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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

They can't give in to these bullies. We'll never hear the last of them if they do.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Maybe they've decided to use Epstein to distract from the war they started to distract from Epstein.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

An unelected group of people has decided that their demands outweigh the basic needs of ordinary people across the country - needs that include keeping urgent hospital appointments, seeing dying relatives, caring for children, and obtaining medicines. This is bullying, not protest #FuelProtests

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling" PB Shelley

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thank you both for the clarification. I always believed any of these titles made someone an aristocrat, but you are pointing out that this isn't the case. Still, even a lifetime appointment to an office of political power is problematic. Do the hereditary lords still hold their seats?

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Not to take away from the importance of the discussion, but "Noble Lady?!?" Sometimes I forget the UK has a branch of government, with real power, composed entirely of aristocrats.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is not debatable‼️ We saw it‼️ On this day, January 24, 2026, we witnessed it‼️

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 25/01/2026

“Trump’s imperial project is all gunboat and no diplomacy. He probably mistakes the flattery…of most European leaders for esteem. In reality their deference masks a mixture of fear and short-term resignation.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

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Whose Hemisphere? | Fintan O’Toole

The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Please share. 💔

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This entire weekend

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

They "don't care about the social emotional growth of their son?" Wow.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

As someone who saw the whole speech, the reports about this are bewildering. Even the Guardian seems to claim that Trump was not inciting anyone, but begging an unruly crowd to act peacefully. Why is the BBC going full Paramount on this?

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I expect that one thing they plan to do is swoop in with ICE agents and arrest people lining up to vote on the pretext that they believe them to be illegal immigrants. How do you prevent that? Is there a judicial order that could be put in place beforehand to stop it?

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Both choices are very understandable. It would be a pity though, after having a dynamic vibrant presidency for 35 years (is it 35?!!), to go back to it being a ceremonial pen pusher.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I've never encountered an Irish election so limited in scope. Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues. Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues. This must be how a 2-party system feels #speirgorm

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage." Robert Frost

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This happens to me way more than you might think.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia. It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Is our problem social media itself or the fact that social media has been weaponized to polarize and disrupt?

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If Trump could pass a law stating that it was illegal to do anything that upset the dear leader, he would. And a big portion of the MAGA crowd would most likely go along with it.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

US publications, can I suggest that you temporarily replace paywalls with donation requests when it comes to articles of political significance? Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Never thought the name “Jimmy Kimmel” would be accompanied by a physical chill passing through my bones.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Can I ask, if you follow 40,000 people or more, why are you doing that? Doesn't it make your social media feeds a pile of messy sludge.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Very informative. The parade of far right lunatics lining up to embarrass Ireland on a global scale should know that their power would be restricted to throwing tea parties and causing the occasional legislative delay.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Interesting. I'll try it. But I suspect that's not the only problem. I think they've completely sabotaged the search engine in order to force people to use AI.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Is there a browser that does what Google used to do before it sabotaged itself? A browser that just searches the Internet and provides the most relevant results? I'm so sick of wading through AI bullshit and advertising.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The weirdest thing about this US administration is that everything that happens is, at the same time, completely predictable and utterly astounding.

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Laura Bee, Trench Wench @writerlaurabee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Lemme do a Captcha and I'll get back to you...😬 youtu.be/AtkXbPjHOQo?...

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I'm Not A Robot | Award-Winning Short Film | Comedy, Sci-Fi

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Sherry @sherrysovern.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Human here

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

After an absence, a reply I made to a post was randomly liked by a series of strangely over-obvious bot accounts that only post pictures of kittens and sunsets. Are they the only people still here. Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...

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Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus

Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Is Trump manipulating the stock markets on purpose to make money out of them?

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