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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 · 19h
I think they took the below advice to heart
Infamous page from "Spells, Charms and Imcantations" (unsure if book or chapter title) that includes the line "You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unfortunately can't find the video of her reading it, but here's the full poem from Poyums.
They tell us it's not all, but god, it's too much
 To be always afraid of the next creepy touch 
To be careful to not tell your trauma too loudly,
 Lest you waken the good men Just sitting there proudly.


But then suddenly here come the angels of fact, 
Lives and innocence lost but his rep stays intact,
 And they tell us we're crazy, hysterical girls, 
But we googled how nails affect how a fist curls

You must qualify nouns when you talk about men, 
Or their pride might be bruised, and, my darling, what then? 
And here come the experts to explain linguistics,
And we fail to take solace in morbid statistics;

Cause it might be, or will be, or already was, 
and we know who is doing it. we know the cause. 
We tell them our hopes, and our worst mortal fears, 
We drown in a river of impotent tears;


And instead of a hand to pull us above water, 
They say words to us that they'd hide from their daughter -- They pour in more liquid that's meant to dissolve, 
Till we can placate, and stroke egos, absolve.

Because, yes, it's not you that would rape, bruise or kill, 
But we told vou who did, and yet somehow you still 
Found a way you could centre yourself in our strife. 
And she wasn't a daughter, a sister, a wife;

She wasn't just someone for someone to own, 
She belonged to herself and had worth all alone.
 And as tears dry and blood drips and bruises begin,
 It's a game we don't enter and never can win.

Thank fuck it's the truth that it's some and not all, 
And again "not all men' comes the rallying call. 
And we waste yet more time to refute points unsaid, 
But that won't bring us back from the brink, or the dead.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The age-old question; "but is colonisation *really* racist?" Note below who matters so little as to not even be worth mentioning - the people already living there for generations, back as far as the holy books used to justify their removal. Because, at base, they don't matter.
"Palestine for the Jews" - copy of memorial oresented to president Harrison in 1891"Plan of Colonising Palestine with Jews" / Zionists discuss problen in big Chicago meeting. NYT, 1902.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Doesn't sound like he had anything to be ashamed of, but he did have a history of speaking out at wrongdoing, which got him fired and blacklisted.
The specific files in which Andriesz appeared related to interviews he had given to the FBI while in dispute with his former employer, BGC Partners - a financial brokerage firm, part of Lutnick's Cantor Fitzgerald group.

In 2016, Andriesz had raised concerns internally about accounting irregularities at the firm. He was sacked in 2017, but some of his allegations later led to BGC being ordered to pay a $3m (£2.24m) penalty by the US derivatives regulator for "numerous supervision, reporting, and record-keeping violations".
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula
Jacob Rees-Mogg in his top hat and suit, looking like a long streak of wet drip.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A pile of glitter

Yes, I live dangerously.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I got a Politics Julie If anyone needs to trade for a full set, I'll take a Books Julie (but no Anime Julies please)
This Julie is a ryanlinnman, male profile pic, same bio as everyone else's but has US politics retweets
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Arrgh, I bloody knew it. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Protect the biggest polluters, sterilise those who have the most children, i.e. the poorest.
Search of TL for sterilization and indeed Mass Sterilization is the first on the list.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mislaid my one so this is from the other guy's linked images, but noticed it on yours too - does the maker of this test understand what a country is? (This also leans towards "thinking in American")
Nearby Countries
Massachusetts (United States)
New York (United States)
California (United States)
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminded of this exchange in terms of how seriously anyone'd take him as a threat.
Brian Mcfadden @BrianMcFadden
Wouldn't it be great ifisis had the balls to stand face to face with us and fight. No weapons. No bombs. No dead children. Man to man! 13:00 . 23 May 17 . Twitter for iPhone


Joel. @Joel_R_91 .23 May 17 Replying to @BrianMcFadden hahahaha bet they would shit it seeing you coming over horizon singing uptown girl you wet quilt
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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
Civ II, Minecraft, Spyro also deserve slots, as does an ancient game called...I think it was Rainbow Island which was for very young kids on the Amiga and is the first game I think I remember playing.
Covers for various games: Pharaoh, Age of Empires II, Rune Factory 5, Great Giana Sisters, Zork Nemesis, Secret of Monkey Island, Pokemon Sapphire, Rayman, World of Warcraft
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This one specifically.
McDonalds "arch" logo, yellow on red
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel kinda gaslit, or possibly daslit. Did no-one complain about which letter it is?
Cló gealach alphabet from A to G with latinate beneath. It's a backwards d, not a g ☹️
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Attempting to explain this to someone going "i don't understand, but you want the republican then?" to everyone pointing out why they do not want to be the Pragmatic Sacrifice. (I do not think he will get what is not in his interest to get tbh.)
Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social 2h L Replied to Jason Mather It's actually pretty simple. If you have an "orphan-crushing party" and a "no crushing orphans party". when a NCOP candidate starts going "maybe just...a few orphans?". the orphans go "fuck you", that person loses and the party has to realise that the no crushing policy is a rule, not a suggestion.


Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social2h While you're thinking of the pragmatism of sacrificing like...only SOME orphans for immediate gratification, the orphans are also being pragmatic in focusing on long-term "not creating two orphan-crushing parties".

Get it?
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran not using his platform for political purposes. And let's be clear, I support the below. But let's also be clear that he does it only when it's safe. But this is prob when the punk/protest attitude so desperately needed in a time of marching fascism is dead. Ye kill it by weakness.
Ed Sheeran Concert for UkraineEd Sheeran and United24 Ukrainian flag
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From a fella that recently got mildly sharked where I'm from; (All survived, shark included!)
"I cannot say if it was a deliberate attack or it was not a deliberate attack, but the fish is in the right anyway, we took it out of the water and the fish was in his survival instinct"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't like bullies. I don't like people who whine that other people being in danger is annooooying I don't like you. What the fuck is this? And may I suggest you stop being so psychotic about trans people and you'll see less stuff about them, you mealy apple.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh right. Well, let this be a warning to anyone who shares a society with this fker. If you need help, he wants you dead. Graphically. Apparently he has the energy for that. Sociopath shit.
"Morg"
@thorpa.bsky.social

All I know is the word "trans" is in every post that crosses my feed, and if I could, I'd drag 'trans' to the woodshed and fill it's fucking face full of lead. 😐"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He has a nasty head wound at the start in the centre of his forehead onto his muzzle, but he's a fine happy doggo by the end, the wound healed very nicely and he has a lovely family. Snip from later in the video so you can see him as he should be.
Happy large tan and white dog (dunno breed, biggish lad though) with a red collar flopped on gravel in front of a big lawn or field.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hoping this might cheer you up, if only from picturing a guy making a bike getaway juggling fifteen lobsters.
Hyannis - Developing
- When the clerk at the counter asked the man if he was going to pay, he reportedly replied "You know what? No, I'm not." The suspect then quickly exited the store with 15 live lobsters, hopped on  bicycle and pedeled away.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I dunno that you'll get much sympathy from the generations that were repeatedly called lazy, stupid and entitled for not having the same opportunities that older gens had - bc said older gens removed them. Also, there was little outcry about shit like this. But at least ageism is bad *now*.
All of the things Millennials Killed, per many headlines.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When the worst people you know are fighting
Tweet from Laura Loomer

"LOOMERED

Milo Yiannopoulis is in ICE custody after I exposed his illegal alien lifestyle

Marjorie Traitor Greene hired Milo to work as his intern where he produced her podcast, wrote her book and lived at her house in Rome, Georgia before she sold it"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pearson drew a direct line to Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line. Indiana hosts 147 data centers, Pearson said, and Gary’s electric grid alone powers eight of them.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The physical data centers aren't neccessarily in Gary, but are powered by G's grid.
[Rep Justin] Pearson drew a direct line to Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line. Indiana hosts 147 data centers, Pearson said, and Gary’s electric grid alone powers eight of them.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yees and no. Trans people are certainly the main target, but it was always intended to go after the other letters once a foothold was allowed, as below.
"In her presentation, Kilgannon mapped out three non-negotiables in the fight against the so-called gender identity agenda, a conspiracy theory touted by anti-LGBT groups that disavows sexual orientation and [link] gender identity [end link]. The first is to "divide and conquer. For all its recent success, the LGBT alliance is actually fragile and the trans activists need the gay rights movement to legitimise them" (she said) In other words, separate trans activists from the gay tights movement and their agenda becomes much easier to oppose. As Kilgannon explained, "Trans and gender identity are a tough sell, so focus on gender identity to divide and conquer." For many "gender identity on its own is just a bridge too far. If we separate the T from the alphabet soup we'll have more success."
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Well...yes, I'm sure that last bit is true, but don't think Median Strategies is the one to decide that. Interesting that they did the Hong race (wildly wrong) too just before the Bass/Raman one.
"Median Strategies was created as a short term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said in an email to The Times. “We are not seeking publicity or attribution for the individuals involved and are declining interviews.”
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Lol, I'd commented as below on his post before typing my first post above and by the time I'd finished it he'd blocked me (admittedly not unreasonably).
Replied to a blocked post
"That's bait ☝️"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I figured there was probably a safer way than testing from first principles, given gloves or not, wearer will definitely also be armed while the experimenter has an empty water bottle. Manual from Compliant Tech
Sections 5.4/5.5 of manual for G.L.O.V.E, covering power on/off, activation on subject & a Notes box, relevent section right at the bottom "The device can get wet but can't be immersed in water. The effectiveness of the device does not change or diminish when the subject or user are wet"

[Other Notes above the relevent section]
The device must come into contact with the subject's skin.
The device is not effective through clothing or hair and can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy.
The user and other officers can touch the person the device is applied to without fear of feedback]
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In this case, yes. The guy that got bitten was a tyro, but the others were more experienced.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good news on that, the shark was immediately released. Tbf to the guy in question, he's defending the shark too.
"I cannot say if it was a deliberate attack or not [...], but the fish is in the right anyway, we took it out of the water and the fish was in his survival instinct.

