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@saredra.bsky.social
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Climate, international shitshow, human & environmental rights & whatever interests me. Irish, she/her. Mostly harmless but inclined to bite or at least relentlessly mock bigots. Irrational fear of harmonicas. Not actually a bat.

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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 9h
Honestly, I feel rather sorry for the farmer involved, who did react entirely rationally to a very weird set of circumstances.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This article describes an appalling view of a potential future.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is brilliant. The whole thing should never have happened, there is zero need for those guys to go have an intimidation march on Garvaghy, but it did and remarkably, solidarity is winning.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doing Julian McEnroe dirty here. Jeremiah McEnroe has not been out there achieving world No.1s in tennis since the Iron Age to be being misnamed like this.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤷‍♀️ Netenyahu was making similiar insinuations at the UN. It's insanity. And it's just supposed to be acceptable, in fact, it's wrong to say it's wrong.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Had to do it for the rest. Plus how could I forget Fable??! I drowned poor Lara so many times. Also rather surprised at some of the obscurities the site found, I don't even remember the RI cover, it was just a floppy disc, lol.
Rainbow Islands, Civ II, Minecraft, Spyro, James Pond II: Robocod, Star Wars the old republic, Tomb Raider II, Theme Hospital, FABLE.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whoever abused him and whoever stood by and let it happen are disgraces. Bazunu acted with courage and integrity. As for the sodding #FAI ...
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To whom it may concern - if you think a video is AI, PLEASE SAY WHY. You may well be right, but no-one's going to learn anything from just "AI slop". (On a secondary note, don't just auto-respond to everything with "ai slop" on the offchance that you're right, it's lazy and annoying.)
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Karen Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm actually really annoyed now. God we're so complicit, as a country. Our Government is so weak on Palestine, still haven't passed the Occupied Territories Bill, still haven't officially expelled the ambassador, now we're still engaging with them internationally in sport. No. It's not right.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a weird thing to say. Anyway, hope the Irish team do boycott. #FAI
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every so often I get the urge to play #Warcraft again, despite my better judgment and then I see some nonsense about this one asshole and his hoard of vicious sheep and...life's too short. Better judgment wins. Wild how much damage that lax modding and a small core of look-at-mes can cause though.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The DA's wife absolutely deserved a slap from everyone close enough to hear. Nightmare of a situation for the poor victim and so...vindictively pointless.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone cheaped out and results in 160,000lbs of wasted food & all the resources that went into producing it. Given how many go hungry, it's absolutely despicable to waste so much due to corner-cutting. (Obvs yes, it has to be recalled & destroyed, it's the corner-cutter I'm blaming)
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Epic journey, here's hoping no more mishaps!
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, but if I saw that on a pinboard in the wilds of a Christmas market...I...would.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sure, if the grass can grow under a wild cycle of 2ft of water and drought. And what happens when the Atlantic stops moderating it, Richard? You know, that slowing Gulf Stream? And rising seas will turn the main island of Ireland into a flipping archipelago.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Student from Gaza who has a fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas. State fights the case.
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Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity
Student who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If ever a chart said "i think we broke it", it's this one. But apparently our problems are really immigrants and bullying trans people while having parasocial relations with computer programs.
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what pandering to the right gets you. Court fees, money for solicitors, which the taxpayer will pay. Denying students, that already got scholarships, visas so they can actually come here. I hope this student wins, quickly.
