Strait of Hormuz
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That was incredible. Fabulous match won by France with a penalty after the clock went red. Sad for Ireland who so nearly stole the championship. 🇫🇷48🏉46🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Autocephalous [aw-toh-SEF-uh-lus] (adj.) - Independent of external and especially patriarchal authority.
A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme featuring word “Autocephalous” with pronunciation [aw-toh-SEF-uh-lus] and the definition: “Independent of external and especially patriarchal authority.” Beneath it appears the example sentence: “Wearied by unsolicited advice and by being spoken over by the likes of men named Chad, the autocephalous Calphurnia adopted their own tactic in kind, until at last their bruised egos conceded defeat and lapsed into submissive quietude.” To the right is a Victorian-style black-and-white illustration of a woman in a long dress and hat standing on a hillside, holding binoculars and looking toward distant mountains.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Wait wait wait wait wait
4 frame comic. a street journalist is interviewing a tall light brown man with a pink scarf and a tshirt of the band Angine de Poitrine. off-frame, the journalist asks : sir! are you worried about
homophobic parents who
might want to trans their
child rather than have
an effeminate son?
the man replies :
wait wait wait wait wait.
are you implying that some
homophobes might not also
be raging transphobes?
Never heard of that.
trans kids are currently
being hunted down, outlawed,
marginalized from social life,
singled out in their own schools,
and you're asking me about some
hypothetical parent who might
pressure a child into being trans so
they might what? fit in better?
transitioning as a child in-
volves years of determination.
every adult in their life is likely
to cast doubt on who they are. if
they are lucky and have supportive
parents, their families are often
ostracized by their community.
the idea that someone sees the
hardships a family with a trans
child goes through and thinks "they
must have forced it on them"
makes me physically ill.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 10/03/2026
“I’m boooooored” … even though we’ve been playing for the last hour … #BorderCollie #Dog #DogsofBlueSky
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 10/03/2026
#Israel are playing right into the hands of anti-Semites, making life harder for Jews globally. They can’t fail to know this, so they mustn’t care.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 10/03/2026
The absolute picture of comfort (and idleness)! #BorderCollie #Dog #DogsofBlueSky
Border collie curled up, on her back, on a small chair with a curved back, into which she fits almost perfectly
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 18/01/2026
#ChildAbusers #FakeChristians #Fascism #ICE #Murderers #MAGA #Trump
Supplicant standing before St Peter at the gates of heaven. St Peter says: "Says here you went to church your whole life and loudly proclaimed yourself a Christian, but worshipped rich people, hated the downtrodden, and cheered for cruelty. Like what the fuck, man?"
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 01/12/2025
It strikes me as incongruous that English racists in particular should attack Muslims. Had the English had the courage of their convictions, they would still be Catholic. Instead, they converted en masse per Henry VIII’s decree as a result of his temper tantrum over the denial of his divorce.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 28/11/2025
Oh dear, what a fucking tragedy. Still, never mind. #СлаваУкраїні
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
SAY NO to #Musk, #Bezos, #Trump & co. It’s time to #EndOligarchy. Imagine a world where wisdom & empathy lift us up, while #greed & #hoarding are left behind. Collaboration beats #exploitation, and competence trumps #grift. The future is ours to build—let’s make it bright. #WealthTax #Limitarianism
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Why Stupid People Become Successful
YouTube video by According to Nicole
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 28/11/2025
#altright #farright #trump #maga
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 22/11/2025
WTF do we have Leinster players on the squad for? None of them seem capable of performing at international level. #Rugby #IrevRSA
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 14/11/2025
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 09/11/2025
#NoWordOfALie
Image of text: “I’m starting to think this God fella is a bit of a cunt.”
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them. By @deldeib.bsky.social
propublica.org
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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ali mcforever @alimcforever.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Banksy just dropped a bomb at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. A gorilla judge in robes, cleaver raised, standing over a protester. Within hours, staff rushed to cover it up. This is no random wall art. It’s commentary on how the British legal system has always been the Empire’s sharpest
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 03/10/2025
I live in #Oldcastle, Co Meath. While the usual racist dickheads are spouting off about the racist “protest” here on 24th Sept, a significant majority of the people who protested were not from Oldcastle. There were cars from outside the town clogging up the whole town, as well as at least one bus.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 27/09/2025
From Reagan to Trump: the inexorable and execrable descent of the USA into Nazi-style fascism.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
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imjustagirl.bsky.social @imjustagirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
You can't hear this enough.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/09/2025
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story
gothamist.com
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 27/09/2025
Turned off the sound on the golf — can’t listen to any more of the American fan contingent who are either extremely drunk or are under the impression that they’re at an American football game.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A sizable chunk of mainstream media outlets feel more comfortable criticizing Zelensky's outfit choices than Trump's foreign policy choices. News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 21/07/2025
This would be a good opportunity for France to completely block Xwitter. And to make the case to the European Parliament for blocking it across the EU. Who knows? If they made legislation against propaganda networks tight enough, we might finally get rid of Facebook too.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Musk refuses to cooperate with the French probe into TwitterX. He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
reuters.com
Musk's X says it won't cooperate with 'politically motivated' French probe
Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a "politically-motivated criminal investigation" that threatens its users' free speech, denying all allegations and saying it would not comply with the probe.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 21/07/2025
Torture is now acceptable on US soil, apparently.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 08/07/2025
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
theintercept.com
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group.
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@healthcareicare @healthcareicare.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Watching that video of Diddy beating Cassie to a pulp made me sick to my stomach and mad as hell. It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right. Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Young people are harmed much more by fascism and mainstream media misinformation than mobile phones.
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 29/05/2025
If #RFKJr wasn’t pro-disease, but still believed the - repeatedly, thoroughly, and clearly - debunked “vaccines cause #autism” crap, he would fund research to find and replace the “cause of autism” in #vaccines. Either he’s mentally disturbed and/or there’s a personal profit motive (I vote both).
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/05/2025
Russian armed forces have committed crimes against humanity by deliberately targeting civilians with drones in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast, according to a new report by the United Nation's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
UN commission says Russian drone attacks against Kherson amount to crimes against humanity
From July 2024, nearly 150 civilians have been killed and hundreds more wounded in drone strikes on Kherson city and 16 surrounding localities, according to the United Nation's Independent Internation...
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 29/05/2025
#WarCrimes by the people whose propaganda targeting the malicious and the simple-minded put #Trump in power to weaken the #USA - a successful effort, given Trump’s isolationism and laughable pomposity. #PutinForHagueTribunal
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Ruairí Newman @rnewman.ie · 29/05/2025
Hahahahahahahahaha #FuckYouIdiotBoy
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Conor Newman @conornewman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A little list of Urban Fantasy series I've enjoyed and would recommend to others. #Book #Booklover #Reading #Skybook #Library #Books #booksky #urbanfantasy #bookrecommendations
Screenshot of a list of recommended Urban Fantasy series, too long to fit in a post, so screenshotted instead
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Here’s the often overlooked reason Trump’s attacks on Harvard and others he singles out by name — including specific law firms, charitable organizations, radio and TV networks, and individuals — are flatly unconstitutional: they violate Article I’s absolute ban on Bills of Attainder: f.io/RnNoLD5I
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
President Trump and his family are extorting billions of dollars from US companies and foreign nations. In new piece for @TheAtlantic I examine past US corruption - and conclude Trump can't be compared to anything American, only Russia or Africa. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist
He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.
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