"We just threw him back in the water, we didn't manage to tag him. We didn't want the fish to be more panicked than that."
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's not even a very big cloud, just very precisely positioned and persistant.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'll let you judge. 😁
Bronze bust of a man who's just been hit in the face with a jellyfish but seems pretty happy about it.

There is no way to explain this expression, sorry. It's just bad.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ours..attempts swoon, but what she actually does is flop onto her side with a solid "k'thud" that knocks the wind out of her. 10/10 drama, 4/10 grace. This is her doing Philosophical Ennui.
Brown tabby lounging on an armchair with a green blanket.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
From a previous round; (This one doesn't entirely fit the usual pattern though)
"Every time I come across this guy it's
- first tweet incendiary, attention-seeking bullshit
- second tweet more nuanced take that he could have started with but no
- ongoing tweets complaining about reaction to first tweet
- QT expressing his shock and disappointment that people are mean to him
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yours was nicer than mine 😆 Mind you, I haven't actually deployed it as it is for when all other methods have failed, including the map with "USA" and "Not USA" circled.
Jpg of boxing glove through white background

"Congrats, you are eligible for one punch through screen"
Reason (select one)
- persistant twattery
- waffleposting
- incomprehension at other people existing [ticked]
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This was the pattern I was sensing, although I hadn't seen this particular thread. 🤦🏻‍♀️ it was just a feeling that this was more about a beautiful young woman than politics. Parasocial unrequited etc swinging to betrayal.
Declarations of love under a post by Omar. It goes on extensively after this post.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is at least round five in the last month.
Every time I come across this guy it's 
- first tweet incendiary, attention-seeking bullshit
- second tweet more nuanced take that he could have started with but no
- ongoing tweets complaining about reaction to first tweet
- QT expressing his shock and disappointment that people are mean to him.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Probably accurate, looking at this graph. 1983 was a bit of an outlier in a "cool" decade (note, Greater London being counted) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Days each year when temps of 30C or more were recorded in G London
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Don't click on above link, malware redirect. Report it
False security alert, in-browser image representing an Android security alert
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A new classic of the "I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BUT I'M GOING TO LOSE MY SHIT" genre. Also, the guy's Indian, talking about an English/French football match. I think the American's just confused and possibly rabid.
OP: there is nothing more formidable in sports than an English team with nothing left to gain

Feral guy: Oh fuck off with this nonsense 🙄 you twits needed the Americand and the Soviets to save your fucking ass during the last world war, meanwhile Churchill was trying to work out a deal with the Nazis in the back room 🙄🖕

Fuck you
Signed, an Irish-American 🖕
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Recent tweet from prof Ifill saying she forgot it was transferred over and to follow infowars
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"How do you do, fellow kids" meme with "hardcore progressive democrats" inserted somewhat lazily because phone and paint.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Mitch McConnell is just offscreen, telling me the joke.
Man caught mid-laugh against a blank corner wall, although the laugh is a but unconvincing.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Calling encouraging people to unite behind and vote for her "encouraging others to throw away their vote" is a bit much, even if she did lose.
Dr Abdul El-Sayad 7/22/24
"Considering the dangers of the Republican nominee & potential of her leadership, it's time for all of us to unute behind @ KamalaHarris to defeat Trump"
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Welp, this just got worse. No records, just under the table phonecalls bullshit.
Update from Royal Belgian Football Association

Update 06/07/2026
Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours.

After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations.

As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA.

For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA’s own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible.
All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Copy of my posts above regarding what appears to be known of the history of the mother.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
They never saw it coming 😢
Clip from the end of the gloriously ludicrous Speed 2, where the cruise ship crashes into the Carribbean town.
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I looked this bizarre creature up as it looks like a thing from the mysterious distillation stuff cabinet and I'm not much the wiser, but I like the description!
Ideal gift for a math or physics student, scientist, or computer programmer. Does not work as mousetrap. From Cliff Stoll, the Klein bottle guy - made from quality, low expansion borosilicate glass - microwave safe. Clear, non-colored, transparent glass. Zero volume, one-sided, nonorientable, 3-dimensional, unbounded, locally Euclidean About 8" tall, 4" diameter (20x10cm), weighs about 8oz (230g), ∇·B=0 and ∇×E=−dB/dt Rustproof, Batteries not needed, Riemannian, baryonic, satisfies Gauss-Bonnet theorem, free of any magnetic monopoles.
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