Irish Examiner headline 
High Court challenge for justice minister over Gazan student’s visa refusal
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I really wish people wouldn't jump straight to nukes whenever that idiot in the WH signals at Iran.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remembering Anne Devlin ‘She was tortured, imprisoned (becoming the first female political prisoner at Kilmainham), held in solitary confinement, interrogated & threatened … but she still held out, refusing to betray any of the others involved in the rebellion’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
irishexaminer.com
Clodagh Finn: Anne Devlin was never just Robert Emmet’s housekeeper. It’s time we told her story
A new children’s book and the work of historian Mícheál Ó Doibhilín are helping restore Anne Devlin’s place in Irish history
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That dead-eyed weasel of a man is hands down the public figure I'd pick as an example of someone who sends up warning flags on a cellular level. I've only met one person IRL (thankfully briefly) that gave me that level of instinctive recoil.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is just pathetic. I'm not rewarding their bullshit with even a click, but this is the sly sort of "i'm just joooking, take a jo-oke" bullying that insults women, Black people, trans people all in one go and deserves to be dragged through the mud. It's meant to *hurt* the target, and -
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was getting steadily more aggravated by interminable YouTube ads, but the Uber one has broken me. I listen to a few podcasts where the speaker has a fairly quiet voice and there's nothing like James Brown unexpectedly going "YEEEEEEAAAGH!" directly into your ear to make you switch to duck duck go.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"So we feel this thing to be a thing that we wish to perceive and to illustrate how true it is, here is a picture we absolutely just made up. But you see why this illustration of our feelings make it clear how the thing we made up is a Bad Thing, right?"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truest thing he ever said.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're all really going to end up regretting the collective decisionmaking that Arts & Humanities were only "nice-to-haves" rather than an essential part of who we are.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This incredibly stupid sentence* unfortunately is horribly relevent to the global nonsense, despite there being no sensible reason for it to be a thing. Because so many brains are extremely cooked. (The content, not the phrasing)
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish I was better at drawing. I've had a running cartoon going in my head for the last few days somewhat inspired by Shit I See On Bluesky but I just don't have the skill to get onto paper. Having said that, it'd get me yelled at by a high proportion of anyone that saw it, so may be as well.
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Latest revelations about the sale of dual-use goods to Israel have exposed a negligent attitude at Govt level towards the use of Irish goods in a genocide. We must ensure that these goods do not end up in the hands of those who would use them for military purposes. @sineadgibney.bsky.social
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Department must answer for dual-use goods from Ireland being sent to Israel - Social Democrats
The latest revelations about the sale of dual-use goods to Israel have exposed a negligent attitude at Government level towards the use of Irish goods in a genocide, according to Social Democrats TD S...
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
...it is getting to the point where I am willing to believe that some people think about as much as an LLM does. 😑
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Couple months ago, me (Catholic-background atheist), a woman who was raised with firmly no religion at all and a Muslim woman were having a very pleasant peaceable chat in canteen about various similarities & differences as the no-religion one was curious. No-one trying to de/convert anyone, -
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What in god's name was literally half the Irish Air Corps helicopters doing over Galway just there? O.o
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jaysus, you've really struck rock bottom when Whiny Yaxley-Lennon is on your side.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oil pastel artwork creation: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's very sad news. Rest in power, Bonnie Greer.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poor Mexico, but I think "and Mexico will pay for it" has every chance of becoming a common idiom for "nonsense plan with no consideration of funding". 😆
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has dropped out of Ed Sheeran's tour
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Ed Sheeran Points Up in Plaid Shirt
ALT: Ed Sheeran Points Up in Plaid Shirt
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I honestly applaud Ed Sheeran and....grudgingly U2 for making the below documentary. But man does it throw his mealy-mouthed cowardice today into sharp relief. He knew speaking about the Russian invasion is (rightfully) acceptable. Safe.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stupid, stupid shit. I can only hope whatever's been plonked up there has Elon Musk's daft car crash into it.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The bar is on the fucking floor and not only is it apparently impossible to clear, it's apparently invisible, even when pointed out.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is a coward. "Free Palestine" and the Palestinian flag are only "hurtful" if they're reminding you of something bad you're doing or defending. There is zero reason to have your feelings hurt by a reminder that our fellow human beings are being genocided. Such pitiful self-centredness!
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All of them. I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Perhaps oddly, I don't tend to have the player char get with a subordinate in RPGs (tbh, mostly it was SWOTR*) because I do find it immersion-breaking or if the chars were real, it would be unethical. But. It's a fkn game. Play how you wish. No-one's being harmed. Date everything if you want 😆
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What you don't see is the years of getting scratched up trying to teach the cat yoga.
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